Ezra Klein doesn’t defend the claim “Charlie Kirk did politics exactly the right way,” he defends Ezra Klein being seen praising Charlie Kirk. Or, really, he defends the act of attempting political persuasion, as if those are the same thing and that’s what his critics oppose. Hence the disconnect.

lol If your Naomi is Klein You've made it to Heaven If your Ezra is Klein Switch over to Levin

If your Ezra is Klein, you're on the decline. If your Ezra is Levin, you're cooking 24/7.

Bad Bunny should call Drake a pedophile too

Fuck Farve

I love this for us.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

His apparently canceling the War on Portland is fascinating because along with medbeds, it's proof he simply cannot clock the difference between reality and his own team's agitprop anymore.

I went into today pretty sure we were in fascist consolidation end game phase. I'm leaving today still pretty sure we're in fascist consolidation end game phase, but also increasingly convinced that the Fascist Strongman is confused about it and keeps calling off the viziers' end game chess moves.

the history will continue until morale improves

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

They should do a photo like this but it's just Jimmy Carr, Louis CK, and Whitney Cummings

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling. Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Rarely is the question asked: is our machines learning?

half of my students in Criminal Procedure this semester hadn't taken a class with me before, so to set the tone, I showed this video at the end of class.

One of the few videos to which the Tom Holland Umbrella Rule of internet law also applies

Based on a lot of the responses to this apparently a lot of people have not pondered the possibility (imo the likelihood) that what’s been going on with Jeffries & Mamdani has really been more about Jeffries & Adams & Black voters in Brooklyn.

My recommendation to Klein and any other centrist is to go to some marches & rallies & vigils and listen. Volunteer for groups that support trans rights & immigrant rights. Just as a regular-schmegular person. Interact with real people who are facing these real threats. Be a human with other humans.

Yes. bsky.app/profile/nber...

I give Klein credit for talking with Coates publicly, knowing that Coates gravely disagrees with him on so many things. But I am tired of this kind of lightweight, centrist handwringing dominating the discourse when what we need are strong, confident defenses of the liberties of ALL.

also TNC pushes him on the "let's abandon abortion rights" thing and says, abortion rights are popular in red states, and Klein's response is, "well it was just an example I hadn't really thought about it." and TNC says, maybe you owe vulnerable people better than that.

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

getting word the scientists in the lab have given up. physics, they say, cannot create a bigger wanking motion than Anthony Kennedy talking to Nina Totenberg.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

We have a good example of a politician who’s made his entire project path-of-least-resistance poll chasing in the name of “strategy”. His name is Keir Starmer and everyone hates him.

As @thomaszimmer.bsky.social has long argued, the main problem facing American democracy is not "polarization" so much as it is the right wing radicalization of the GOP against democracy. Klein understands this, but he seems hesitant to take it on board. thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-americ...

What I took from Larry's excellent thread is that one of Klein's weaknesses is his inability (refusal?) to take seriously enough the democracy-corroding effect that a memeified GOP political culture has had on our public discourse, and the way it has radicalized supporters of that party.

The “deplorables” comment took off like it did because it dropped into a 20+ year campaign of misogyny & batshit anti-Clinton conspiracy theories that had come to suffuse GOP political culture. It was a gaffe, but it became a meme because of how GOP backlash politics works. Republicans have agency!

Curious to hear from the comics going to Saudi Arabia both how much would have been not enough and also what a country could do/be before they say no

This really shows how this entire panic is uncut sexism. The premise of Rogan's argument is that he, a random man who has no understanding of science, knows more about pregnancy health than women who are literally seeing a doctor once a month. www.aol.com/news/joe-rog...

Cade Horton & I have something in common-breaking a rib from coughing

Film people! You could keep hiring Jared Leto and keep getting your films in those Mojo "Worst Ever Experiences on Set or in Life Generally" Youtube clips, or you could hire Timothy Olyphant and everyone will have a great time and I will 100% see your film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-_...

Always loved Eddie

You're welcome

Dammit

And that’s why we sold Eddie

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying the swearing in of newly elected Adelita Grijalva to stop the vote to release the Epstein Files www.yahoo.com/news/article...

honestly- I've been waiting almost 90 years to find out what happened to Amelia Earhart & what role Obama had in shooting down her plane.

Every time this guy opens his mouth now it’s like listening to someone who just stepped out of a time machine from 2006.

We watched SHAUN OF THE DEAD tonight, another hit with the kids.

Incredibly dangerous. Literally the title is "Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!" dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/i...

Mamdani: The ADL doesn’t speak for New York Jews in interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, Mamdani panned ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt, who said the Democratic nominee for mayor has failed to meet with or address concerns of most Jewish New Yorkers. forward.com/fast-forward...

They hated him because he spoke the truth

SIR MIX-O-LOTL

I fucking knew it. This opportunity for a condom to have helped America is spending a shit ton of money and jeopardizing national security so that he can wave his pathetic dick around in front of people better than him. What a useless twit this man is.

Naming a British guy the effective viceroy of Palestine is certainly a novel idea that no one has ever thought of before. What's next? Creating a new navigation map for ocean liners labeled "Oops! All Icebergs!" bsky.app/profile/pear...

the ultimate "meeting that could've been a Signal group chat"