If it's a horrible hot take about higher education in the NYT, you can pretty much assume it's Anemona Hartocollis. Great thread by Don on the person who gives us awful take after awful take.

the WH press treated every attack on nuzzi’s work product like they were article 5 signatories in some journalist NATO, but there’s going to be crickets here

sure will be conspicuous when the legendary journo wagon-circling doesn’t happen here

not only was Trump's right hand discolored on Christmas Eve, but it appears his left hand is now discolored too (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)

Joe Biden’s fatal flaw was relying on the reluctant institutionalist Merrick Garland to prosecute the case of insurrectionist Donald J Trump. Had Garland done his job, Trump would have been banned from office and America and the world would not be in this predicament.

TL;dr (10k words) Tom Goldstein became enthralled with life as a degenerate gambler & sugar daddy. He has no defense to the mortgage fraud charges, but refuses to accept a plea deal that includes prison time. I just saved you 20 minutes that I’ll never get back. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...

yeah like everything else MAGA does, this is a license for child abuse masquerading as real talk

They had contempt for Biden because they believed he had values; they have respect for Trump because they know he doesn't. Mentality of whipped dogs.

Get Rekt

no better way to effectively defund the police than to give them a bunch of free cybertrucks

yeah that’s a real shame is what that is

The Life & Times of a Guard Dog

@dicknixon.bsky.social had it right: Dash is a clown, and the fish rots from the head.

the schadenfreude that we deserve is the knowledge that he hates himself as much as his family hates him

everyone who earns a paycheck from Sulzberger and co is in service of shit like this, and no amount of op/eds from Bouie is worth propping them up

for a lot of these guys, whining, bitching and moaning is their core and only competency

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

that’s right Steve

Ben is best known for a) being formerly in charge of things that he has into the ground, b) plagiarizing the stuff he’s best known for, c) various payola scandals, and d) being the most embarrassing alum from W&M, a school that also graduated Matt Gaetz

her husband will be nearly 80 by the time her kid graduates high school

We have come full circle from "of course we only use AI for prototypes" over "AI is amazing but obviously it needs experts checking on the output and extensive refacoring" to "let's just ship the slop".

The NYT likes Republicans and wants them to win

the pardons being openly quid pro quo will be the easiest way for a future presidency to ignore the pardons and prosecute people anyways

b'ger - best burgers this side of the machine planet

a thousand times this; there are a lot of shitheads out there who are very upset that it is marginally less socially acceptable now to treat overweight people like shit

uh huh sure bud, I’ll feel free to call it fucking slop

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

his entire family fucking hates him, his dad wanted nothing to do with him, and he knows it and it will eat him alive for the rest of his entire life

Maureen Dowd should have been fired twenty times already, but today would be another great opportunity.

“merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists” is the product of a pathology that will eventually be named after him

​Trump is 'declining noticeably' and could soon have a 'health event': ex-RNC spokesman

the thing about bari is that she is transparently a lazy idiot, but the rest of WH Journalism, Inc. will defend her like they are article 5 signatories because they are also lazy idiots, and they too would like to fail upwards

people ain't cargo, mate

the best approach to dealing with your shithead abusive family members who nonetheless demand contact is the same as the best approach to dealing with Trump: Fuck You, Make Me

This is a lot of big talk from a guy who can't even get his own wife to come home with him www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Whether it's financial and political elites shielding Jeffrey Epstein from prosecution in Florida or journalistic elites shielding Bari Weiss from prosecution in the Atlantic, American elites are always happy to betray their country to help their friends.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Probably not fair to group masturbators to call the Atlantic a circle jerk.

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

its either that or Justice Brut Kavanaugh, take your pick brett

@dicknixon.bsky.social Good Lord, sir.

one of the best arguments against a tax policy that allows for a robust billionaire class is that it ensures a concentration of both power and wealth in the most deeply incurious people on the planet

say hello to - definitely real and not an AI based on Donald Trump - Fed chairman Donatella Frump

look palantir is vaporware and everyone in tech knows this but they’re just illiterate when it comes to tolkien I can’t emphasize enough how stupid they are in this regard

indeed, unfair to people who earned that wealth the old fashioned way: by being polite to grandfather

First, this is clearly deranged and would be front and center in an impeachment hearing at a better time for the country. Second, If Biden said something like this, the NYT would be on it for six months. Trump says it, and they'll say nothing.

I love that Smith is clearly trying to make Semafor a less humiliating version of Punchbowl and he not only fails to do that, but I’d argue it’s more embarrassing than anything Sherman does.

her career's in the shitter and her brother's doing 25 for child sexual assault, so yeah, of course she likes trump