The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old. "Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"

"top border patrol official was so inspired by hunting magazines that he vowed to hunt immigrants" is really...something.

offer stands

ben smith’s take from last year when the nuzzi/rfk story first broke aged like cheese on a dashboard

Olivia Nuzzi—who has allegedly has sex with two of her sources—has a job and a book deal. Meanwhile, I am begging people on the Internet to subscribe to my indie publication so I don’t go bankrupt. (it’s @autonomynews.co)

Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age

oh shit i think king woman has turned me into a fan of sludge, i’m listening to subrosa now and this is all extremely my shit? can folks hit me up with female fronted / led doom / sludge metal groups? i need more of this

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Trans women are at the very bottom of the permissive power structure pyramid. Anyone rational should feel much, much safer around trans women, who are themselves targeted for violence at horrific rates, than we would around cis men wearing suits and Rolexes.

Men are not inherently violent; some men have learned they can get away with anything because of permissive power structures, and they proceed to do so. The issue is with permissive power structures.

The TERFs who were screaming about protecting women? Without question, you could go through their timelines and not once find them talking about metoo, or supporting the women who were actually coming forward.

The entire backlash against trans women existing in society was based on the notion that boys would be boys, even if they went through extraordinary pains to NOT be boys in literally every way possible. It was an inherently anti-feminist take.

This thread. I think it's incredibly important to remember that the TERF fragility/rabidity started to take off right around the height of me too, and the main message they had was "men are inherently violent." They targeted trans WOMEN, while at the same time excusing actual violence from cis men.

honestly, no one who knows me would be surprised that listening to a sludge metal band with two violins doing a song about cormac mcarthy’s “the road” would be incredibly, indelibly my shit

Keith opening the Lizza post and skimming to the end like

It's actually really nice that Bluesky is notifying Alex of the subpoena. A lot of tech companies simply comply and don't notify the targets

MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Stepping back from public commitments is a step. It’s also too little too late.

and even more than that, they’ve all been just…. really mediocre? characters behaving wildly out of character, like a little kid is bashing action figures together. deaths without meaning, chunky exposition delivered poorly, no real cohesion of any kind that i’ve seen

man i have sampled a wide array of x-books throughout this age of revelation event, and every single one has been desperately unsatisfying. it feels like they don’t know what they’re doing, don’t have a shared vision or plan, don’t have a specific thing they’re all building towards. frustrating.

Incredibly worth watching. If there was a more talented card artist than Ricky Jay, I've never seen 'em. The man was a genius with cards.

you ever just mistranslate a condemnation of pederasty and make your entire layfolk into bigots??

your daily reminder that christians are so suggestible they became homophobic by accident

oh shit i think king woman has turned me into a fan of sludge, i’m listening to subrosa now and this is all extremely my shit? can folks hit me up with female fronted / led doom / sludge metal groups? i need more of this

psst reminder to book your appointments for flu and covid shots if you haven't already. just do it right now it takes two seconds ok xoxo

This must have been fun to draft. "The logical conclusion from Ms. Halligan's declaration is that no one from the government presented a new indictment to the grand jury after it issued a no bill." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.

Gamer’s Nexus just dropped a video on the topic youtu.be/9hLiwNViMak?...

congratulations: your allies believe you are a monster and your enemies believe you are insincere

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice’s website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion. oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

She’s working at all the prestige places, and I don’t mean to be arch about it, but it feels like the only place with a strong enough taboo to find this disqualifying in white America is on social media among mixed company.

It’s funny because if you believe the most prominent and respected voices in our discourse, the dreaded Woke Times was an inquisition where every unpolitic utterance was dredged up and used to ruin countless lives…meanwhile, in reality, this stuff was constantly sliding if not rewarded.

Because, of course.

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.

Mamet directed this special! Ricky Jay was the greatest sleight of hand/card trick performer of his era and one of the coolest stage magicians of all time, as well as being a historian of those topics. Really a charming and mind blowing guy

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

Yes. This is exactly it.

Incredibly worth watching. If there was a more talented card artist than Ricky Jay, I've never seen 'em. The man was a genius with cards.

"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists. We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will. Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3

Might not be tomorrow, but it will happen. See: 3/3 ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson! Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention... www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...