As Lincoln said, an “electric cord” connects all our successive immigrant generations to the founding principles of human equality and republican government. Commitment to these principles, not blood and soil, make people Americans. www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin...

My latest. The second Trump administration has exposed the failure of our institutions and the corruption of the elite. It will not be enough to just put someone else in the Oval Office. open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...

Good old Woz. Good for him.

The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason

They line up perfectly.

It’s low-key hilarious that every Republican elected who turns on Trump immediately retires. The GOP is basically a personality cult, and his Republican critics are cowards.

it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...

Today’s White House events are confirming my theories about Trump’s drug use. He’s been peppy the last few days. His advisors know he needs the drugs to have energy, but they also make him dangerously erratic from their point of view.

This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not

I love Bob Dylan so much, he is the antidote to everything dumb about culture, like the Kardashians exist? No they don’t because listen to “When I Paint My Masterpiece” ChatGPT wrote a novel? No it didn’t because I married Isis on the 5th day of May

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

If a self described socialist from an ethnic and religious minority group that Trump disdains can get this out of Trump with 15 minutes, imagine what Trump has given away to Putin.

Either Trump is still the guy who agrees with whatever was said to him by the last guy to flatter him or this is an intentional move to drive a wedge among the Democrats.

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

No, House Democrats should not vote for a resolution that cynically conflates communism and socialism. For one thing, don't give the GOP the power to define important terms. For another, pay attention to your voters. news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...

Tried listening to NPR this morning but I just can't handle legacy newscasts, no matter how competent and experienced, because they put everything into a frame that normalizes abnormal threats and bends over backwards to put all of Trump's actions in the best possible light.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Witkoff’s nickname being Dim Philby is a light in much darkness this morning.

What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.

do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”

The lesson of Fetterman ought to be that progressive/left politics should not be ruled by aesthetics. Conor Lamb signified PMC centrist to the online left but would have voted far more progressively even before the stroke.

Oh so they’ve learned like NOTHING nothing from Iraq.

High school teacher here and…yup.

Is he serving sarsaparilla to the cowboys at the saloon tonight?

i have noticed that trumpers have shut the fuck up for the most part, just like these same people did when bush's approval went to the 20s. it was awesome, because you knew they didn't really believe he was wrong and were so mad all the mud-brained moderates turned on them

The thing that keeps me feeling permanently depressed is that so few people actually seem to believe in anything. I see it in politics and in my daily life.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.

We have created a social and media environment that rewards brazenness and amorality. What especially depresses me is that young people have so thoroughly embraced the crass ethos behind it all.

antivaxx bullshit pisses me off more than anything else on earth just because of the pure stupidity. it is the definition of a luxury belief. we invented miracles that halt the spread of the deadliest diseases known to man but that has made us so comfortable that some morons turn against them

Larry Summers asking Harvard if he can at least continue teaching the course

AdBusters has officially been rendered obsolete

For the second night this week I’ve gone to the gym after having chili dogs for dinner. It’s all about balance, folks.

calling TCW "wa-luigi coates" is... god.

harv sending summers into a classroom tells students a lot about what is valued, right up there with university admins providing them plagiarism tools. we are producing sociopaths and fools, and destroying trust.

Certainly fewer Republicans are acting like Trump has the conch anymore

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

I’m assuming the Epstein bill will be interpreted by Trump in ways that will allow him to withhold information and/or Republicans will use the mention of Democrats in the files to muddy the waters with the “they’re all the same” message that appeals to the cynical dopes common among median voters.

It is pretty ridiculous that the Criterion Collection simply exists to go “here are very good movies that we present to you to buy and watch with some thoughtfulness” and that’s all it takes to be successful because it’s rare that anyone does that shit

One thing I truly hate about the current cultural landscape is that the worst people suck up all the oxygen because they do obnoxious things for attention and then we oblige them with endless discourse.

I'm going to go to my grave angry that Trump's supporters and enablers have gall to label themselves champions of free speech.

Endless screaming

Here's my suggested trick to dealing with Matt Yglesias: get annoyed by him exactly once.

I think they’ve got him on the good drugs again.

Best description I’ve read of Olivia Nuzzi

Wanna see a monument that goes hard for the #AmericanRevolution? Check out the inscription on this monument marking the spot where British regulars fell at Concord Bridge

Trump has the weakest control over Congressional Republicans he’s had since 1/6 right now.

they used to make real soundtracks for a movie

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? Low End Theory Nevermind Bandwagonesque Achtung Baby Ten Badmotorfinger Death Certificate De La Soul is Dead 1991 was a ridiculous year for hip hop and alt rock