Long term, the only actual solution to the current myriad political crises in the US is a new constitutional order, either by multiple amendments or a new constitutional convention. Any other goal is only worth pursuing if it helps achieve that end or it significantly lessens the pain along the way.

Happy 9th anniversary to Tom Holland's performance of Umbrella on Lip Sync Battle, a pivotal pop culture moment in history! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

There are very good reasons why many parts of the Democratic coalition have never warmed to Bernie despite sharing many of his ideals. It's not simply about being too "pro-business" or whatnot

Sanders is clueless on this the way the Dem establishment is clueless on economic issues and populism. They’re mirror images of cluelessness.

Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adoph Green. Photograph by Stanley Kubrick!

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

#AnswerMeThis is back. And it's good! I understand now why people liked it before! Get your escapist infotainment: answermethispodcast.com/episode417

Update: In honor of Brian’s birthday, and because his favorite podcast is @flophousepodcast.com, I bought a gift membership to @maximumfun.org for some MaxFunster, which is easy to do! Brian is happy to support a network with worker-owners AND creators who own their shows! maximumfun.org/join/

I've written about these men, and their nominations should alarm EVERYONE. Example: Phillip Williams has said parents of trans children should be drowned. He also compared efforts to support gender-affirming care to slavery and the Holocaust. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/us-attorne...

CNN is *always* terrible and very clickbait-y in its health reporting, but even by their low standards, this is terrible. Even this headline is nonsensical: how is a small bag of chips a 10% increase in "UPF"? What baseline is there? Mine? Yours? Bonus, the underlying article also seems bad!

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

Vital reporting from the front lines: European grocery stores sell strawberries every bit as bland and flavorless as American ones, complete with white centers. Turns out it is a question of ripeness and not everything being better in Europe/worse in the US -- despite what TikTok tells you.

We go through this exact same news cycle every few months. Dem rhetoric is retconned into "violent threats." I don't know who's convinced anymore. www.foxnews.com/opinion/rnc-...

Happy @nathanbottomley.com Day to all who celebrate!

Also: This *specific* event absolutely should *not* be hosted at the White House — even if it is to continue in its current form at all.

Meghan's position is also incredibly stupid because the White House already has the capacity to host large events. The event last night was organized by a *private organization* to which the President is traditionally invited. It wasn't his party!

Post you in another country. Me, in Rome with @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social and his lovely wife, September 2025.

NEW ARTWORK! It's been 60 years since Dr. Who visited Tombstone for a dental emergency and what he got instead was a gunfight. Yeee-haw!! 🤠🐎 My group of artist friends wanted to make posters for The Gunfighters for its anniversary, so I had to join and make one! #DoctorWho #WilliamHartnell

Centrist Dems won’t shut up about how we’re too mean and condescending to Trump voters and how electoral expediency requires us to welcome them back into the fold. Maybe that’s true and maybe it’s not, but it’s bizarre not to extend the same argument to people who already vote for you.

it would be a wild thing to say if that’s what he said I cannot believe you people are making me defend Chuck Schumer but lying about what people say is bad.

I am somewhat heartened by the number of non-Americans who are utterly convinced that all American food is poisonous and fake. All of it. No healthy options anywhere. No veggies, all the bread is cake, etc. It's nice to see that Americans don't have a monopoly on confident ignorance.

I would like us, led by a decrepit game show host, to stop rampaging all over the globe, making life immeasurably worse and deadlier for millions of people on different continents including within our own country, but I’m told that political position is gay

FINALLY, an episode about alleged sex cults and weighing your own poop!!

Here is the first new Filmspotting: SVU in eight years, with a review of Outcome, streaming recommendations on numerous platforms, a game I invented involving Letterboxd stats, and a surprisingly lengthy discussion of astronaut bathroom etiquette.

But... he did? He ran a more progressive general election campaign than his primary campaign. Responding to the times: George Floyd and COVID hadn't happened when he started running.

Wow. This is...this is such amazing news.

They say not to speak ill of the dead. How monstrous does someone have to be before others can rejoice at their death? How many deaths must be on their hands, directly or indirectly? How indifferent must they have been to the pain they caused? Where's the line? And why do "they" get to draw it?

I'll admit it: I had never heard today's Wordle before. Or, if I had, it didn't register.

GUYS PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE US GOVERNMENT IS AN ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE WITH A PRESIDENT POLLING AT 33% AFTER 15 MONTHS IN OFFICE AND WHEN SEVERAL ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT ONCE NONE OF THEM EXIST TO BE "DISTRACTIONS" THE GOVERNMENT IS JUST THAT BAD

October 13, 1925–April 8, 2013.

And there IS a path to redemption. Privately. From his victims, his loved ones, and everyone else directly involved. People are not *entitled* to any sort of career in the public sphere.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Every fake Grindr profile eventually gives itself away by saying this: "I am a shareholder in a Dutch furniture company (Star). In my spare time, I also invest in blockchain, digital assets, and real estate to diversify my portfolio" Who talks like that? Or who is supposed to find it attractive?

the new york times executes its anti-mamdani, anti-progressive agenda (just like its anti-trans agenda) not on the editorial pages but in very clearly biased "news" articles disguised as news stories. liberals fund the times doing this.

In other news, I couldn't remember Anita Bryant's name so I googled "orange juice homophobe" and you know what

So, some people said some things about my book that are quite nice:

Absolutely inevitable and unsurprising.

FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.

Losers will say it’s too soon. bsky.app/profile/thea...

This is going to be extremely relevant to the Patreon bonus episode of Doctor Who: The Writers' Room coming in a day or so.

I literally just relistened to the You're Wrong About three-parter on cancel culture, where @michaelhobbes.bsky.social references this magazine cover. Great miniseries about one of the more embarrassing features of modern existence.

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

They're *literally* telling the AMA, "No, THIS is your position. We know what you think better than you do." The Times hates trans people and wants them to suffer. I cannot think of any other reason to go this hard again and again.

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

Ask a librarian. They'd likely say that old books *are* kept: by archives, national libraries, etc. Thanks to inter-library loan and similar programs, if even one library has an obscure book, many people get access to it. But there are a lot of unwanted and unneeded books. Use them if you want!

Implying that someone is gay as an insult is homophobic. Period. This isn't difficult, folks.

Had to check if this was real. Genuinely I don’t understand the strategy here.

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

How 'World Book Day' Descended into Dressing-Up HELL - from ep416 of Answer Me This! #worldbookday #worldbookdaycostumes #childrensbooks #stressedparents #AnswerMeThis 🎧👉https://pod.link/208516732