Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to endorse the Democratic Nominee for NYC mayor but has plenty of praise for Eric Adams who, left the party, openly supports Trump, & cut a deal with Trump to disappear the DOJ’s bribery & corruption charges against him. Can’t imagine why the Dem Party has 26% approval🤔

Hey, whatever you do, don't call these street thugs who are snatching up immigrants and violently assaulting women "Nazis" because that will hurt their poor little feelings.

strong agree, from 2017: opaque commercial social platforms becoming the most vivid, accessible representation of discourse, democracy, the public sphere, the media, etc was a massive accelerant for cynicism/resentment/despair www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/m...

Does anybody ever actually have just milk and honey? Sounds great.

Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.

Dems are too afraid of sounding classist in the economic sense to make the obvious observation that the Trump GOP has leaned hard into being the part of trash. That’s their elevator pitch. Are you human garbage tired of being made to feel inferior to basically decent people? We’re on your side!

Fortunately I’m well established as a filthy elitist libertarian, so I can say it without too much fear of contaminating nice progressives. But that’s the sell. Are you vulgar, unlettered, and sick of hearing it’s not OK to drop casual racial slurs or smack your wife around? We’re your people!

In absolute earnest, I think terror of “elitism” has put a powerful vocabulary for describing what’s going on here out of play. These people are vulgar, thuggish, unsophisticated, crass, unschooled, unreflective. They are low in a sense that has nothing to do with income, & it’s fine to say so.

Was pleased to witness this eagle tussle last night

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

John Roberts, citing the historic precedent of segregation in the District of Columbia, concludes that Trump can legally remove Fed Governors but only the black ones.

Can’t imagine why Trump decided to single out Lisa Cook

Today may be the day I accidentally find out how many farts it takes to get kicked out of Barnes & Noble

I’m all for de-mystifying food but this is a big disservice to pasta

this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back

The use of “we” here

so the reason the Times jumped on the chip story so fast is...they had been trying for weeks to nail down a bigger story about systematic bribery of Chinese-language news outlets

A nation that metabolizes as "normal" the fact that red-pilled, conspiracy-obsessed ideologues with zero qualifications and zero concern for empirical reality are running the country, is a nation that doesn't have much of a future ahead of it as either a democracy or a remotely prosperous place.

Congrats to the nominal opposition for being to the right of *Bill Kristol* on Trump assualting DC

Not only is this fucking embarrassing, I can’t imagine how much counterintelligence work is going to be required after this trip. Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is *insane*

If I was the House Minority Leader during an authoritarian takeover of the Capitol and a reporter asked me whether a NYC mayoral candidate ought to be living in a rent-stabilized apartment, I’d not only say “absolutely” but also ask the reporter to reflect on the ridiculousness of the question…

“using real concerns to put reactionary political views in the mouths of people i am not actually going to speak to or give the dignity of their own voices” is a classic move for this clique

jury nullification is a powerful tool against fascism right now.

I think it's bad that U.S. domestic political coverage, especially at the top, became almost universally a home for suck-ups, gladhanders, and bullies.

I don’t hear nearly as much about the Keebler Elves as I used to

As the outgoing president of the Faculty Assembly at William & Mary, I see this as a straightforward attempt to intimidate the Assembly at George Mason University. This isn't about policy, it's about control through fear. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

It never ceases to amaze me how select cases of full professors deciding to leave the U.S. for a university abroad merit more attention than the adjunctification of higher education and the complete erosion of tenure-track openings.

Absolutely right. Recent polling confirms that this congressional leadership team is horribly out of touch with this moment and, barring a significant course correction, they should step aside now.

I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

How fortunate for us all that the next generation of the extremely wealthy will be even more wildly ignorant than their philistinic forebears

Is there any model, any tangible hope, for a future cultural landscape not completely mediated by algorithms? If there are examples of this bubbling up somewhere I’d love to see them

The police insist they need astronomical sums of money and complete immunity from any harm they cause in order to be ready to protect us and then half the time they just decide they’d prefer not to?

One thing The Fugitive (1993) has going for it is that it treats the Chicago PD with absolute contempt

We’ve heard more about whether or not a mayoral candidate in NYC condemns certain language than we’ve heard about starvation in Gaza. It’s absolutely unacceptable. Children are starving to death and our government is helping fund it.

Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

This stuff is basically propaganda, and probably more dangerous than more obvious propaganda, because it performs the overcoming of objections to AI in a way educated readers are meant to find aspirationally sophisticated

If the New York Times decided to run nonstop coverage in favor of boll weevil blights, a certain subset of intelligent, graceful literary writers, not known till now for being pro-agricultural plague, would find themselves fruitfully grappling with thoughts about the role weevils play in their lives

One thing we’re going to see a *lot* of: Pieces that appear to explore an intellectually provocative question inspired by AI, but that assume a premise (in this case “friendship with a chatbot is possible”) that’s a) nonsensical and b) perfectly aligned with the aims of AI marketing

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

My hope is that everyone involved in creating this among other atrocities receives all that is due to them.

Because we did not abolish ICE, we have instead abolished "being an immigrant in this country" www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/l...

You should be deeply angry at House leadership for not fighting. Axios lays out what we’ve been saying for months: some in the House want to fight but leadership wants to tell us — the base — to F off so they can capitulate and don’t have to change their lives.

Half-baked, uninformed nonsense that repeats mistaken information from another half-baked take.

Birthright citizenship is a "longstanding custom" in the same way that freedom of speech is a longstanding custom (they are both explicitly guaranteed by the text of the Constitution)

Someone should ask China hawks what they think about economic coercion in bilateral relations with smaller neighbors to force a political outcome

You had me at "koloniträdgårdar" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w...

This is opinion, not news

this is completely correct analysis