the era of american humiliation

Written 2 days ago.

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

also! Coors is better

do people not like Donald Trump

during his first week as an intern, he asked me if he could expense boat shoes because he had been assigned to cover some sort of sailing event. I have been laughing about this for... 19 years.

I once watched James Hohmann dry heave into a waste basket in a closet-turned-office in Politico’s Capitol Hill bureau at 101 Constitution because he weirdly was so nervous about hitting deadline on a first draft breaking news story when John Paul Stevens announced his retirement from SCOTUS.

I love the longstanding conservative talking point of “what? Do you want your healthcare system to work like the post office?” You mean the place where I have a variety of options of where to get the job done, where I ask for a thing to happen and then it gets there?

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

This is a paranoid fantasy that the media encourages but it’s actually not true. The US produces a very educated populace. It’s just that the sheer scale of our R&D requires drawing on the finest talents of a far larger population base via immigration.

Hat tip to the Lakers dad sitting courtside with his tiny son looking Caruso directly in the eye as he complained about a foul call and clearly yelling "WHAT R U TALKIN ABOUT" I love basketball fans so much lol

Why do we keep losing wars? tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-age-of-a...

There's nothing reactionary centrists love more than describing someone participating in debate as "shutting down debate." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

me and all my deranged boys in the Lakers subreddit right now

Lakers vs Thunder Game 1 is today. We know who will win the series. But we already won the war. Because we’re the only team that legendary auteur Akira Kurosawa, who does everything with methodical precision & intention, chose to show up Double Geared Up for in his interview with Takeshi Kitano.

good season everyone

Champ du Mars, long ago: "Why do you propose to make our officers pore a boring tome by Bloch or turgid reports from Port Arthur. Your job is to engineer the spirit of Élan! And red trousers!"

The president demands election results be thrown out so Republicans win more seats

A win for the Celtics is a win for racism

FIRST BLOWN 3-1 LEAD IN CELTICS HISTORY BILL SIMMONS ON [REDACTED] WATCH

Watching a horse race and a potential season ending Boston Celtics loss in the same day may be too many endorphins for one man at once, but I’m gonna risk it

It's so beautiful

Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this

in the halftime show, Shaq attempted chest compressions on a Hawks plushie and then put it on a coffin-shaped box

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

My actual take on these NYT ‘here’s some morons’ things is that people are basically calling out for mediating insitutions to make politics comprehensible to them, because most people are not weird freaks like you probably are if you’re reading this, that like paying attention to this shit.

Everybody wants to talk about the AOC discourse but I'm sending out membership referral links to Virginians saying how DSA is promoting a Yes vote on TIM KAINE'S War Powers Act resolution.

It's what people like Popehat (who the guy ironically followed) have been warning about. When a criminal is in charge and is breaking down the rule of law so as to never be able to be held accountable, people are going to think they have no choice but to take things into their own hands.

I think about this a lot; I grew up in the L.A. area, but my family is from Oklahoma and Michigan (and practically every state if you go back far enough) The rest of the country talks about us like we don't understand them but guess what dummies we know your bullshit, we are you

"Tricked" just means they voted for more racism and a better standard of living, and they only got half of what they wanted

My experience is that for men who see women as equals, treat them openly with respect and dignity, there is no male loneliness epidemic.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

The Price Is Right contestants this morning have been excellent, good work everyone

Becerra being no on gas tax removal is hyping me up

1/ I guess i'm going to loosely blog the CA governor's debate? First Q: whether or not to cut gas tax. Steyer: blames war, windfall oil company tax instead Porter: wants to "move away from it" posits as green measure Mahan: attacks others, "reform tax" Becerra: no, need for infrastructure

Bill join DSA

Are these people for real

gonna text my dad about this

Two thirds of the IRI's air force is still intact???

"America at the end of the Biden years was still a hugely unequal society, but less so than it had been for a generation." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-vindic...

Taxes on my $5M+ second home? This country has truly gone woke

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

Quite apart from the severity of the alleged wrongdoing, irrespective of that, I'm not sure I've ever seen a politician's campaign/career implode this fast. It usually takes the loyalists and staffers at least a bit longer to jump ship. Remarkable.

They support Swalwell, want him to win, and could not care less about what he's accused of. That's the entire story of what they're up to.

that Ben Sasse interview is a weightless People-magazine like nothingburger of a chit-chat between two men who somehow still refuse to look reality in the face despite one of them actively dying from cancer.

Good point from @davidrlurie.com over at @atrupar.com's place: By surrounding himself with people who are singularly devoted to remaining in Trump's good graces, he only insures the perpetual reinforcing of his worst instincts in a downward spiral of sycophancy: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-stoo...