Jonathan V. Last

"SpaceX is a national security vulnerability. Something must be done about it." The case and some possible solutions in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

JD Vance is friends with Curtis Yarvin and Rod Dreher

I love this. Wolf Dawg 4ever. Such a charming piece by Serena Dai: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

In a time of rising antisemitism, we could use an organization dedicated to opposing it. Instead we have the ADL, which shrugs at Sieg Heils and anti-Jewish slurs at the top levels of govt to fixate on this. I grew up a few miles from Brighton Beach, and we called the area "Russian," not "Jewish."

There's a pretty big gulf between the vibes and the polls right now. Hard to know which is a more accurate view of reality. www.thebulwark.com/p/whos-right...

I don't think people fully appreciate what a sociopath JD Vance is. He's "disgusted" by R's distancing themselves from Amy Acton's mother. He's *not* disgusted by Acton's mother offering her children up to a pedophile. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-i...

Manchin was given power by the Democratic establishment and sloppy kisses by the D POTUS. But some libs were mean to him on Twitter. So he had no choice but to campaign for R's who will protect and enable Trump. www.thebulwark.com/p/frack-joe-...

I finally figured it out: Darline Graham is Kathy Giess from 30 Rock. youtu.be/ehhrGuaI6n0?...

What is Trump's animal attack fetish telling us? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

I'm not saying every "dirtbag leftist" was and is an amoral garbage bag, but I'm not not saying that.

Every word of this thread.

Enjoy your housing bust + affordability explosion, America!

NEW COVER STORY out today in @theatlantic.com, by the one and only @tyrangiel.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

There’s always a winner in the housing market, right? The buyer gets screwed, but the seller gets rich? Or the seller takes a haircut, but the buyer gets a bargain? lol Donald Trump figured out how to make a housing market where buyers and sellers BOTH lose! www.thebulwark.com/p/enter-the-...

Trump begging Putin to let him buy diesel is the worst display of weakness from an American president, ever. www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-desper...

America has invented an entirely new economic phenomenon: Moronic Inflation. My ground-breaking discovery is here: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-expert...

Super weird to have a reporter in the pooled press applying for the job of handling the pooled press for Trump . . . www.thebulwark.com/p/propagandi...

"A Republican victory in 2028 would mean we could never assume that 'liberalism”'was secure...It would mean living on the knife’s edge, between liberalism and fascism, forever. So don’t get complacent if Democrats wind up with some crazy number of Senate seats." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doomsd...

Trump voter: "In Waterford, we used to have a police department. They defunded it. We no longer do. So Waterford has no police department." You’ll never guess what happened next! www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doomsd...

Omg this whole piece is like a glass of fine wine

The word "insouciance" is what got me. If you want to feed the bad wolf, this is the piece for you. www.thebulwark.com/p/portrait-o...

We’re getting close to Downfall territory. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fore...

Wanna guess why Mark Carney just got the highest approval rating in the history of Canadian politics? www.thebulwark.com/p/canada-ame...

Canada can't confront the US. But by dint of geography and resources it ca be a counterweight making America’s life difficult because it (a) sits on our doorstep and (b) has the ability to draw closer to both the EU and China. www.thebulwark.com/p/canada-ame...

Dear Democrats, You don't have to be perfectly fair and nuanced about the cost/benefits of data centers, or AI, or Flock cameras. You can just demagogue the ever-loving shit out of *all* of it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

"Notre Dame, but if Notre Dame had an ex-Catholic cousin who got really into Wicca after freshman year and kind of just wandered off"

Guys: This piece is INSANE. Do. Not. Miss. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-found-h...

The American president is no longer leader of the free world. Worse: The American president is not indifferent to the free world. He is openly opposed to it. And he counts the new leaders of the free world as his personal enemies. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vs-t...

One of the most depressing things I've written, which is a competitive category. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vs-t...

Was Natalie Harp's first video about Trump a testimonial or slashfic? Because it ends with a title card suggesting that she was playing a character . . . www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...

However crazy you think the Trump-Natalie Harp stuff is, the reality is so much worse. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...

I'll just straight-up beg: I'm more excited about this piece than anything I've written in months. Give it a try: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Hello, 9-1-1? I'd like to report a murder?

Maybe Hassett can sell his house and move to a small town next to one to set a proper example for the peasants. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is shaping up to be the greatest day in online Philadelphia history

Opinion | When I vote for Trump, it’s a strategic triangulation that doesn’t reflect my real values. When urban Democrats nominate a leftist in a deep blue district, it’s proof that every member of their party is an America-hating extremist.

Bari Weiss’s central conceit is that she knows better than the mainstream media because of woke excesses. She has an unearned arrogance, which the anti-woke Right celebrated. Her outlet, The Free Press, is worse than legacy media - riddled with ideological drivel, not real journalism. Now CBS.

under the cloak of boring technical guidance, the Trump administration is working to delete the existence of millions of immigrants, steal congressional seats and redirect potentially hundreds of billions of federal dollars www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-tru...

I'd be interested in a graph plotting US public opinion of Israel against various other countries' opinion of the US. See how big the shift against the US has been in Canada, Spain, Denmark, etc. Magnitude is probably less; but trend similar?

Seems important for America to internalize this lesson, too.

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...

In the Economist interview, Musk says "money won't matter by 2036." Then why offer SpaceX on the public market? Is it fraud to sell people something you think will soon have no value?

Colleague, 3 mins ago: "Did you see LeBron is going to Philly?" Me: Shapiro will be insufferable. Colleague: