Ezra Klein is out of ideas and he has to keep writing as his job and that must be excruciating...

Unitary Executive = King

Correct thread

I'm a centrist because I like to base all my opinions on the distributions of other people's beliefs.

is this a metaphor for something, idk, maybe too subtle

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Evidence from random roommate assignment and a gaming ban for minors in China once again show what I now believe incredibly strongly: smartphones and social media destroy civilization via @arpitrage.bsky.social

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Still amazed by this. Can you imagine FDNY saying sprinklers or fire escapes are only needed in buildings where there's already been a fire?

Reactionary-centrist consultant/pundits like @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social are very dangerous for the democracy, because their minds are warped by right-wing echo chambers. How can you be a popularists and not know that abortion access is popular: If you spend all day on X and evening watching Fox News.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

NYT yesterday: we are the torch bearers of free speech! NYT today: some loser libs are upset that Trump keeps forcing Corporate Media to fire comedians he does not like.

Hint: maybe the city was never that shining to begin with

Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.

I repeat: This is WILDLY illegal. Trump is just outright, explicitly, egregiously ignoring the law. The fact that NONE of these words in the Times post say so is a failure of journalism.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

My working hypothesis also, in lack of a better one...

This is a progression of tweets from Musk that represent his downhill slide from sanity or rationality into the abyss 🕳️. This, as he foments violence in the UK and interferes with that country. Have no idea what type of medications he is on… but everyone needs to get off of that X platform.

Been clean and sober from X for 10 months and it feels great. I used to think I needed to be on there to "engage in the debate." Nah. It's worse than a waste of time. Even seemingly righteous engagement there does nothng but fuel a fascist propaganda machine. Just. Stop.

The fact that they are people who admire respect Ezra Klein never fails to disgust me.

Ezra Klein from 15 years ago would be embarrassed

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

Sad thing recent events have made me accept: a lot of US elites are weak, amoral people, whose guiding star is "what does power want?" mixed with "what's easiest for me in the short-term?" And that unfortunately means we can't appeal to principle or patriotism, we need to structure their incentives.

John Fetterman inherited a cursed amulet from Kyrsten Sinema. His staff have repeatedly pled with him to just take the damn thing off, but it’s gaudy as hell and Fetterman, like Sinema before him, has awful taste.

Complete 🤡 take by some economists to think that AI magically "complements" experienced worker skills but "substitutes" recent college grad skills. Much more Occam-y explanations are cohort-based, ...

I miss the days when "tilting at windmills" was a metaphor: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

Yeah it’s sort of funny but I’m a 100% unironic believer in that “good times create weak men” shit now, it’s totally accurate, it’s just that the kind of guys who posted it the last few years were the weak men in question.

COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.

very into a world where the boss slowly transforms into david lynch

Relevant to…tons of stuff, but right now I’m thinking of Pike Place

Complete 🤡 take - mainstream media is stuck in neutral, treats democracy as horse race - supreme Court is openly authoritarian - military is already deployed internally - wtf? - "vibrant"? 😂 Any tiny country can mobilize bigger protests But sure feel free to spend your time on a semantic discussion

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

this is exactly right. it's the same stupid bet every republican has made since 2015.

FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.

This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece. www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...

So what do “let’s be lead by the polls” liberal centrists plan to do if the independence of the fed doesn’t poll high

Some former 538 staffers: Good - @perrybaconjr.bsky.social clearly describes the stakes, is committed to democracy Bad - NS lost to delusions of grandeur, has turned reactionary centrist Disappointing - Galen Druke desperately tries to be "neutral", democracy is part of the horse race

They might be making Trump mad, but Newsom has been throwing these at the press -- if you think these are beneath my office, why don't you say that when the president does the same thing? He's exposing that the media has a separate set of standards for Our Very Special Boy and that's good.

Strange, I was told congestion pricing would turn Manhattan into a ghost town

"Norwegian schoolteachers refused to adopt pro-Nazi curricula. At least a thousand were fired." It's time, people. Resist where you can. prospect.org/politics/202...

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Got real high hopes for that new ballroom after seeing the new tricked-out Oval Office and the first-class paving over of the Rose Garden.

Axios, Politico, Semafor, Hill are all the same: access journalists that sell right-wing extremists, the people they have access to, as centrist.

Some of the most pro-Trump coverage NYTimes has ever done. On Epstein, they chose to adopt Trump's transparently disingenuous framing, treating a "grand jury records" stalling tactic as openness—he's trying to hide the rest—and presenting an obvious lie of "prepared to defer to the courts" as real.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.