One thing he may find annoying is a thing I ran into. I once tried to ban the use of facial recognition in public schools and public housing in NYC. I got people to agree but at the last minute the law department had to kill it because it cannot be done by executive order.

This is badass

Hold on a minute www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Was revisiting this one.

The Trump administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities go.nature.com/4pMeAuU

Good summary.

Somehow? They hate Jesus, it’s a good chance they will hate the Pope

This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

I asked ChatGPT to take a look at some text. It can’t do this at all yet it can draft mathematical diagrams.

Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why

I am angry that this turd (not Josh) is bothering Bill over a seminal piece of American art. Here’s one of my favorites that a lot more people need to read.

Of all the trials to mess up. Incredible. It’s such a slam dunk it’s like you shouldn’t even need a lawyer to win

It’s amazing how many legit people got themselves pulled into this clearly sham operation

I really do think it’s very important to completely destroy whatever this ends up being.

This is the Trump plot line I least understand. I have literally no clue what they’re doing or why. I mean I know they’re randomly killing fishermen but just why and why Venezuela and why any of this

Never knew this. Wild.

Very funny

We are going to bulldoze the entire thing. I don’t care what he builds there.

I find it funny when people who hate him call this “performative”. In a sense it is, it’s not like it’s his job to literally hand out food himself, but this is his job, to highlight issues and good organizations working to help. It’s such nonsensical criticism. You’re supposed to be doing this.

I would, but it’s Julie Menin.

Well, I will confess I’ve never tried saying this.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

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I really did not have “Kathy Hochul understands this political moment better than almost anyone else in the Democratic Party” on my bingo card but here we are

A must read. Click through.

This wasn’t your only statement. This other one was good too. Hilarious.

It’s the funniest thing of all time.

Oh, but this time we’re going to do it right, and we’re going to do it hard.

One of the Crown Jewels of the government.

No. You can’t fucking have it. Fuck you.

Lmao. This guy knows how to hate. It’s great.

What’s going on here?

But tell us more about Zohran please

Hilarious

I not too long ago was a guest for a year at a private club in upper Manhattan that still does not allow women and refused to expel members of the Confederacy (which led to the creation of the competing Union League). I was declined from there by a person actually named G. Pennington Egbert IV.

Larry David very rarely gets involved in actual political things but was so irritated by Bill Maher complimenting Trump he did this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild

Yes. Let us investigate J. Pierpont Morgan. This makes sense.

What is this? This is insane writing. I mean I hate the NYT politics people but this is usually not the problem, this is bananas

what the actual fuck

Absolutely bizarre that these people willingly chose to pass up the pleasures of being rich in Kokomo, Indiana

The problem you have here, Foghorn Leghorn, is the president and leader of your party is a pedophile and a rapist. What do you think it looks like to address that in a satisfying way?

It is sad, we are still trying to do it.

What the fuck was going on here

I am reminded of a Chappelle bit where he talks about the one white guy in the black gang. “Those are the most dangerous motherfuckers in those groups, you know what they had to do to get in that gang?”

🤔

As always, it's appalling at the same time it's so cheap, tawdry, and embarrassing. What a pathetic, shabby little gangster.

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari