He so clearly wants to be president, and yet this whole podcast push right just screams "guy who wants to be Andrew Johnson of Woke II."

AOC said ”um”

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

ICYMI: I wrote this past week about what it means that American Jews are now more likely to believe the state of Israel is guilty of genocide than they are to identify as Zionists. www.jta.org/2026/02/09/i... Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom, everyone.

Look, I dunno if Pritzker's the leader that Dems need right now. But I do know he's the leader that ~Jewish~ Dems need right now. "AIPAC has become a pro-Trump organization" is just demonstrably true.

The concept of “lying under oath” is up for grabs right now. All the Trump SCOTUS judges did it about Roe. Kennedy did it to get his post. If one of these fuckers isn’t prosecuted it will be crystal clear that there are zero repercussions for doing so, and everyone will lie forever.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

this isn't a binary choice; it is a candidate's responsibility to get votes, and it is the citizen's responsibility to vote for the candidate who will produce the best outcomes (or avoid the worst). you can argue all day about harris' campaign but citizens chose trump, an objectively terrible choice

Kind of think that locally we’re entering into a political moment where the idea that someone in public office credibly claiming they are a more complex or pragmatic thinker than the average citizen has become untenable. The only question will be what did you do.

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

🚨BREAKING🚨 KATHY HOCHUL AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI ANNOUNCE PUSH TO REFORM OUTDATED “ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” LAWS THAT BLOCK HOUSING NIMBYS OFFICIALLY FRAMEMOGGED BY HOUSINGMAXXING GOVERNOR AND MAYOR

Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.

People will go "bro, Freudian Slips aren't reallllll!" And then you'll see Jesse Watters stop himself mid-sentence through "how does he kn-[ow I'm a fascist?]"

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist! Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

The ideals of the United States at the time of founding were written into a handful famous documents, and while the people living here both before and after that founding have often spectacularly failed to live up to those ideals, the broad sense we ought to adhere to them has wrought a lot of good

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see

BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

The breaking news is that Bibi got briefed TWICE on the Hamas plans that directly metastesized into Oct 7, and he twice did... nothing about it. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The answer is no, they are doubling down instead.

Strong argument for our crisis being systemic rather than individualistic is that international conservative parties have played copycat with the GOP and eaten total shit for it

can I just say that, as a heterosexual, I did not feel underserved by the halftime show

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

She sounds like a female David Duke

You don't fight this hard to hide nothing

don't carry maga's water for them. don't try to work out how there's some secret loophole in the constitution that magically ends democracy. there isn't. that's the whole fucking point you fucking dopes

Cities should start enforcing their laws which prohibit impersonation of police officers.

Yep. Many of us who weren't sufficiently Trump-curious had to find other places to work. The libertarian movement had one job, and it failed, and now it wants credit for success.

Didn't Tyson's tattoo artist sue a bunch of people in the past for unauthorized use of his art and win?

i told you guys that Woke 2.0 started yesterday we're already seeing the return of panicked social media backtracking

This is what Katherine Mangu-Waed had to say about Donald Trump in 2024:

the suggestion that the libertarian movement has always been anti trump is infuriating, but also a sign that people may have a sense of which way the wind is blowing

every single "principled libertarian" put on the red hat in 2016 and i don't think we should let them take it off and pretend like they're real intellectuals again now that he's unpopular

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

Point being, the death of woke has been greatly exaggerated

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

“The Epstein class” is a keeper.

something notable here is that he's actually getting pressed on it, which he normally does not, in part because you actually had Republicans express some outrage today that doesn't happen if there isn't the realization, at some level, that he is now a deeply unpopular drag on all of them

Sometimes I sympathize with Trump, because it probably is genuinely very confusing why you can talk about purging the lifeblood of the nation of foreign filth and nobody cares, and then you post some dumb racist video and everyone starts yelling at you.

I'm gonna say the one thing about the new Muppets Show no one else is willing to: The lighting in the special was actually EGREGIOUSLY bad.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

> "Don’t talk to me about my own morality." Bro, you're a politician sitting in a synagogue talking to a collection of reverends and Rabbis, what did you THINK they were gonna talk to you about?

You know, I'm glad to see him trying.

can't say which i find more appalling, remnick handing him a "fair enough" on the left and right being equally antisemitic or saying there was "no immigration policy" under dems. either way, super embarrassing for remnick to get steamrolled this hard by the right's pre-eminent midwit

We've normalized it all. We normalized kiddie rape with the Epstein Files. No one is being punished. We're normalizing the Gestapo and concentration camps. We talk about bodycams for murderers and less money for kid prisons. We re-elected the guy who did J6. 2009 is happening with crypto now.