This may be the most insane lie she’s ever told

Have been watching The Pitt and I think the character I most identify with is Joy.

yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc...

FYI - I'm teaching a creative practice workshop this Sunday and an opinion writing workshop on Tuesday (both via Zoom). Info and registration here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

The MAGA project is one of genuine racial feudalism. Inequality of persons and the enshrining of hierarchy isn't some accidental outcome but the very purpose. That's why everything is on the table: de facto abolishing the Fourteenth Amendment, abolishing women's suffrage, slavery, all of it.

I wrote last winter about the return of the r-word. I'm so mad. www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...

I think Trump just called for pulling the federal government out of Medicare and Medicaid. Seems like a pretty big deal.

"What’s striking about today’s brand of anti-intellectualism is that it infuses the American knowledge elite; it stems from the bedrock conviction among tech oligarchs that they have mastered everything and have nothing left to learn."

the only two truly good kind of news cycle are Space and Escaped Animal

The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat

I’ve said this before but explaining the Constitution to Trump is like explaining existentialism to a chicken. But he does have a vibe based radar for when someone is losing, so this was probably painful

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

"Our tech lords have long made a practice of outsourcing their thinking to the many people (and technologies) devoted to digesting difficult material and summarizing it for them. In their working lives, they then proceed to surround themselves with yes men and peers who affirm everything they say;

I am adopted. Like many adoptees from my era and before, I have no information about my biological parents and access to my original birth certificate. This is my contribution to the birthright citizenship debate: www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

Following up from the @espiers.bsky.social piece from earlier, here is @paulwaldman.bsky.social with a righteous piece about not just the stupidity, but the greed of the techbro billionaires. www.publicnotice.co/p/big-tech-i...

I pitched a column along time ago about how and why most voters associate inflation primarily with gas prices. Inflation is actually not bad right now, except for … gas prices

The truth social rant against Gorsuch is going to be INSANE. Gorsuch all but delivered the "Everyone in this room is now dumber..." speech from Billy Madison.

I like to imagine that Sauer is making all these arguments in comically ill-fitting shoes

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

"We need intellectualism because we need liberal democracy. And that is precisely why these guys—they’re all guys—don’t like it."

Youths, may I recommend you look up how the subprime mortgage crisis happened? Just, you know, for science

No account needed: archive.is/202604011204...

Hofstadter spends a LOT of time in his book on anti-intellectualism covering the history of business schools and management training. There’s a reason for that! Far from being enlightened technocrats, these people are architects of stalled progress. HIGHLY recommend reading.

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.

The funny thing about Trump that no one has written about is that given the power and options to see anything in the world and talk to any number of amazing people he spends the bulk of his time golfing on his shitty Florida golf course.

Trump really is the answer to “what would happen if a craven nihilist stumbled into the presidency and decided he was going to die soon anyway so why not sell the country out for personal gain?

Because we live in an idiocracy now, I feel like anyone with a 27 year old kid in the military could show up in front of Donald Trump right now and ask what are we potentially dying for and Trump would say ratings would be good!

I have two siblings who are veterans and my dad is too and I just cannot get over the fact that people in this country are supporting sending their kids to war and/or having their kids do illegal things because Kid Rock is in support of it

they are calling it the scotus cuck chair

Someone in my mentions suggested that Noem is probably the one who hung her husband out to dry and I think that this is actually plausible. people.com/kristi-noem-...

I have a pleasant surprise for everyone www.theringer.com/2025/05/01/t...

I actually had to go the NYT website and check because this seemed too on the nose to be true. Wtf. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

One of my best friends co-wrote a novel with Jim Carrey and they were perfectly matched, and the book was crazy and experimental and fun. So now that Roxane is doing this, I’m thinking about which celebrity would be fun to write fiction with…

x is populated by people who failed 11th-grade english, drove three startups into the ground, make mid-six-figures, and own two cybertrucks. bluesky is full of folks who hold two phds, have won prestigious awards in their field, can't quite consolidate their hold on fulltime work, and ride a bicycle

looking forward to reading the part where vance condescendingly explains that his faith commanded him to be a vicious racist demagogue

One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.

Lol fuck off

A poem before bed. I put this Amy Newman version of Ginsberg's "Howl" into my newsletter today, and may you enjoy it as much as I did: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I appreciate the pitch perfect populism of the Trump family. Like all of us salt of the earth westerners, Ivanka heads out into the rugged sun drenched landscape of the desert wearing a black leather dress.

every day coke and pepsi spend millions to tell us to buy sugar water but liberals dont think you have to ever sell things to people in politics. "everybody knows it" so you dont have to repeat.

While I'm all up in your feed, might as well drop this here.

A coda to my last column: another AI agent has been banned for angry blogging: www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...

And when they're graduate, they're told by Republicans that they've been irresponsible for signing on to that debt when they were 17 and should pay for it, possibly forever?

if you search stock photos for polyamory, this comes up and i feel like it should be a peach instead of a lemon

“And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward." (Matthew 6:5)

Leavitt suggests that NBC's Garrett Haake is only asking about war crimes because he's been put up to it by "experts", a word she uses with disdain: "Because I’m sure some experts are telling you that in your ear, to try to ask me that question.” Scripps News's Haley Bull chooses not to follow up.

Getting some thoughtful emails about the Lindy West column, but there is a small subset of emails from men who are Xers or Boomers who are intent on telling that they don't care about or don't know who Lindy West is. Sirs, the point of the column is not to make you care about Lindy West specifically

I really don't know what to say to people who intentionally misread my columns, but sure, feminism is not about women doing whatever they want under any circumstances. Any other straw men I didn't create that you want me to knock down?