Fuck this shitbag low-rent developer dictator

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

yea, let's hear from the senator who dropped out b/c she admitted that her health plan was to just let some people die

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Scenes from today's #NoKings in Beverly Hills. Good crowd - more than a thousand I would guess - considering there were dozens in LA today

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

The best thing you or any other American can do right now to combat Ttump's authoritarianism and ICE lawlessness is show up to a rally on Saturday. #nokings

Next it'll be the I hate Rachel Green Club youtu.be/33vCVnJIE6E?...

Yea but let's fire people for factually repeating things Charlie Kirk said

No Kings. Be there or be square

$1000 to a reporter who asks: "Speaker Johnson how do you square your Christian faith with your repeated violations of the 9th commandment about lying like here in regard to Capitol Police & Jan 6th?" (Joke's on you: The only pols asked a question like this are pro-choice Democratic Catholics)

No Kings. Be there or be square

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Is this what the kiddies mean by quiet quitting?

And it's almost like what we're experiencing with capitalism requiring fascism to continue its consolidation of wealth in the face of breakdown is something we've seen over and over again and that the wealthy's insistence on repeating patterns has brought us to the brink again.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do. Looking at you, all major news orgs.

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

I truly don’t understand living through the DOGE experience and being like “great model, a+, no notes”

And you thought hiring Bill Belichick was going to be the worst decision UNC made this year

A rare bit of headline clarity from the NYT

A rare bit of headline clarity from the NYT

I'm not a political messaging expert but I slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night so: 1. Make Stephen Miller the face of this & the shadow president. Americans will love hating him. 2. Dodge the "fighting crime" BS reICE/troops. Frame it in broad terms about a betrayal of core American values

This is a fab fun list idea

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

The convergence of real billionaires and Montgomery Burns continues apace

Bingo

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products. Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

This piece is as bad as the headline. Big tell is when you begin history when you choose –– here 1993 w/Clinton & "don't ask, don't tell." Second tell, you repeat claims the military has been harmed w/o actual evidence

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Thank you sir for your service, your courage and your patriotism.

Watching Malcom-Jamal Warner tonight's Murder in a Small Town in what must be his final performance is so bittersweet. He carved out a great second act the last decade and he's gone far too soon.

How bad must it really be for Politico to notice?

Notice her non-answer. This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

Yes, this. One weakness of Democratic leadership has been not to articulate this larger alternative vision to Trumpism, one that is more rooted in American ideals and majority popular

Yea, and when B schools and Econ depts give equal weight to Marxists and Communists ...

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

What's with this season premiere of Chicago Fire turning Trumpy?

Since someone asked, the newsletter/site is hoted at Ghost, which is not, it should be noted Substack. In case that's a selling point.

"“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus

The NYT will run this story regularly until it is right. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Donald Trump’s decision to invade Portland on the basis of video from five years ago raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

This👇is so important and it is something even many authors don’t get

We finally have the plot of Avengers: Doomsday but unfortunately no one will see it because tickets will cost $100 a piece.