Chag Purim Sameach! Wishing our Jewish neighbors celebrating in NY-14 and beyond a festive and joyous Purim 🎉

Netanyahu: "Here's the difference -- these mass murderers in Tehran target civilians ... "

We feel first and think second, then spend our lives contorting to invert the order, sublimating emotion to reason, only to find ourselves made smaller and less alive by the flight from feeling. www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/02/t...

If I argued in court “when my client punched the victim, he was defending himself because his friend was about to punch the victim and my client thought this would have prompted the victim to punch him in response,” I’d lose my license to practice law.

Sounds like Kash Patel is a co-conspirator covering up a murder.

This description could also apply to Putin, Netanyahu or Orban Not exactly the type of people you would want to list as a comparison to a President of the United States

Beat 'em to the punch.

“Sorry, I’m used to UNHOOKING stuff on much shorter people”

Why didn’t they age up Musk?

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...

"I feel like we're just waiting for something terrible to happen."

The first mildly prominent Internet thing I ever did (in 2006) was challenge then-POTUS candidate Mark Warner about his nutball ideas on Iran.

Modern tyranny is terror management. I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow. "The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

As Trump gets less popular and less powerful, he leans into presidential prerogative powers were his powers have few real limits. Trump's character predicts it. It's a form of compensation and presidential self-care.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

This has the potential to be so much dumber, dangerous, and more deadly than Iraq ever was.

The next No Kings march is going to be lit.

as always, fuck that guy

2/2 And, just for the record, eat very little meat these days. But the "let them eat cake [liver]" aspect of this, from someone born rich and forgiven so much because of his name, drives me nuts.

Mark Oppenheimer’s story of how he had to retake his author photo because of his dog’s dick delights me on some fundamental level I cannot entirely comprehend. open.substack.com/pub/markoppe...

Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.

We don’t know, and may never know, whether this accusation is true. But we absolutely know that Epstein and Trump we’re insulated from the consequences of it being made, and more recently the administration has corrupted the process to prevent it coming out.

> Glenn Greenwald man.

The state of our union is incredibly fucking embarrassing.

“How would a ninth-grader’s slumber party in the Oval Office go?”

Somehow more cheerful than watching a wicked man give himself his own sick eulogy.

Megyn Kelly recoils at sight of mirror, understandably

NPR: Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Feels lazy to keep reposting this but apparently it's still relevant

Join me for a live conversation with Paul Krugman. Monday, February 23rd, 1:00pm ET, on Thinking Live.

Triceratops

"ICE agents are the equivalent of cartel hitmen" is a wild take, but Mike Lee is here for it.

SCOOP — Tom Suozzi has a Democratic primary challenger in the NY-3 congressional race. Danielle Welch (@daniwelch.bsky.social), a public defender, has officially declared her candidacy. Welch gave me this comment about launching her campaign:

Going through old photos as we prepare for the memorial service for my dad. Here's one from the day after my wedding (2008). A lot of folks came a long way to that (lesbian) wedding: some geographically, some (like my dad) in other ways. But he showed up, walked me down the aisle, and smiled.

I hope Dem primary voters remember this mealy-mouthed assent to more war

today marks 16 years since i quit drinking. i went to park ave for rehab and the state paid for it because i was a jobless loser going nowhere and minnesota understands that investing in people’s well being is best for all of us! life beyond alcoholism is so much better

One of the goals of totalitarians is to make their presence the sum total of your life, don’t let them.

We are clearly not the same.

Vote for whoever you want, but please stop doing this shit.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization