Whoa whoa whoa. You mean all the posts I saw laughing at Michael Tracey for trying to fight Jim Acosta were actually because Tracey had just done a false imprisonment on @jkbjournalist.bsky.social? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Stop treating this dude like a cartoon. He’s a garden-variety abuser of women.

This is from October 2024. Obviously he's made a lot more violent remarks since, like suggesting the members of Congress are treasonous & should therefore be hanged. Gift link.

The history of the pandemic may have to reckon with the fact that, on net, the anti-science reaction may end up deadlier than the pandemic itself.

Another Silicon Valley guy who protested the first Trump administration is now aligned with him. The pattern has been extraordinary. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

ICYMI yesterday: I wrote about one of the defining - and most dangerous - stories of our time: America’s tech barons are openly and aggressively siding with authoritarianism. An exploration of what is fueling their radicalization to the right – and why it is happening now:

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

A senator takes the Justice Department at its word. What could go wrong?

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

This was apparent a year ago and apparently not only to me

They should absolutely hold hearings on gifts to justices. That practice has to end.

Leveraging antisemitism to limit immigration to those who aren’t critical of the right, and to feed red meat to the slavering pro-Nettanyahu voters - most of whom are Christian Nationalists - feeds antisemitism. It implies these policies cater to Jews, who in fact are mostly against them.

john fetterman is in the same groupchats

This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.

Almost like this was another staged event....

Criminals doing criminal things, and not even being subtle about their criminal behavior. In a functioning government, not run by criminals, there would be an investigation and efforts to stop these open collusion.

This is as detailed and as brutal an analysis of Ben Shapiro as you'll ever read. Incredible effort by Mike Brock. The detail here makes it all the more insane than some 'mainstream' podcasters are fawning over Shapiro...

On A.G. Sulzberger's reign as New York Times boss; my response to the frequent argument that the NYT "has always been this bad" (IMHO, a doomerish stance that makes it easy to overlook when things are actually, avoidably getting worse):

How realistic is it that Dems technically win big in 2026/28, Repubs say "tough sh*t" and via a mix of armed forces and abuse of ceremonial positions simply refuse to acknowledge/seat Dem winners (including Dem pres-elect; see 2020, where dawdling Pence was convinced by Quayle; Vance would never). >

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Those congress members who understand the plight of these valuable Afghan military members could ask the Scandanavian nations to provide refuge to only these families. These people deserve better life than in the U.S. , the Congo, or back to the Taliban.

I'm Jewish. I condemn genocide. I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide. The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

"The men and women told AFP on Wednesday that they arrived in Kinshasa after a 27-hour flight which they spent with their hands and feet shackled." The human rights abuses of the Trump era must be prosecuted when Dems are in power.

Yeah. And this isn’t like a “don’t bother to vote” kind of cynicism, I agree with you that the base is ready to burn this shit down, I am, it’s just that Chuck and Hakeem and co. will have to be dragged kicking and screaming. Or ideally removed. The party establishment does not want what we want.

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Donald Trump wants to be able to say who gets to vote and who doesn't. The details of that are all just excuses to disenfranchise voters he doesn't want to vote. It's that simple.

Everywhere you look, Trump, his family members, his donors, his political supporters & his cronies are looting the US treasury, getting paid by foreign entities for policy favors, & getting no bid contracts. Criminal cases are dropped and convictions pardoned. The US govt is an ongoing crime scene.

Wow. Sulzberger is lowkey radicalized—on a deep, personal level—by rightwing anti-trans garbage, to such a degree that when he's confronted, he exhibits something like oppositional defiant disorder. This is significantly worse than I ever imagined, which is really saying something.

Wow. Sulzberger really is lowkey radicalized—on a deep, personal level—by rightwing anti-trans garbage, to such a degree that oppositional defiant disorder instantly kicks in when he's confronted. That's worse than I imagined, which is saying something.

New Interview with @thiswillhold.bsky.social Today substack.com/@zorhasresis...

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I’ve come to believe that, in the absence of shame, there are no longer any scandals. There are only tragedies, soul-crushing tragedies everywhere we look.

Way too important to paywall. Please share with reporters you know in the national media. Children's book authors now have to sign into hotels under assumed names. Two book imprints have gone under, partially from the hit they took from censorship. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignoran...

Phil gets it 👇🏽

"...it was almost inevitable that a weaponized DOJ would try something like this. Discrediting the SPLC is a way of retroactively rehabilitating everyone the SPLC ever exposed."

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

This is performative, deliberate punishment of innocents, staged overseas as a—seemingly successful—attempt to keep domestic Republican congressmen loyal and Schumerite Dems cowed.

I gotta tell you, it is soulless to have to track what John Solomon says. But I gravely worry that key players are not tracking what John Solomon says, which is like not getting the free wiretap on the mob lawyer's phone.

A female M&M in a commercial is drawn in tennis shoes rather than—as before—high heels; she is shown comically humiliating a male M&M; and that's why boys will tell you—with a straight face—that they voted for someone who would impose the death penalty for abortion. Also that they're lonely.

Soldiers living in sickness and squalor is the kind of tragedy that's darkly funny to far-right trolls when it happens to somebody else. I bet they're laughing into their sleeves at both Hegseth's stupidity and the idea of our own female and POC soldiers dying, because nothing is real, amirite?

I actually doubted this one was real, it seemed too much like what I would make up to illustrate how stupid they are. But, like, there we go (x.com/SecWar/statu...).

She Won: Michigan Used a Fake County Vote Bank In the 2024 Election Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor on an "election integrity" platform— perhaps if enough readers call her office, she'll finally respond? open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively there's a moral here, of a sort

We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.

An AIPAC pitch pairs a claim to stand for American tradition with a threat that anyone disagreeing is a terrorist. The only thing more unpleasant than this garbage is my mental image of an intimidated Schumer nodding and agreeing.

I should have known this tweet would elicit the most annoying social-media response possible: "actually no everything has always been monotonically bad so you're not allowed to say anything has ever gotten worse." It's so annoying. And flatly wrong. But most of all, annoying. Quit being annoying.

at some point the Onion is gonna buy an actual real newspaper and run it really well and everything will change (I MEAN IT COULD HAPPEN RIGHT)

when your secretary of defense wants to blame the Jews but knows that might be awkward