I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

BREAKING: HUGE ENDORSEMENT FOR ANDREW CUOMO

we (left of center pundits) are going to have to live here with one another (conservative pundits), believing what we believe (that we should get paid large sums of money), disagreeing in the ways we disagree (without them sending their rabid horde of followers to kill us).

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults: Cuellar Davis (NC) Gillen Golden Lee (NV) Min Perez Vindman Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

Liu Bei represents the Democratic establishment, slowly killing the peasants who rely on them for protection in a vain attempt at reestablishing a regime that was already dead anyway. The person Tarik is talking about is Cao Cao.

There were a few people on China from the jump, but for every other Democrat, banning Tik Tok only gained any kind of political salience after every teenager in America started seeing videos of Gaza on their phones. Bibi asked Biden to do it, publicly! And Biden said that’s why he did it, publicly!

Conservatives in academia don’t think academia is too liberal. Rather, conservatives see the things that are foundational to academia as liberal themselves. So, the only way to get liberalism out of the academy is fundamentally change what the academy is, means, and does.

the impunity with which they rapaciously devour stuff for themselves is well understood. the reaction, however, can't be well since there are no rules anything goes i guess. there have to be rules and one big one needs to be rich fuckers need to stop stealing your shit right now

The bulwark is a YouTube channel filled with ex-Republicans and some current Republicans who hate Trump and they are starting to sound more like radical marxists than the pod save Bros.

only the right wing is allowed to attack its opponents in any way and on any terms they see fit and simultaneously only the right wing is allowed to claim victimhood

the president is clearly mentally going or perhaps even long gone. the bench is a despicable bunch of negative-charisma creeps. the sounds they are making, in the aggregate, do not sound like the sounds people effectively winning make

at some point i have to take some small solace in the fact that there seems to be a lot of desperation in the regime. for all the talk of a chicago invasion that's been quietly tabled. they're shrieking about a new crackdown now but it's still true that theyre incompetent and increasingly reviled

"Isn't this all Kayfabe!" Also can't stop thinking of the Ganz tweet:

Perfect example of the bankruptcy of libertarianism as a freedom ideology when the workplace is deliberately carved out as space for the boss’ domination

The follow-up post is the best part.

there is nothing here that ben shapiro hasn’t said before. racism is fake, black people are ungrateful, etc.

Klein explicitly says his project is to dishonestly portray the true nature of the right for his readers in hopes that helps foster some common ground to heal our nation. This didn’t work for Obama and it’s not gonna work for him.

God bless America.

I don’t think this is true. They’ve done some (certainly not all) of what they can do with federal grant money, but they haven’t tried to go after private funding for these organizations. They could try to get them unbanked. Name Open Societies a terrorist organization and seize their assets.

Centrist Democrats: Wow, this guy has real charisma, a connection with young voters and a clear and compelling message. How can we destroy him?

A hero will always speak the truth and challenge the cowardice of a tyrant

I’ve been around awhile but I’ve never seen the Strib’s editorial pages manage consent this hard. They have Cramer & Hunegs on speed dial; the last time I submitted a commentary to them I never heard back (of course, it was critical of their coverage). Anyway congrats lefties for making them sweat.

I’ve gotten way into MTG Arena recently, but it’s been so long since I’ve played, I obviously don’t recognize any cards or anything. I’ve absolutely no idea how to put together a decent deck, but I also don’t want to just copy some meta deck from the internet.

2 Years

Two years ago today, practically to the hour, Libi and I were out to breakfast when she said we had to go home ASAP cuz she had to poop, and I knew she was in labor.

ahead of this DFL CBRC hearing, i have read most of the challenges. a not insignificant number have their remedy as “abolish the minneapolis DFL” or “abolish caucuses.” these are not serious, and hopefully they can be tossed just for such a ridiculous remedy

The New York Times Jerusalem Bureau is located at the former home of a Palestinian BBC Arabic Service journalist, Hasan Karmi, who was himself violently expelled by Zionist militias during the 1948 Nakba.

As intended

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGG

How's everyone doing what's the vibe over here

Perhaps I will start posting on here again.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

When I was in middle school a bunch of parents, including my mom, at my synagogue were unhappy with the sex ed at the public schools so put together a, like, 12 week curriculum for after school, paid for by the congregation, staffed my professional educators. I think it was immensely helpful.

Do you think PSA would grade one of these for me

Anyone else on here following the saga of minor political grifter, Lindy Li? Her most recent interview is an all timer.

There is really no constituency for this bill apart from crypto lobbyists who keep Sherrod Brown’s scalp on ice so they can wave it front of senators. Cash bribes and super PACs, that’s how they rescued this scam after the FTX scandal briefly made it toxic.

Teens & 20-somethings think 30-40 year olds are uncool? Wow this is a brand new phenomenon.

unquestionably correct www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague

do you understand how fucking racist you have to be for Piers Morgan to call you a racist lmfao

This is mostly a liberal issue and I think it’s because a lot of liberals see democratic electeds the same way they see Tom Holland as Spider-Man. Ritchie Torres is a smol bean, etc

Thinking about a lasagna empanada for breakfast

Especially true for institutions like Harvard who absolutely have the money to keep it all together as they sue the government over withheld funding.

yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!

There was a YIMBY guy on the other site yesterday who went on the warpath about how much he hated publicly funded neighborhood community gardens in nyc and it made me realize I’m not as ideologically aligned with centrist YIMBYs on policy as I thought.

How is everyone this morning

Everything I said about Fetterman was true, and I have no sympathy for him. Get him out of there.