I understand your point, except that this author is arguing that we shouldn't pay attention to a matter of public interest in which he's has some connection. I wouldn't be concerned about Brooks and Epstein if he hadn't penned a piece telling us all not worry about it. Now it seems like a conflict.

Would respond to this post defending David Brooks but Sanchez has turned off replies. To repeat: the issue is that Brooks was part of a tiny, exclusive, secretive "Billionaires' Dinner" sponsored by Epstein, then wrote a op-ed dismissing the idea of an "Epstein class" without disclosing that tie. 1/

@mrjamesob.bsky.social in America they used to refer to overly strict, almost authoritarian, schools as military schools where the “bad” kids were sent by their parents.

To be clear, and as I highlighted in the image, this is focused on “foreign-controlled corporations.” On that front, though, this is not my thing. I defer to the experts/journalists who deal with trade to discuss why they’re doing this now and what they hope to get out of it.

Among its provisions, though, is one that I haven’t seen before. (It could be in other orders, but I’ve not seen it.) It involves briefing only the majority party in Congress.

Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.

One day this social media exchange will be presented as evidence in a court room, and I cannot wait.

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

I hate to extremely lib out but my dream is that this thing is demolished on day 1 of the next Dem administration

These are only "contradictions" when one believes that everyone is equal. It's not contradictory when the Marie Antoinettes of our society believe that what is for me is not for thee. #ItHasHappenedHere

There's a lot wrong with Julia Black's article, which treats Katherine Boyle's statements on 'memetic warfare' as though they're original (they're Thiel lines from 2015). And she doesn't disclose her affiliation with another Silicon Valley magnate: she's reporter-in-residence at the Omidyar Network.

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems. Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago. SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

I was sort of curious to see how ChatGPT would manage this task. So here's my prompt, and the robot's intro email:

Trump could have entered office, engaged in some corruption, let the GOP cut taxes for him, and played golf for four years, and left in 2029 a rich man. But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.

Although Kennedy said “democracy” was not guaranteed to survive, what he meant was “decorum” He has no problem with democratic collapse. He just wishes people weren’t so rude about it. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

He had to sign a fucking contract where he said he won’t joke about the country, the government, the royals, or any religion lol www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

We need to break up Nexstar and Sinclair. In fact, when we get control of the FCC again, we should create a rule that no single company can own TV transmitters in two regions more than 150 miles apart.

Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA) asks Kash Patel if Patel told Attorney General Pam Bondi that Trump's name was in the Epstein files This was what happened next =====>

Trump confronted by protestors in a DC restaurant…

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

In short, Gen X is Trumpy because Trumpism's cultural norms remind Gen X of their childhood and adolescence. /end

Trumpism, in its edginess and brashness and lack of political correctness, feels to Gen X more like the media and entertainment they grew up with. It feels like a return to normal. It's why Gen Xers are comparatively so likely to be the ones making breathless claims about cancel culture run amok. 3/

There was (to contemporary sensibilities) a shocking amount of racism and sexism, and racist and sexist humor, in the movies that Gen X watched as kids and young adults. So the shift away from that (going "woke") feels more like a personal critique to Gen X than it does to Boomers. 2/

I'm writing an essay about this, but I have a theory as to why Gen X is so Trumpy. The first part is leaded gasoline. The second, more interesting part is Gen X grew up at the peak of mainstream humor (movies, TV, etc.) being what the kids today call "problematic." 1/

A Manhattan judge has invalidated an executive order issued by Mayor Adams' admin that sought to let ICE back on Rikers, ruling the action amounted to an "impermissible" conflict of interest on Adams' part due to it coming after the Trump DOJ's dismissal of his criminal case.

On the right: What some guessed the drawing looked like On the left: What it actually looks like. I didn’t think it was possible, but the real one is so much worse.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

Liz Cheney has done more to oppose Trump than every DSA combined.

This is the same court that just said you can't use race at all in college admissions. It was always about white supremacy.

"The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.

back in 96 a former nixon aide and rupert murdoch launched fox news because they wanted a platform for gop propaganda. in 2025 the democratic party is writing opeds on that platform and promoting links to that oped on twitter, another platform owned by a right wing propagandist. no lessons learned

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

I wonder if Bolton's refusal to testify at the first impeachment is on Bolton's mind at the moment. I bet he thinks better of that cop-out now.

I guess this is kind of a live concern; say Trump is not able to fuck with elections and democrats win big but republicans, at his direction, refuse to seat at least some of the democrats. I know Powell v McCormack limits the chambers’ abilities to do this, but we trust SCOTUS would uphold it?

Civil War 2.0 has ALREADY started.

We really need a word to describe that irritating phenomenon where you compose a post that is grammatically right and clear in its meaning, and the split second that you hit send, the platform swaps out a correct word for something nonsensical, making you look like a dumbass

South Carolina forces picking up from their attack Fort Sumter www.npr.org/2025/08/17/n...

the left did their part during Biden's presidency - they weren't the ones gumming up the works, everything that didn't pass was because of Manchin or Sinema now, in the face of open fascism, a little party solidarity is the absolute least they should expect

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Unpacking! Go to 35 seats on the Court, and if Sotomayor wants to clutch pearls about some crazy principle of retroactivity, apply the term limits to the 26 new judges. Also, we are going to have to deal with Katsas and Rao, the 5th circuit, that 9th circuit panel— it's not just SCOTUS

Arkadi Gerney and Sarah Knight lay out a scheme for going nuclear against the red states that are trying to destroy democracy through extreme gerrymanders www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Someone needs to ask Adriana Kugler if she was threatened.

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

It just keeps coming… CBS uncovered a mystery third person caught on jailhouse cameras the night Epstein died. Not named. Not mentioned in the DOJ report. Spotted near his cell just after 4 a.m., two hours before he was found dead. Why now? Somebody wants this out.