I seem to remember Project 2025 polling at 4% and it’s nice to see some Democrats finally acting like it

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard. www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

The first rule of punditry: no matter the circumstances or who is in power, Republicans have no agency and can’t possibly be held accountable for their words or actions.

Something Dem leaders don’t seem to understand is that when reality is under attack the facts actually don’t speak for themselves!

I truly thank god every day I am not a media critic because if I were I’d be currently tied to a bed in an asylum

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

This is the language of dictators.

Attn Austin! Happy to be the October author for Cari Clark’s Texas Author Series at Chez Zee. 10/15! Tickets below! www.texasauthorseries.com

If you’re a liberal commentator who can find an aspect of yourself in reactionary commentators but can’t see yourself in an immigrant or a trans person that reflects a limitation of your moral and political imagination and is something you might address.

If you’re a liberal commentator who can find an aspect of yourself in reactionary commentators but can’t see yourself in an immigrant or a trans person that reflects a limitation of your moral and political imagination and is something you might address.

Every losing Dem election in my adult lifetime has resulted in the same ilk of consultants declaring that the only way to make their families safe is to make other people’s families less safe. It’s a losing, uninspiring message and it’s not true

If you want to trade away the rights and dignity of members of your coalition to try to appeal to people not in your coalition you can make that case, but don’t pretend it’s “expanding the tent”

Confusing why people who claim to hate anti-fascists are offended by being called fascist!

Being a Real Man is apparently hysterically shrieking that it’s violence anytime anyone criticizes you

I will be eagerly supporting Democrats who believe that those flouting the law in this administration should be investigated, prosecuted and punished accordingly and eagerly opposing ones who want to move on for the sake of “unity.”

What the Ezra Klein brigade always misses is that if the only way “we can all live together” is to sacrifice the rights and dignity of huge swaths of Americans to appease far right reactionaries (who won’t be appeased anyway)… we actually can’t all live together!

Can’t wait! 🥊

I don’t know if there’s a heaven but I truly hope there’s hell

Given that we are seeing gutlessness and mendacity from leadership across the board (politics, media, academia) and small acts of bravery from “regular” Americans… maybe we are elevating the wrong people

It’s clear elected Republicans hate the US Constitution, hate representative democracy and hate the vast majority of their fellow Americans, and it’s past time for elected Democrats to say so.

In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

If you hate American cities the person who hates America is you.

Had fun chatting with @owensports.bsky.social for @defector.com. We talked about the “are men reading?” discourse, the perils of being on Twitter and writing fiction, and my (brief and ignominious) history of “sparring.” Hope you’ll check it out!

Lucas Schaefer's "The Slip" is a ridiculously ambitious debut novel that gets boxing right and, despite being set a couple decades ago, concerns a number of issues and identity crises that are relevant right now. I really enjoyed speaking to him about it: defector.com/lucas-schaef...

An interview with author Lucas Schaefer about his debut novel, boxing gyms, writing sex, and how hard it is to know what kind of person you should be: defector.com/lucas-schaef...

Had fun chatting with @owensports.bsky.social for @defector.com. We talked about the “are men reading?” discourse, the perils of being on Twitter and writing fiction, and my (brief and ignominious) history of “sparring.” Hope you’ll check it out!

and fuck you too, Cheryl

"I don't know what a constitutional crisis would look like. I don't think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis, however," [Barrett] added. "I think our country remains committed to the rule of law. I think we have functioning courts." ----- Well, the first sentence is true. Link: 1/

If you’re constantly pontificating about civility and have nothing to say about RFK - a serial liar and delusional freak jeopardizing the lives of American children who also happens to be entitled and rude - maybe civility isn’t your goal!

The University of Austin is a right wing grift and grievance machine masquerading as a “university,” so I think it’s safe to assume CBS will become the same but masquerading as a news outlet.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

That Saturday night I’m excited to chat with my former student @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social about his debut novel, The Slip.

A nice Saturday surprise. Thanks Kate Evans and ABC News 🇦🇺

This past week, ICE seized people while they were fighting a wildfire in Washington State. Today, this report about hospitals and surgical centers in California. calmatters.org/health/2025/...

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

So the tech bros with limited social skills want to convince us that socializing with AI is the only way forward and the people who have made millions off bragging about knowing nothing want to convince us it’s the medical experts who are the grifters and the frauds. Ok!

Had a great time on @beyondthezero.bsky.social. We talked about why I don’t watch boxing, the high school books that most inspired me, and about creating the hapless teenage protagonist in THE SLIP, Nathaniel Rothstein. Hope you’ll check it out!

It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.

I’m so angry about this COVID vaccine thing that I can barely see straight

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Honored to be a Kirkus Prize finalist in such amazing company. A huge thanks to everyone who has been in THE SLIP’s corner at @simonbooks.bsky.social, to the readers who have championed the book, and of course to Kirkus Reviews 🥊🥊🥊

Really appreciated this conversation with Adam Straus about THE SLIP for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

Really appreciated this conversation with Adam Straus about THE SLIP for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

A serial liar and nasty bigot who believes laws don’t apply to Republicans. Sounds like a winner!

I am having a never-ending back and forth on the other site with a former Dem congressional candidate who is still insisting we “find common ground” with Republicans and the fact that anyone is making this case and not being laughed off the stage as a delusional person in need of help is depressing.

Got to the park here in Buenos Aires and saw a couple working on combinations, all black-gloves-blonde-hair while their baby napped in the stroller and realized yeah, I’ll be thinking about that book for a while

Are Democrats really going to make me support and sort of like Gavin Newsom dear god