reading that paragraph I could only think about what Matt Taibbi circa 2002 would have done with that bullet metaphor this book is going to be provide us with fodder for the meanest reviews ever written who are our society's best mean reviewers now

I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

This is what happens to your prose when you refuse to use actual names. This is MFA brain birthed from the ashes of career suicide. I already hate LA because of the sunglasses photos alone.

"Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment"

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

It is the norm.

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!

Babylon 5 set up a "semi-estranged father of main character will totally die" and then went "lol, no, generals are totally find in wars, but all the grunts are dead!" Well played, show.

Do not take birth control advice from the “we are scared about low birth rates” party!!!!!

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

May God not allow anyone to see us drowning or dying from the cold, and not help us make a plastic tent Link support 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/from-a-hom...

Ruby Bridges and her mother walking to school, 11/14/1960

I think a lot, especially living where I do now, that Ruby Bridges (now 71) is younger than my mom. Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.

Protect Norman Rockwell from the hashtag retvrn creeps. His legacy is so much better than that.

"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT." If you're in the United States, that is ALL you should EVER say to law enforcement besides asking if you're being detained, and identifying yourself in a stop and ID state.

67 co-sponsors! Is your senator a co-sponsor of #KOSA (S 1748)? You can check here and then contact them to say no. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I can’t remember a plausibly threatened invasion by the US that has received less attention and alarm by the press.

Of course. Government actors have for decades claimed the right to assign adulthood as is convenient for their purposes. That's why 12-year-olds can be prosecuted as adults while 20-year-olds are too immature to drink or work as strippers (yet NOT too young to get married or go to war).

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ICE vs the clergy

Hold up

Thank God, I was warming too much to those crypt keepers of late. There's the Church Classic.

Their condemnation of ICE tactics was exemplary. This is the opposite.

Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of drug prohibition in the US. On Nov. 15, 1875, the San Francisco approved the 1st anti-drug law which targeted opium dens and people who looked like me. 150 years of over-reliance on policing has led to *highly* evolved markets. Here's my unlocked 2018 NYT op-ed:

Again, I fail to see the difference between the policies they are enacting and those they would enact if they were being paid to wreck the country.

The thing is this projection of adult sexuality onto young teens is already pervasive in our society in the form of purity culture. It’s just that purity culture frames it in a defensive posture, with that sexuality as something that must be resisted and denied. Both logics enable exploitation.

I fucking love photojournalism.

Some saying he’ll change policy - he won’t, the church is a glacier - & others saying it’s a meaningless sop. It’s the bare minimum pastoral move but a good political one - rile up people who are against him anyway, make them embarrass themselves, set the church up as moderate & decent.

The books left out were bad enough, but y'all forgot this: "Sitting behind the wheel, shortly after Nancy Sinatra’s version of 'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)' played on her Spotify, she said the two are no longer in touch."

Also "Jacob Bernstein reports on power and privilege for the Style section." Does he

By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

I just want to say there are a lot of journalists and writers who do real, incredible work on topics that matter while maintaining high standards. Many of them do not have stable employment or recognition from major institutions.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.

That number just keeps increasing, eh.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Nooooo.

I don't think I like features anymore.

“Did you write that story about gross, completely obvious journalistic malpractice?” “Sure did, boss. Real fuckin sexy, just like you asked.”

This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.

News apps are getting a little too lax on what they consider to be worthy of a push notification, imo.

I'd like to imagine this profile exists because she requested it, but I know it's a free gift. Lana Del Rey and deep books and sunglasses in black and white photos and "The Politician." At least I hope the profile is purposeful rage bait. It's worse if it's not.

Literary journalism was a horrible mistake.

Even without the measles-loving politician part, my God would I prefer Olivia's previous career over this kind of ridiculous profile and photos.

Ew Ew Ew Ew

No foreigner could possibly embrace...turkey. What racist drivel.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"