There's still time, girls

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

Everyone in the federal government and the media only has one job and it's frantically running around and trying to hide evidence of the president's many crimes. They are so tired and all they want is for him to at least pause the crimes for a minute but he keeps on doing new ones

My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.

“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.

A Democrat who was elected sheriff in Pennsylvania last month hopes others are watching: “It sends a message to elected public safety officials across the country that partnering with ICE is a loser in a district that’s remotely a swing district.”

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

I need the Nazgûl depression cloak

Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state

Exciting holiday news! @19thnews.org is hiring *two* full-time editors to join our newsroom in 2026! 🥳 Apply by January 19! 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...

just in time

There's nothing I want for the holidays! I'm immune to crass commercialis-- uh,

This is going to be incredibly awful and it didn’t remotely have to happen

My response to anything over the next two weeks

A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

A great deal of the Biden administration was spent in "the former guy" mode: get back to normal by calmly trying normal stuff, not by noisily and aggressively responding to all of the crazy and evil crap from Trump 45's term. In ways large & small, Trump 47 is making that impossible going forward.

This is what Gavin Newsom's strategic strategizing gets you.

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”

They really believe they have a 1000 year Reich going here. Primary every democrat who wants to reach across the aisle in bipartisanship after this abomination.

as the hosts hint that they would like to be invited to watch the movie at the white house, one asks "is there a movie theater in the white house?" no, dumbass, there is not. It was in the east wing.

Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.

Incredible line, from Vanity Fair part 2: @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/v...

This quote from Ben Smith in Mother Jones' profile of Benny Johnson. Honestly, great call from the haters. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mr. Beast will pay you $500,000 if you eat a statuette

I was trying to find the Choire “soulless careerist” post yesterday and the AI overview really nailed the image recognition piece

It’s still! not! enough for them!

One mind-blowing fact I learned about VR when I was working on a (cursed, ultimately canceled) work project for it is that due to eye stuff most people can only wear headsets for like 30 minutes at a time. And this was supposed to revolutionize how we work, socialize, etc?

why does he look like he’s about to be killed by the Blair Witch

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people

david duke probably wouldn't have shut down most of the CDC

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

I know Kash wouldn’t be any help catching the shooter at Brown, but I still find doing a podcast about your love life during a manhunt shocking.

I think the bigest difference between the White House staff in the first and second Trump Administrations is that a whole lot of folks in the former assumed they could control Trump or influence him. The 2.0 folks see Trump as a way to burn America down so that they can rebuild a tech dystopia.

We should distribute tiny pieces of it to anyone who wants one as a keepsake, like the Berlin Wall

kyrsten sinema seemingly had a long-term plan to cash out of her senate job by establishing a reputation as someone who was connected to both parties, so at minimum it is good to see her get to find out that her name is mud

A friend worked as a lawyer in the civil rights division of the DOJ during Obama’s first term and he said the whole time they were slogging through mud because of incompetent/saboteur W. Bush appointees. This time we gotta do some purges based on qualifications and basic democratic value alignment.

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

I have to venture to Midtown four days in a row this week, fielding questions about being the toughest woman who’s ever lived

If people really believed that you needed to engage on conservative-dominated platforms to be effective they’d be active on Truth Social, Rumble, and Kick. They are not. They just don’t like X as much anymore and they want it to be your fault

Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.

I don’t know anything about this but the new guy is clearly FINNISH so !!!

An embarrassing thing I'll admit now in honor of Rob Reiner is that this movie is partly what inspired me to go into politics. Imagine if real life had resembled the plot, where Democrats dispensed with bullshit "crime bill" triangulation in favor of meaningful climate legislation.

Can anyone with power shut this down or are we going to be forced to pay for this man’s terrible behavior forever?

We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it. They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.