i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

he is trying to ensure that there aren't Black soldiers because he thinks they won't massacre protests

in which i nerd out about gundam and john maybe loses his mind about having had to watch gundam

cabbage is the unsung MVP of the brassicas

it's all about that "Right Here (Human Nature Remix)"

most underrated addition to a turkey sandwich is, imho, a few slices of crisp, sweet apple

Man Brooklyn College is a gem. Imagine if NYC invested in CUNY fr fr?

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

There is, fundamentally, no real difference between Beale’s rant about foreigners buying up America and a desire to return to a halcyon past and that you might hear on a podcast with breaks for SquareSpace; that is the prophetic part of the movie.

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

So many people signed onto this out of a misguided belief people were being brainwashed into caring about Palestinians.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

It also ignores that leaving was a form of influence! Millions sent a clear message about the minimum standards of fairness and respect we believe are foundational for civic conversation. Their obsession with our departure makes clear it was effectively communicated; they just don't like it

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

some photos from this camera, which i have since returned

oh looks like jill lepore wrote the book i thought i might write www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

Dudes rock

i’ll say that i think these are a good buy if you are upgrading from first gen airpod pros or from regular airpods. if you have gen 2 airpod pros, a firmware update and some third-party foam tips get you 95% of the way to the new ones. www.theverge.com/headphone-re...

the tom joyner morning show

Anyone who thinks constitutional violations ought be an "eye for an eye" endeavor is (a) shockingly craven and (b) neither a believer in our Constitution nor fit for public office.

watching this trump news conference and it is just a nonstop stream of absolute nonsense and actual lies although, it is not clear whatsoever whether or not trump can distinguish between the truth and his own fantasies

“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.

is this bad?

as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"The typical American private school serves just 30 students, has modest tuition and might meet in a church basement, according to the data." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

So we took our tariffs on South Korea from 0.8% to 25%, and are now demanding that they give us $350b in “investments,” from which we will take 90% of the profits, in exchange for dropping that rate down to a mere 15%. That shit would make John Gotti blush.

Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social point about Trump's efforts to erase the history of slavery: It comes at a time when the American people's historical awareness has actually been on the rise, and it's *this* that must be rolled back at all costs: www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

ben smith, boy, i dunno

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

your moment of zen

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

Olivia Nuzzi committed such a brazen and egregious violation of journalistic ethics that she should have been driven out of the profession entirely.

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

they hate your freedom to challenge them and want to end it www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it