Of course we wouldn’t be exempt. So bloody depressing.

“For a lot of my colleagues, the argument has been, ‘well, we don’t support defund the police or open borders, and we don’t say we do,’” Frank said.” I’m absolutely furious this is what people think “the left” advocate for in this country. Just stop supporting genocide and pass Medicare for all.

What persuadable voters see when anyone forces Trump to govern better, whether it's a Dem majority or his own staff, is Trump "learning". This is partly him as wealth totem, partly the nature of the presidency, but it's exceptional thanks to how he's made himself the sole protagonist of US politics.

This man’s going to make my wife get confirmed…

There’s the West Wing joke where Bartlett asks “how come only sons of bitches know how to lick a stamp.” I think about that when I want to reach out to authors. Andy Weir and Peter Watts have both been responsive and appreciative.

They’re weird, sure, but there’s something deeply tragic about being born in a time where we’re confident transformative things can happen* (e.g. dramatic life extension), but also where enough work has to be done that nobody alive today will likely benefit. A feeling of being left behind.

Amazing footage. Distressing that the commentary includes “dude…”

Darling getting absolutely toasted in the comments. [im bored]

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

Stacy Abrams-pilled.

Hateful, ignorant lunacy.

Ben Kenobi meme: “Olivia Tremor Control. Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.”

‘Sally Carson insists that recognising the subjugation of women within the family is essential to any analysis of fascist ideologies. But her book doesn’t share the febrile quality that characterises Gmeyner’s writing.’ Dinah Birch on novels exploring Nazism’s rise. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

*Imperatives for dating my daughter.

Colonizer discourse eventually coming to cancel the first settlers to cross the Bering Strait.

An absolutely essential practice that is almost entirely absent in mainstream reporting.

In all this, I continue to be shocked, daily, at how unserious our political opposition leadership has behaved in the face of an actual attempted fascist takeover of the United States

It is so distressing that people on the right don’t see this as a huge, huge problem.

Good tsar, bad boyars.

Men also choose the bear.

There was a very brief period during which there was support for a maximalist liberal response from the North. Then its wings got clipped and it has never happened again. We need liberal energy that crushes illiberalism when it wins. This is better literally for everybody.

I’m a simple man—I see somebody reference Dewey (laudatory), I quote.

Easiest yes I’ve come to today.

Incredible piece. I particularly like that the author spends some time describing the UX of Maven.

Every red state is going to have a Donald J. Trump International Airport and it’s going to be so confusing.

A Maryland homeowner hired a crew to fix the roof. Then they reported the crew to ICE. Six Guatemalan workers were detained. #ICE #roofers #immigration #detention www.jezebel.com/ice-arrests-...

That’s just obviously not what’s happening here. I don’t think anybody honestly thinks for a second that Gavin Newsome thinks there’s anything wrong with being gay. But we know these people think there is, so it’s an attempt to both sting them where it hurts AND mock them for their bigotry.

If I report three phishing attempt simulations in a row, I should get a raise. Or a waffle party.

Shout out to The Criterion Collection for solving this problem. Just follow the C to excellent films.

We are not a moral people.

I honestly wonder if there’s any way to claw back things mattering.

Everyone who ever knew him knew Lenin should be kept from power. Same with Stalin. The subsequent gen secs of the communist party, less so, but the ones who molded it were villains from the first.

JSW, original wife guy!

Atlanta could have the rail system it deserves. Or at least, that I want for it.

This is an absolutely beautiful clarification, lol

We’re duplicating all the stupid decisions of the past.

I think this would actually be brilliant. Like the commercials about the guys walking in and thinking about the women in their lives, but with hand tattoos. They would be interpreted as calling Trump voters dumb, though, which we’re not allowed to do.

Karp, and everybody like him, needs to log the fuck off. We are the United States. Up until about 6 months ago, we had allies to our north and south and two vast oceans on either side. Nobody’s taking us over. The entire tech elite is too goddamned online.

I’m a subscriber. Still wish they used more precise language here.

Scientific racism as just a little betise.

The Baileys send their regards.

'The Old Battersea Power Station' (c.1938) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Private collection)

Hegseth: scratches out Chilcot list. Writes “Leeroy Jenkins!” in gold sharpie. High fives himself and shotguns a schlitz.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Challenge: just build fucking trains. Difficulty: depressingly impossible.

Perfect.