Our perdurable shame

Tell me about it

Russians live in hell and seem determined to make the rest of the world burn as well.

My first year in DC, I was at an event where Rick Scott spoke, a couple years before he was governor of FL. The Cato Institute's founder Ed Crane was there too and as Scott took the stage Crane leaned over to me and said, "That man's embezzled more money than anyone you'll see in your whole life."

Limitless corruption. "Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

When Trump finally falls, it will be satisfying to watch all the "spiders in a jar" cannibalizing each other in recrimination and in a clawing scramble for shreds of influence. "MAGA Sharpens Knives for Trump’s ‘Ice Maiden’ After President’s Miserable Week" www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

"Six months after the Trump administration canceled virtually all grants approved during the Biden administration, the nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda."

Weather report from hell

I say a cat framed the dog. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Human nature hasn't changed much over the last few thousand years, as evidenced by the "ripped from the headlines" feel of this new translation of Thucydides' History of the Pelopenessian Wars wapo.st/4odfj6N

"Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes" i.e., Texas A&M further restricts freedom of speech and academic liberty to suit currently fashionable MAGA fixations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

at no point while reading this did i have any idea what the next word would be

"Boondoggle Ranch"? Our reality's scriptwriters have given up and are just phoning it in at this point.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Writing is sense-making for a lot of people who have been through hell. Veterans are no exception.

Which china shop will the Bovino Brigade bull around in next?

In addition to honoring American veterans today, let's also acknowledge our Canadian allies on their Remembrance Day. The vast majority of us remember our brothers-in-arms.

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social How would you feel about like-minded people adopting the identifier "Kristolsheviks"?

Sorry, I didn't think there was any way for the Dems to "win the shutdown" in the sense of forcing concessions from a Republican Congress that answers only to Trump. But the Dems *have won*, I'd argue, because they have exposed the real agenda of the GOP re: affordability and health care. Dems win.

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

From a couple years ago youtu.be/ITFiyQErTuQ?...

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Canadians have been among America's fiercest allies on battlefields from Europe, to the Cold War, to Afghanistan and Iraq. As we mark our Veterans Day, why not also honor Remembrance Day and our fallen Canadian brothers- and sisters-in-arms? Please donate and/or share.

This depraved-heart murder, in progress on an unthinkable scale, is the worst moral injury so far inflicted by this wicked regime.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

I hope that Mamdani understands that he'll stride into City Hall and find that the mechanisms and relationships of city governance are about as functional and up to date as the Chernobyl control room.

I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

Disgraceful. Though they will be punished soon enough when the terms of the deal are changed after the fact. Cowards die a thousand deaths or something like that.

This site needs a statue, or at least an historical marker

A mission-driven organization can't serve all causes equally and simultaneously. A mission to do everything is a mission to do nothing. The Sierra Club is not the only example of this kind of self-shattering implosion at a time when advocates are needed desperately. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

The Onion, desperately trying to stay ahead of reality. "DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’ - Previous administrations have done nothing while these dangerous offenders indoctrinated our children with letters, shapes, and numbers." theonion.com/dhs-daycare-...

The gilded encrustations at the White House are spreading like an unchecked fungal infection.

I don't *endorse* impulsive sandwich hurling, BUT I do feel very happy about this news www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

"Rioters tried to kill me on January 6. Trump pardoned them." Sgt. Aquilino Gonell writes a must-read piece on what it's like to risk your life to defend democracy, only to be called an un-American traitor. This is MAGA.

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police

@jvl.bsky.social is this Catholic Integralism?

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

This is the Dick Cheney I will remember www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Nq...

I was just wondering about Memphis. There have not been as many outrageous stories circulating as from Chicago. Probably explained by the weaker news journalism there.

Canadians, you owe no apologies.

C'mon Toronto. Just one run to keep this going indefinitely

Don't sleep on normie Dems who are running boring campaigns for statewide office!

This is the consistent message of most Democrats I've covered this year, but Obama (duh) is better at selling it. I dislike the "they can't just be anti-Trump" CW. He's president, of course they'll run against him. Much odder that Rs are still doing Biden and 2016 election probes.

"Er, AKSHUALLY," says Christopher Rufo, "It's _Critical Race Theory_ (CRT) that explains why I am unloveable."

Fox News has “corrected” a piece about videos of Black women complaining about losing SNAP benefits, finally pointing out that they were AI-generated. Since these videos don’t involve real people, I imagine there’s little liability for so-called “news outlets” reporting racist AI propaganda as fact.

Love Bellingcat, but I am so ashamed that their investigate brilliance is needed to understand what is unfolding in Chicago and environs.

No university has topped this administration and its allies in protecting and promoting antisemites.