Think. It. Through.

Like…immigration was always America’s thing. We have a big statue about it in one of our (and the world’s) most prominent cities. It used to be our brand that America is where you go to get a fresh start. All gone, because white supremacy.

I'm not sure "why haven't you committed seppuku, think of your family's honor" will get the dignified response it deserves

I would 100 percent do this

A journalist clearly communicates important information to the public. Part of the answer to “how did we get here” is that we don’t have a lot of journalists in our politics, but we still call them journalists and maintain the illusion. Access-driven reporting has killed journalism in America.

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

“Turns out, girls love ball.”

The level of financial misalignment is as bad as I’ve been warning, and you’re going to see headline after headline of stuff I’ve said in the newsletter for years. I say this with both pride and sadness because being right is going to be many layers of horrible.

I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control

"Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage" is this administration's general vibe.

Fuck the NYT and all the arrogant entitled little shits that work there.

This is AIPAC. (::sigh::)

“Nobody eats GDP” is a reality that Will Stancil has never, ever accepted.

Say you're a bush pilot flying food, clean water, and medicine to a remote town. One day, you decide you just don't feel like doing it. People in the town die because they didn't get meds in time. Are you responsible for those deaths? Bremmer says "obviously" no. I say obviously, undoubtedly, yes.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

Start With Why Not by Simon Sinek

The 25th Amendment is so, so fucking useless. The last 10-20 years have been a real stress test for our Constitution, and it’s failing badly.

This guy forgot to mention Pol Pot, Hitler, and Genghis Khan. Mamdani truly is a hypocrite for refusing to name them as war criminals. 🙃

I continue to be amazed/horrified/depressed at how common Underpants Gnome logic is amongst corporate leadership. There’s nothing there, but because they’re wealthy and in charge, well then they must have a secret plan. They don’t. They’re just underpants gnomes.

It's the take of a person who doesn't understand what desperation feels like, who has no skin in the game. The real issue with him has never been the charts or the metrics. The issue is his barely veiled contempt for people who aren't sitting where he sits. His privilege is baked into his POV.

The fact that these people are willing to sleep on fascists dismantling their democracy and killing people in the street, but have gone to war when a bunch of socialists have threatened their jobs is precisely why they must all be replaced.

never trump republicans were never on our side

all of these people have never made more money than when trump is in the white house. they loathed having to cover obama and biden and were terrified at the notion of having to cover hrc. they put their thumb on the scales and theyve been cashing in for over a decade. and liberals are STILL simping

Back in Ann Arbor, I used to wrangle teammates and/or roommates to come to Panchero’s and get the “El Gordo” burrito. We would heartily eat and enjoy them, and I would then say “and just like that we are all 2 pounds heavier now.” It was just a nice little bit of shame as a garnish. Good times.

This is awesome. (Scroll up the thread to see the dialogue, it’s worth it IMO.)

I’m glad that the walls seem to be closing in on Andrew Tate, but it took criminal investigations across three countries, dozens of outspoken victims, and a hit TV show implying he drives boys to murder girls for this to happen—and he still hasn’t been convicted yet. This is why 98% get away with it

It truly is extraordinary to watch how any accusation of rape or sexual assault immediately is treated by our culture as an event requiring the protection, not of the victim's safety, but of the accused's reputation. Every accusation enters a workflow designed to negate the impact of the accusation.

Hot take: this is human nature, and we all do this to some extent or another.

There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing

@tizzyent.bsky.social did a good job of highlighting the (good) context here. Sharing just because.

I wrote about Naomi Klein joining Substack and why writers of conscience shouldn't launch new media ventures on platforms that court white supremacy for clicks.

"I'm a rapist and so are all my guy friends" is not the flex Carolla thinks it is.

the "who won the 2020 election" question is the world's easiest litmus test to determine if a Trump appointee is going to be a hack, because every single one of them can't answer the question and every single one of them is, inevitably, a hack every Dem should vote no on all of them

When guys are like “that’s not rape, all my friends have done that,” that’s exactly what we’re talking about. That’s the problem. Rape is so common and unpunished that a guy could casually reveal all his friends are rapists and not see it as a problem.

What we already know is horrific. Imagine how bad discovery would be if the government is willing to pay our fees (something the government doesn’t readily do) just to avoid it.

you literally can do good and useful things for people - you just have to want to - and mamdani continues to show that the establishment has not wanted to

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

The answer to the question “how and why did this happen?” is steadily being answered with “all the people involved are awful and they made predictably awful decisions.” Dan Moraff didn’t see trouble with Graham Platner because Dan Moraff saw *himself* in Graham Platner.

Not all heros wear capes.

I’m growing confident that Daniel Moraff also has a suspicious tattoo on his body.