political media on all sides is defined by disdain for its audience. “liberal” media believes that its audience is too insular and must be confronted with opposing views. conservative media just feeds its audience propaganda slop.

bari is the standard bearer for the media types who think any journalism that leads the consumer toward a left-wing position must be tempered and balanced until it doesn’t.

Bari only knows how to suck up to power. Unfortunately for her, JD Vance currently occupies the best available career for a person of that skillset.

Live look of all the Harper’s letter signatories:

“Don’t mistake my wokeness for weakness”

SCP i'm in every thread. listening and learning

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

“Soulless careerist conservatism”, the same thing that afflicts her husband and causes him to debase himself in the national spotlight on a regular basis

I promise to take it back from the person who took his wife

Is this good chat

First responders love this kind of thing

profoundly funny to me that the fictional story the Abundance book starts off with is abundant clean energy and electrification and Matty's current thing is "actually, let's downplay the green transition"

I mean we all know what pete is doing to direct, and we all know no one in uniform will bother to contradict that because muh a-paw-lit-ukul norms, and then the institution is gonna do the pikachu face when people continue to be like "oh so you view non-GOP voters as the enemy well fuck you I guess"

I genuinely do not believe left vs. center is a useful heuristic and especially not right now because what matters is fight vs. don't fight and all of the substack guys who like to talk about WAR as a metric for evaluating politicians are on team "don't fight if our data says it's not 95/5"

I need the politics nerds to read more history and military theory because "wait I won so many battles, how did we lose?" is what happened to Hannibal and it's what this exclusively data driven approach is vulnerable to

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

I don’t know if you’ve seen how he trains but this was eminently predictable He used to be a decent fighter before his unfortunate fame, but he’s truly an idiot in his approach to training, and that matters 10x more when you can’t coast on youth

“Put the seat down!”

Winning by 1% with the right policy outcomes is superior to winning by 10% with a “mandate” to do the dumbest shit imaginable

this bill appears is like 1/3rd good, 1/3rd catastrophic madness that sounds like the end of civilization, and 1/3rd anodyne madness anyway it effectively repeals section 230, ends the first amendment, and gives bluesky its copyright absolutism. also creates new exceptions to antitrust law

I honestly still can’t believe they did this it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

“Does discrimination drive alienation?” is a great question and it feels like there are some other groups that might make clearer case studies than white men

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

The epitome of misleading bullsh*t from the WH deputy press secretary. 👇 Getty Images link to a 2003 pic of the same event. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

The only solid argument for giving these dickhead boxing influencers so much attention is that they may one day fly too close to the sun and book a real opponent

every part of this was gold

LA machinists -- we need 12 of these ASAP. 12x quantity to start, 7075 AL, dimensions 4.5 * 10.5 * 13.5. Dm me if interested in taking this on

“Literary snob takes issue with Epstein’s reading of Lolita” is an onion headline

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Smallest # of votes with Trump: Wyden: 18 Smith: 17 Murray: 16 Van Hollen: 11 Merkley: 9 Murphy: 5 Sanders: 5 Warren: 4 Markey: 2

The Senate seems to be officially done with recorded votes for 2025. Top # of votes with Trump in 2025 among Dems: Fetterman: 141 Hassan: 124 Shaheen: 124 King: 123 Rosen: 101 Warner: 100 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Honestly, it’s the perfect role for a VP. They’re usually the more partisan one and they usually need something to do. Imagine the joy of Tim Walz in a hard hat, behind the wheel of a wrecking ball

to spin off Tyler Burge's example: you get to tell your doctor whether or not your knee hurts, your doctor gets to tell you whether or not you have arthritis. these are just reports about different things and weighing one against the other is confused

If you’ve lost this racist Nazi nutjob, you’ve lost *many* racist Nazi nutjobs They are already looking for their next “anti-establishment” candidate to take the torch

turning nazism into something that sounds like bland centrism is the culmination of the modern reactionary project

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

Very cool!

These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.

calling for the ban all travel from Europe because of a single murderous Voyager who crossed the Atlantic from Portugal is poetry

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning”

The self-congratulatory tone of this press conference is astonishing. Law enforcement misidentified the initial suspect—again—then allowed the actual perpetrator to be completely in the wind for 48 hours, during which time he went on to kill again

I’m sorry but if you are too old to understand the internet, you are too old to serve in congress in 2025

What’s crucial is that disabled people perform their disabilities to the liking of the public, lest we take their accommodations away

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

i genuinely cannot stand the kind of imaginary radical who does a kind of pose of rebellion which defends the status quo in words which purport to attack it