Here Christopher Caldwell, a conservative pundit with no apparent military experience, opines that Hegseth was right to end DEI programs in the military because they harmed military readiness. He has no expertise or evidence to support that . 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

When are Democrats ever going to learn that when norms break down--as they have, comprehensively--tit-for-tat is often the dominant strategy. (And don't start whining about taking the high road, etc. Politics, as a wise man once said, ain't beanbag.).

My friend @sivav.bsky.social with a sharp essay in the New Republic explaining why universities that sign Trump's noxious "compact" are not only cowards but utter fools. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

I adopt this, with the proviso that because I was born in Queens and raised in a particularly uncouth part of Long Island, I may first insult your mother or your weiner or both, let that marinate for a while, and then block you.

Ads promising AI friends not going down well at W. 4th St. subway stop. These were defaced already and replaced. The first set of defacements was much funnier.

Is there anything really other than a strong economy that ties America together at this point? I mean, I don’t have any real affection for America or Americans as such. Do you?

It's going to be a long time and require a ton of effort for Penn to redeem itself from its loathsome behavior in firing Liz Magill and in stabbing every trans person in the back like complete cowards.

In Wyoming, Trump has a net +32 approval rating. Right next door, in Colorado, Trump is -25. Colorado seems approximately sane. Someone please explain Wyoming to me.

When this is over--and it will end--there has to be a sustained and severe campaign of retribution, from Trump down to the masked ICE fascists who carried this out. No fucking kumbaya. Consequences.

The Taylor Swift bubble is deflating fast. Maybe things are starting to make sense again just a little. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhe39K5/

After this is over, every masked ICE fascist should be fired. And then all those who have been involved in committing crimes should be prosecuted and as severely punished as the law allows.

Democratic voters overwhelmingly and intensely dislike and disrespect Chuck Schumer. The man is objectively bad at his job. He's bad at strategy. He's bad at communication. He's bad at getting his caucus organized. And ... 1/

There is no constitutional principle that would differentiate this from the FTC case other than “don’t fuck with the money people”

Just the Supreme Court inventing a rule allowing Trump to fire everyone immediately except Fed Governor Lisa Cook, because [REASONS TO COME (MAYBE)]. The Court's right-wing ideologues are just making it up as they go along. Without accountability or restraint.

The Fed Exception, coming to theaters June 2026.

Half of me hopes the goddamn thing shuts down and never reopens.

Dick Durbin could not exit Congress without one last act of quislingism.

Every elected Democrat should be talking every day about what retribution will look like. People want payback. And they aren’t wrong to want it. Tell them how you’re going to give it to them. Be explicit. It will get them to the polls better than a zillion egghead policy promises.

"Democrats fight every day to make sure those beaten in the street by fascist thugs receive affordable health care, unless the regime decides they shouldn't."

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Someone please check in with Jeffries about whether he thinks being shot in the street by a platoon of Marines is a kitchen-table issue.

This is right for some people, including me. And it's worse when people who don't feel this way tell you that that their ability to smile through it is normal and your inescapable feeling of dread is not.

This will likely drive Mamdani's polling up a couple of points. Trump could not be more despised here.

I just can't get over the that this guy is like "I'm spartacus, so Imma put on a bunch of make up and a skinny tie and a suit and give my TED talk to generals i'm forcing to be here."

It's not "misleading." It's a lie. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The democratic socialist left doesn’t love property but they love intellectual property. IOW they’re bougie when it comes to property rights in the stuff their friends produce.

Analogical reasoning is dangerous, kids.

This is why I have long preferred never to leave Brooklyn.

I am so sick of all these fucking cowards.

At some point, America’s political elites will catch up with popular opinion and they will be cut off. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

Pam Samuelson, Matt Sag, Rebecca Tushnet, Ed Lee, and I filed an amicus in Thomson v. Ross. We urged the court of appeals to reverse the district court's grant of summary judgment to Thomson, and to hold that use of headnotes in AI training is fair use. drive.google.com/file/d/1zUot...

Read this. On any other timeline, it would be absolutely bonkers and clearly grounds for the entire senior leadership team at Cornell to resign. But we do live on the stupidest timeline, in which 'antisemitism' means a Jewish professor be suspended for his political views..on Israel (and Gaza)

Persisted through a long Ezra Klein interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Two things. First, neither of them have any interest in law, but it’s difficult to grapple with our current politics without understanding how and why our version of democratic constitutionalism has eroded. 1/

that's so weird, john roberts assured me the immunity decision meant this would not happen??

The opposite of toxic masculinity also isn't good.

Watching some of the Ryder Cup footage with these pudgy Long Island yob morning-drinkers in ridiculous undersized khaki boy shorts and polo shirts yelling obscenities at the European golfers. So edifying to be an American at this moment.

Just the Democrats' House minority leader praising a criminal who got away with it because a more highly-placed criminal found him useful.

It's surreal reading so many detailed, thoughtful, glued-to-the-rules district court opinions blocking the regime's lawless actions and then reading the Supreme Court's baseless and unexplained rebukes of them. This feels like a deliberate effort to drive every lawyer in the country insane.

We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

59% of white Catholics voted for Trump in 2024. Amazing that the U.S. branch of the Church has so little moral sway among a big part of its flock. Voting for Trump is flatly inconsistent with Catholic moral teaching. Unless you think that Catholic moral teaching boils down to opposition to abortion.

As a person with a normal skepticism of weasel politicians, I have my doubts that Eric Adams dropped out of the mayoral race without the promise of a job, either in the Trump administration or the private sector. We'll know soon enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

What explains the behavior of the American Ryder Cup fans? That they are American? That they like golf? Or both?

Yes, Dems should go to war agst Supreme Court. But more broadly, they should seek to end unqualified judicial supremacy. Congress should re-discover its own authority to interpret the Constitution, and make those interpretations count by legislating them and stripping courts' jurisdiction to review.

They really act like the president is a king. But only if that president is a Republican.

Every elected Democrat should be talking every day about what retribution will look like. People want payback. And they aren’t wrong to want it. Tell them how you’re going to give it to them. Be explicit. It will get them to the polls better than a zillion egghead policy promises.