Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

Its kind of insulting just how stupid they think everyone is

absolute beast mode

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

Neat to see a team of @washingtonpost reporters recreate my 2022 story, complete with v similar headline, aerial photog, charts and format. If you would like to hire me to conceive of and report big, data driven packages for you, please give me a shout. I think I’m okay at it. :)

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Breaking News: A federal judge said that the case against James Comey, the former FBI director, could be in serious trouble because of apparent misconduct by the Justice Department's inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to handle the matter.

“To be clear: I am not saying Donald Trump had Jeffrey Epstein killed. I am saying that if the situation were reversed, there is no doubt that Donald Trump would definitely be claiming Joe Biden had Jeffrey Epstein killed” - me for Zeteo

If my time zone math is right, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler published this gem about two hours before the WSJ published their story hahaha

Other folks have said it, but let me just note that: (1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year (2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?

Reminder: Crime in the U.S. is at its lowest since 1961.

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

(Bloomberg) - US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates .. @bloomberg.com #Challenger www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wrote about Zohran Mamdani and the politics of trying—something Democrats can learn from, even if they live in places that aren’t as progressive as NYC: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/o...

Some larger context to Zohran’s win: Millennials are now the largest adult generation in the United States. We are also only generation not getting more conservative as we age. Our generation’s politicians are just starting to emerge.

NEW Economist/YouGov Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among... White Americans +13 | -3 Hispanic Americans -12 | -34 Black Americans -31 | -70 today.yougov.com/politics/art...

This is crazy! I hope some media reporters follow up on it.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

A new study lands squarely in current news and finds that providing homeless people with shelter reduces crime (also emergency room visits and mortality). "Shelter functions as a public good with high social benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w34376

[Exit King.]

“All parades have a right to exist” is one of the all time funniest political statements ever made in earnest

The distance, between the claim that “advocates are actually engaging in violent and dangerous behavior“ to the reality that “bystanders reported seeing children zip-tied to one another,” tells quite the moral story. Read @caitlindickerson.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

“Despotism doesn’t impose itself on everyone all at once. It creeps inward from the margins of society. We need to remind ourselves, constantly, that in the median experience of tyranny, life’s largely unchanged. Even the median experience of those being tyrannized can be free of intolerable forms..

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur. from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes sir we're chanting "Release the Earhart Files"

"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says

I just texted him to tell him. He seemed to genuinely have no idea.

"votied for the dick kicker and not gonna lie, just feels like i'm being kicked in the dick a lot these days" -tim, 34 years old, independent from ohio

CNN: Breaking news tonight, Democrats securing the final push they need to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files as Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins the special election in Arizona's 7th congressional district

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

this exists it is called thinking

hey so this is insane

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

took time away from the social media drip today, but, it is wild that the right has turned 'these shooters are destroying our college campuses' into 'these college campuses are destroying our shooters'

Reminder: Crime in the U.S. is at its lowest since 1961.

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.