In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

my favourite type of guy i accidentally discovered on youtube is “guy who owns a rolls royce jet engine and just fires that shit up on his property sometimes”

A page in Maxim magazine from the early 00's. Featuring Tucker Carlson and Alan Dershowitz!

2025 has been so shitty but at least it gave us two iconic images of unmitigated joy. Taking down pedophiles. Taking down Nazis. *chef’s kiss*

Seeing a lot of takes that violence is not the answer. Nope. It is in fact good to pop a fascist sex pest in the mouth, especially if he’s cosplaying as a boxer. Any ethical framework can bear that load. Enjoy it, it’s beautiful.

The older I get, the more I am absolutely convinced that Rorschach is the morally correct character in watchmen. “Never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon.”

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"

Our arrows will blot out the sun

I'm still thinking about the absolutely wild intro to this LeBron fancam I found last night

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!

Lmaooo when your movies bomb and you see the support Sabrina Carpenter got for telling the WH to fuck off

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

“We had to kill the survivors in the water with a missile because they might flip the shards of the boat, continue to the US, and sell drugs” is not really any different than “We had to kill the entire village because the children might grow up and join the Vietcong,” except much less plausible

I’m kind of new to the Democrats, but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process, and also that we were AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time. But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?

he really is quite useless.

yeah, the last time we did this with china they got ICBMs out of the deal. bsky.app/profile/pare...

for instance, GPT-3 took 700,000 liters of water to train. That sounds like a lot! It is roughly the amount of water used to raise the amount of beef that *two* Americans eat in a year.

... Dershowitz? Bari wants to elevate Dershowitz? Why do people keep trying to make this a thing?

everyone’s incentives are broadly aligned to pick people up and bounce them off the wall if they cross the line.

never thought I could see federal law enforcement so depraved that it would negatively polarize local cops to the left, but nothing is impossible for ole Donny Trump

if you plot Ryan Lizza, RFK Jr, and Keith Olbermann on a graph the point in the middle is Hunter Biden

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

This is data that reflects accommodations working. If people’s performance went anywhere but up the conclusion would be that accommodations don’t work.

this one is a mistake

When Megyn Kelly says it’s not a big deal if she’s 17, she’s not talking about her own daughter but about the underclass

Anyone who's familiar with kindergartners will find this claim hilarious btw

It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile

I tried to use Gemini to search the Epstein docs which are contained in the House Oversight folder. Not exactly subtle, Google.

he misspelled his own name on a whiteboard

*at christmas* “look, honey, of course we all wanted more things under the tree, but the people in charge made the completely reasonable decision to protect the international brotherhood of sex pests”

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

lmao

Sometimes America is so beautiful it just makes you want to cry. From beauty.

i think that once the budget you control legislatively exceeds $1B or so you should be given a large salary for life regardless of how long you continue to control that money the damage you can do dwarfs the cost anti corruption enforcement should be unspeakably, terrifyingly harsh

Please I'm begging you allow me to be the Pritzker 2028 transition commissar for foreign and security affairs. I'm a good chekist

There are no words for how evil this is

the most important elected democrat very likely defected from his own party to vote for a guy trump endorsed

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH

Just thinking back to how I was feeling a year ago. This is better.

name me a "matt yglesias of the right". you can't. they haven't got them. they don't tolerate this manner of person at all

Vivek Ramaswamy, of all people, tells Republicans to “cut out the identity politics” and “focus on affordability” in a video that is not gonna make Trumpworld happy