Starting to seem like a gulag archipelago is the only thing this country might be able to build anymore.

Who knows what to think of "American capitalism" at this point, whatever that even means.

Many, many, many such cases.

I bought and put up a photo by the east village photog Derek Berg in our apartment vestibule next to the dead intercom buzzer. The ears are from the press screening of the CATS movie- @msjennimiller.bsky.social

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

We're watching the 1973 drive-in movie "Maletesta's Carnival of Blood" and I really can't say if it's bad or good because I'm not sure what in god's name they were going for here or what's going on...

Republicans *shocked* at the suggestion that Trump might be racist. Also, at the implication the Klansman who killed Medgar Evers might have been racist.

THE most racist thing out of this White House? Really? Not the terror campaign against non-whites in blue cities? Not the vile state propaganda against Haitians and Somalis? Not the push to resegregate government jobs? Or ban teaching about slavery in schools? THIS was what did it? Really?

What the fuck happened to you, New Yorker? Your ass used to be beautiful.

To cite the old joke about the drunk, apparently someone else shit Trump's pants.

I'm a fairly optimistic fellow, but I'm starting to think the center isn't going to hold, guys.

Anti-Trump Republicans yearning for the days when the President was a senile, classist, psuedo-aristocrat, whose inveterate racism was marginally more covert.

Fighting the algorithm Tron-style.

It feels very strange, at a time where seemingly everyone is underemployed, to finally go full time at my job, especially since our industry was in dire circumstances throughout much of 2025. Not taking it for granted.

I'm reading "In Our Image," Stanley Karnow's book about American involvement in the Philippines, and the sections about how hard it was to get Reagan to finally abandon his friends the Marcoses make me wonder if he really would have rejected Trumpism after all.

I'm guessing the insanely racist party will not be denouncing their insanely racist leader any time soon.

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government. But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

Another shitty rule that Adams put in, probably right before he left, that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should fix a.s.a.p.

Drudge is going with the headline "SHITCOIN" which is not bad.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

As part of my election campaign, I am calling for Universal Basic Instinct. We will ALL be hot bisexual sociopaths and none of us will wear underwear. NOT TAKING QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME!

It's all so grotesque and anarchic and out in public view.

Megan McArdle reading "The 120 Days of Sodom" and thinking it's fascinating how social mores have changed.

You need to think through your own time, rather than asking the decontextualized works of intellectuals from other times to bring you through.

There's something about finding out that the very cool creative kids I knew in elementary school grew up to be very cool, creative adults that makes me feel like the world is not so broken.

We need better intellectuals.

I'm fifty-one and I'm wondering if it's common for people born in roughly that time period to have the feeling lately that we could just take or leave the internet? My sister told me she just lost interest in it in the last year.

I had a dream last night where I was being interviewed by an intern for Michael Moore (?) about living in Canada and then moving back to the US about 4 years ago. I remember telling her "My timing wasn't the best. But, remember, they're going to fucking lose and we're going to fucking win."

In retrospect, the capitulation of our key institutions was disappointing, which doesn't mean it should have been terribly surprising or seen as bring at odds with their nature.

Sure, it's not enough. But it means they're on the ropes and thinking this will calm voters down so they can recalibrate. They're wrong. Keep punching.

Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis.

Book #8: The second volume of Ferrante's epic about two friends in Italy in the 60s. This one is about the brilliant friend's bad early marriage and what happens to a dream deferred. Meanwhile, the narrator is coming into her own.

Sometimes, I wonder whatever happened to someone I knew in elementary school with a unique name and memorable personality, so I look them up...

Oh, wait, hold on. I'm actually just at the Taco Bell now...

Men like Bezos deeply resent moral centers and seek to do away with them.

The only disagreement I have here is there's pretty strong evidence that they're still afraid of mobs, but as in most corrupt states, own the government to protect them.

Somehow, the FACE Act isn't applicable in this case?

Wow, Bozos cut the Books section. If you bought books on Amazon, you were already a massive piece of trash, but now even more so.

Waking up every day with a ruling party that is focused on hurting as many demographic "enemies" as they can and checking the news to see if they were thwarted in some way or successful in some other way.

Conservative Intellectualism in Manhattan.

I have to say the media's fascination with "buzzy debut novels" doesn't really assuage my feeling that the publishing industry is adrift and failing.

So, people fleeing political persecution in one country will go to and enrich the country that welcomes them... Interesting. 🤔

They look like they would get killed early in a Friday the 13th movie.

Oh. Sounds good

The actual crime is known as, ahem, pie-jacking.

I'm so not interested in arguing with people online in the year 2026.

Okay, but at least it has a happy ending.

It's the group chuckle at the question that really infuriates you here.

I don't think my friends back in Canada really know what it's like to walk around all day with a perpetual scream of rage in your head.