Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

A Left Behind story set in the Jurassic Park universe called Velocirapture

Raise your hand if you picketed your local Sinclair ABC affiliate in (cough) 2004 because they Swift-Boated John Kerry 👵

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

Slamming Tylenol like tic tacs so my children will be gods

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

This article confirms something people’ve suspected: Hostile but beautiful wood furniture in the hippest LA coffeeshops is meant as a “laptop deterrent” www.grubstreet.com/article/los-...

I would like one of Elizabeth Warren’s most trusted protégés to disassemble Nexstar piece by piece starting in 18 months 🙏

Pritzker knows the deep lore 😅

today in aesthetic correlations of neofeudal hypothesis

“The US today is sick, owing to the toxic accumulation of money & great fortunes which, like an infection, have found outlets only in luxury and the foulest right-wing propaganda.” FJameson, “An American Utopia” (2016)

H1B thing is just example 486 of how republicans can't deal with Real Problems. The system is flawed, it is a Real Problem. They are not interested in reform to do things like streamline the process and reduce the potential for fraud, they are interested in being racist to Indians.

As part of WIRED's Politics Issue, read @stevenlevy.bsky.social on how the vibrant, outsider Silicon Valley he discovered as a young reporter decades ago, has changed utterly, to become a place bowing before Trump With incredible art from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/silico...

A few years ago I would not have predicted @wired.com would be a journalistic beacon, but with this forthcoming “politics issue” they are doubling down on real, anti-authoritarian reporting Not regretting my new subscription

teaching today: greatest neckbeard to ever do it

Today, the New York Times published a long essay glorifying Jay Bhattacharya, the Trump NIH director. What?⁉️ Here’s the explanation: That essay was written by the editor of a Trumpist Republican journal, funded by a Trumpist org that hates science. SHAME on the Times. 🧪1/

This is very moving, and then you get to the last paragraph 😭 which is THAT paragraph

Clothing store, Upper West Side.

Mrs. P was part of the "riot" (according to a lying DHS press release) that just SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN. (We couldn't hug upon her her return: tear gas residue.) www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Nutrition science is super-confusing and a magnet for scammers and influencers So I find this crotchety, skeptical little newsletter a relief. It doesn’t take ads and explains the latest actual science very clearly ✨

The Monsters demand special rules, just for them talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...

U-turn now 🙏 please

It has been brought to my attention that not everyone knows about Ben Franklin's virtue-tracking app

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

Monarch truck stop on the great southern migration

Hate it, but it’s Casaubon

I am making no predictions about whether Disney will do the right thing. I'm only saying that, if the company's thinking two days ago was that this would be a short, not-too-hard news cycle, they now know that is not the case.

We support this.

That’s a keeper

One (1) golden ducat for inside knowledge about why South Park (those so-daring boundary-pushers!) had to cancel so quickly this week

there is an institutional persistence story to be written about why Cambridge is not only so bad at marketing and organizing itself in the digital age, but utterly indifferent. Its attitude to the books it publishes is like a fish spawning 50,000 fertilized eggs. A few will survive and reproduce.

hell yeah

Ah yes, who can forget Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus when God demanded “Saul, Saul, why don’t you persecute black people”?

I am kind of optimistic that a lot of this is just multiple different age cohorts being made kind of insane by COVID and that we just have to ride the wave a little until the people who were too young to be really impacted by it come fully online. But that’s still like 30 years. Gonna be a wild time

Amazing Momma concert in this little tent behind a bar in Urbana, IL 😄

Bruh

you'd be hard-pressed to make a more compelling argument for the way things are now than that we're all trapped in the fitful dream of someone dying in front of a tv. everything that happens involves someone from tv

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Increasingly depending on this guy to say all the things

Kimmel should jump to PBS

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

I dunno, man. “where did Jimmy Kimmel go” is likely to be a real question for some of the checked-out normies I know.

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

The brilliant Ego Nwodim quitting SNL … just putting a pin in that 😞

This is a neat idea: too bad it’s UK only 😕 leftbookclub.com

waiting with baby's breath at the malapropism factory

Wowww what a review 😳 variety.com/2025/film/re...