I fell for it. The story about Klan materials in the Mississippi police office says it was material from old investigations. I deleted my reskeet.

“The forced choreography of everyday life continues, even as the stage is dismantled beneath our feet.”

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Fantastic news! Don't sleep on Randy Weston.

At least ICE-man’s half-assed Soldier Man costume will help him blend into the jungle terrain of an airport.

It truly seems to be an ideological (anti-#MeToo) thing.

"Trump is trying to control the media as he marches the US from democracy to something more like autocracy, with billionaires helping him at every turn." @sulliview.bsky.social So it doesn't help when the NY Times sanewashes Trump. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-brutal...

"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. I wrote about it here for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...

It’s like the politics of a high school lunchroom but it determines the state of the world economy.

It’s amazing how many people are going to suffer because some people got bored of a broadly functional, affluent society, and decided making crises was more exciting.

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

This is so great

Please be true

A transaction of this magnitude demands open deliberation before the full Commission, not a quiet sign-off to avoid public scrutiny. Given the increasingly alarming pace of reckless media consolidation, the American public deserves to know how and why this decision was made.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Andris Nelsons basked in applause, flowers, and his orchestra’s stamping feet Thursday night in his first Boston concert since the BSO board announced his dismissal.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

If you know where to look, every now and then you can spot a slightly older Boston lurking.

The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum gave Minnesotans the Profile in Courage Award, which has recognized presidents, first responders and heads of state.

Done by one man who is unable to explain why he did it, doesn’t appear to understand what’s happening, and hundreds of enablers who spend each day all day pretending not to notice.

"Any sustained effort to rescue the democratic project will require material resources, but it will also require the sort of group cohesion moral reinforcement that can only be realized through performative acts. It’s time to start taking virtue+ public displays of virtue seriously again."

CNN currently already does that this will be worse

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

Dylan is a great vocalist and his debut album is just a marvel on that account.

Imagine if a record of takes proven by history to be false actually affected a guy’s ability to keep publishing takes on related topics for continued decades in NYT and WSJ.

The new national pastime is disassociation.

Just power through, everybody. It's very important that you keep creating shareholder value or whatever the fuck. Nothing to see here.

I read the news today, oh boy.

Perfect

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

Gotta be honest, I’m tired of everything being ruined so somebody can make 10 more cents off of it.

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I HAD a U.S. Constitution joke but I changed it 27 times, and now that I really need to tweak it to make it work, I can’t.

For my newsletter, I wrote about all the ways @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign challenged the conventional thinking about modern campaigning: www.burnsnotice.com/kat-abughaza...

The sentence "Morning Joe *scaling back* to 3 hours" is a sign we are actually in hell.

Remember the fake outrage when members of the U.S. women's hockey team showed their spontaneous, genuine emotions — in the form of tears — immediately after losing the gold medal game in 2022?

Just so so so bizarre that a convention has emerged among the highest-profile, most influential political reporters and editors in the U.S., in which it's considered savvy to pretend you have no idea what is happening in front of your eyes. Credulity as a virtue.

Kat ran a truly impressive campaign, which included putting her body on the line to defend her neighbors. Unless I'm misunderstanding, it's tragic that she compromised herself so profoundly on the campaign's final day, appearing to be so-easily manipulated by a discredited leftist influencer.

Trump pardoned fraudsters & cancelled court-ordered restitution in exchange for donations. The WH has a pattern of unconstitutionally impounding funds to punish & pressure states to comply with his extralegal demands. In MN this is paired w/a racist lie campaign. Why pretend you don't get that?

Now that the WH has offered to "adhere to current law" on key points as part of a negotiated funding deal, it can be stated plainly and as a matter of fact that the WH is currently directing ICE to break the law. Will you use that languge? @semafor.com @politico.com

Just a slob like one of us

"Will adhere to current law" is not a concession (!!!)

Wishing everyone a very happy St. Patricks Day and a reminder that corned beef and cabbage is specifically an Irish American dish that originated when Irish immigrants arrived in New York, tried to recreate traditional dishes with local ingredients, and found corned beef in kosher Jewish delis.

NEW: In comments associated with a recent news story, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters seemed to endorse a right wing conspiracy theory that holds medical journals colluded to suppress evidence supporting conservative viewpoints on youth gender medicine. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Did the Dropkick Murphys see their shadows yet?

From nursing homes to newspapers, the obsession with squeezing every last time out of businesses that claim to serve the public good is destroying America.

A paraphrase, but a completely fair summary of what Jeremy Peters revealed as the underpinning of his New York Times coverage of trans issues, which reliably flummoxes experts but thrills those who attack trans people for political benefit.

Unreal, but extremely illuminating that Jeremy Peters revealed the conspiracy theory behind his misleading and agenda-based reporting on trans health care.