characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

one of my all-time favorite weird and wonderful shows - DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED - is now on dropout! full web series now; TV series (which less people have seen) over the course of the next few months. big thanks to blink industries, becky, and joe for their faith in us.

"There is, once again, something shady happening on Wall Street," writes Allison Morrow. | Analysis https://cnn.it/4s0eYq8

dragmaxxing wig snatching coming for the straight guys is maybe the funniest trajectory this nonsense could have taken

What the actual F is this?

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

2 weeks ago, I put together this thread about the current state of Dem Senate primaries. If you want to replace Chuck Schumer as Sen Dem Leader, several of these candidates have to overperform. (and we probably need 1 to win) The thread was missing something important though: timing.

There are some Dems who are uneasy about "trans issues" and would like to "find a compromise" with MAGA but: 1) there is no compromise with this rhetoric 2) they'd never compromise anyway 3) when you try to do that, all it does is show voters who lean your way that you are weak and unprincipled.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Will never stop reminding people of this

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

My timeline is half leftists complaining about Gavin Newsom and half liberals complaining about Graham Platner and I'd like to propose that we launch both of them into the sun together.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

I fundamentally believe this era is an illusion. The current versions of Codex and Claude Code are costing OpenAI and Anthropic so much money because they’re running at like a negative 150% gross margin. All improvements involve more and more compute. The limits will be sudden and brutal.

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death

@cwgabriel.bsky.social Y'all got any of these Gabir stickers laying around? I got a new helmet and want to rep my favorite fake motorsports franchise.

“I’m not a white nationalist, i just love hitler’s favorite american law because it kept non whites and jews from coming to America” bsky.app/profile/lets...

“peter you’ve wasted your money” no i haven’t. i did this for each and every one of you, and you’re all worth it.

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

Yeah. Hey, do you happen to know anyone who is in a position of power, maybe someone in a powerful role in the Senate, who can do something about all that?

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Andy Kim refusing to allow Phil Murphy to coronate his wife has actually destroyed one of the most entrenched machines in American politics.

Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.

AI is taking and not giving and it's crushing open-source software projects. Just a month ago, Tailwinds fired 75 percent of its engineers. Why?

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"By God I'll fight till hell freezes over, then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

A fine is merely the cost of doing business. We need to be throwing C-suite level people in jail.

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Hot damn. Extremely cathartic to hear all this. You gotta watch till the end. This is the kind of message anyone with even the smallest audience should be shouting.

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

I mean yeah. Look at the lifetime of your average millennial: Reagan: Ugh Bush Sr: More of the same Clinton: Meh Bush Jr: Lots of bad Obama: OK this is good Trump I: Fuck Biden: There were SOME good things here Trump II: Fuckity fuck fuck fuck

Truly this place contains multitudes. Angry, horny multitudes.

Wrote about him in TNR, prior to Renee Good. Remarkably similar incident. He’d just dropped off his kid. They rushed his car. He tried to flee. Cops then claimed he tried to run them over, despite video evidence to the contrary. Should’ve been a warning.

See, if I was a rich person, I would spend my money ensuring academics were willing to answer my calls, even for questions like this.

I very specifically do not want to hear John Fucking Yoo arguing for a “different approach to the rules of war”

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.