I call it the Arnaldo Palmer

“State’s Rights” exists so southern states can evade the constitution, not so northern states can abide by it. As a wise man once said, Conservativism consists of exactly one proposition…

I know this is a trivially small percentage of the population right now, but I also know that I will have a child soon and it will be May 2027 before she can get the measles vaccine.

We’ve invented a system that communicates with you in plain English, understands everything you say, and does everything for you. For £10 billion, we’ll train you how to use it.

you absolutely don’t have to hand it to Harmeet Dhillon + trying to remove it

The way Biden and his party treated Omar and Rashida Tlaib was reprehensible. Openly contemptuous and racist.

Turning a big dial that says appeasement and looking back at the president for approval

If I saw 100,000 people march against the state in subzero temperatures, I might pump the breaks on appeasement

They’ve thoroughly destroyed the search function on Photos to bully me into enabling apple intelligence

There may finally be a pilot at the helm, but still, a large oafs turns slow

Warren G Harding’s return to normalcy speech, inverted, is the perfect message for our times

Hell yes

I’m happy that they are having another half-Indian baby for JD to denigrate

Anyone who would lie relentlessly under oath to protect their very worst colleagues is not a “professional who does their job well,” and unfortunately that describes literally every single cop.

The fascists are in retreat, the tide is cracking, the dam is turning.

Stacking self-parody so high they can’t see the earth anymore

There’s a 75% chance she doubles down with something even dumber, and a 25% chance the fascism opportunists are beginning their retreat.

Folks, they said it couldn’t happen, like it was oil and water. But sometimes all it takes for enemies to come together is that I turned off the heat.

we love Wire Mother

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

I like videos of dogs sledding more than I like videos of dogsledding

I finished my 4th shoveling of the sidewalk. Tomorrow, I go find my car.

ICE is calling their operation in Maine “Catch of the Day” and they should all be pushed off a pier into Casco Bay

the president of my city just told me to read free porn

Waiting for the new George Saunders to drop next week and then I’ll hit up this guy’s shop

Jair Bolsonaro is basically Wiley Coyote. No amount of relentless and hilarious injury will stop him.

LEFT: Both sidesim and false balance from the New York Times RIGHT: Telling the truth from the Financial Times If the US media cannot tell us honestly when the US Government is lying about its own forces killing a US citizen....then it loses all legitimacy

I will donate $500 to any campaign that promises to put this man in solitary confinement at ADX Florence

Amazon spent over $40 million on a movie about the quiet lady in the White House who sounds like she's been using Turning Point Duolingo for a few months, directed by a guy accused of sexual assault and rape. it's a financially sound overture to the President, by the frugality pioneer's calculations

I like videos of dogs sledding more than I like videos of dogsledding

well well well, look who showed up

I made Chawanmushi in the microwave. It took 10 minutes and it was excellent. www.foodlustpeoplelove.com/2024/12/chea...

Christ I thought that was a guy using a snowblower

I respect Jamelle Bouie so much that if I saw him eating Babà, an iconic Neapolitan desert, I wouldn’t even say the thing.

My favorite holiday is Chuck Schumer day, the day when Chuck Schumer crawls out of his hole to announce that republicans need to stop doing bad stuff and that somebody should stop them, heralding several more years of fascism

Checking out a daycare. Comic Sans in every direction. A great happiness fills my soul, having seen a creation in its most rightful home.

As good a time as ever to think about how we got here, and how an opposition party must speak if we’re going to get past this. Article by @polphilpod.bsky.social

"how's your non-violence working out Mr. Gandhi" is...not actually a burn

Robert Putnam was right to be hopeful about the people of Minnesota, whatever differences existed amongst them

Vibe Coding the second reconstruction amendments

I share the hesitance to invoke American Values - both because it seems to ignore the brutal reality that followed the founding and because it’s fucking corny. But you could do worse than appeal to the Declaration, which precedes the Slavery Constitution.

I finished my second pass sidewalk shoveling. The geologic strata indicate someone’s dog pissed on my stoop at 11:00am.

(!) Newly-released State Department docs show the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi for fake news *initially propelled by Columbia itself* — including that he was yelling at "Jewish bystanders," when what he was actually doing was confronting an antisemitic disruptor.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Read the poem alongside @jamellebouie.net’s recent “if the Declaration was good enough for the abolitionists, it’s good enough for me”

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

One of the dumbest posts, if not the dumbest, of 2025 — and also one of the most damaging, in terms of curbing Dem willingness to lead public opinion on immigration. Look at where that graph is now! Complete failure to imagine how opinion could change in the near future www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

James Talarico earlier today at the Democratic debate for the TX Senate primary when asked about Israel-Palestine: "I would not vote to send weapons to Netanyahu which he is currently using to slaughter children in Gaza”

There are two reasons I would not use the “I Am Not A Lawyer” acronym, one of which is that I am a lawyer.

The East River has completely frozen over (or gotten packed with ice floes) a few times. In the Blizzard of 1888, a boy in Brooklyn was charging people 2 cents to use his ladder to climb down onto the ice. A boy on the Manhattan side charged them 5 cents to get back up.