As seen throughout his life, JD Vance is a shapeshifting sociopath. Here, he pathetically mimics not just Trump's persecution complex, but also Trump's cadence and inflection when speaking in the 1st person about himself: "JD" ...and when he says, "...and the media didn't care about that." 1/

This man, who I understand to be a 17 year veteran, likely just threw away his military career. He is a patriot of the first order.

1) Further evidence that a growing part of the Democratic coalition has disconnected from reality. The activist screaming in Wiener's face crossed the line from political speech to physical threat. (A threat against a pro-trans candidate-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/u...

1) A righteous and necessary Democratic populist economic movement is in danger of being hijacked by extremists who espouse insanity already rejected by 90% of Americans. Dems must decide if they're willing to do the hard work of saving America-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o...

Once in a great while the news is not all bad: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1) Today is a day to teach and remember. First and foremost the heroism of those - many our fathers and grandfathers - who waded into hell in order to save freedom from the forces of tyranny. But we must also teach and remember that millions--

1) Piece notes today's average CEO pay is 465 times what workers make. Not noted is that in 1965 - during America's greatest period of growth, when the world's greatest middle class was built - average CEO pay was only 30 times-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/b...

Sebastian Junger is a brilliant writer, a serious person with very penetrating things to say about everyone and everything surrounding the Graham Platner phenomenon. Read this. I JUST HAD BREAKFAST WITH GRAHAM PLATNER open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...

Remarkable piece by David French should be the basis of a mandatory course in every high school and college in America. If you can't see behind the paywall, the most important sentence is Santayana's: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

Many lessons can be learned from how Hungary finally defeated Orban. This is perhaps the most important: "They were united by a sense of moral outrage." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

You have to actually read it to understand how corrupt this administration really is:

Once again @washingtonpost.com shows how shamefully captured it is by tech self-interest. See below the substance of Trump's EO, perhaps the most reasonable he's ever contemplated, reminiscent of safeguards against nuclear accidents. To WaPo it is unendurable government intrusion. wapo.st/4varGo1

Dreyer never mentions that as an authoritarian state, China's people accept universal surveillance as a normal part of life. Americans don't, and shouldn't. And they're just learning that every time you use AI you're helping to create a universal surveillance state. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

The secret to understanding AI is simple: the sociopaths creating it are the aliens in Rod Serling's 1962 masterpiece "To Serve Man." youtu.be/Zp_EhjlLGkQ?...

1) Even Newsom misses the point: Firing 20% of white collar workers will leave 14 million highly-skilled people unemployed. At the height of the Great Recession there were "only" 10 million unemployed. But it's even worse. These-- www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/t... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/t...

As the Trump era unravels before our eyes, Americans must reckon with the fact that authoritarianism isn't what did him in; millions cheered his smashing of our most sacred values. In the end we were just lucky. He was more interested in looting the country than in being a dictator.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Yes, we must win the AI race with China, just as we had to win the nuclear race. But the nuclear race was controlled and PAID FOR by the govt for the good of the American people. The AI race is controlled by billionaires who only want to beat China so they can make trillions destroying human labor.

Rampant corruption. State-sponsored cruelty. The definition of a functioning liberal democracy...

1) Kevin O'Leary is following a 90-year history of right-wing propaganda calling out Communist, Russian, Chinese influence on liberal US movements. To be clear, foreign governments try to influence US politics all the time, but they do it across the board, giving money to pro-Palestinian groups as--

A universal surveillance state is completely at odds not only with the 4th Amendment but the very founding of America. You can't have a free country if your movements are constantly tracked by the government. Just look at China. This idea would have been unthinkable to our forebears. wapo.st/4uc4aXn

1) Huge admirer of French, but I think he's wrong in his attack on Platner. There are many American men like Platner, with a history of saying and doing wrong things, and condemning them is ironically more a left wing problem than a conservative one, yet here-- www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...

Doesn't matter how many seats the GOP steals, Democrats will simply have to work harder. They've spent a year-and-a-half whining in passivity instead of presenting a muscular vision to all Americans of freedom, prosperity, ending corruption, and igniting hope. We need another Greatest Generation.

Perhaps the most misunderstood word in today’s political universe. Time to reclaim what it really means. New piece on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/marshall...

Marshall @mherskovitz.bsky.social is hitting all the notes here. What's comforting to me in these truly dire times is the knowledge that ideas are impossible to erase. Read this, though, because he's right (and informative): marshallherskovitz.substack.com/p/on-liberal...

ON LIBERALISM Thoughts On An Endangered Word My first essay on Substack. Hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/marshall...

1) Wow. Ruy Teixeira is appalled by Dem candidates having the temerity to raise millions in small donations instead of the corporate money that has corrupted both parties. Talk about out of touch. I agree Democrats must come to grips with-- www.thefp.com/p/how-the-fa...

Likely unpopular take, but watching Marco Rubio’s confident, good-humored performance in today’s press conference, I can’t help but think if the GOP is smart enough to nominate him in ‘28 it’ll be hard for any Democrat to beat him. Dem hopefuls need to start upping their game right now.

https://bit.ly/4eS4A0i What is creativity—and does it survive the age of artificial intelligence? Emmy-Winning Director @mherskovitz.bsky.social gives his insight on the latest episode of History of the Present with @theintellectualist.bsky.social— only on Lincoln Square

1) Mostly excellent exploration of AI's looming societal effects still suffers from neoliberalism's 45-year effect on the elite imagination: The Market is not God, and AI is not an asteroid heading for earth. It's a choice. A choice made by a very small group of-- www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

https://bit.ly/4eS4A0i What is creativity—and does it survive the age of artificial intelligence? Emmy-Winning Director @mherskovitz.bsky.social gives his insight on the latest episode of History of the Present with @theintellectualist.bsky.social— only on Lincoln Square

Thanks again to @lincolnsquare.media and @theintellectualist.bsky.social for inviting me on. Americans have the power to create the life they want. But in a passive age it’s hard for people to know that.

Catch-26: "Take that man out and arrest him!" "On what charge, General Dreedle, sir?" "That bastard arranged seashells in the sand!" "Is that illegal, sir?" "It is if I say it is!" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

Take a few minutes from doomscrolling to read what may be the most important piece in any newspaper today... wapo.st/4mRZTFD

This entire sanctimonious Free Press piece is invalidated by one simple fact: Democrats would vote tomorrow for a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. Republicans wouldn't. "Virginia Failed the Basic Test of Our Democracy" www.thefp.com/p/virginia-f...

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

1) I have no reason to doubt Ayaan Hirsi Ali's word that the mission of SPLC has been corrupted, and for that it should be condemned. But the DOJ's indictment is another matter entirely. Ali cites SPLC paying a leader of-- www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirs...

2023 - AI CEOs issue a dire warning about the dangers of their technology and call for an unprecedented pause in its development. 2026 - the same CEOs race toward implementation, heedless of increasing evidence the dangers are real. What changed between then and now - besides greed?

“…the SPLC was sharing the intelligence it gathered with the FBI for years.” We are living under the most corrupt administration in American history.

Legit question. Now that we all see how self defeating and dumb gerrymandering is, how about we pass a nationwide ban on it to take effect in the 2030 census?

AI's job-killing spree has begun where it was born, in software and tech. Thousands of workers forced to train AI to replace them, ordered to dig their own figurative graves before their bosses shoot them. If you don't want this future for America, time to do something about it.

1) Forty-five years of neoliberalism - the belief in profit without regard to the Common Good - has trapped millions of workers in future-less jobs and is now blithely destroying an entire generation just joining the workforce. Both parties in Washington are-- www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

In the unlikely event Democrats are permitted to retake both House and Senate, their first bill should be a ban on gerrymandering, with redistricting mandated to be conducted by nonpartisan commissions. The fact that this wasn't done 100 years ago is a stain on our democracy.

American capitalism used to be about creating jobs. Now it's about destroying them. Bank of America's CEO gleefully joins the herd running toward the cliff. Doesn't yet see that when 1000's of other companies do what he's doing, his bank will be dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

So excited to be back with my dear friends Jim and Tiffany Drastic - @thedangerousones.com! We talked about the looming AI disaster. Please watch! youtu.be/m8UpEcWZQAo?...