The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.

okay i need to find a way to watch this

This is actually a new low, it's genuinely impressive

It is utterly baffling to me when universities are under threat from a repressive government under going executive backsliding, the level of analysis we seem to get from media elites at the Atlantic is "they deserved it because of their work on DEI?"

fairly obvious that there's a strand of people who refuse to acknowledge the connection between the politics they cultivated and the world we live in

grok can you explain

being in any way impressed by hanania or seeing him as a voice worth hearing is definitive evidence that your brain is a perfect sphere

As ever, I know it’s not productive, but it feels important to note that few people have cost the nation as much as Nick Timothy.

I can’t lie it has been interesting watching the veneration of Charlie Kirk, where people insisted he can’t be critiqued and how we are taking him out of context turn to people joking about his death. I open TikTok and I see at least 1 Charlie Kirk death joke or we are Charlie Kirk AI song in jest.

Farage's alliance with the US hard-right should alarm every British woman www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

An actual journalist might ask her to define what she thinks a Third World country is and why

this headline, and much of the reporting, is the result of believing that the key to good journalism is never taking a position

The people in my life are not chronically online and not plugged in to American journalist gossip so I have no one to discuss the Olivia Nuzzi thing with especially the Ryan Lizza Substack essays. So glad I have a podcast so I can discuss madness like this 😂🤣

Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...

One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting

As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.

I have landed on the side of the internet where furries are arguing if big boobs cause back pain 😭. My algorithm is actually insane it’s either I am getting right wing reactionary nonsense or getting things that are so insane you can only laugh 😭😂🤣.

I’m pretty tired and overcommitted but I look forward to SOMEONE putting this FOX programming in conversation with the great Hallmark-GAC wars.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

The pro-Nick Fuentes Administration destroying people and institutions on the basis of “fighting antisemitism” has me losing my damn mind. The Nazi-sympathizers pretending to be protectors of American Jews has to be one of the most profound mindfucks in an era rife with them.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

it's kind of funny that FDR's grandson (with the DuPonts) is a market socialist economist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankli...

Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene

barely an exaggeration. Chatterton authored the Harper's Letter, which decried "the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." his latest book has "the age of certainty" in its subtitle and has a whole chapter about "moral clarity." just the same idea over and over.

😭😂

I love college women basketball. Some of the Charlotte players were taunting LSU, saying will meet real competition by playing them. LSU players saw the TikTok, guys LSU beat Charlotte 117 - 59 😭😭😂😂🤣🤣🤣

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

It's really incredible how the norm against the deployment of the military against Americans at home has completely degraded. What this man is describing is a flagrant violation of Posse Comitatus.

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Vote in your local elections! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

virtue signalling is good actually

His... awareness of Zohran? what?

Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.

Caribbean boat strikes are illegal and bad strategy even if everyone they’ve killed was a narcotics trafficker. Not terrorists, not attacking America, not at war at all. The legal and strategically smart move for drug smuggling boats is interdiction. Worse, the AP found some weren’t even criminals.

The God that did it for Mamdani in NYC will do it for Zack Polanski of the Green Party in UK in Jesus name. Taking it to God in prayer because there is nothing God can’t do. 😆

Mamdani quite literally told the NYT he does not recognize Pakistan’s right to exist as a religious ethnostate www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

Acting like Mamdani is going to put Zionists in camps when there are literal Nazis littering the GOP right now is insane

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.

Many things to be happy about, Mamdani and other democrats victory. The thing I am most intrigued by is a democrat that joked about killing republicans winning in Virginia. Not only is woke not dead, we now have dark woke. The dems are going to get their “woke Trump”.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

Solomon Buchi said Nigeria should have been colonised till 2000 at least we would have gotten 247 electricity. I think he is a fool but if you think that Nigeria would be better with British colonisation, you don’t understand the difference between settler colonialism and exploitative colonialism.

Excuse me, what?

"The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember"

I was told from reliable media orgs that Republicans were fighting antisemitism, that the reason university presidents were brought before the Republican Congress was to address concerns of antisemitism on campus. www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

They’re going on phone records. So if a fisherman has called someone who’s called someone who’s spoken to a “suspected drug trafficker” the US Navy can kill everyone on the fisherman’s boat.

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...