If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

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So many “academia out of touch with Republicans” pieces, so few “Republicans out of touch with highly educated people” pieces

Normally I'm extremely suspicious of nostalgia, but this is just plain true.

For every year that Clinton was out of the White House we have gotten 500 million stories about how Democrats are “out of touch with rural America” and we’ve never gotten stories about how republicans do badly in many suburbs and absolutely get blown out in cities where the mass of people live.

Huge thanks to everyone at the @FTMag for sending me to Santa Marta to cover the first international conference on shifting away from fossil fuels. The event showed the vast and messy complexity of the task - and the rising determination to achieve it as.ft.com/r/79eab047-c...

It’s May 2026. Over a decade into this. Have some damn professional pride and stop writing about the lying lawless authoritarian this way.

Once again, the kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. I’m sure the eventual books from Haberman & Tapper/Thompson will be fantastic bestsellers, though.

The Republicans are The Party of Trump, they literally say it every day and if you're trying to "work" with Republicans you're a Trump fan. Simple as.

If you can't grow a pair, tell everyone else that they need to.

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Tim Burchett said straws are for women only, RFK Jr works out in jeans, J.D. Vance didn't know how to order donuts, and the president thinks you need to show photo ID to buy "groceries" which is an old-fashioned term only he rediscovered.

their stunned reaction proves how utterly disconnected from reality they are. they’re talking about something that’s literally destroying the job market and they’re surprised by the boos! turns out “hey kids wanna walk into this buzz saw” isn’t terribly persuasive messaging

Perennial

Very well deserved celebration of one of Newcastle’s most important signings over the past few decades.

$5+ gas in Evanston, Illinois. Woof.

The acting attorney general of the United States. Farcical.

Reminder RFK Jr is HHS Secretary because this loser was afraid to cross Trump.

In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Abolish VAR + Abolish Brexit. 400 seats in Parliament 😂

Don't point that thing at me unless you mean to play it.

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

It has always seemed inconceivable that Trump would send US troops to fight in Taiwan (yes, even after Iran). He said as much out loud. His admiration of Xi is longstanding. Never understood the China hawks' embrace of him.

It's almost as if Rubio doesn't believe in anything, isn't it? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

Farewell, Kieran Trippier, one of #NUFC’s greatest signings. With contributions from Amanda Staveley, Eddie Howe, Dan Burn, Wor Flags and many more. This is free to read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

Terrorist Slush Fund is exactly it.

The New York Times treats Republican lawmakers like hapless bystanders rather than willing co-conspirators in the illegal war with Iran.

A powerful tribute to Jason Collins, who died this week. by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Holy shit This is vile “With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the USS Arizona. The battleship, now a military cemetery reachable only by boat, has stood as one of the nation’s most hallowed sites since Japan bombed and sank it in 1941.” apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Reminder of something Trump doesn't know but other people should: -Treason carries death penalty -Thus Trump effectively saying NYT people should be executed -Press gaggle response='oh that wacky Trump' -Couldn't *someone* follow up w "Sir, since treason is a capital offense, are you saying..." ?

We don't have to do this, & we certainly don't need to grant Xi Jinping his premise that China is an inevitably rising power entitled to global hegemony. Indeed, no one thinks about the US like this, & every single one of our problems is orders of magnitude worse in China.

5 most expensive games for upcoming #NFL season. "Get-in" price is lowest amount just to get into the stadium. It would take 83 hours of work for someone on the national minimum wage ($7.25/hr) to get in to the Lions-Bills game. No parking. No food. 170 hours of work to buy a "median" price ticket.

MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.

Great to see this piece with Brent Steele, on Indigenous v Western approaches to fire in USA and Australia, published in @gepjournal.bsky.social. We make the case different approaches to fire point to broader & significant differences in relations to nature and place. direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Ban stock trading by the President. Ban stock trading by the Vice President. Ban stock trading by members of Congress. End the corruption.

We threw out a carefully constructed agreement in the form of JCPOA for this.

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

Dan Burn interview: I rang mam and said ‘I don’t want to feel like this any more. When does it stop?’ The #NUFC & England defender talks mental health, speaking up, navigating a tough season, Eddie Howe, the World Cup and much more. This is FREE to read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/727...

To work for Trump means - when things go bad, when you fuck up, when you make a mistake - you NEVER EVER accept responsibility for it and you NEVER EVER allow yourself to be held accountable for it. JD Vance does this better than most.

Any reporter asking a Republican about Trump's latest unhinged statement should have the video cued up or the Truth Social post printed out so they can't claim that's not what he really said or they didn't hear it or whatever. They act like he's an infallible god. Make them own his words.

Agreed. The Storm will be the Midterms on November 3rd 2026. #RegisterAndVOTE 🌊

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

It should be pointed out over and over that besides Bari Weiss being completely obsessed with turning CBS into a television version of her anti-woke, pro-Israel blog, she is also extremely incompetent at the nuts and bolts of running a network. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

Pleased to contribute to this NYT piece along with @leahstokes.bsky.social @michaelgerrard.bsky.social @janrosenow.bsky.social and other smart energy experts

About that New York Times op-ed: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...