I remember feeling like I was supposed to take all of the "high minded" literature on "American exceptionalism" seriously back in the 1980s and 90s...when, in hindsight, it's not hard to see that this was the embarrassing telos toward which it was oriented.

I think the UN is used to having tinpot dictators stand at that podium and rant nonsense at them, not so much from the leader of the host country though.

Actually let me correct this; this is an inter generational problem. Too many people seem unable and/or unwilling to see how dangerous this building reliance on gAI is

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Trump & RFK's attack on Tylenol is part of an emerging campaign within the right to valorize “natural” pregnancy & motherhood—to the point it corrodes women’s health & safety. Under this campaign, pregnancy & motherhood are seen as women’s natural states. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“DEI” for these people just means integration and the enforcement of civil rights laws www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

They just seem to want to make every aspect of American life worse. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One the reason the media was steel-manning Trump was that they could not face the implications of the American people giving him a plurality. Somehow it must be that the voters were not complete asses. I think over the past week they're finally willing to absorb that they need to inform those asses.

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

i think the kimmel thing plus his reminding everyone today of the covid-era pressers has reminded anti-anti-Trump elites why they hate him too.

In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

Does anyone know if Kenvue (Tylenol's parent company) raised money for the Trump campaign? I am trying to find some humor in a very bad situation.

The biggest advocates for free speech becoming apologists for censorship reminds me of the biggest New Atheists arguing against religious bigotry becoming bigots themselves. There is a certain type of "thinker" who's just a chauvinist claiming to be an idealist.

Holy shit dawg

Carson Wentz is officially the Adjunct Quarterback. Visiting Assistant Playcaller. Post-doctoral researcher in huddle studies.

The quintessential Millburn, New Jersey, experience is someone in a luxury car rolling through a four way stop sign while you’re walking in a crosswalk in front of a store like this.

We are also seeing how the media discounts the existence of progressive voters with all their rural diner safaris but, yeah, we actually exist and are also more likely to take collective action than the MAGA crowd.

Underrated phenomenon is so many people were already looking for streaming services to cut and Disney basically helped them figure it out.

This is unconscionable @nytimes.com. An abdication of journalistic responsibility and judgment.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

fundamentally, the modern new right is Schmittian and i'm not sure our contemporary domestic or international political elites know how to rationalize this tbh

“I never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a Disney Adult” “How about side by side with a friend” “Aye I could do that”

Rewatching I’m Not There and between this and Velvet Goldmine we should bow down to Todd Haynes for making the most cliched genre of movies, musician biopics, into thrilling, innovative film-making full of surprises.

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.

Preston Sturges-ass photo

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

pundits spent the last decade warning america that lefty wokeism was our generation’s chief danger and now that it’s indisputable that rightwing fascism is and always was the real threat, they have to remove political valance from the word “woke” so that they can pretend they were right all along.

The only way this could be more suspect would be if Tom Homan was wearing a little Hamburglar mask as the money was handed to him in a sack with $$$ signs on it.

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

The problem is our entire leadership class is made up of soulless tryhards who would throw their grandma down the stairs to stay in the executive suite.

The second in my series about The Band is up, this time detailing their revolutionary bootlegged recordings with Dylan, both on tour in 66 and in the basement in 67. Both are among my favorite music. notesironbound.blogspot.com/2025/09/autu...

So…waging war on his own country. I get the feeling that he’s weighing an auto golpe right now.

Might as well just sell the entire Bodleian to OpenAI so Sammy Altman can burn it to feed his monster machines, and then build a moated castle with the spoils to keep out the plebs and enjoy that dosh

not even the dead will be safe if the enemy is victorious bsky.app/profile/thr....

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

talked about this on the latest neonliberalism, but one of the distinctive features of the centerless centrists is that they try to triangulate not by paying attention to what conservatives actually want, but by what they imagine the median voter in their head wants.... ...with predictable results.

One problem I think is Ezra is a policy guy who basically thinks arguing for liberalism is like an extension of arguing for policy, instead of an argument for a form of life/association

Dudes rock

Worth noting that the highest profile and most successful Democratic elected official currently in those states is Laura Kelly, the Governor of Kansas, who seems to not believe in Ezra Klein’s theory of politics!

Great minds...

Yoda: yeah hi sorry but I didn’t even like this guy before he was evil and the last time I saw him he was killing children Luke: thank you for your wisdom Master Yoda Yoda: no I’m saying it’s bullshit I have to sit on a log with this guy Obi: yeah I wasn’t going to say anything but he murdered me

Here in New Jersey, Chris Christie got elected governor twice, yet ended his second term with a 15% approval rating. If the economy tanks we’ll see Donny at that level.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

This stuff flabbergasts me because I simply can’t believe that people use chat bots as life guides. I mean they obviously do, but the mind of someone who would is completely foreign to me. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

Mentally I am relaxing in Oscar Niemeyer's headquarters for the French communist party (1980) and nothing can reach me here if I continue to refuse to answer that phone.