Helpfully, the Atlantic is here to remind the rabble that it’s a club and you’re not in it.

There are many reasons to criticize Democratic (and Independent) senators for voting to confirm him as Secretary of State (and all trump appointees, for that matter), but “Marco Rubio is on coke” is probably the funniest I’ve seen.

“Trump is in on the joke.” - Ben Smith

Question for people with more knowledge of American history than me: has there ever been a more corrupt president than trump? I want to say no for obvious reasons, but I’m wary of writing off the entirety of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

These two paragraphs by Buzzfeed/NYT/SemaforBen are grotesque, but nicely distill so much that is wrong with the media. When people say it’s a club and you’re not in it, look no further than “Trump is in on the joke.”

RIP, beyond the sad circumstances of his death, Ransone was great in the Wire and Generation Kill, and I always enjoyed seeing him appear on screen (Inside Man and Tangerine, to name a few).

Haha yeah…totally crazy that “chief executives and billionaires and celebrities and institutions” all came to believe that trump’s narrow plurality victory was a landslide. Insight as ever, Ezra.

It’s hard to pick a favorite part from this article, but mine is probably the invocation of effective altruism (ed. note: adding the preceding paragraph, which is also great by itself, for the abrupt transition):

Incredibly funny, couldn’t have happened to a nicer person, etc, but I’m curious whether the NYT had any evidence for this point other than “we would have covered it a lot”

Trump’s corruption is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to lose sight of how egregious and shameless it all is.

How Epstein (a notorious pedophile) and Trump bonded over the pursuit of women (did we mention that one of them is a notorious pedophile?)

I always rated the nba cup

The people in the non-militant wing of the Turtle Island Liberation Front must be so mad right now.

He’ll get to this once he ends Russia’s war in Ukraine, which he said he would do in one phone call before he took office (but only if he won the election).

Has there been any evidence discrediting the “George Bush but stupider” theory?

Incredible use of the adverbial “say” here

Trump’s corruption is breathtaking, as is the fact that the most important issue in the 2016 election was the perception of corruption by trump’s opponent.

I wonder how far down on the NYT editorial hierarchy you need to get before you find someone who’s familiar with Murc’s law.

The only stunning part about this is that a significant portion of the American electorate appeared to forget that trump was president from 2017-2021 when they voted in November 2024.

My advice for this guy: (1) keep doing exactly what you’re doing and (2) grow a beard.

What else to say but👇

“Famous 9th Cir Judge Jay Bybee (yes, that Jay Bybee)…”

lol

Roberts then says there are no judicially manageable standards after being presented with multiple options, before arguing that the issue can be addressed through means that have failed or he views as unconstitutional and, in any event, wouldn’t resolve the underlying political process failure

It’s funny that the NYT’s latest “voters weigh in on X” feature includes a guy with the stereotypical conservative behind-the-wheel-in-sunglasses selfie who says exactly what you expect him to say.

Any mea culpas from the restraint crowd now that trump is ordering extrajudicial murders by military strike off the coast of South America?

Weapons…not what I was expecting

I guess trump forgot both that “Canada got caught cheating on a commercial” and that “that’s dirty pool and you can’t do that.”

I don’t think that candidate age was the most important issue to the American electorate in 2024.

Another day, another corrupt pardon by trump for a convicted fraudster.

When Black Friday comes I'm gonna dig myself a hole Gonna lay down in it 'Til I satisfy my soul Gonna let the world pass by me The Archbishop's gonna sanctify me And if he don't come across I'm gonna let it roll When Black Friday comes I'm gonna stake my claim I'll guess I'll change my name

I’m thankful for opposing counsel, who insisted that that our trial begin the Monday after Thanksgiving, so that I get to work throughout the 4-day weekend instead of cooking and spending time with friends and family 🙏🙏🙏

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Believe it or not but candidate age was the biggest issue of the 2024 presidential election for period of time, and the media did not focus on the winning candidate, seen falling asleep at a meeting in the video below, even though he was significantly older than his opponent.

[witkoff talking to the Russian diplomats, while rubbing his thumb over his index and middle fingers in the the universal gesture for paying money]: president trump has read about the transfer of Ukrainian children in great detail and cares very deeply that everyone be reunited with their families.

We’re so close to fulfilling the prophecy of George W. Bush but stupider

lol

L, and they’re saying this more and more these days, MAO

So trump is trying to revive the film franchise that starred an actor who appears on the Epstein flight logs shortly after Congress passed a law ordering the release of the Epstein files? Ok…

Have you been looking for the most tedious, least substantive angle on trump’s war against American universities? The New York Times has you covered:

It’s pretty remarkable that news that donald trump (currently the U.S. president) once wrote a birthday card to the world’s most notorious pedophile that effectively reads “I know you are a pedophile and I am one too”—and we’ve seen the card itself—hasn’t received nonstop coverage since it broke.

If we’re not going to shut down Yale, can we at least pass a law requiring Yale law graduates to actually practice law? It would not solve all our problems, but it might minimize some of the damage.

Don’t it make you want to rock and roll All night long Mohammed’s Radio I heard somebody singing sweet and soulful On the radio, Mohammed’s Radio

What would we do without the NYT?

[the editor of vanity fair]: Liv Nuzzi, the Anthony Weiner campaign intern?

I was and remain skeptical of the value for Mamdani of meeting and appearing with trump, so I’m going to try not to overthink things and just say this is incredibly funny

This clip is even better than the screenshot of the category

President trump called one of my colleagues a “piggy” while answering questions at an impromptu press conference, a degree of access that President Biden never gave to White House reporters. By Matt Viser

Overhead bin storage in airplanes should be subject to federal regulation and possibly even criminal punishment under the U.S. Code.