Ugh. Isaacson and his “produce biographies more efficiently “. You mean not having to actually write them? Think you’re saying the quiet part out loud here, and I hope the only person your AI writer puts out of work is YOU. www.nola.com/news/busines...

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan

We have reached peak king cake ridiculousness. Unnecessary. I do like them trolling the buyers by serving the cakes through a clown mouth. www.nola.com/entertainmen...

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

Over one thousand children in the US died from Covid, so silly me thinks that's more important. "COVID-19 quickly became the seventh leading cause of death for 1- to 17-year-olds from 2020 to 2022 and killed an estimated 1086 children." publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

how about no

1. A new guide has been released by some of the top names in Democratic politics encouraging Dems to act more like Republicans on "identity and cultural issues." It becomes clear exactly what that means: queer and trans people. I argue against it in my latest. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

"The Tylenol announcement broke through to a lot of people, in large part because there’s widespread experience with and acceptance of the painkiller. "But it’s far from the only essential medication Kennedy wants to deny to pregnant women." www.salon.com/2025/09/29/r...

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

people are all like oh my god what if the AI robots take over? and listen, I’m not worried because it can’t be worse than men running things

Kafka is thinking, “My work was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook.”

If only there were a fail-safe process for killing the bacteria raw milk can harbor making it perfectly safe to drink

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

the thing about the NYT is is you look like mamdani you have to be accountable forever for everything including a form you filled as a teenager and didn't do anything wrong with but if you look like Trump laws you have sworn a public oath to uphold do not apply to you at any point in your life

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

Don’t put anything in text that you won’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times.

It's also not true that RFK Jr has identified a real problem but proposes the wrong solutions. The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).

I'd go with like "many of the pedophiles who flew with Trump on Jeffrey Epstein's planes are the same people who are also trying to cut health care for Americans. Part of the reason they want us poor is so we can't fight back when they rape our kids."

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and an open white supremacist, has a child's understanding of how government works. He has fired tens of thousands of people and believes all taxation and spending are illegitimate. He thinks his financial assistance to Trump gives him the power to set policy.

Thank God somebody brought this up. I read references to it in a very stupid pseudoscientific piece in the New Yorker last month, and the retconning of the lax Swedish lockdown strategy makes my blood boil. It's not that long ago: they had so many excess deaths that they changed policies, months in!

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

RFK Jr celebrated the release of the MAHA report by downing raw milk shooters in the White House with influencer Paul Saladino. Hazards of raw milk include Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, E. coli O157:H7, and now-- avian flu.

Hard to feel sorry for this guy. He’s a Trump super fan who is *just* noticing this stuff? Suuure. Hope you develop empathy and the ability to think critically, kid.

Thanks a lot, mainstream press. Your normalization of Trump is part of a big problem in coverage.

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

Absolutely ridiculous and highly suspicious. Why wouldn’t Hutson process the crime scene? www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

I wrote about some of the worst journalism and punditry I've read lately, from the misbegotten journalistic philosophy of The New York Times to the unhinged ranting of a law professor.

the criticism that Dems put forth old and ailing politicians to their detriment is unquestionably true, but there’s a large contingent of the party dedicated to calling you a heartless scumbag if you point it out

Let’s just be honest here: there are, while not as many as the right, certainly many left and left-leaning streamers and podcasters. Kamala Harris dodged ALL of them and we all know why: EVERY. SINGLE. ONE of them would have taken her to account over Gaza.

MAHA trying to do the opposite of public health, as usual. This is evil. If you don’t want a vaccine, fine. You should do it anyway for the sake of others, but I guess we can’t fix stupid. But don’t take my right to make my own medical decisions from ME!

Thread. Inconveniently for the lie a lot of people have sallowed, the government is actually not that inefficient. *All* the jobs are important, not just the ones that make headlines.

A reminder that Hassan voted for Noem to be Secretary, so joke's on you, Hassan, you voted for this

Hard to imagine a more wrong answer. Kristi Noem was a member of Congress from 2011-2019 and has been in public office since 2007.

While Elon Musk’s DOGE is taking an axe to the federal workforce, the group itself is hiring. Seems fair, right? The US DOGE Service—formerly the US Digital Service (USDS)—has been interviewing candidates and offering salaries at the top of the government pay scale.

This can't be the "merit-based" hiring Trump's been talking about! 😂 Kristi Noem cannot answer simple, basic questions about the principles this country was founded on. It would be funny if it wasn't so embarrassing.

Biden said “healthcare for ME and not for thee” and you bitches calling him Uncle Joe. TOTAL HELP ME SING

Elon Musk’s DOGE is still wreaking havoc across the federal government. Thousands of federal workers have been fired, rehired, and fired again in just five months – throwing their lives into chaos and disrupting crucial services millions of Americans rely on. How efficient.

Laud what politicians do when they deserve it, but do not herocize them. Approach them with healthy skepticism and avoid any and all cults of personality. You have to be willing to scrutinize everyone.

covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

Unbelievable. With Dem support, the senate passes an industry-friendly crypto bill that does nothing about Trump's crypto corruption. Ignore these Dems' speeches. Watch their votes. They're telling you they don't get it. And then they spam you to say Trump is bad so please donate more money.

I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver. This is a political stunt—point blank.

I don’t think you have a moral obligation to be polite when speaking about people in power who are personally responsible for violence, barbarity, and mass death

“abortion pills have a lower rate of serious complications than Tylenol,……It is because of abortion bans – not abortion access – that women in America are facing dramatically rising rates of “sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging” and death in pregnancy.”

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

Your reminder that this man, who fought against universal and single payer healthcare, will himself receive state of the art care as the evil administration he caused to win destroys an already insufficient American healthcare system. We can be clear eyed and not turn him into a saint.