Keep seeing media industry old heads saying things to the effect of, “she could have gotten this outcome without the bad press.”

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

I wrote about the Trump administration’s ongoing and consistently futile efforts to make the Epstein story go away.

When Republicans get mad they initiate an ethnic cleansing operation; when Democrats get mad they introduce a resolution saying that somebody should sue.

Married to a sex offender.

Here is a gift link to the NYT article about Weiss killing a fact-checked story because it was not sympathetic enough to an presidential administration in the midst of deciding about another corporate merger that CBS's owners are trying to win. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Introduced my wife to the Muppet Christmas Carol and found myself having to explain in a whisper in the theater that yes, Gonzo is sexually attracted to chickens.

Might have forgotten it was my birthday if it weren’t for these helpful emails from my dentist, gynecologist, tax preparer, and oil change place.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

Not totally mad that the headline for this piece I wrote in 2024 became a meme. 😐

It's your birthday, Duane.

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

Images of what appears to be a “massage” room in Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse.

Jeffrey Epstein’s houses were all full of really tasteless pornographic art.

Another Trump protégée leaving congress.

For 11 months out of the year I budget very responsibly. I put low caps on discretionary spending and live cheaply. I save. I use a little app. And then in December there is what I call “le dèluge.”

Takeaway from that "What Do Gen Z Republicans Think?" piece is not what participants said, but how the publication behind it—City Journal from the Manhattan Institute, the think tank that employs Chris Rufo—summarizes them: Economically comfortable, driven by boredom, see politics as entertainment.

Asking Bari Weiss to define her terms and watching her burst into flames

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Lots of people believe that women desire rape. This is not true but that does not mean that the belief is uncommon.

Trump's evident physical and political decline are happening simultaneously, increasing Republicans' sense that there's life after Trump, fueling divisions in their coalition, @gregsargent.bsky.social and @moiradonegan.bsky.social (who up til now I knew only from her writing) deftly explain.

I had fun joining Greg on his podcast!

His reign—as the president, as the head of the Republican party, and as the gravitational center of American politics—is going to end. — @moiradonegan.bsky.social

These weirdos have more photos with Epstein than I have with some of my best and oldest friends

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

Happy Spouse’s Work Christmas Party Day to all who celebrate.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

Once again I am beginning to suspect that the members of the elite pedophile cabal are misreading “Lolita.”

That Compact essay is very easily picked a part with actual data/evidence, but what has become clear is there is very little will to do so as its dubious claims confirm a deeply held grievance amongst an apparently large % of our white colleagues that they are the victims of rampant discrimination.

Got yelled at this week for making statements that will supposedly alienate the average white male voter and what I want to emphasize is this: appealing to the average white male voter is not my aim and not my job.

Accidentally set my google maps to only show ways to get around by public transit that are wheelchair accessible and whoops now I’m enraged.

I wrote about the growing speculation surrounding Donald Trump’s health, and his failing body as a metaphor for his waning power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What’s going on with Donald Trump’s health? | Moira Donegan

I came home for what was just supposed to be a quick minute. But now I am trapped until further notice.

Really kind of dispiriting to realize how many men in my world see the women and people of color in their lives as thieves and obstacles to their thriving.

The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.

Once you see it it becomes impossible not to notice the media consent-manufacutring machine that responds to literally every social crisis with the diagnosis that "women too free."

let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI

Just realized I'm inevitably going to be a character in this guy's 10k word substack self-pity saga.

Just say women. This is taking forever.

It's Cursed-Discourse Awards-Season, Motherfuckers! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

White men who screenshot my posts are always very Normal and Cool. 👍🏼

Excuse me, I forgot that “working class” means “white and male” and that “class politics” means “affirming racism and sexism.”

It must be such a psychic relief to be a straight white man, and to know that no matter what professional failures or disappointments you face, the problem is always with the undeserving women and people of color, and never with your own inadequacy.

The way I found out that the 2020 election had been called was that people on my block started cheering.

Excessive exposure to Chloe Sherman photographs from the 90s left me totally unprepared for the San Francisco Mission of the 2020s, which is perhaps the most aggressively sexless place on Earth.

Not to be like “everything is gender” but here the feminized left is tasked with reforming and assuaging the masculinized right, like so many mothers blowing on boo boos.

Access to what, one wonders.

The hype and glorification of Cameron winter is so excessive that I’ve begun wondering if the Brooklynites are preparing to sacrifice him to their god