Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Cuomo’s “media director came from running meme pages, which tells you everything,” @thestefansmith.bsky.social tells WIRED. “They know modern political strategy isn’t about message quality—it’s about content volume feeding the algorithm.” www.wired.com/story/andrew...

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

If your car alarm goes off your key should also go off so you know that it’s you.

We’re going to discover that the lowering of standards for ICE and DHS was also followed by a clandestine call for militia and former separatist members to join. They’ve brought the nationalists into the government.

Will there be Tylenol in Valhalla?

The elephant we’re all talking around is the fear that this incident will be used by the current administration to begin a wave of violent repression using the National Guard it’s already mobilizing in cities and the newly empowered Department of Homeland Security.

If you’re Brown and doing a home renovation, you now have to carry your birth certificate to Home Depot.

If I win the lottery, you will absolutely know. I will collect it publicly, in an ostentatious manner. And then I’ll launch a SuperPac.

Gen Z and Gen Alpha AND Millennials can’t all look 35 somethings gotta give

In 150 years, Laura Loomer will have the historical mystique of Rasputin. A wildly archaic archetype, so obviously villainous students are left bewildered.

The fact that Trump actually LISTENS to this extremist nutjob tells you everything you need to know about Trump. bluevirginia.us/2025/09/sen-... h/t @thestefansmith.bsky.social

His health is declining without an heir and he’s hiding it with bad makeup that doesn’t match their undertones? It’s not authoritarianism, it’s Elizabethan.

last night’s Trump digital mania had the energy of a bacchanal.

It’s wild how the difference between Mike Pence and JD Vance suddenly really matters.

Taylor Lorenz is the type of character who would make a fascinating subject for one of those old school, two hour long YouTube video essays. Inherently provocative.

A sick president? A close circle of advisors limiting access? An ambitious VP who may or may not be ready for the top of the ticket? Al*x Th*mpson, that’s your music buddy

Trying to lynch the Vice President didn’t warrant the National Guard, but Big Balls getting carjacked requires a show of force?

If you’re the third or fourth son in your family and you’re complaining about women and traditional family values know that traditionally you should be in a monastery.

This story being the entire metaphor and emotional anchor of my NetRoots panel is wild

My dear friend @thestefansmith.bsky.social has been suggesting that we bring back monasticism in a non-religious form to accommodate rising numbers of unpartnered men. Don’t be an incel, be a volcel, and watch the world improve

Last week we introduced a plan on how we move forward — how we fix the chaos and bring back trust in government. Talked about our Pledge for America with @mikenellis.bsky.social and @thestefansmith.bsky.social on Substack.

Squirrels are eating voles now.

my theory is that business republicans waited until the BBB passed and they got their tax cuts and so now the WSJ side of the party is cutting itself loose from Trumpism

It’s a major story that’s almost everywhere and is being used across Twitter right now to drag Elon Musk. But that misses its potential to tell a larger story about AI susceptibility to tampering.

Why are you afraid of the Establishment? Your careerism is an inherently conservative impulse and it’s stopping you from replicating Mamdani’s success across the country.

They don’t target legislators if the legislative system is already captured. They don’t target protests if the protestors aren’t a threat. Defeatism is counter revolutionary. Lock the fuck in.

I should have way more followers because sometimes I’m prophetic.

Best thing about Taylor Swift getting her records back is I can finally stop listening to her version of 1989 and pretending I like it.

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is the Cassandra of the Democratic Party and yall don’t wanna hear him you just wanna dance

Democrats will never solve our Man Problem™️ from the top-down. Cultural crisis requires a culture-first response and those are inherently bottom up. You cannot start a vibe shift with a PowerPoint.

**stella nova** collapse (pause) expand into ether, into nebulous—tenuous eternity (—) ripped into existence; birthed, belching and grotesque specks turned disc turned world, this life, this burning ember, this—

Jokes aside, there is a missing generation of campaign operative and political staffer who should be in powerful positions in the party right now but their members were defeated in wave elections in 2010 and 2014.

Y’all are weaponizing the social convention of speaking only positively about the sick, dead, or dying in order to filibuster a needed conversation about political succession and legacy power within the Democratic Party.

The King’s former advisor is predicting disharmony with the new Papacy, accusing him of being foreign and disloyal.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

None of this makes sense until you remember they’re all invested in a decentralized alternative currency.

Your value is not measured by how much it hurts. Being good at suffering doesn’t mean you were built for it.

It’s not really about dogs.

If participating in your democracy requires exact change, it isn’t democratic.

China fumbled America’s collapse so badly that Europe got the ball back.

None of this makes sense until you remember they’re all invested in a decentralized alternative currency.

Wild what gets called welfare and inefficiency and what doesn’t. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-in...

“It’s not fascism, it’s technically autho…” You bolt awake at the White House. It’s April 30, 2011 and you are David Litt, Obama’s joke writer, and you’ve changed your mind. You won’t include any Trump jokes at that night’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

The only way the longest filibuster ever doesn’t “do” anything is if we let it be ceiling and not the floor.

Yall don’t wanna hear me you just wanna dance 😭

If you keep having to ‘meet people where they are’ it’s because you’re not where you’re supposed to be to begin with

It’s wild how everyone in the 90s was like, “Wouldn’t it be wild if this was the peak of civilization?” and then did nothing really to stop it from being the peak of civilization.

Jon Ossoff and AOC out the gate hard for the Millennials, joining PB in the Shadow Primary lane for my generation. Ossoff’s rally today had an absolutely incredible energy. AOC is obviously the most visible, but the road to the White House runs through GA.

One of the reasons that most digital content chases vanity metrics is that most digital progressionals are no longer cross trained. It’s hard to build or sustain a ladder of engagement when you don’t know how the other rungs work.