I am being very serious when I say that all I ask is that Mathew Yglesias treat Richard Hanania with the same level of respect and courtesy that he treats Michael Hobbes.

I think it should probably tell you something about the overall level of quality and attention to detail in Matty's work that he seems to have written an article trashing "If Books Could Kill" without having listened the podcast at all.

Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.

No, SARS-CoV-2 is not reducing our intelligence Why this myth refuses to die The idea that SARS-CoV-2 infections, or worse, reinfections, are collectively reducing human intelligence does not hold. open.substack.com/pu...

Some say Yglesias Thought has never been tried, but Labour has actually tried quite hard to chase the polling rather than shape it. And just look at how well that’s turned out for them

Since we're all dunking on Yglesias, our only interaction was the time he criticized my attention to detail while failing to google the premise of every show I've ever done.

This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias. Read the whole thing.

36. Finally this. The mark of the fossil fuel shill who never loses the arrogance to walk into a room, say "the sun doesn't shine at night and its not always windy", drop the mic and leave, confident that no one else knows what they just discovered.

Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic. I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?” NPR!

Popularism means telling politicians to craft their message for an incredibly specific guy I just made up

I am undone by “it may take many flushes,” when referencing getting a rat out of your toilet. #pnw #flood

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

One in eight Americans, or around 30 million people, are taking a GLP-1 drug. Among 50-64 year olds, it's one in five. www.kff.org/public-opini...

Me yesterday, seeing WH desperately try to spin the Epstein doc dump into a story about Bill Clinton even as the Justice Dept fails to release all the files: “No way this will work, even with the horrible DC press.” Me, today, looking at these headlines: “Welp, I’m a dummy.”

Hot rat summer gives way to wet rat winter

The gaslighting from people like Yglesias about what happened during the 2024 campaign has been absolutely enraging. Harris ran the campaign centrist wonks & the consultant class wanted, & it blew up in their faces.

In case you have been wondering how things are going in Seattle these days

It's super weird how "what wins elections" is always exactly what the denizens of opinion pages already believe.

It's the exact same grift since God and Man at Yale in 1951. Religious and market fundamentalists ideas have little merit. They demand that the majority take their nonsense seriously while also hating DEI measures which empower the people they pretend to speak for (see male college admissions).

This is the funniest thing he’s said in years but not intentionally

People hear this once and think it’s endemic. In 2020/2021 while still presenting as a white dude, I was told occasionally for certain jobs that they just weren’t gonna hire white men right now. But also I was getting interviews, plugged into opportunities, everyone would take my call. /1

The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking. We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.

I do want to clarify that, while there is absolutely no question that this change is catastrophic, immunization requirements are set by states and AHIP has previously committed to covering vaccines recommended until the current ACIP recommendations through the end of 2026.

“Does discrimination drive alienation?” is a great question and it feels like there are some other groups that might make clearer case studies than white men

Every new CBS announcement is like a setup for a 30 Rock punchline

an interesting thing here is that while white men are not being systematically discriminated against, they are constantly *told* they're being discriminated against, which yeah probably still drives them to the hard right all based on lies, but when has the right wing cared about *that*?

Multiple lesbian stuff

Sorry but I am Team Aunt

“.. After the release of thousands of Epstein files on Friday, The New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer .. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

A "debate" where the two sides are a conservative operative and an Epstein files guy. Remember what I said about how "stacked panel" propaganda works.

“Literary snob takes issue with Epstein’s reading of Lolita” is an onion headline

I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

I can think of worse things about him than this but OK

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Bragging on the internet that your first thought when you see a computer generated 19-year-old is "has she fucked"

“Wintry mix”?

Your argument is that the left is driving people to Andrew Tate and your example is Big Joel?!

The internet sucks now because everything needs to result in the maximal outcome so instead of seeing the Coldplay couple and going “lol pretty funny” we end up with this, everything is Qanon, everything is the Inquisition, when the fun of it should be “well, never have to think about this again!”

Just recorded our annual Worst Takes of the Year episode!

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.