Nick Butler

If I'm reading this right (and I assume I am):  it's now federally legal to possess marijuana, so long as you also have a gun!

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

"The Death of Mr. McMahon" is available now on the Omnibus podcast, wherever you get your podcasts! Video episode: youtu.be/NH3pXDX3ENQ #DuragVince

He is currently under federal investigation for sex trafficking, sexual assault, and other alleged crimes. Which of course makes him a prime candidate for a potential presidential pardon.

Normal teens: saying dumb things Nerd teens: waving to the future

My 3rd Annual Sometimes Weekly Christmas Greeting @sometimesweekly.com

Unlike AI, my typewriter has never lied to me

I wrote about writing letters, which is something I’ve been doing recently: www.sometimesweekly.com/2025/07/on-w...

Funnily enough, I was just thinking about repositioning my B-2 bombers, as well.

16 years ago, when I was 16 years old, I wrote a satirical news article about Donald Trump deliberating over whether or not to decrown Iran’s president. Luckily, my comedic deficiencies are largely masked by a strange prescience: web.archive.org/web/20090617...

I hope my reply reaches Zor’Pax

Here’s a different kind of article, similar to some of my earliest posts on @sometimesweekly.com. www.sometimesweekly.com/2025/06/16-y... This piece includes artifacts (physical and digital) that date back to June 14, 2009 (and beyond). Let me know what you think!

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Me, as a kid: JD Salinger was a recluse — how weird! Me, as an adult: JD Salinger was a recluse — makes sense!

“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment in your life.” — Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

JD Vance really shouldn’t have wished for a MAGA Pope with that Monkey’s paw

Normalize asking television media personalities, including “objective” news anchors, what *they* think about an issue being discussed on TV. Quality journalism is not meant to be faux-objective in the face of lies. Quality journalists in modern America should certainly have a perspective.

In October 2023, I attended RFK Jr’s third party announcement. What I observed was a prediction of our present moment and the beginning of a consolidation of ideologies toward a pro-authoritarian political movement. It’s one of my favorite pieces I’ve written: www.sometimesweekly.com/2023/10/fear...

Far from just a media problem, of course. A fetishization of “debate,” completely detached from any commitment to substantive values, is pervasive in academia as well, where “We can’t stop talking to them!” is constantly trumpeted as justification for inviting extremists to friendly fireside chats.

Hear me out

Just had a colleague walk into the break room at work, see me and exclaim: “it’s the typewriter man!” Yes, all is going according to the plan.

Help I started collecting typewriters

Academics, stop assuming good faith from right-wing political operatives. They exploit your willingness to discuss ideas on their merits to launder credibility for their deeply unscientific, inhumane agenda. Sincerely, A disinformation and money-in-politics reporter

“In addition to creating value by leveraging an expanding marketplace, given the well-documented incestuous nature of the Trump Family, the reacquisition also helps preserve a significant piece of Internet history,” @nickbutler.xyz added, just now.

Exciting news!

I was 16 years old:

Me when my boss didn’t codify Roe or close Guantanamo Bay when he had a supermajority in Congress but want people to forget that and think about Joe Biden some more

Crazy heel turn on CBS Sunday Morning