The ROBERTS Act is a great bill title.

“Fuck YOUR feelings, but your child’s health is dependent on my feelings.”

Suspiciously Jimmy Kimmel will return after the rapture. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Anytime anyone of note dies, you can FOIA the FBI for everything they have. Politicians, celebs, anyone. The Jane Fonda vault will be the Big One.

signal-noise-ratio can fall even as signal increases if noise increases at a faster rate and your ability to filter noise does not improve

ICYMI: Part One of my thoughts on how the “free speech culture” movement contributed to the moment of historical censorship www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

Lord help me, I read this whole essay and whew boy First of all, nowhere does NYT mention that New Atlantis is funded by Ethics & Public Policy Center, a right-wing interest group. It just says the author writes on “reform” 😒 /1

Pull the cash, who’s really enjoying their time on Facebook or Instagram anymore?

It’s long past time for billionaires to start pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps instead of asking the rest of us to pay for their pet projects by giving them tax incentives. Billionaires are the ultimate “welfare queens.”

Is Elon's Mars talk overblown? Total B.S.? Maybe even a deliberate distraction? That's what one Musk admirer — and well-regarded space analyst — told me for my new feature for @wired.com. Let me explain. (1/x) www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I continue to believe that Anthony Bourdain was the Joe Rogan of the left.

I continue to believe that Anthony Bourdain was the Joe Rogan of the left.

What matters most to Trump in this moment is him transitioning from a state where Charlie Kirk was capable of doing things for Trump to one where he can’t do those things and so Trump will quickly lose interest.

This Times headline has aged so badly.

Last week @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social and I put out a provocation & set of suggestions on how influence has changed and why institutions (& funders) need to change their thinking on shaping public opinion and connecting w/audiences. The old way no longer works. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

🎵 Memory All alone in the moonlight I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then 🎵

It really is amazing that white evangelical Christians practically worship this guy.

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

What we might refer to as a Kavanaugh Raid

Everyone expects 1984, but it’s just as likely to look like BRAZIL (1985). @nberlat.bsky.social wrote a good piece about it earlier this year. observer.com/2025/02/terr...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Our information environment in this country is a huge problem and a major barrier to change.

I would go another step: A society without disruptive speech is a dying one. This is a concept that capitalists have no problem understanding in the economics realm. It's just creative destruction. To grow, the present must mulch the future

What did Yamamoto say about waking up sleeping giants?

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

Here’s a simple trick “THEY” don’t want you to know about.

Me, telling everybody to click through and read this exchange between Anthony and Shadi Hamid:

Pizzagate Jack using MLK, Jr’s final speech to eulogize Charlie Kirk is really sickening.

How does the @nytimes.com expect anyone to trust them if they don't fact check such an obvious lie?

kasheyes.pages.dev Weirdly satisfying

I’m pretty much convinced that there were some powerful media figures wrapped up in the Epstein stuff.

“Pressure from the outside” is an interesting euphemism for authoritarian government.

The editorial board of the Washington Post would gladly let some young American kids die so that Trump can feel “tough” by re-taking a base that doesn’t really serve our strategic objectives.

Such as it is with a moral vacuum inside - the only substance to the bubble is in its own surface.

celebrities out walking characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

Democrats should announce that anyone who buys a $1 million visa will be banished from the United States during the next Democratic administration.

Roses are red, Violets sublime,

So we’re going to war with Venezuela AND Afghanistan this weekend?

When these “popularist” guys are wrong on the popularity of things, they proceed to just shift the goalposts and prove that they don’t really understand these debates. Does Matty not know that women are bleeding out in hospital parking lots in Texas?

Any journalist that signs this pledge should not be trusted by the public.

Shadi has 150,000 followers on Twitter and routinely gets little to no engagement on his posts there, and much of the engagement he does get is mostly spam. And yet he thinks continuing to post there makes him more “relevant.”

“If you don’t test, you won’t have any cases,” but for hunger.

Trump is driving this country into a ditch, and we have to make sure people understand that’s what’s happening.

Trump is driving this country into a ditch, and we have to make sure people understand that’s what’s happening.

Breaking News: Trump called for reporters to be jailed on the basis of national security and threatened with prison rape, and only @swin24.bsky.social and a few other reporters talked about it. The Times only mentioned it once two years later at the end of a story with a list of Trump threats.

A little timeline cleanser…

They're on camera in a video that Trump wants to use as leverage, WALK OUT. Are they afraid they're going to lose access to whatever this is? WALK OUT.

Colbert was 100% right last night. This is why institutions folding was the wrong call; it’s only led Trump to make more demands of them.

As with Yglesias, these guys don’t really have a good sense of what issues are popular (and where) so they’re just sort of grasping in the dark based on their own vague notions of politics inside their bubble.