That was a whole lot of information that I wish I hadn't absored. But among other things, that guy's writing is incredibly try hard. So much for the media elites.

these people were supposed to be the cream of the crop of the industry, btw

Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine: hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...

Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas

How's that Golden Age going?

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her. This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.

Look, the internet is a cesspit, everybody knows that, now to take a take a big sip of coffee and check in with what's going with the media and professional commentariat.

phrasing it as "no meaningful *management* experience" is so funny. they didn't use the word government specifically because they don't want to imply there's anything wrong with the billionaire to elected office pipeline

Still funny to me how it once got revealed that Nuzzi was/is BFF's with Milo Yiannapolous, and the ostensibly liberal media class instantly circled the wagons to defend her.

both are important stories tbh

"The right’s gripe isn’t just that trans people exist, but that their existence is tearing down the old world—of good men, obedient women, traditional family structures—and unleashing a new, godless age of chaos and precarity on you." @schuylermitchell.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This Pope has quite the fastball

admitting to statutory rape to own the libs

This is how narcissists operate tho. They will not see *anything* as a problem until it affects them directly and then they will act like it's the only thing that anybody else should care about. And they will be serious.

Darnold going pumpkin mode again.

MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked

People Magazine trying to save democracy

this is actually a really common way of understanding the world among pundits where events can only be classified if they fit a strict definition and if they don’t fit that definition then they cannot be classified in that way. it is as if they see definitions as structuring reality.

America can't be fascist because I'm not doing anything about it

Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration? Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:

Very funny to compare this to the Valve hardware announcement video, and think back to the Amazon guy on LinkedIn who was like, “why can’t we compete with Valve??? It is a mystery!!!”

This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

And the elite pundits who have tried to grapple with Mamdani's win have largely tried to resort to an "Actually this election told us nothing and is inconsequential" angle. Which is pretty shameless, considering how many of those same pundits were catastrophizing about a potential Zohran victory.

I've come to the conclusion that many of the legacy press institutional failures can simply be attributed to editorial leadership pining for the Clinton era. When their stature allowed them a level of access (and social impunity for their bad behavior) that they've desperately tried to recapture

Not sure who the target audience is for these ChatGPT ads. But if this is the best they've got in terms of use cases for their product, I can see why people are confident that the bubble is going to burst in the near future.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.

“But I never thought the enemy would be ME!” cried the leopard after running for office as a member of the Friend-Enemy Distinction Party

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

Listening to the Unclear and Present Danger podcast with @jamellebouie.net , and he made a striking analogy: the Trump administration sorta resembles the Confederacy trying to win everything in the first 24 months...

After learning that's indeed real and looking at it, I'm actually fine with this iPhone pocket thing. I'd much rather tech giants devote their resources to silly harmless products instead of the world destroying slop that is their current product lineup.

Brandishing my Packer-hating bona fides by pointing out that I first clocked him as incurable loser back when he was pearl clutching in 2013 over Jay-Z rapping about his drug dealing past.

Just a note that the US passed landmark civil rights legislation enforcing the rights of disabled students to reasonable accommodation. This is a form of segregation. And segregationists like this also tend to believe in other forms of segregation.

I generally treat land acknowledgements like I do corporate DEI trainings: I may inwardly roll my eyes on occasion, but I'm instantly suspicious of people who become outwardly aggrieved by them. For that reason alone I think they actually provide some value.

how the wind infiltrated so deep into the hurricane

going to beg trump to tariff podcast equipment to keep it out of the hands of these brain dead degenerates

Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible

Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

I think this is a key observation. Less than one year into this term and they've already descended into internecine recriminations. While still incredibly dangerous, they've begun stalling out on many of their initiatives and are already behaving like lame ducks.

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

Being subjected to RGIII's commentary in order to watch this damn game with the sound on should be categorized as a crime against humanity.

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

not even mayor yet and he’s already potentially getting big wins like this. there was a whole class of centrist writers who, after zohran won, immediately said he would not be able to get anything done, and particularly pointed to raising taxes as one very out of reach for him

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

NEW: The backlash to Trump has been coming in big waves. Dems' sweep in last week’s elections. The 7 million people who turned out for “No Kings” protests. But it's been fueling something else all year: a surge in young progressives signing up to run for office. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This should always be a key point when dealing with vapid NYT defenders. Editorial leadership made an affirmative choice to turn a *publicly planned* bad-faith smear campaign about a university administrator into a national scandal by placing it as a banner story for multiple weeks.

Yeah a lot of people have forgotten (or are too young to have experienced) the wild west days of message boards.