I want to hear from all the people who said RFK Jr. has good ideas on nutrition

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

another, related thing Mamdani has done that modern Democratic commentators hate but that is really smart he has narrowed his message on three tangible, point-of-service policy programs which *represent* his politics rather than being the most important things he'll do in office

I know he’s spoken against it but this is basically Ezra Klein syndrome. Beltway brain. Why can’t we come to happy middle ground on all things, all values. The idea that other people are real, have internal lives, and may suffer catastrophic consequences for our complacency is a foreign concept.

Reminder that MAHA is an explicitly socially Darwinian, supremacist, eugenics movement that is building the infrastructure for social murder at scale under the mantle of “public health” MAHA is explicitly inverting public health into eugenics and preventable mass death.

Trump thanks Ukraine invader Vladimir Putin for saying he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

This is an armchair theory, but: It seems like Trump’s Portland gambit is only possible because Americans are sufficiently insulated from depictions of the real world by a universe of derivative media AND the news orgs we’d expect to cover this faithfully are off the clock anyway.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

Today I learned that Eric Adams' son was on Albania's version of American Idol, which shows that you can achieve anything with a father who cares enough to routinely go through your popular knapsack.

One thing I'm thinking a lot about recently is how it was always presented to me as an anicent, inherent truth--something built into the texts--that Jews and Muslims exist in opposition to each other. And how absurd that is. But accepting that is part of what's required to sell genocide.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

This whole section really.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

Everything is just so grindingly stupid and cheap and ugly and corrupt and soulless all the fucking time. A relentless shitstorm of cruel imbeciles and vindictive freaks 24/7, all amplified by parasitic technologies that have metastasized into every centimeter of our lives, to enrich weird assholes.

its both incredibly entertaining and well-made and also carries a timeless and important message (The British are literal demons who must be violently purged from any land they colonially occupy)

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Today in things I wish were different (ala Klein): it would be nice to be able to talk about optimal policy without immediately having every response be about whether it is optimal politics. This isn't a subtweet of anyone unless you count "America of the last 15 years" to be someone.

Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

They are cult members living in an artificial alternate reality, in which lying television and phone screens intermediate. They are willing to do monstrous things to avoid shattering this illusion.

It sort of concerns me that Brooke Rollins is explaining to Todd Bessent that Argentina pantsed us and gave China more leverage after he bailed out Javier Milei as if she thinks he's not aware.

The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago

#ArtHistory 🗃️🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis It’s autumn in Paris. The vantage point of this Impressionist painting suggests that Monet painted it from the middle of the Seine, in a small boat that he converted into a floating studio. Claude Monet, “Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil” (1873) • See ALT

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

This is exactly what was horrific about Ezra Klein saying Charlie Kirk did politics "in the right way." Read the whole @nytimes.com essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social can you do an episode on microplastics please!

So in this very short period of time, we’ve seen the mass adoption of AI despite no one really knowing what it does for their business. While at the same time, they’ve abandoned any commitment to diversity because “DEI is bullshit” and all the receipts are now coming up short?

Yeah, we can’t claim to be concerned about institutions and slippery slopes while this sort of rhetoric towards members of Congress escalates. If so, we should be honest about why these exceptions are shaking out in the manner they are.

I understand critiques that some people are giving the term "media environment" too much vague explanatory power but like...this is clearly a phenomenon emerging out of dynamics of social communication and nobody has really put forth a good comprehensive theory that we can start doing something with

where were you when the cambodian-armenian hyperwar started?

MAHA!

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

This video is a joke. The soft focus, the NPR voice, the somber music in the background, it’s a more savage parody of Ezra Klein than anybody specifically looking to parody Ezra Klein could ever produce.

the hard line of 'racism is not part of any conversation' is the very minimum to maintain to have a civilized order, and the reactionary centrists are among the biggest quislings around when it comes to that.

I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Staunch opponent of political violence.

This is why I tried to warn people about Weaponized unreality and why I spent five years working around the framework of understanding that was required in a moment like this. we are not ready for manufactured crisis and it’s violent goals. They are building the framework for mass violence

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

What can you learn from teaching pre-kindergarteners self-defense about how our media is adapting to fascism? Andrea Pitzer on why kids (and some adults) have such a hard time spotting the con.