Curator at the New York Met. I'll be fired in less than one Scarmucci.

Ruin two bands my combining them Journeo StyxWagon. (Okay, that's four, but I couldn't resist.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

How I’m walking out of 2025

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? “Make It Sous.”

Related: There are kids who think "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is supposed to sound the way Springsteen sings it. Also, they think of it as their grandparents' music.

The right spent decades screaming "Everything the mainstream media says is a lie, don't trust them!" then even gullible well-intentioned journalists ask "How can we rebuild trust?" and they think solid reporting will do the trick. That completely misunderstands what brought us to this point.

“We couldn’t report on the sinking of the Titanic until we spoke to Captain Smith.”

Heritage Foundation to be renamed Hermitage Foundation. #Satire

Senators like Kaine should resign mid-term, but insofar as they won’t, they ought to serve as archetypes for candidates who need to lose their primary elections. This kind of irresolute wimpiness ~entirely explains Democrats’ historically consequential failures in the Trump era.

No surprise. They’re redacting the constitution.

There’s nothing stopping the people in Washington DC from naming their own things after the president The Donald J. Trump Dumpster The Donald J. Trump Port-a-Potty The Donald J. Trump Municipal Waste Disposal Facility

McGovern: "The chairman of the foreign relations committee said some strange things today about how you interpret photos -- somehow if your arm is around somebody that means you're dear friends. I'm just looking at this photo of Trump w/his arm around Epstein. By your standards they must be in love"

Josh Marshall: "I don't think the tech boys have much sense that politics shifts both ways, that what happened in the winter of 2024/25 wasn't permanent. Indeed, it didn’t last through 2025." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...

I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.

part of that is listening in a deep way — in a way that you won’t capture with issue polling. you have to ask yourself what is the underlying concern? is it that voters have a firm view of, say, the deficit? or does the deficit represent a set of larger worries. if the latter, you speak to *that*.

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

Name your fav Tom Hanks film

You will be visited by three spirits

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

“When the Court has exercised sole power to interpret the Constitution, with rare exceptions it has used that power to obliterate Americans’ constitutional rights, uphold white supremacy, and protect abusive corporations from unions and the regulatory state.” prospect.org/2022/07/11/t...

prospects do not appear favorable, it’s true. but I like to think about how much of actually existing America was built in a frenzy of work between 1933-45

The conservatives’ bleating about the big bad bureaucracy gets harder to stomach when juxtaposed w the monarchical presidency they’ve created, making him immune from prosecution for his crimes and now likely putting the entire executive branch under his thrall.  talkingpointsmemo.com/news/roberts...

the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now

It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.

bring back the tenure of office act imo

Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...

I've decided to take up a new hobby. I'm learning the Theremin. First song I'm learning: "Can't touch this."

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.

also birth certificates are issued by counties and there are what like 3000 counties in the US? we have no national standard for what they say. how are you gonna find out parents' status? setting aside the more important issues, this is a logistical nightmare. admin burden forever

that's right

There's an air over the House Republican caucus that is both petty and baroque, some amalgam of late Soviet nomenklatura and Real Housewives franchise, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...

the ultimate example of the problem here was when lefties yelled at Biden that SCOTUS was going to ruin his administration, and he appointed a blue ribbon panel who said "do nothing," and Biden went "well hands tied," and then SCOTUS repealed half his achievements and crowned Trump a king

We will have to come up with a new constitutional framework to deal with the reality of the fact that the United States government was taken over by a criminal enterprise.

All the social media gurus tell me that if you want things to go viral, you need to go negative. But here's some optimism -- I think we're far closer to a moment of major democracy reform than many think. Here's why: leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-next-e... let's prove the negativity mongers wrong!

I named my fists Laurel and Hardy because, once they get started, things never end well.

It’s so funny that the main impact so far of Trump throwing a fit about “treacherous” senators has been to drive coverage of his war crimes and to hugely elevate the profile of the popular astronaut senator from a key swing state who visibly loathes him

A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

A group of influential liberal senators is directly challenging Senator Chuck Schumer’s approach to the midterm elections and President Trump, in another sign of growing frustration among Democrats toward the minority leader.

Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."

I feel like 30 percent support for going to war with Venezuela—a terrible idea that nobody has bothered to justify through reason or propaganda—is a pretty good proxy for Trump’s floor of support.

Voilà les écureuils! #drawing #zeichnung #plenair #disegno #dessin #dibujo #그림 #図 #рисунок #画 #رسم #चित्रकारी #urbansketchers #usklosangeles #coloredpencil #longbeach #longbeachartist #eldoradopark #squirrel

Post a movie where you are from

An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg

Tyler Cowen saying again that there is no threat to democracy marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... because Trump is facing opposition and is sensitive to public opinion, but this is how competitive authoritarianism works. Please consult @dziblatt.bsky.social or @stevelevitsky.bsky.social!