Gird yourself for this week:

“voiced what few politicians ever speak aloud: a conviction that the people are not always right, can be misled, and will arrive at conclusions with insufficient information.”

And there you go. Use your power, fight back, win. WHEN we fight, we win.

Would you look at that. No donation, no bowing the knee, no Sinclair-suggested network ombudsman. If you have power to push back on authoritarianism, use it!

the way to keep yourself from becoming despondent when each of these horrible things happens is to realize every potential one *is* going to happen for quite a while - until we reach an election, or a politician with the power to stop things breaks from the ‘norms’ and puts their wrench in the gears

This is a video to show your family at Thanksgiving when you ask (a) if they voted for *this* and (b) if no, if this is what they’ll vote for in ‘26

AZ best state flag no question

Two thirds of Americans are not Trump voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Look, I’m not currently running for office, but one thing that would absolutely be in my platform is: If you live in the tax base that helped pay for a sports team’s stadium, you get to watch those games *for free* on your television.

This era in our history will be defined by billionaires buying things they liked, assuming they understood how they worked, and then destroying them with incompetence.

One of the real dividing lines in the smart/dumb societal line is: When you encounter a new figure saying something you agree with, do you spend even thirty seconds looking them up to see if they’re actually a total psycho?

"you can just do things" also applies to standing up against MAGA overreaches

The President of the United States does not know what the R stands for in MMR vaccine.

WHEN we fight, we win.

When @joshgondelman.bsky.social goes on tv he is smart and lets you know ahead of time. But if you have a time machine, you can go back a few days and see me on tv.

You can always come to me for a patient, thoughtful, insightful quote: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

This is the heart of how we escape this moment. Things are good or bad, movements are good or bad, actions are good or bad. Pick where you stand and judge the world from firm ground.

Really speaks to our moment when @repcasar.bsky.social and @rokhanna.bsky.social are constantly jumping onto cable TV and social media to say they're "fighters".... and both voted "PRESENT" on the Charlie Kirk Memorial Day. Lion for the cameras, lamb in the chamber.

Kash Patel's notes during his congressional testimony as photographed by Getty: "Good fight with Swalwell"

Late night is dead, also 130,000,000 Americans have watched it in the past year.

It was a fun birthday for about 18 hours...

Most striking thing in this clip: what color is Scarborough’s hair *meant* to be?

why is everyone buying a media outlet right now: billionaire with secret lair vibes and total disdain for journalism and why is no one selling to like: millionaire with normal view on the importance of skull size and a deep love of solid reporting

John Brown died that the slaves might be free, John Brown died that the slaves might be free, His soul goes marching on.

the Pope talking about sports in a Chicago accent is some real prime For Me church content

Me, talking about the robots that call me from a "Loan Underwriting Department"

Chuck Schumer is the dad who tells you the store brand cereal actually tastes *better!* www.omgreg.com/p/chuck-s-go...

There is only one sentence in Klein’s pleading hagiography that matters, and it’s six words long.

This is where Murphy can’t help but drift back to the safety of his white guy ness. Should we go decade by decade in the American democratic experiment and list who was “safe when they expressed their political views?” Like, apply any kind of longterm understanding of history to your sound bites.

Trump has installed, as permanent fixtures by his side, two men who look like knock-offs of his adult sons.

We have to stop acting like “idiot” is a protected class.

again, we don’t have racial categories at Big & Tall. please stop asking for a section named

Medvedev playing this American crowd like the 2016 election AM I RIGHT LADEEEEEZ

“is anyone actually doing this” is the one question that it is apparently verboten for most political commentators to try to answer

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Still waiting for a single act of Democratic resistance that isn’t immediately followed by a capitulation that proves it was all performative.

Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.

Did you know that the original name for MS NOW was MSNBC?

if we’re to have any hope of preserving liberal democracy (and I’m not sure that’s realistic at this point) we need a pro-democracy party that scares its opponents. fascists need to fear the potential consequences of their actions the same way our institutions fear trump’s lawsuits and mean tweets

There are too many of these pieces, happy to finally read a patient and thoughtful one.

Good Lord yall are never gonna learn, huh

one big lesson of the 2020s is the value of gatekeepers

The Laura Loomer deposition is more hard proof that every single one of these nut jobs needs to face Real Lawyering when it all comes tumbling down.

City Streets is one of the best ideas to come out of City Hall in a while. Two weekends in a row, two different parts of town, a delightful way to spend a day with the kids.

In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @zohrankmamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round.

As @kibblesmith.com has repeatedly pointed out, we are in an era of “Sure I Was Proven Factually Wrong But Maybe I’m Right In Spirit.” And the only way we end this phase of life is derisive shame delivered face to face. The 80s were right: bullying works, especially with jocks.

Sal is a true Trumpologist and this is a gold medal observation:

Perry is, as usual, nailing it here.

in 2025, benefit of the doubt is a sign of mental illness