Standing athwart history shouting, "Sure, what the hell? I, for one, welcome our robot overlords." www.nationalreview.com/corner/human...

Ka$h appears to be Posting through an investigation again. Here is an article I wrote last time around about why this is a terrible idea and you shouldn't have influencers running the FBI

Trying to watch this video and I keep getting distracted, thinking that Buckley must have been appalled by Tyrrell's prole gape www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atk7...

Pam Colloff writes that John J. Lennon's "The Tragedy of True Crime" is "impressive," and I agree www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

TNR - President Trump repeatedly blamed the UN for his teleprompter issues and a malfunctioning escalator in a spiteful speech to the General Assembly. But it seems that both issues were caused directly by his own team. newrepublic.com/post/200833/t...

After Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, Republicans used dubious arguments to say he had been cheated. Now the left is dabbling in some of those same questionable theories to claim that Kamala Harris really won last year’s election, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.

CARR BACKFIRES www.vulture.com/article/fcc-...

This sounds like @dandrezner.bsky.social's music www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Well looks like they met for this — Ed Martin sent a letter to the FBI agent who testified during Alex Jones trial about seeing the Sandy Hook children dead. Martin asked if the agent had a financial incentive. The rest is hard to parse. Martin wrote asking to keep the letter private.

How it started // How it’s going

Where are the lies? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

Triangle folks: Do you like beer? Do you value @theassemblync.bsky.social? Do you like Frank Bruni or @billadair.com (or me, I guess)? If the answer to any of these is yes, I invite you to come to our October 8 event at Motorco www.theassemblync.com/events/octob...

[The longest longest sigh of my life] TACO tuesday www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Personally, if I was running on my experience as a teacher, I’d check my spelling before I mailed flyers. (And also the ward boundaries, since I’m not in hers.) But perhaps that’s just making “perfect the enemy of the good”!

My wife raises an important question: Is this pronounced "kwee-hote of Queens" or "kee-hote of Keens"? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

“I absolutely think I’m qualified for the job. Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?” nymag.com/intelligence...

OCTOBER 8: Join three Triangle-based national journalists for drinks and discussion at Durham’s Motorco Music Hall, where they will talk about the stories behind their new books and the future of North Carolina and national politics. www.theassemblync.com/events/octob...

"The government’s official policy is that [trans people] do not exist — and yet, somehow, we constitute a danger to the country." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Here's a new one to me: the Fabulous Wailers, the great early garage band from Tacoma, doing Cannonball Adderley's "Sack o' Woe" (slightly mistitled) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48E...

It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

The White House has released Donald Trump’s updated letter to newly naturalized citizens, providing a glimpse into the president’s vision of what it means to be an American, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily:

How does a standoff hit fever pitch?

Relatedly, the “dictator on day one” thing was ostensibly so he could expand oil production and build a wall, neither which has been a central part of this administration. Instead, as I and others predicted*, he’s just leaned into the dictator thing. * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I missed this earlier in the week, but this thing happens where a Trump ally/sycophant in the press tosses him a softball and he simply refuses to take the hint/assist

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Seems fine

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

At least some thing never change from administration to administration politicalwire.com/2025/09/18/t...

This Douthat line about the left and deplatforming was bad yesterday and has aged like fine milk since

RIP indyweek.com/food-and-dri...

What we have here is Means trying to justify the ends

Is this Springsteen movie just gonna be grating Landau hagiography?

Ross Douthat read the news challenge www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

... and the New York Times is ON IT

He's not booing, he's saying "Schooooobert"

Everyone knows a Walz is in three politicalwire.com/2025/09/16/t...

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

When do we think Spartz will fold? www.politico.com/live-updates...

Congress passed a law! I feel like I am taking crazy pills! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

This feels disqualifying in a city council candidate indyweek.com/news/durham/...

_I made the tough call to tweet inaccurate information from Rao's. Not everyone would have the guts to do that._

Folks ...

TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD

“They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine-to-zero map.”

Wouldn’t be the weirdest thing Bob has done this year

Maybe Tipper Gore was right about video games www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...