The richest man in the world, an immigrant from South Africa, is a gut bucket racist and while nationalist. The Judge (a SCOTUS clerk, DOJ attorney, and former partner at Jones Day) is an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago.

If you’re in the Salem, OR area and want to watch a corny 1972 film about the founding, followed by a Q & A with yours truly, get your tickets now! June 30, 6-9 pm at Salem Cinema. www.willametteheritage.org/calendar/177...

Sociologist C Wright Mills had a term for such ideologically blinkered “centrists” back in the days of the Cold War: Crackpot Realism.

Guys it's not real.

Parks and Reich

Welcome to another edition of “Is it Elon Musk, or is it a line from a late 1980s neo-Nazi publication entitled “Land of the ZOG?’” The copy of that text in my photo library comes from the archive of Walter Huss, chair of the OR GOP ca. 1978-9. He kept it in a file labeled “Jews.”

"Oregon college students are so indoctrinated by liberal professors that they approach conservatism with a completely closed mind." Such is the complaint of a conservative speaker who has visited several Oregon campuses. The speaker was Leslie Fleming, and the year he said this was 1961.

I’m launching an all-reflecting-pond-updates news service: Algae-zeera.

It’s great how this administration has hired people to create explicitly white nationalist propaganda for them, and then simply mentioning this fact in a classroom can get you fired.

If conservatives are so sure being a tradwife is what makes women happiest, then why are they hiding the middle aged tradwife? Why not show young women what their life would look like 20 yrs from now?

Starmer’s resignation is a warning, but we’ve run this experiment at home. Sinema, Golden, and Fetterman made the same bet: that poll-tested moderation is a safe harbor. All saw their support crater. In a moment like this, tacking right isn’t the safe play, it’s the thing that sinks you.

Congrats to the cynical propagandists in the OR GOP whose noise inspired the NYT to publish a piece about a non-story replicating the "OR Democrats are so crazy" framing, while not mentioning the legitimately crazy petition to end vote by mail the GOP's been promoting www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

Here's the story of a lovely lady Who was bringing up three very lovely girls All of them had haunted stares, like their mother They’d clearly seen some shit Here's the story of a man named Brady Who was busy with three boys of his own. His wife, had strangely vanished They never found her bones

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

My sense is that this is the spirit in which JD’s latest memoir has been received.

I think this still counts as “art of the deal,” as long as we’re talking about absurdist, non-representational art.

I mean, the guy who founded the “Christian Nationalist Crusade” in the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith, was a Holocaust minimizing Nazi apologist. The ties between American Christian Nationalism and Nazism have always been there. www.thebulwark.com/p/oops-we-in...

John Quincey Adams used to swim nude in the Potomac when he was president. Someone needs to write a screenplay in which a time traveling JQA swims in the polluted Potomac and is transformed into a democracy avenging super hero.

It’ll be interesting to see if Musk and his ilk try to turn this into a Ruby Ridge sort of story about white victimization. www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/l...

The fantasy of human colonization of Mars isn't just stupid, unrealistic, or a waste of resources — it's pernicious, because it actively stokes insouciance with respect to safeguarding the only planet that at least 99.99999999% of us are ever going to live on.

This is akin to the idea that the New York Times in 2019 was basically being run by and for disciples of Malcom X and Stokeley Charmichael.

Very succinct and accurate assessment, IMO.

Today I learned that Riley Gaines prefers slathering her face with beef fat to showering. Unclear if this is true, or if she's just auditioning for a job in RFK's HHS.

The kicker on this video is so good. You don't think she can drop a punchline with only two seconds left but she sneaks it in there.

“Students [and teachers] are not buying the idea that an AI-driven future is inevitable.” Really interesting reporting here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Our present situation makes much more sense when we recall what proudly bigoted trolls many College Republicans were in the 1980s.

2003: Republicans get trolled by Ali G. 2026: Republicans get trolled by Algae youtu.be/kEaef07rD6c?...

After attending the pivotal 1964 GOP convention that nominated Barry Goldwater and marked the GOP’s sharp move to the right, Jackie Robinson, a lifelong Republican, said that he now had "a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."

I’ll say it again: The folks in our public life most vocally obsessed with the idea of masculinity all very conspicuously act like an adolescent boy’s idea of a man, not an actual grown ass man.

Important thread. Posting on the Musk-owned conspiracy-obsessed far right outlet known as X in 2026 is the equivalent of advertising in the Ford-owned conspiracy-obsessed far right outlet called The Dearborn Independent in 1926.

We’re five minutes away from RFK JR jumping into the reflecting pool with his jeans on and declaring it safe for all.

The Ford Administration marked the Bicentennial on July 4 with an event at Independence Hall. Attendance was ~100,000. The day opened with Black opera singer Marian Anderson, the daughter of working class parents, reading Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. commerce.veritone.com/search/asset...

Always read @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social.

I honestly think you could spike 60%+ of what is eating our brains with #4 alone.

Here’s hoping Raskin is able to Hoover up the documents he’s looking for.

If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo! uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele...

This was excellent.

‘You are legally required to be indoctrinated at the Center for Intellectual Freedom’

I’m at a bar in Portland where the TVs are tuned to reruns of The Price is Right from the 1970s and Trump’s UFC fiasco.

I’m really feeling speechless. This is truly the most bananapants thing I have ever seen

This thread from someone in DC for Trump's UFC fight contains all the news you need to know about it.

I am of the opinion that the world would be a better place for everyone if Hitler-salute-throwing white nationalist trillionaire accelerationists with unhealthy ketamine habits wielded as little influence as possible.

Zeus said fuck this guy in particular

Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

This isn't a Washington campaign, it's a Mississippi campaign. We're just getting started and please enjoy my twin's song for the campaign. #MississippiMatters

The very things that made the 'great years' the GOP daydream upon are also the things to which they are most opposed. Imagine that.

Almost exactly the same issues as with student coursework submissions. What’s worst, imao, is that we now also suspect students who do genuinely good work, of cheating. What it does to trust is the worst.

For the haters who said former Fox News host and Don, Jr’s former girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle was not qualified to be an ambassador, well, she just secured for President Donald J. Trump the title of “Great Bearer of the Cross of the Order of Cross-Bearers of the Holy Sepulchre!” Suck on that!

How to conceptualize Elon Musk being a trillionaire: The median US net worth is $192,000. Most folks are probably ok casually spending $20 on something. Elon’s equivalent to the “casual $20“ is $100 million. Elon can spend $100 million the same way the rest of us buy lunch. That’s the scale.