You have to check out this amazing account which documents New York Times memory-holing in real time.

If I were a cop, I would hate these people so much for degrading respect for law enforcement. All the way down to the "uniforms."

Here is where we stand in 2026: We are defending a Mississippi law from attacks by the RNC in the U.S. Supreme Court and there is a chance that a conservative majority might rule in a way that millions of Americans would have their otherwise lawful votes through in the trash.

"Key Largo" is a good Trump-era picture. They knew how to do artifascism in 1948.

Dig this. youtu.be/ugjwNgnH0Kg?...

Add another apocalypse to your bingo card. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

There's an overwhelmingly melancholy moment in a documentary on the Ohio Players where one of the guys, with tears in his eyes, laments how they could have managed to let their accountant swindle them into the poorhouse when their music was so exquisitely on point. youtube.com/shorts/39-X9...

Raise your hand if you want some ICE bro feeling up your nutsack. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

He forgets things! Why do you give him every conceivable break? SHEESH!!

He claims access to the inside of his head, after paragraphs demonstrating he has no conception, in the face of the most obvious evidence, of the disordered way Donald Trump thinks.

His "messaging is inconsistent." So was my grandmother's, I guess, when she sometimes forgot forgot it wasn't 1932. Sheesh.

And George W. Bush delicately spoke of "strategery." Sheesh.

The words of In These Times founder, James Weinstein, still ring true 50 years later: “No political movement can be healthy unless it has its own press to inform it, educate it and orient it.”

The future of the planet appears to rely upon Netanyahu stopping being more batshit insane than even Donald Trump can handle. Tell me again why I, as an American Jew with no love ones there, should chose to have anything to do with Israel?

I just heard that the faculty of the University of Kansas is holding a vote of no confidence against the chancellor for spending all the money on sports while freezing their salaries. I plugged "University of Kansas" into Google News. Just...pages and pages of sports news. How civilizations die.

I'm reading "War and Peace" and am at the part about a Masonic initiation and wondering if those fashy "trad" freaks are reviving secret fraternal orders and shit. Bet on it.

This guy is one of my writer- heroes. Like all the great ones, EXTREMELY serious about rhythm, and time itself. www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

PBS, NPR, etc. don't get that don't respect conservatives' values by granting them on-air inclusion, because their values are pitiless war of all against all, good on one side and evil on the other—and that PBS and NPR will ALWAYS be on the evil side, precisely BECAUSE they're pluralist. Suckers!

PBS, NPR, etc. don't get that don't respect conservatives' values by granting them on-air inclusion, because their values are pitiless war of all against all, good on one side and evil on the other—and that PBS and NPR will ALWAYS be on the evil side, precisely BECAUSE they're pluralist. Suckers!

This is a really interesting development. When the director of this doc interviewed me for it, he dreamed of it as a PBS production--then met nothing but rejection from them: too ideological. On Tuesday, it debuts on PBS nationwide. The times they are a-changin'. www.pbs.org/show/white-w...

The historical antecedent for this was all the Asia experts who lost their jobs to McCarthyism for telling the truth about Chiang Kai Shek's nationalists being unpopular, incompetent, and cruel, so were not around to advise as America slid into Vietnam. newrepublic.com/post/207857/...

Long memory, Newt! This idea was mooted in the 1950s, before every responsible expert pointed out that the proposed "Pan-Atomic Canal," among other similar ideas, would so irradiate the water and loose fallout that nothing could live. Google it...

As we sit at the edge of our seats to see whether $10 gas and the prospect of getting drafted will break the MAGA spell, this piece of mine from 2024 might make for a useful read. prospect.org/2024/10/09/2...

Rare Herbie Hancock trio set. youtu.be/fG-wN0G1c9k?...

There are many American ethoses.

Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.

You have to see this. "Er, er, er, er, er--everthing's fine!! FINE, I SAY!!!!" www.youtube.com/shorts/d1RUg...

I absolutely trust my alder, Andre Vasquez (@andrefor40th.bsky.social) not to bullshit or pose: if it's his judgements that the Chicago state's attorney has abdicated her duties, take it to the proverbial bank. Read the petition! blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/12/s...

I'm entering this guy in the Whitney Biennial. www.youtube.com/shorts/R0NZf...

"I'm pissed at the fact that everybody thinks we're doing fine, and that everything in East Palestine is good. It's not. We are still fighting the same battle we were fighting three years ago." @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on anger in Ohio. inthesetimes.com/article/east...

Streisand Effect. Nice job, guys.

Fantastic Iran content up here now. inthesetimes.com

It was the moon landing, in reverse. 1979: An American Icharus. youtu.be/qLoNQNK376E?...

Too many acopyses to keep track of. Back in 1979, Skylab falling to earth ("Win a chunk of Skylab!" ran a radio station promotion I indelibly recall) seemed like the biggest news of my youth.

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I got mad.

Did a very rewarding interview with a University of Wisconsin undergrad who asked really smart, historically informed questions about the political consequences of changing economic expectations of young people. open.substack.com/pub/fourthfl...

Random crowdsourcing request: anyone know of any experts to consult about whether the rate of food-borne illness has gone up with Trump-era deregulation?

Pleikus are like streetcars. Look it up.

This little doc is remarkable. youtu.be/6uaB5Tt6ilc?...

Going through my book manuscript before writing the conclusion, realizing I have to pare the conspicuous use of the word "conspicuous." It's clearly one of my favorites: perfect for signaling to the reader to be sophisticated about the layers built into political speech. Conspicuous silences, etc.

It's a pet peeve, hearing from someone criticizing an argument of mine that, Oh, but I love your books. I'm incredible grateful for my readers. But I think no less of your arguments, or more of them, depending on your opinion of something else. Argue with the argument: a sacred principle of mine.

The cult of exaggerated anti-anti-semitism may end up with human extinction to answer for. Without the free hand the bipartisan blob granted Israel, because good-faith rageful critique of the IDF's sadistic recklessness could always be shouted down as "antisemitism," this crisis is inconceivable.

Maybe we did it. Maybe Israel did. But let this sink in: anything the IDF does, Iran will impute shared responsibity. They will retaliate against us, for the actions of an army proven to have no compunction about committing atrocity after atrocity. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Useful reminder that the main reason Osama bin Laden did 9/11 was rage at the "infideks" staging an attack on Muslims in 1991 using the land of Mecca and Medina. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I have no way of independently evaluating this, and there's no detailed coverage anywhere else I can find, but if this description is correct, America or Israel seems to have carried out an intentional massacre of civilians. www.dropsitenews.com/p/tehran-ira...

Are any of those "betting markets" taking odds on which country will be the first to kick out American military bases, so as not to get bombed?

Just so folks know, debunked Team Pahlavi disinfo that Iran bombed its own elementary school is accepted as article of faith currently on the right. newlinesmag.com/running-note...