i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!

This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.

You don't have to love all of these movies, but you do have to understand that a studio that makes Sinners and One Battle and Mickey 17 and Wuthering Heights and The Bride and Weapons grasps its responsibility to filmmaking and its own history and tradition in a way that David Ellison does not.

Amberin Zaman, who has excellent Kurdish sources, says the Iranian Kurds want Trump to – stop me if you've heard this before – "establish a no-fly zone over the Kurdish areas to provide air cover for potential future operations and, above all, to prove its commitment."

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Bo French, the former Tarrant County GOP Chairman who tweeted in January "We Are All Rhodesians," is going to a runoff in the race for Texas Railroad Commissioner (the state's top oil and gas regulator)

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

<watching a Roy Cooper stump speech> You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

I mean when has a hopeful moment of popular uprising against a despised regime ever given way to a new revolutionary government that came to be just as corrupt and repressive and sclerotic as the one it replaced. Certainly never before in Iran.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

did a little back of the envelope math for how much all this shit is costing. on the order of $1-2 billion per day just in direct spending, maybe 10 times that much in indirect effects

The degree to which Trump is just riffing/winging it on the war is really something to behold. Just kinda..musing

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

Sean Connery wasn’t the first choice to play Ramius in “The Hunt for Red October”; he got the part after Klaus Maria Brandauer quit. He requested only one day of rehearsal. “It wasn’t hard,” he said later. “They were all one-liners.” Premieres today in 1990. #RIP

“Donald Trump‘s war with Iran is illegal, reckless, and wrong,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social

of course

Well today in AI scams targeting authors. I received an email claiming to want to include my book in a book club. Not only do all the photos of authors they claim to work with look AI generated but look at @colsonwhitehead.com and @zadiesmith.bsky.social and then look at these photos

A Mad King Who Enjoys Watching Things Go Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

If you are a client of a firm that folded in this fight, you should know that not only were they morally wrong, but they were also strategically dumb www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I’m going to need to cut this line I like from a piece about the Iran War you’ll read tomorrow, so I post it here to tell my darling I will see it in the gardens of heaven: “We will not get bored," Trump said on Monday, minutes before talking about how beautiful the White House drapes are.

Seems crystal clear that neither Netanyahu nor Trump want an actual democracy in Iran, they want a regime they can manage/work with like the gulf states.

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

CPI and PPI translations into PCE suggest core prices in January rose around 0.43%, give or take. That would be the highest month-over-month reading since February (which was +0.448%) and annualizes to 5.3%. It corresponds to a 3.1% y/y rate, the highest since March 2024, up from 2.6% in April.

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

It was the closing show, so you can no longer see it, but the Ulysses stage adaptation by Elevator Repair Service at the Public Theatre was one of the most thrilling works of theatre I’ve seen in a long, long time.

The pro Pahlavi propaganda firing on all cylinders.

I genuinely cannot get over him launching a war from his house in Palm Beach.

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

As I said. Senior AEI fellow, Michael Rubin, says: "Will Ankara in 2036 be like Tehran in 2026?" Rubin has argued for a while that Israel and the US should prepare to do to Turkey what it does to Iran.

During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

go out in the streets as we are dropping bombs. a brilliant call to action.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

I suspect this war is going to make AIPAC as popular as the NRA among Democratic primary voters.

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

For the Old Heads

Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

“.. This is your peace prize. It is also a beautiful medal that you can wear everywhere you want to go.”

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

The Searching Mothers of Sonora are looking for Nancy Guthrie in Arizona and Mexico. They said officials aren’t doing enough to find the missing 84-year-old. https://wapo.st/3OEcUWt

openAI saying that the USG consented unconditionally to the conditions which Hegseth alleges make Claude a national security risk is a, uh, bad fact for the defense against claims that the national security justification was pretextual

“We put them in our agreement” means there are no restrictions in the underlying models, unlike Anthropic, and you’re relying on *checks notes* the Trump administration to hold to this. So. Yeah.

all of this happening in the same 24 hour period is completely nuts, no one is doing any actual due diligence here at all

The menorah w “child rape blackmail” is a subtle touch. Genuinely appalling how common shit like this has become.

Fewer and fewer people having more and more power and wealth will surely end well.