Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!

same, girl, same

Wait I have been scared of Australia and the spiders don't even kill anyone? www.calendar-australia.com/faq/how-many...

I hate this more than Ahab hated that damn whale.

re:your "Ace Ventura goes to Epstein Island" script—we like the concept. We th ink its very good. But it borrows too many jokes from AV1 & 2

My ancestors didn't blow up British police stations for us to get lumped into some kind of Anglo monoculture by Apartheid Techbro

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

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random people online who you find censorious and annoying =/= state censorship. Hope that helps.

Are they counting on the fact we won't remember what 'accuracy' is or what 'truth' is ????

AI has political effects.

“Your guy is late.” “It’s only been five minutes, chill.” "Something doesn't feel right." “Everything’s fine, Dave.” "You sure this is the spot?" "Yes." "And you know this guy is cool?" "Yes, just relax." "Don't give him the money until-" "Until I see the kibble, yes I know."

You do the work and AI gets the credit!

The AI cannot do our jobs but they insert it to make it seem like our jobs do not have value. We don't need this bullshit.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

About one of the Trump accusers in this piece: “The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”

Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.

My own answer is the Meat-Shaped Stone from the National Palace Museum in Taipei. It's a piece of jasper from the qing dynasty that looks like pork belly.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

holy shit. hell of an analysis

For nothing. OpenAI hopes to monopolize when that is now impossible.

God forbid they admit rich prople are seedy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

I wrote about the cowardly lions of corporate America under Trump and their decades-long push to shape the country’s political life and democracy, no matter their protestations to the contrary now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

the epstein flip is the biggest mind fuck in human history I guess we’re privileged to have witnessed it?

I love Bob's Burgers. Am I not supposed to for some reason?

They are merging AMST with three other departments, effectively shuttering a program that has been in existence for 85 years. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

American culture?? oh you mean yellow cheese singles

TEETH. TEETH. TEETH.

If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.

Even if you fully intend to vote for whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, there’s a huge difference between doing that quietly in November 2028 and loudly announcing it years in advance with zero conditions attached.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Why do I have to vote for so much harm? I don't get it.

teachers please dont leave those kids alone

sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really

I understand why people are doing it but I do not care for the Richard Hanania screenshots. If I cared what the nasty son of Nicolas Cage's character from Longlegs was up to, or thought about current events, I would have written the worst screenplay of all time addressing that very question.

I could see a totenkopf being an accident in like, Cancun; somewhere without a rather serious history with nazis. "Hey, cool skull." In *Croatia*? There are two kinds of tattoo shops: ones that'll put nazi shit on you, and ones that won't, and there's no confusion about which you're walking into

same

Good Morning ☀️ 🏜️ Growing up in Michigan, this is NOT what I thought the desert looked like…

It’s eye opening, esp when you read how many kids were killed when cars arrived. They were criminalizing children for drivers running them over while they played

Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign.... funded by automakers because their cars were killing pedestrians So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.

In my mind is this idea that socks should cost $1. Yes, they usually don't but when they do I get very happy.

"Christian" Marco Rubio: "fundraiser caught laundering drug cartel proceeds "his high school job working for a drug trafficker “architect of Trump’s most cynical scheme: appoint drug cartel bosses and their cronies atop governments of every Latin American country in name of fighting drug cartels”

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.