"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

A few pics from #NoKings in North Adams (courtesy of my wife!)

A perfect pick for 2025, to be honest

Everything he touches

Come on

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

Bombing my big stand-up special in front of a totally silent room of generals. "What else, what else. Bagram Air Force Base, we're going to do that again, okay? And we're going to do it the right way: through specific types of tattoos, and haircuts."

And yet, these two still haven’t given up the effort to find Bipartisan Solutions for the Kitchen Table Problems facing American Working Families

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

Surely some countries on earth have enough self-respect left to start talking about moving the UN from the US?

Repulsed to see @neal.house.gov voted for this crap. Unacceptable.

I'm old enough to remember when Russian t.v. shows could make fun of their leaders www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

This is it. Cancel culture, but for real. The Twitter Files, but for real. Actual, unadulterated collusion between the government and media-owning corporations to censor Americans. Shame on the MAGA libertarians and fake-heterodox civility cops who helped pave this road to authoritarianism.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Pretty much every mass shooting, particularly ones involving kids, people try to dig for some hidden motive, message, or ideology in a cesspool of edgelord internet shit. But the vast majority of the times, there just isn’t one.

Day three of the media pretending that Charlie Kirk believed in free speech and failing to note that his signature political project was the creation of McCarthyite watchlists of college professors to harass out of their jobs and out of society. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

If you hate political violence, you should hate Charlie Kirk. He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them. He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.

No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

A little on the nose for someone who was famously accused of plagiarism

Did Horst Wessel have a stupid-ass nickname?

When I worked at a Russian newspaper in 2008, there was a guy who had a desk with us editors. He was friendly, quiet, and most of the week just took naps. Except at close, when he was the only person on staff who could actually send the pages to the printer

I’m in Berlin, and every one of these stupid stories really hits

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

It was a very hard day: had to say goodbye to our pup, Poe. Here he is on our favorite walk along the Green River on the morning Mila graduated, just two weeks ago

When I was a teenager I found this to be the funniest comic strip in existence. No one agreed. Has its time finally come www.flickr.com/photos/eknat...

Have been on the road and only periodically checking in, but what is with “what can he be thinking” coverage? this is Reality TV reveal bullshit. The man has no legal authority to start another f-ing war, my god.

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

1. Let's put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) www.wired.com/story/shooti...

RIP big dog

This an absolute insane and irresponsible way to frame a military crackdown on the freedom to protest.

Really hate seeing @neal.house.gov on this list. This is as basic a test as there can be

Taking a break to celebrate my daughter’s high school graduation this weekend.

Imperial boomerang is guys like this showing up to raid a restaurant to abduct everyday workers

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

I chose not to launch my newsletter with Substack, and some days I wonder why I insist on doing things on hard mode. But most days, I take it as a win that at least I’m doing the right thing. Anyway, please subscribe! buttondown.com/cwmarc#subsc...

Cool. 😑 arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...

Maura Healey evaded having to comment on this story last week because “we don’t know all the details.” Well, here are the details. And they make it even worse. Abolish ICE and salt the earth of the office after. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

No lack of ominous stories in higher education lately, and here’s another: student journalists at MCLA say their newspaper and website are going on “an indefinite hiatus, or even permanent closure.” Signs of pretty depressing mismanagement by the administration theonlinebeacon.com/3831/news/a-...

Force people into a rat race for security instead, and they'll do everything they can to get and stay ahead. They'll cut corners. They'll take shortcuts. And, yes, they'll readily have a computer do all of their thinking for them.

Inevitable, and infuriating massmoca.org/a-statement-...

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

My latest newsletter is a reminder that being rich wasn’t always just about being a big awful turd buttondown.com/cwmarc/archi...

The first Easter morning, in a fresco at the Church of St Barnabas, Vizinada, Croatia from the late 1300s

This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.

What the fuck