Your piece about Jonathan Smith in the O was interesting. It’s not crazy to think so about him leaving.The disintegration of the PAC-12 and NIL have devastated OSU football. @billoram.bsky.social

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

Opinion | I know Trump and Hegseth's murders of Venezuelan fishermen are illegal. But if I don't allow them to do it, I'll be primaried by someone who also allows them to do it—but who lacks my chummy relationship with the DC press corps.

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, biscuits and gravy at Bob Evans, and then down to the old marina to shoot a bunch of fishermen and claim they were running drugs. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

Because of the Afghan resettlement program, we now have a torrent of deranged people inflicting violence on Washington, DC. by The QAnon Shaman

We wanted to understand the legality of killing Venezuelan boaters without a trial or charges. So we talked to three unvaccinated Kid Rock fans at a Buc-ee’s in Amarillo.

Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way. by Ezra Klein

If a few select American investors make billions of dollars from an episode of mass killing, it cannot legally be considered a genocide. by Jared Kushner

Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.

My three-year-old was reading the Washington Post when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why did the funny drinking man murder the Venezuelans on the boat?” And when I told her “Because we need more lethality, less legality,” she started crying.

The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.

Russia is invading Ukraine. It is important that Ukraine pay the price. Preferably to us directly. by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff

The Athletic | Lane Kiffin has been named the next head coach of LSU. He should have been named the next president of Harvard.

Trump has exploded the cost of healthcare and groceries, ordered extrajudicial killings, destroyed the CDC, lined his pockets with bribes, and pardoned hundreds of unrepentant criminals. But for American voters, the alternative was unthinkable: a raspy-voiced president who wore Hoka sneakers.

Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley

I lost my job, I can't afford health insurance, and my son is about to get deployed to Venezuela. But at least I know I'll be able to buy Coca-Cola made with real cane sugar now.

Several Republican members of Congress have said that they are retiring to spend more time with other people's children.

Trump is murdering Venezuelans in an obvious violation of US and international law. But when I talk to my liberal neighbors about it, they correct my pronunciation of Venezuela. I’ve never felt more politically homeless.

North by Northwestern The college capitulations are giving me vertigo. Standing up to Trump made Mark Kelly look like Grace Kelly, so why can’t all these PhDs who know too much see that caving in is for the birds? by Maureen Dowd

Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

Indeed. If y'all call an #Uber or a Lyft, make damn sure you know WHO is picking you up and in WHAT vehicle the person is driving when you "call" in the order. Requesting a picture of the driver AND their vehicle with the license plate number is optimum.

Not even a hint to readers here that Trump’s whole anti drug thing is a con job. Just stenography. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-honduras-venezuela.html

This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.

Trump has trampled the Constitution, trashed the economy, and ceded the next century to China. Someone in my replies on Bluesky used the word "Latinx". I have never felt more politically homeless.

Weather it’s Joe Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Donald Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.

Sorry, Olivia Nuzzi haters, but age is just a number. by David Brooks

House Speaker Mike Johnson read a prepared statement from the Book of Revelation: "The Bible says 'blessed are the drug traffickers, for they shall inherit the interstate.’ Or something like that.” Am I really that far off? I don’t think so.

There is no strict constitutional prohibition against murdering survivors of boats that were blown up so it’s hard to see why liberals are mad at Pete Hegseth. by Jonathan Turley

I really wish I had not already seen this argument made twice today.

Opinion | Time to rethink due process?

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

I've been suspended over at the bird place for simply observing that there's a lot of people looking forward to reading trumps obituary. However, they don't suspend any of the accounts that I report for saying much worse things than that. I don't spend much time there so I don't really care.

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

(1/X) Quick thing on the shutdown....yes Dems shouldn't have caved when they did but they won the shutdown politically: they killed in the elections and are soaring in the generic ballot. There's a lesson.The ABC's of dealing with narcissists. Always Be Confronting Do I have your attention now?

I just converted to Catholicism. Here's why I think the pope is too woke.

I always say that it's better to hold off on blaming a particular political side for an act of violence. Here's why I'm blaming today's national guard shooting on the woke left.

A pizza place in deep blue Capitola might seem like a strange place to meet a Trump supporter. But over the '90s sounds of early Fiona Apple, you can hear whispers that Biden's advanced age is the reason a slice of the Maui Wowie costs $6.50.

Think billionaires aren’t feeling the pinch this Thanksgiving? Think again.

Single Digits Billionaires Are Scaling Back This Thanksgiving Gone are the lavish yacht parties with Cristal shooting from fountains.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

Why did Governor Bradford celebrate Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag? Because he became too woke.

Need inspiration for your Thanksgiving cooking? This sheet pan organic dry-brined turkey with an anise orange reduction—served with hazelnuts and morels atop an heirloom fingerling potato confit—will make you feel like a corrections officer cooking for Ghislaine Maxwell!

I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.

(1/X) The thing about the creepy sex/bad poetry in Lizza's stories about Nuzzi is...they sound like a courtroom defense, the daddy issues defense. "I ask you, is the accused a conniving monster who broke every rule of journalism to help a lunatic kill tens of thousands of Americans or..."

The Ethicist | My neighbor and I have had a long-running dispute about our property line. I recently learned he is an Afghan immigrant. Can I seize this moment and try to get him deported?

My kids have whooping cough, there are no toys on the shelves, and my brother-in-law was deported despite being a US citizen. But at least I know there won't be black Santa Clauses this year.