I've noisily been a treasure.

The Trumpification of our political system has primarily come in the form of the naked, unapologetic tendency to lie (mainly as a deflection from the obvious corruption, but also for no reason at all at times).

I’ve been saying this for a really long time. All it requires, according to the Trump v Anderson decision, is one chamber of Congress to recognize that the impeachment and trial vote on the terms of Section 3 (read the impeachment articles) counts as Congress invoking Section 3 disqualification.

Biden had one job and only one job: crush the insurrectionist Republican Party, because the moment they got back in power they clearly intended demolish any other progress made before or after. He never even started to pretend to try.

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

An unambiguously good thing! Yay!

Shocking! Who could have done this?

Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)

A true American hero. More John Brown statues, please.

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

Pontius Pilates

Some odd dreams of late are creating the foundation of some seriously weird stories.

If you tell me something about how white people on average have higher IQs, I know you're about to say some the stupidest shit I've ever heard in my life.

The U.S. Has Killed Almost 190 People in Boat Strikes. Five more people have been murdered since Friday. We’re tracking them all, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

No man's a land.

“Covered in glory” is the Mandela Effect. I have absolutely no recall of anyone using the phrase before the last year, but apparently it’s an old idiom? It’s also possible I glossed over it because it sounds so stupid to me, but I feel I should be even more likely to have noticed it for that reason.

“It's hard to express how ubiquitous "gay" was as a generic derogation for anything you might not like, back then. The other day a random bartender apologized to me for misgendering me. The world has changed, and more profoundly than people care to remember.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

Did you know? You can eat most yogurt with a fork.

And yes, my new avatar photo is indeed meant to reference this image:

These judges need to learn shame. This is an abomination.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

You can call me names if you like, but I still think one key fix to American democracy would be a parliamentary-style Senate (expand its membership, too).

People who are unusually noisy when using the bathroom worry me.

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

Eight children murdered in Shreveport, LA. It’s all so depressing.

Oh god, tooth scraping on wood feeling!

I just think it's neat.

I sometimes think about how crazy it is that Chicago is older than the modern state of Germany.

For my LA people: Sweetest James

Reading THE COUP 1953, THE CIA, AND THE ROOTS OF MODERN U.S.-IRANIAN RELATIONS by Ervand Abrahamian, and I’m struck by how different the world of today might be if the British and Americans weren’t hellbent on stealing Iranian oil.

Not a chance I’ll vote for Swallwell. He should drop out.

Don’t know what to make of it, good or bad omen wise.

I told a student that citing their sources in an essay is roughly equivalent to showing your work on a math problem, and I’m still feeling pretty good about that one.

I figure Bullseye was like, ‘Yes! I finally get to use the “you’re welcome” knife!’

I have this theory that warm water dehydrates you somehow.

My Thomas Pynchon character name would be Jimmy Chonga.

Hold tight Wait 'til the party's over Hold tight We're in for nasty weather There has got to be a way Burning down the Reichstag

It was about slavery.

How do you stand people paying attention to you?

One thing that was striking about the Nazis is how often they seemed to understand that what they were doing was evil because they felt the need to mask it in some way through lies and/or subterfuge. A lot like what is happening now in our politics.

So I realized recently that my desire to go arguing online is the part of my neurodivergence that's always hunting for dopamine, anywhere and anyhow I can get it. Need all the dopamine. Crave it. Hunger for it.

'hey what are you up to over there? wow thats pretty cool.'

I have got to stop telling editors they will "rue the day" after they reject my work.

This fucking creeps.

It's nuts to me that @alban-fischer.bsky.social has just sort of created his own personal McSweeney's with all kinds of fun packaging concepts (previous issues packaged like ground beef, for example). Few in the literary world have had as much fun with presentation. trnsfrbooks.com/new-index#/i...

Shout out to my boy, Professor Daniel Immerwahr, speaking on US foreign policy on NPR this morning.

Curious George Saunders. I say again.

the problem for Siena and High Point is that polling schools have to win by a margin of at least 3 points or it's technically too close to call

I get the same rapturous confusion from Thomas Pynchon that I do from Joy Williams.