Here’s another thing: the GOP didn’t just do this to scaremonger centrists; they know grassroots activists who are progressive have real power that can’t be quashed by Dem donors. Conflating activists with popular Dems is strategic: it makes centrists bat down the activists

so apparently 15yos are all lolitas preying on these men and are also old enough to be tried as an adult for a crime but can’t decide their own gender affirming care oh ok

This is also, btw, why we need more openly progressive media outlets

My point to David was that these slogans are not being used by Dem candidates at all, they’re activist slogans. Instead of engaging he builds a straw man suggesting Dems should run on ACAB in Alabama and that I am advocating for it. I loved your show, sir, but read what I actually wrote

Listening to the Unclear and Present Danger podcast with @jamellebouie.net , and he made a striking analogy: the Trump administration sorta resembles the Confederacy trying to win everything in the first 24 months...

I love New York

In any morally reasonable country a high profile public figure who made lots of money not even being able to afford basic healthcare (which is what cancer treatment is now) would be a national embarrassment

The anti abortion movement has always been a terrorist movement. They've shot, murdered, and bombed doctors and clinics for decades.

This is where I think far too many Dem centrists get their ideas about what progressives believe and run on.

I guess you could slap the Kennedy name on a halfway sentient sack of potatoes and there’s someone somewhere who’d be seduced by it, but I don’t understand it

This implies that the only real “everyday Americans” are those who aren’t affected by identity issues - white men. Also, all politics are identity politics, fight me

The great thing about this is that you know there are 50 people around him trying various strategies they recall from parenting a toddler or training a puppy to get him to stop bringing up Epstein, and none of it is working. Right now they're baking him an Optimus Prime cake and hoping for the best.

the double standards for Dems and Republicans are incredible. Talarico watches porn (like nearly every guy with a pulse) and that is scandalous while Rs rape people and end up on the Supreme Court or in the Executive Office

absolutely not. and it’d be quite an indictment of this plan *even without* recent disclosures; is there a single person who has said as much, as loudly, for as long as this man without even accidentally stumbling into an original or interesting insight — much less actually push policy *forward*?

Vibes

Just thinking about all the Never Employee This Kid lists people like Ackman put together of pro Palestinian protesters and how quiet they are about shit like this:

Just your occasional reminder that six years ago, a bunch of self-proclaimed progressives made a big deal Oscar bait movie that framed this vile bag of rotting garbage as a Shero

I literally said none of this, nor would I, but hey, don't let it stop you from feeling superior.

I figured it wouldn’t be long before someone on the right bent over backwards to say some variation of “maybe pedophilia isn’t so bad” to protect their guy and while i didn’t think it would be Megyn Kelly i didn’t *not* think it would be Megyn Kelly

Had the pleasure of attending a workshop on opinion post writing. @espiers.bsky.social was excellent. If you'd like to go beyond social media posts or just simply need to sharpen your communications skills, I'd recommend her workshops.

As a long time Summers hater, i feel like they wrote this one for my personal benefit theonion.com/no-not-larry...

This seems to be a common misconception. *There is nowhere to go* for most faculty & staff. The academic labor market is incredibly inflexible even in good times, we haven't been in good times for decades, and we're now in a *contracting* phase, not expanding. For most people, there's nowhere to go.

This is why when people whine about kids this age not wanting to do anything but look at screens I just laugh. Your fear of screens is not their apathy.

this is a great piece.

Oooh I got promoted!

YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Alright even my posting is hitting an end point. I am going to bed and no longer postmaxxing, as the children would say. Will back in probably two days, per usual

Glad to know that the same people who slam me for founding Gawker and like to use it to suggest I’m an amateur now consider me a “prestige journalist”. Make up your minds, men of the internet!

I was literally one of the first people to write about Judy Miller’s suspect WMD reporting. In 2003. But go off, sir!

Okay, you wanna make this argument? When I write for the NYT (for a not meaningful amount of money btw - some of you just telegraph that you have stable jobs and no idea what freelance writers make) I write things I would write for free

If I can only contribute one thing today’s discourse to non-newsroom people who work in corporate environments it would be this and it comes from my background as an equity analyst, not as a journo

I love it when people meet me for the first time on this site and have no context about what I actually said to begin with. Sweet summer children.

My day today in a nutshell

Tbf maybe eyeliner and couches are his weird little mustache. Also open white supremacy and being publicly racist toward his Indian wife.

No, I explained the work process, which is not remotely the same thing as defending the institution which I have criticized routinely when they do things I think are bad. Starting at the beginning of my career when I was one of the first people to write about Judy Miller’s reporting!

Oh honey. You haven’t met me. This is how I always post. But welcome!

Here he’s just admitting that his hillbilly elegy narrative was a lie and he despises people who do low wage work

Another FYI for people who have just entered my TL today and are just learning by doing that I have infinite stamina for arguing with strangers on the internet

No, it’s misogynistic to tell a woman you know more about her job than she does with zero expertise or experience to back it up

Yes Jared Kushner loved me. All owners who dislike what their newsrooms put out immediately fire their editors in chief. It happens daily! You just pop a new one in and it’s that easy!

I figure it pulls the people I should block anyway out of the woodwork but it is funny to see people who only just encountered me today think it’s a secret and a gotcha that I started gawker, worked for kushner and went to a seg academy in rural Alabama. I’ve written about all of it!

Yes it is. I’ve written about it many times which is why it’s in my Wikipedia entry. You can start here: mynewbandis.substack.com/p/my-new-ban...

My class position as what? A gig worker who has also criticized the NYT publicly?

there is a very specific kind of nerd jd vance is uniquely well-suited to drive to aneurysm — and about 90% of my best friends fit the type. if vance becomes president all my loved ones are either going to die or become ayahuasca addicts.

Yeah, it is Chad! www.washingtonpost.com/posteverythi...

I directly did? Okay, I'll bite. Link to a column I wrote that you think caused you to lose rights. You got all day, but the first thing that will come up is probably this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Thanks, Elon.