“ ‘There’s zero question that this is abusive,’ a law professor who focuses on partnership taxes said of the ability for business owners to avoid self-employment taxes through limited partnerships.”

The president of the Heritage Foundation, the think tank that oversaw Project 2025, claims that when he defended Tucker Carlson's softball interview with anti-semite Nick Fuentes, he didn't know who Fuentes was, because he doesn't watch much news but instead consumes “a lot of sports.”

The mind reels.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

HBO Max has pretty quickly become my second streaming source after Criterion. They’re like a small branch library: If you’re looking for something specific pre-1960 they probably don’t have it, but if you’re looking more generally for something good pre-1960 you’ll be fine.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

“Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.”

Yeah I support LGBTQ Light rail Going from Brooklyn To Queens

These people are monsters. I’m sorry, there’s no kinder way to say it.

A specific reporter knowing something does not mean the institution knows. That is not how reporting works, not how newsrooms work, not how any of it works. Institutions are not omniscient.

Is there a nose print on that window?

I step away from the internet for a day and they abolish pennies?

Just spitballing here but what if most of the people who run the world didn’t completely suck

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?

It's going to take me a while to process that Larry Summers repeatedly typed the word "didn't" as "dint" . . . while asking a convicted sex trafficker for relationship advice.

Asked by a NYT reporter for evidence to rebut the Trump team's claim that Trump had no connection to Epstein, Epstein references in reply "my 20 year old girlfriend in 93, that after two years I gave to Donald"

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

People don’t always follow politics (and who can blame them), but they understand stuff like “nothing to eat now,” “the president is bulldozing the White House,” “the president is hiding stuff about his relationship to America’s most notorious child sex trafficker”

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Neatly solves the problem

Wouldn't it be a violation of the Equal Protection Clause to grant such a right to senators but not to other citizens? There doesn't seem to be anything special about senators with respect to such a right that would stand up to any kind of scrutiny.

“princesses”

Re-reading Moby Dick at Ahab’s age. An essay by @calebcrain.bsky.social. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...

Guillotine earrings, ca. 1793

Easier to run for Senate from the House. Gilibrand isn’t up again until 2030, and AOC is already reportedly considering a Schumer challenge

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

I don’t think Brad Lander is aiming high enough

Sometimes, I just don't get it.

At dinner tonight my husband came up with DINO—Democrats in name only—and I told him I would go on the internet and make it happen. (No, I haven’t googled. Yes, it’s probably already out there.)

"A ring at the door. It was Flaubert." In tribute to Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, I put together a list of some of the best writers' diaries, from the Goncourt brothers to John Cheever ("Every time I read a review of Saul Bellow, I get the heaves"):

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LGA looks like a parking lot.

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

From the 1860s, but feels so modern. [Fidelia Bridges, Garden View, Brooklyn, ca. 1867, Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper, 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]

Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago: 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶

Will never tire of Trenton NJ’s incredibly passive-aggressive slogan

“The freak-out about millionaires getting taxed is mostly coming from the millionaires.”

My review for this weekend's WSJ is on Gerald Howard's fascinating biography of Malcolm Cowley, the 'literary bureaucrat' who helped to establish so much the American canon (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

If anyone is watching my little protest: I'll happily resubscribe if you lose that new op-ed editor.

The Crane Brinton thesis, which we read in high school!

Just canceled my subscription over this, finally. RIP, WaPo. May rewatch "All the Presidents' Men" tonight, to mourn.