Paid attention award, all time winner, me

Two current cases — including one originally spearheaded by Vice President J. D. Vance — may give John Roberts’s Supreme Court the opportunity to go even further than the Citizens United decision.

New York should start naming public toilets and sewer systems after him.

With Israel’s reputation reaching record lows among Democrats, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is resorting to ever more sophisticated methods to support its preferred candidates while cloaking its own involvement. buff.ly/EEYh03q

I'm sorry, who is the unnamed "staffer" with access to the President's official Truth Social account at 11:44pm on a Thursday night?

Trump might be interested.

On Trump's orders, the National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

These two boneless chickens are about as useful as tits on a unicycle.

Crypto people are weird and creepy.

Schumer Democrats believe “commonsense reforms” will work on an agency that violates court orders like people ignore speed limits.

A group of cryptocurrency investors paid $300,000 to have a 15-foot-tall golden statue of President Trump sculpted in tribute to his outspoken support for crypto.

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

Schumer Democrats believe “commonsense reforms” will work on an agency that violates court orders like people ignore speed limits.

This fucking guy!

The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.

Next up: Asbestie and Tobaccie.

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

How Not To Defeat Authoritarianism! A Forum in the @bostonreview.bsky.social featuring many of your favorites and probably some of your least-favorites I'm in there, I dunno in which category starting with @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Imagine if this was a Democrat. Etc.

According to Marc Novicoff and Jonathan Chait, Gavin Newsom is too much of a radical Leftist to win a presidential election. He's basically a Commie.

Trump hates this one weird trick.

Imagine if this was a Democrat. Etc.

Trump hates this one weird trick.

According to Marc Novicoff and Jonathan Chait, Gavin Newsom is too much of a radical Leftist to win a presidential election. He's basically a Commie.

WaPo reports xAI deliberately loosened Grok's guardrails to boost popularity, sparking internal alarm. Employees had to pledge to work with "profane content." Even more disturbing, employees were listening to lurid audio conversations Tesla drivers had with Grok. Musk prioritized growth over safety.

Reminder: before DHS existed, immigration enforcement sat inside the DOJ and followed civil law norms, judicial oversight, prosecutorial restraint, and constitutional limits. DHS broke that model by recasting immigration as a *permanent national security threat*, not a legal or civil issue.

What is this? A triumphal arc for ANTS???

ICE can’t be reformed. It can’t be defanged. It can only be abolished, with its agents dismissed. Immigration enforcement should be placed under the purview of the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security should be broken up.

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

BREAKING NEWS: Democratic strategist warns Democrats not to take strong, principled stands on anything - least of all civil rights.

It’s a cool system where a single private billionaire can out-fund an entire political party by spending 0.0000007% of his weekly income on donations.

It’s a cool system where a single private billionaire can out-fund an entire political party by spending 0.0000007% of his weekly income on donations.

BREAKING NEWS: Democratic strategist warns Democrats not to take strong, principled stands on anything - least of all civil rights.

How Liberals Lost the Internet: The institutional gatekeepers have fallen, replaced by influencers who succeed by navigating the fickle currents of audience attention.

Color me skeptical.

1/With $ in free fall, re-upping @himself.bsky.social and my piece on the Other Thucydides Trap. When Athens turned its economic power into a system of tributes, allies turned into subordinates and left Athens in the lurch. US is committing the same mistake. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Lawyers have filed anti-DEI lawsuits against corporations, law firms, health care companies, art groups and nonprofits. And they are mostly winning.

Incompetent billionaire buys venerable newspaper. Hires incompetent people to lead it. Newspaper loses hundreds of thousands of readers. Leaders blame journalists, fire them, lose more subscribers and money. Billionaire owner spends $75 million on a shitty documentary about the president’s wife.

DHS is not a rogue agency. Founded without essential accountability and oversight policies, DHS was built to violate our rights and empowered to act with impunity. But true security cannot be realized through oppression, dehumanization, and criminalization.

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing." They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

QAnon built an entire moral panic around a child-trafficking fantasy with zero evidence. But when real government complaint summaries tied to Jeffrey Epstein contain repeated allegations mentioning Donald Trump, the self-appointed child-protectors go quiet. 🤔

New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.

Oh man, what a gut punch.

DOJ removes file that includes some pretty horrifying accusations against Trump.

If Democrats ever return to power, they must move fast and thoroughly scrutinize all media mergers approved under Trump, starting with TikTok and Paramount, repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996, restoring pre-1996 media regulations with retroactive review, and break up media conglomerates.

I've grieved the loss of pets longer than Erika Kirk grieved her husband.

October 2025 / January 2026

Of course many Dems will vote for him. While Trump attacks America with his private army, steals Georgia ballots, raids the treasury, brings the US to the brink of war against NATO allies and generally takes a bulldozer to civil society, why would Democrats grow a set of principles now?