January 23, 2025:

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

Trump thinks D-Day stands for Donald Day.

Trump is doing to businesses what he did to his businesses.

Happy April Trump’s Day!

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

My DMs are open for anyone who wants to text me their war plans.

The weirdest thing just happened to me. A guy just asked me what time it was.

Remembering this nugget from @davidfrum.bsky.social’s March 2017 cover story: “The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“American politics has an ingrained philistinism and anti-intellectualism that has been the cause of infinite mischief.” —Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)

I’ll procrastinate later.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

If you think it’s “divisive” to talk about January 6, you should have seen the time the president incited a mob to overthrow the government.

“Hatred has become a habit. With no more outside enemies to destroy, the fanatics make enemies of one another.” —Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

New Year’s Resolution: make better decisions, like not purchasing Saved by the Bell: The College Years on iTunes.

Isaac Asimov was born on this day in 1920. This quotation from 1980 holds up: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…. [It is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

Happy birthday to Andrew Johnson, the second-worst president of the United States!

I would wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but I can’t do that because Biden is still president.

Column 1: Trump is a conspiracist. Column 2: Bullshit! All Democrats are pedophiles!

Christopher Hitchens died 13 years ago today. I miss him.

Island of garbage

One of the hallmarks of this era is the frequent appointment of people who could not get hired in any capacity to work *for* federal agencies to run them.

convinced that there are people who love trump for no other reason than that he gave them a personality, however rancid it might be

Not trying to brag but I just ran 11.38 miles. Okay, yes, I’m trying to brag.

First rule of Bluesky: If no one asks for your opinion, give it.

It's disheartening that in an age where knowledge has never been more accessible - the United States is about to be governed by an administration so primitive and ignorant as to believe that tariffs are good and that vaccines are bad.

Things are so bad that Trump is undermining the rule of law and his presidency hasn’t even started yet.

Today is Monday, which means that Trump is an insane and corrupt constitutional criminal who should never be president.

Matt Gaetz is retiring to spend more time with the daughters of other people’s families.

These Trump Cabinet nominations. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people

Like the Real Housewives, Trump’s nominees make me feel better about myself and worse about my country.

The worst president in American history is the worst president in America’s future.

Happy 17th birthday to the Amazon Kindle! Matt Gaetz may try to date you.

Trump’s political career has been nasty, brutish, and too long.

As everyone here has been saying, this is not an echo chamber

The milk in my refrigerator is so old that Matt Gaetz wouldn’t date it.

Matt Gaetz is so opposed to immigration that he personally separates daughters from their parents.

Donald Trump is going to hold the title of the worst president in American history and the second worst.

Trump is assembling a brain worm trust.

In the Trump administration, the less qualified you are, the more qualified you are.

Some people are on social media just to get attention. I’m one of those people.

Neither Elon Musk nor Donald Trump has managed to stay married to anyone else, so how long could they manage to stay married to each other?

The key to surviving a second Trump presidency is to oppose him without losing your mind. If anyone knows how to do this, let me know.