Oh we are so cooked www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

New from me: I wrote about Trump’s emcee gig at the Kennedy Center Honors, airing tonight. It all makes total sense for someone who always yearned to be seen as one of the elites, and sees himself as an expert on everything, to appoint himself the country’s cultural arbiter

“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.

New from me: I wrote about Trump’s emcee gig at the Kennedy Center Honors, airing tonight. It all makes total sense for someone who always yearned to be seen as one of the elites, and sees himself as an expert on everything, to appoint himself the country’s cultural arbiter

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

"the vice president is neutral on bigotry" is damning on its own as a headline, IMO, but still underplays just how much of what he said was actually pro-bigot

it hit me that companies trying to push AI features are basically the corporate version of people who only give gifts that they themselves hope to benefit from

HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that? HASSETT: Uhh --

the thing i keep coming back to — and i know this has been a quirk of his for a long time, but —  telling the exact same story over and over again is not exactly a great way to convince people you don't have memory issues

it hit me that companies trying to push AI features are basically the corporate version of people who only give gifts that they themselves hope to benefit from

i'm sure everyone beat me to it but it's very funny to put your own name on a building that has "memorial" right there

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “What reportedly began as Miller’s scheme to reduce migration may provoke even more people to flee north toward presumed safety in the United States.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/step...

Nicely done job by @annamerlan.bsky.social on a very difficult subject given how thin skinned Benny is for such a tough guy alpha male www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unitary executive theory assumes that the President is not just a King, but has deep knowledge of the working of agencies, or delegates to people who will act consistently with his preferences to the point that they should be allowed to ignore the law. USAID illustrates why this is nonsense.

remembering this classic @hayesbrown.bsky.social quiz www.buzzfeednews.com/article/haye...

In Trump's first year, he has developed a distinctive style of government — authoritarian, but so poorly thought out as to blunt its own effectiveness. I call it "haphazardism," and it may just be the thing saving American democracy www.vox.com/politics/472...

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “It’s the sort of cut-and-paste job that might be on the topic broadly, but still fails to address the actual question at hand.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/mike...

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “Crafting health care policy isn’t a muscle congressional Republicans have exercised in well over a decade.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/sena...

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “A one-time federal intervention doesn’t correct the strife that Trump’s tariff regime continues to fuel.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Our resident Trek expert Steve King makes the case for why he thinks "Lower Decks" is the best "Star Trek" show. If you're a Trekkie (or Trekker) do you agree or disagree? www.undertheradarmag.com/blog/a_tribu...

Rude of them to wait to post this absurdity after I’ve already written about how atrocious it is they’re recruiting the kind of people that this terrible ad would work on

Rude of them to wait to post this absurdity after I’ve already written about how atrocious it is they’re recruiting the kind of people that this terrible ad would work on

me roughly 3/4 through this absolute banger:

You hate to see it.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Doesn’t Pete have an air-conditioned office or was he out on a boat in the Caribbean?

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social “It’s safe to say that Trump is running low on lawyers to fill in the massive gaps needed to skillfully defend his most controversial policies.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?' Augustine made this suggestion in The City of God. In the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge." www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...

I named my fists Magic and Missile because they're always gonna connect with your skull with no chance of missing

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “This president happily brings up his age but only in the interest of boasting about how far beyond the norm he is compared to his chronological peers.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/dona...

This is an AI video, yes I know we all want it to be real

Now Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee - vow "vigorous oversight" and "full accounting" of Secretary Hegseth's alleged "kill them all" order and double-strike operation. Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees

Hagueseth

“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”

he met 4 trans women for lunch and banned polyamory what did they tell him

“They should do it the right way”

the immediate response from several people is "U.S. counties" which is so very much not a statistic that comes close to mattering so lol

So I just noticed this in Trump's freakout earlier about the NYT's reporting: "I won our Nation’s Districts by 2750 to 550, a complete wipeout." I've never seen a presidential race broken down like that, does anyone have insight on what metric he might have been fed?

OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social: “The rank-and-file are reportedly bristling at a domineering White House — and starting to worry it will cost them their jobs.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

What got me: this is the clearest shot yet showing Trump’s hair finally undergoing Presidential Whitening

WELP.

This remains the most prescient piece I've ever published at @cipolicy.bsky.social internationalpolicy.org/publications...

I wrote about how after a decade of being a "new trend," hot honey is perhaps just here to stay, and what happened in American food culture to make it so slate.com/life/2025/11...

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

My personal theory is it’s because they can neither seem relaxed (not being alert is a beta move) nor near enough the other person that it could be described as “intimate” or even “friendly” (touching other men even emotionally? not alpha)

A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”