this drawing alone, what in the entire hell

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Most were furious at the pardon (the "corrupt bargain" it was called) and it torpedoed Ford's presidency

'We made the Cracker Barrel logo. We bring the songs of Kid Rock and Ted Nugent to the people, and adorn the walls with the gilded fineries from Home Depot.'

also, no amount of money can prevent aging

This guy was 31 years old and his whole life, his literal funeral, culminated in a fireworks show for Donald Trump

This is how my husband makes sure we know which of the eggs are the hard-boiled ones

Yes hello, I am at the train festival having the time of my life

YES every word I wrote about Wikipedia 14 years ago at The Awl is still true. p.s. omg Marshall McLuhan what would you think of this moment. www.theawl.com/2011/05/wiki...

The thing about Wes Streeting is that he is *less charismatic than Keir Starmer*

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

A favorite from @annamerlan.bsky.social

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

everyone I'm interested in interacting with is on Bluesky not Twitter, thanks for the 'advice' tho lol

The condescension in this thread is fatal to your stated position. Grown people have their own agency... Personal conviction is just that, you don't need some self-regarding weirdo to put training wheels on it for you

After Douthat says Trumpism is pressuring institutions "to do the right thing," his first example of that "right thing"—the "civic purpose"—is resegregation in higher education

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Share the original Homan story by @carolleonnig.bsky.social at @msnbc.com (not the Times one) www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Magically Terry is a sound and engaging cultural critic, dealing with her haters on TikTok like a champion www.tiktok.com/@magicallyte...

Debate of the Kirk variety is not discourse but a gladiatorial fight to the death, choked, static, leaving the victor's mind even more calcified. Discourse is for open minds, investigating, ready to lay old ideas aside There's no middle way. An open mind cannot improve by contact with a closed one.

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

I find canceling corporate media frees up some $$$, but yeah, I'm spending more. Today it was @propublica.org and @flaminghydra.com

Every day it looks more like the goal of this administration is to break the people and the power of the United States

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

Congressional Republicans can no longer ignore the urgent need for impeachment and removal

The Democratic tent already had many, many anti-abortion democrats, who got wiped out because — and this is the crucial point! — independents and republicans *did not vote for them*

An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Did the Disney backlash have anything to do with Sinclair's decision not to air the Charlie Kirk eulogy?

not worth it

True and real!!

I see "We are going to sue the government to seek a temporary restraining order to protect you from this clearlly illegal act" is not in the guidance.

imo the fundamental issue is that Dem establishment cannot conceive of a country that fixes our current problems and still has a need for their guidance in fairness to them, I agree

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority. It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

Embedding Palantir in all the UK's systems isn't a trade success, it's a security catastrophe

People who are ashamed of what they are saying often resort to globby, incoherent phrases in the vain hopes of sneaking past their own conscience

are they objecting because they can't stand Thomas Chatterton Williams

So freaking weak. The way to fight back was quite simply to yell All Are Created Equal She would have won the election if she'd done that

Thank you to @brookegladstone.bsky.social and @onthemedia.bsky.social for having me on. It was an honor and a pleasure to discuss @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social film about 37 minutes in. bit.ly/3Vpc8xd

She doesn't even get 100/day lol

So mad I don't even care what happens to that creep Boy Kavalier (but if they reinstate Kimmel I'll come back in hopes he and his horrible feet will get their just deserts)

Now more than ever support independent and/or local media I subscribe to Racket, ProPublica, Flaming Hydra, Defector, and The Handbasket Open for more recs if there’s something crucial I’m missing

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

"Vance, true to form, was just amplifying the one thing that Trumpism has ever offered—not real opportunity or purpose, not inclusion or community, not even personal advancement, but merely the chance to hurt other people and get away with it."

Elon Musk is responsible for at least 300,000 deaths, a number that's steadily increasing, it doesn't include Ukrainian civilians murdered as a result of his attempt to protect the Russian navy when he disabled Starlink to sabotage a Ukrainian defence operation.