I knew something was wrong when 60 Minutes started airing Swan Lake

This one will never get old. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

If you accept that for the most part social media is a fame and significance simulator it's actually quite enjoyable and small doses.

Mr Trump, I have met Stalin, and you're no Stalin.

The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.

This is the part of the movie where Bob Woodward or Maggie Haberman find an anonymous package on their desk. Just saying.

Rick Wilson is characteristically on the money with this one.

Yup. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

I'll take one of the things I miss about Canada for $500 Alex.

"The Dems pragmatic wing has been pleading to broaden the tent, ideally before the Trump administration stamps out all opposition. Party progressives seem determined to reeducate the public rather than compromise for their votes." - @jonathanbchait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Great piece by an author who has written eloquently and often about authoritarianism here and abroad.

Authoritarianism loses its luster somewhere between making the trains run on time and hard-faced men showing up at your door because somebody made a phone call.

Perhaps he's decided that Putin's kompromat < Epstein kompromat.

"Advanced reasoning" Tell me you know nothing about AI without actually saying it.

I know everyone's been breathlessly waiting for what I was going to write about LA. here you go - gifted www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Holy guacamole, guys. This is beyond splendid, Qu'est-ce que c'est? youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...

If we are in fact all living in a simulation it has been taken over by cruel and mischievous children while the parents aren't looking.

The energy we need from Senate Democrats.

We're two months into this and the Democrats are bringing paddles to a gunfight.

We are Zelensky....

Crockett is on to something here. The Constitution is based on the premise that humans are flawed, and that Liberty needs to be constrained by checks and balances and the rule of law. Conservatives used to understand that.

Just absolutely don't give up the illegitimatus noncarborundum.

This. Got proactive. Put Trump and his minions on their back foot for once.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Hello Kentucky and Tennessee. Trump just farted in your space suit. Get used to the smell. It's just the beginning.

What we're seeing everywhere is an almost psychotic application of normalcy bias. It's like whole swaths of government leaders and supposed intelligentsia are still waiting at the bus stop while the mushroom cloud plumes on the horizon.

It's a darn good thing none of Trump's voters rely on any of those social programs he's cutting.

THE meme of 2025 for me.

The biblical prohibition against taking the Lord's name in vain should really be seen as the original Miranda warning.

That moment when you look into the toilet bowl in horror then remember you had beets for dinner.

Absolutely right. Of course we haven't seen any recent instances where ignorance of history has contributed to a catastrophic mistake...

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Let's see, a corrupt president with imperial ambitions, aided by an army of thugs who can visit violence on opponents with impunity. What could possibly go wrong?

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” —Ulysses S. Grant h/t Luke Russert

Frostbite while staring up at a blank Jumbotron is nature's way of telling you you've been had.

My take on Trump and Greenland, written in 2019. My views haven't changed:

Humorlessness is an affliction that should have its own telethon. In the meantime it's a great marker for people who should be summarily blocked.

New article! I wrote about the California fires, American pop culture, and climate catastrophe grief: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/fantasy-on...

The problem isn’t that Ross wants to muse about what it would be like for Canada and the US to be one country - a mildly interesting topic. It’s that the whole discussion is prompted by the need to rationalize the deranged threats of an amoral demagogue.

Timely reminder that there are points of light in all this overcast.

Don't worry, everyone. We heard your complaints about high job creation, low unemployment, and rising real wages—faster than prices, especially at the lower end of the income spectrum—and will be doing what we can to reverse these awful multiyear economic trends. Don't thank us, thank yourselves.

I wrote this piece in 2016, and it holds up. markmeed.com/2016/03/15/t...

Exactly. The goal of all this "filling the air with sh*t" is to enrage, exhaust, and misdirect. We need to play zone better.

All Kendzior brings to the table is superb writing combined with deep knowledge and mastery of the facts. Highly recommended.

Former Army Sniper Cory Hargraves who served two deployments in Iraq has strong word for Trump about threatening to send American soldiers to fight and die in wars against our NATO allies like Denmark youtu.be/0XQZD7F2iRY?...

"If American politics is ever to return to a condition of civic and political health, it will need to embrace an honest account of January 6th. Which is why we need the release of the special counsel’s report." www.thebulwark.com/p/release-ja...