Platonic ideal of a John Ganz article frankly

It’s funny to think about the renaissance in prestige Summers got from the media during Biden’s presidency. A brave truthteller unafraid of partisan pushback! Beloved by the mainstream and conservatives alike! There was a newfound respect among Republicans for him: ‘even Larry Summers says that…’

Brits have no idea how lucky they are Prime Minister‘s Question Time is a thing. Our president would shit himself and die upon being asked by the most banal backbencher in London how many calories are in Coke Zero.

Abigail Spanberger is really eloquent! A really good rebuttal message.

The lack of self-respect you are exhibiting by just sitting there and taking this shit.

Get in loser, we're doing the cancel culture panic again www.public.news/p/end-the-wi...

thinking of this piece from 2015 again.

On this day 2012, Journalis Marie Colvin and photographer Rémi Ochlik were killed by an attack of Assad regime on Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs city, Syria. Rest In Peace

QTing Chris Brunet is the economics equivalent of QTing Chris Rufo, fwiw.

22 February 2012 – Marie Colvin, 56, (killed in siege of Homs, #Syria), US journalist. Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Sunday Times (1985 to her death). Killed with French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik in a deliberately targeted attack by Assad government forces. www.theguardian.com/media/2018/n...

Again as someone who remembers Democratic presidential candidates running away from Obama’s TPP deal in 2016, it feels very satisfying to see the party dump protectionism (at least for now - they are running Brown in OH). Won’t hold my breath tho - Biden was v bad on trade too.

The Supreme Court:

Oren Cass on suicide watch LMFAO

It’s Rump Parliament time!

If the Executive can violate the Constitution without facing any consequences, should Congress also disregard it, as the document cannot be binding for one branch but not the other?!

lol. lmao

Do political leaders (especially in Europe and Canada) really think that talking about “future cooperation with China” will get the Trump administration to change tactics and become a trustworthy trade and security partner? If not, do they really think that China is more trustworthy than the US?

this for me is actually very helpful - reading physical or ebook text while listening to an audiobook.

I cannot escape the impression that for the same reason they prefer X over Bsky, many journalists, pundits, and professional opinionators just prefer living in DT’s America over Joe Biden’s America, and there’s nothing we can do about that.

is she getting a job with The Dispatch?

doubt. also, is “sexual preferences” now a thing people say? whatever happened to orientation? idk sounds inflammatory to me.

I.e. nationalism is the most successful example of a progressive (derogatory) social engineering project in history. It’s not organic, it’s the result of nerds with maps deciding the real world should be remade to match their imaginary lines.

The idea that prices are spiraling out of control under Trump seems plausible to people because they hate Trump but is not actually true

NYT, 2025.

*Person quotes the Melian Dialogue like it's badass* OK, what happened to Athens after that? *person quotes the "if" reply when Phillip II of Macedon warned Sparta not to oppose him* OK, what happened to the Spartans after that?

Just imagining what kind of insane conspiracy-mongering this type of downward revision would have produced under Biden.

A tale told in two screenshots :)

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

Completely psychotic freaks

love that the popular front now includes cranky, sometimes slightly unhinged austrian school economists. that’s good.

What I have to tell you… is that I may have changed my mind… about the Latin Mass. I feel now… like maybe… hearing the Gospel in a language I actually speak… isn't a concession to modernity. I’m realizing… I don’t get what’s problem with the priest facing the people. Eye contact is actually nice.

JD Vance getting lip fillers is so fucking funny

He works for a website that is run by a non-profit (by definition, unprofitable) that doesn't have to compete in the actual for-profit free market because it's funded by extremely rich right-wingers.

And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

A 25% increase in real wages?

Conservatives: we are Nazis and hate women, blacks, browns, asians Republicans: Hitler was amazing Epstein Files: the entire Trump cabinet and GOP megadonors partied with minors Also Epstein file: Trump raped a teen and slapped her when she bit his penis Douthat: here’s the problem with liberalism

/4 alas, this piece has caused Cathy Young to give up on me. Notably it took her only this one piece to realize I am terrible, whereas previously it took a number of years to realize Milo Yiannopoulos wasn’t actually a free speech hero. This is personal growth, Cathy, and I congratulate it.

Just try to imagine instead of a incestuous cabal of racist child rapers at the top echelons of academia, business and government, some kids at a fancy college had insulted a sandwich.

We must make Puerto Rico a state, if only so that conservatives can finally realize that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.

Has there been a case of dumb cancelling during the high-woke era where an enraged college sophomore did not turn out to have better judgment of their target’s character than the entire national punditocracy?

british constituencies are basically a series of rectangles because we passed laws against gerrymandering a century or so ago but we must understand that our American cousins are not an advanced democracy

hope someone asks Spencer Cox about this at the next Atlantic confab!

Nancy Pelosi was one of the few actually existing China hawks send tweet

"he's no angel" is how you build a police state. It was never going to remain limited to black and brown folks.

Will Stancil has done more to fight fascism than Bernie Sanders has.

Roe vs Wade was overturned and a bunch of people crowed about Republicans being the dog who caught the truck, and then about Democrats winning some election in Kansas, but the next time there was a presidential election, Americans chose the guy who did it and now women are bleeding in parking lots

2016: Stumping for Bernie at the DNC. 2020: Running for president as a Democrat. 2026: America’s top spy, weaponizing wild election conspiracy theories. What did you do in the last 10 years?!

From Syria, Iran, Ukraine, Russia...etc the Obama admin was infinitely below Biden (and i'm a big critic of his) and even Trump I