This is my grand theory of why people hate the Democrats. Very few can identify it in each individual instance, but these bizarre reframings and failure to follow logic where it leads drives people absolutely insane.

Who did I talk about vintage cords on here with a bunch of months ago? Was it you @feralhattie.bsky.social ? I hit a mother lode in the local consignment shop …

In the Spring 2026 issue of The Steinbeck Review, I continue my examination of how John Steinbeck wrote in genre, this time exploring his 1935 short story "The Snake," which I analyze as an early and unappreciated example noir fiction - a novel analysis of a work that is almost 100 years old.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

The amount of truly lazy, negligent stuff you hear about if you pay attention (at the federal and state level) is shocking. You want to know why tech seems to run our lives? Even the most bougie, stereotypical start-up tech firm tries to use data to make decisions better than this.

They just combine in a greater than the sum of their parts fashion (and this is where social media echo chambers and incentives play a role) into a kind of hopeless, bitter vibe. It’s a disease of the spirit as much as anything, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t practical things that can be done.

Every time we fail to shut down scams, fail to enforce the securities laws, fail to fix the tax code, fail to fix the health insurance market, shovel more money into bottomless police/military pits, this feeling only grows, and with very good reason.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

John Steinbeck. Or the American stock/crypto/online ad market structure. 🤷‍♂️

In a way, it’s symbolic of the entire Trump phenomenon… Through his sheer vulgarity and corruption, he exposes real hypocrisy at the core of the American project.

I’m of two minds of this. This is obviously corporate desecration of a national symbol. It also demonstrates that Trump understands symbolism, and spectacle in a way that the Democrats just don’t. And, if you really want to get deep about it, democracy shouldn’t have venerated symbolic castles.

We made this mistake in 2009 and it created our present conditions.

i've said a million times they will eventually start targeting Catholics, and, well ....

So this is probably the best article I've read so far this year.

It’s normal not to be head over heels in love with your kid the day they pop out. Like - you just met this person (and they are, in fact, People!) It takes some time! (The real hot take about this, I guess, is that most people don’t consider babies people, and I do)

Little league ump Camp counselor Wiped down machines at the gym “Attendant” at the town dump

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

Some one tell Kendrick to start cutting his diss track against Google for dragging him into this mess #google

I will be very direct that I think professional political types who think all national elections can be reduced down to some data points have all but given up on even trying to understand their own country. And I find that depressing.

Good - only slight (repeat, slight) hesitation is that it's never great to have rules you and everyone else knows you can't enforce, and so I wonder if "conceptualizing" or "outlining" is too far. But - good. Very good.

dude you made it @mtsw.bsky.social

I give a legal writing presentation every so often and this is so spot on (and so few lawyers or legal academics do it) "It's about legibility. what do the people you're talking to already know? what do you want to teach them?" is another way of saying "don't assume the judge knows anything" and

I’m only half-joking when I say that decline of America is reflected in Bezos not being satisfied by being both (1) rich and (2) looking like Jean Luc Picard, but instead juicing himself into a ridiculous-looking bloated steroid user.

This picture of Bezos is from several steroid cycles back

I think the Trump era seems so long and so tiring because it’s really we’re still in the 9/11 era, we’ve been in it for 25 years now and until we reckon with it, truly, we’ll probably remain in it.

The bench and bar can end the plague of AI hallucinations any time they want, but they won't because that would require strong discipline and they would rather our profession continue to degrade itself.

There's a weird thing about AI passages that I, like, can't get my eyes to stay engaged in the text line-by-line. I often start thinking "is my ability to concentrate totally destroyed" level, and no it is just AI text running on pointlessly.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Coons is so pathetic. Just a complete loser happy to see the country dismantled brick by brick.

Me: MAGA doesn't worship God or Christ, they worship Satan. You: You're over-reacting. Them: swaps in Donald Trump for God the Son.

Sooo … ordinary Catholic here. I cannot think of a single instance when “God the Father” is not followed immediately by (or directly implies) a reference to the Son, which means in this case …

Paul Bunyon!

lol - "enjoined" Ok, kid.

Remember - every time Democrats avoid a confrontation with Trump's lawlessness, or hide behind ridiculous "affordability" jargon, etc. they are just making it more and more likely that the eventual and inevitable resistance and blowback to his crimes is worse and more destabilizing.

agreed. if this stands the next Dem president would not just be a fool not to use it, but would be actively betraying the country by returning to the kabuki of the Congressional appropriations process.

He must be removed from office, immediately. He and his accomplices must be brought to harsh justice, both for their theft and for their betrayal of public office and the Constitution. All the billions of dollars they stole must be taken back and returned to the public.

There’s a simple word for this: theft. The Trump corruption never ends.

Not to kick the dead horse on this website, but it’s extremely important question…So much of this was laid down in foundation starting in Nov 2000. Trump literally could not have done this himself, even with two terms. We’ve been normalizing an anticonstitutional structure for a long time.

Who is gonna be the first idiot democrat with some pissy statement like “while you can’t afford gas, the president can afford to give money to his allies?

Remember this, because here in American you can get arrested for being brown, or looking at a cop the wrong way, but all sorts of people (including Democrats) are going to try to convince you these people can't just be summarily arrested by the next Dem administration for open theft of public funds.

I mean I know it’s normal now. But government officials lying and saying the elections have all been rigged is functionally treason against the constitutional system and should be punished as such.

That first reply has to be a joke, right?

Complete loser talk. The point about this "roadtrip" is that it is a bribe, paid to a complete nobody whose only qualification to being in government is to lie on Donald Trump's behalf and allow corruption to run rampant.

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

Trump gonna paint the Aegean Sea floor blue

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Every single one is unfit to be a judge in a democratic system and should be removed

Indictments for anyone involved (line agents on up) should be a Day 1 priority in 2029.