I don't fw PSL or Code Pink either but I don't dismiss everything they do out of hand because plenty of people involved are sincere and (critically) offline

I thought Ryan Lizza was just scum before but every new post proves that he's fucking rancid. do you know how bad you have to be to make anyone feel the slightest bit sorry for Olivia Nuzzi

everybody who saw the reddit posts whining about consent culture and knew there was worse to come, please collect your prize

little-known fact outside the beltway but this past year The Handbasket has become THE outlet read by (and leaked to by) civil servants who have something to say, please kick some $ or get a subscription if you haven't already

the extremely common "liberal arts major-to-agency" pipeline because otherwise I was gonna have to go to grad school and turns out the IC likes book-readin' freaks

this hit with resist liberals and absolutely no one else, certainly not anybody in uniform or in the IC

this has an almost anti-music quality to it, like despite all the autotuning there's no discernible tune or melody. what is even going on with the kind of chromatic thing happening at "I'm jailbait"

was ready to be open-minded about some kind of procedural snafu or obscure technical problem that prevented the Times from pursuing the story but, boy, that is not what's happening here it is, however, a perfect example of advanced stage NYT reporter brain

everybody saying "the government won't reopen" is underestimating how much people are freaking the fuck out about Thanksgiving flights

Lmao OK so this got so much funnier. This guy saying it's against my religion to go to Shabbat dinner, but in reality he just doesn't want to hang out with Bethany Mandel and, well

The persistence of Helen Andrews in mainstream media is proof that all opinion writing is a kind of reverse WWE, where only the performers are unaware of the performance.

there's a not-insignificant number of normie libs at the agency who wind up tormented and radicalized by their own actions, the problem is a lot of them essentially become Harry du Bois

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

*SSO-T voice* no we didn't

this man cannot stop humiliating his wife for five seconds

the frantic campaign to tank Mamdani (now with a criminal referral to DOJ) has me legitimately afraid for his safety

people will say "Chotiner isn't some kind of master manipulator, he just asks good questions", but that doesn't account for the spontaneous panic attack and borderline-Trumpian incoherence in this one. does she know what her book is about? was the entire thing ghostwritten over coffee at Tatte?

"the vilifcation" has fuck-all to do with his posts, it's 95% his fucking tattoo that said a dude repeatedly casting doubt on assault victims is the biggest possible red flag and Jacobin knows it too, trying to sweep it under the rug of "offensive comments about women"

this would have been a lot more believable before everyone saw you treat Article I like toilet paper

am a big fan of ana marie cox so her silence on platner feels kind of disappointing

think the SNAP cliff forces the end of the shutdown but it raises some grim questions about how many people are gonna have to suffer first to get there

The Diplomat is broadly stupid plot-wise but the acting is delicious and the details are so good it doesn't matter, 2nd-best complicated Keri Russell TV marriage of all time

the people going "Platner was stationed at Abu Ghraib therefore he was involved in human rights abuses there" are revealing the kind of historical and geographical ignorance they would mock in anyone else

"I got blackout drunk and got a bad tattoo overseas without realizing it" is borderline disqualifying but "I didn't immediately black it out" finishes it

fork found in kitchen-ass shit

obviously subscribers are not the point for Bezos but I bet he's still fuming on some level. billionaires really believe they are the smartest and deserve to be popular

I sometimes get intrusive thoughts about what would happen if I said the most vile and morally abhorrent shit in public but this is worse

I'm just a man with depression asking journalists why they believe Russ Vought or this administration about anything

what do you mean we're not getting a behind-the-scenes documentary about this team? I'd pay any price

are you fucking kidding me, this is one of the best tools on the site

when somebody uses the phrase "imperial core" with all earnestness you know immediately how the rest of the conversation is going to go

"TS is too rich to make a good album" ! = "TS is or was a legendary American artist"

Australia and northern Europe gotta be tied for the most wildly out of pocket racism to hear in casual conversation, never let anyone from Sydney or Copenhagen lecture you about social anything

so you and I both know that "girlypop" was not Y2K lingo, but I'm gonna allow it because this looks metal, like if Doom had been released by Wet Seal

good god almighty there could maybe be a place somewhere for Amy McGrath somewhere but it's clearly not the fucking Senate, how are you guys going to let her light $100 million on fire again

this article will be printed in textbooks about the degradation of journalism in the Trump era

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

this is fucking hilarious. "it would have been way too much effort to do what I set out to do, so I didn't bother, also FYI I am completely unqualified to write about this subject"

exporting this one to tumblr immediately

"she should have been more enthusiastic about our headcanons in her two-line response to a question" folks are off the deep end. fandom has created an unbelievable sense of entitlement

the article from Pink News is a month old and the tweet from PN is falsely linking it to the current negotiations, things are bad but we don't need to spread disinformation. this is also not the first time Pink News has scaremongered for clicks

"when mariame kaba contributed text to a feminist utopia project she was trying to explore how utopias are bad, she's being critical of community-based justice despite never having said anything to that effect"

god knows I'm not a theophite defender but he didn't even kick off the prisonculture discourse, it was ellie lockwood, which is fine. people are capable of having both good ideas and rancid ones

one of the first signs I saw of reactionary culture going mainstream was when the Vulture story came out and people ignored it or said "oh geez that sounds awfully complicated thoughts and prayers I guess"

the thing about olivia nuzzi is that in addition to being an amoral nitwit she's also a really, really, really, really bad writer. like sub-wattpad bad. the woman has zero redeeming characteristics or talents to commend her

"I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse" comes as a surprise to anyone who has actually read marie le conte

the money men at ZA/UM (and Fortress Accident) were right about one thing: these writers must have been insufferable to work with

"the nice old ladies and wine moms that are trying to get headcount are feds and shouldn't be trusted" are you even hearing yourself

Bluesky is wild man...

since everyone's comparing them already, No I'm Not A Human's writing is not as strong as Mouthwashing's but the former has much better gameplay I think. both are worthy of your time and money, download today