Unnerving point from @bcfinucane.bsky.social: The White House appears to be quietly trying to get Republicans to formally turn over a large swath of Congress's warmaking powers to Trump. That's what this new draft bill would do. From our pod discussion: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

After Douthat says Trumpism is pressuring institutions "to do the right thing," his first example of that "right thing"—the "civic purpose"—is resegregation in higher education

*opens TikTok one week from now* “Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””

hot hot HOT!!!!

Damn I thought girls loved living under constant threat of the most alcoholic parent in the district demanding they prove they have a vagina

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

the people who loudly proclaim your kids shouldnt go to college all went to yale and duke. the people who are working tirelessly to ensure your children work in factories send their own kids to stanford and give them control of their own investment banks in their 20s

congrats to joe brandon and all the purported defenders of democracy who normalized cracking heads on student protestors in order to cover for israeli genocide. you really greased the skids for ol donnie trump to formally submarine the first amendment

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

This is the best white supremacy has to offer?

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The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

"I knew that someday, years or perhaps decades down the line, when half of Gaza was still rubble and the other half Israeli skyscrapers, the magazine would offer a mea culpa. Maybe someone involved would end up considering it the biggest mistake of their career."

coates has turned out to be one of a vanishingly small number of people who both have something to lose and are willing to put it on the line to say what are clearly truthful if dangerous things. im impressed

I invented a game show bit where americans try to pronounce these names

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

just turn that sentence over in your mind: "this is what seems to be happening now: Senior officials in the federal government have taken over a conservative media entity to talk about a crackdown on anti-conservative thought and speech"

Now would be the perfect time to see which of the Harpers signatories have said anything in the wake of the recent wave of cancellations.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”

if someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death. Likewise, it's inaccurate to say they never called for it. bc I can parse language and understand how humans communicate

does joe biden, in whatever moments of clarity are left to him, feel any sense of responsibility for this? do his enablers? i wonder about that sometimes

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Thursday evening that “there will be no Palestinian state,” as he signed an agreement to push ahead with the controversial E1 settlement expansion plan that will cut across [the occupied] West Bank.

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

oopsie

The writers have really jumped the shark

Good on them

"A strong Iran that threatened Gulf states pushed some of them toward Israel," said Mustafa Fahs, a Beirut-based commentator. "Now, an Israel that seems to be out of control is making them step back and even deepen rapprochement with Iran." GCC thaw with Iran likely to hasten due to Israeli attack.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

@pablo.show book him!

“In the case of The U.S. Supreme Court v. Everyone Else, this court wins by a serious landslide.”

nothing but respect to assemblymember jen lunsford for articulating a more accurate view of the supreme court than anyone in dem leadership can manage

that no one can or will stop this insanity, a deranged old man currently lining his pockets by gaming the regulation of dangerous new financial instruments like cryptocurrency speaks less to this old man's weird powers and more to our national debasement in the face of any asserted power

you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening

Israel just attacked Doha, Qatar while Hamas officials were discussing a ceasefire deal Via Al Jazeera

Disaster capitalism

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Two(!) of these are in Park Slope. Relax, Brownstone Brooklyn, Millennials are in control ny.eater.com/coming-attra...