I saw an ad for Cuomo for Mayor while watching SNL last night. His entire ad boiled down to him saying, "I'm a huge asshole, so you should vote for me." Can fault him for lying about that.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

This Atlantic piece is very well written. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I ride in a Ford Escape with my wife. youtu.be/oCrI7NOK8v8?...

It's obvious to everyone that we're going to invade Venezuela, right?

tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread

On Sunday, I visited DEAR NEW YORK, Brandon Stanton's "love letter" to the city he's been documenting for years as "Humans of New York" for their family reception with student artists. It's a gorgeous exhibit that's transformed Grand Central Station. See it before 10/19!

Apparently @schumer.senate.gov wants to lose both a senatorial race and a governor seat.

👴🏻"Yes, I know this person did horrific things to Black and brown people, but if you don't pretend to honor his memory, you are the bad guy here!"🤡 No. It doesn't work like that. Not for Kirk. Not for Columbus. There have been *millions* of great Italian Americans. Columbus is not one of them.

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

Woody Guthrie wrote This Land is Your Land in response to the jingoism and nationalism of God Bless America. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_La...

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 11,1954

Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety. This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

🚨 ICE said Marimar Martinez “rammed their vehicles.” Bodycam footage says otherwise. It shows an ICE agent ram his own vehicle into hers, sneer “Do something, bitch,” and then shoot her. We can never believe anything ICE accuses anyone of.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school. Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

This kind of misogyny and sense of entitlement starts early and the fact that no one involved did anything about the clear red flags is disturbing www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

My friend Mike made a really nifty data crunching -> flow analysis -> visualization of Citibike traffic in NYC. It's very spiffy and shows some really interesting macro scales in biker behavior in the city. Check it out! mikesboyle.medium.com/predicting-c...

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

“My biggest issue is the fact that Substack insists on actively supporting leading far-right activists and propagandists like Christopher Rufo, Curtis Yarvin, and Richard Hanania – not only platforming, but actively promoting them as important thinkers.”

Despite the administration's overall stupidity and incompetence, once thing they understand is what George Orwell wrote in the book 1984 (published in 1949). It bears repeating: “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Sinclair has been gobbling up network affiliates and red-pilling their trusted local newscasts for years (see 2017 OTM story below). Worse, it was under the radar. Most viewers had no idea they were being brainwashed, or even who Sinclair was before the Kimmel mess... Maybe they will NOW. 🤞

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

"From 1974 to 1980, Duke was an active leader of a community organization he founded that championed the power of dialogue and debate."

This post has now been deleted. Suggesting it really was a DM to Bondi, violating presidential Records Act, and basically all national security protocols. But who cares. All the laws are for trampling now.

Vanity Fair's hiring of Olivia Nuzzi and WaPo's firing of Karen Attiah in the same week is a bit on the nose. Deeply unsubtle times.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Hey editors! Remember that it is more accurate to say that Jimmy Kimmel has been censored because he hurt Donald Trump's feelings rather than Jimmy Kimmel has been suspended for his remarks on Charlie Kirk.

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

The GOP wants to end public education.

i really, really fucking loathe "steelmanning" as a concept. it is not my job to make the best possible version of your argument for you if oppose you, if i oppose you, i intend to attack both your shitty ideas *and* the shitty way in which you present them, because fuck you, that's why.

I can't wait to see a follow-up piece to "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" in Harper's. I'm sure, somehow, the authors can blame the Left again.

And from the perspective of the regime, this was a much more offensive thing to say. Not criticizing Kirk, nor misstating anything about the details of the case, but calling out the censorship crusade itself as bullshit. First rule of censorship is you have to censor talk about the censorship.