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2026 "things I watched" thread

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

i have a headache that refuses to end

It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.

Sharon’s writing is my appointment television. Click through and consider supporting her! (In defense of this praise arriving three days late, my basement was flooded out on Saturday, and tonight, this has reminded me how much I love my job despite everything literally falling apart around us.)

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Portland is a city known for its love of books and book stores. An annual festival that celebrates that love of all things literary announced its fall event lineup Tuesday, with dozens of authors coming to the city.

There have been some very scathing dissents over the years, but I can't think of one where the accusation is so bluntly made that the majority is a bunch of partisan hacks who are politically subservient to a president.

the fact that every real life person who was a protagonist from The Big Short has a completely melted brain and falls for incredibly easy to spot scams and or hacky political propaganda is surely a lesson in... something

Our constitutions are not the same. We have been very proud of always holding elections, no matter what else was going on. I am so tired of Trump shitting on the United States of America.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

David Roberts Someone once said, “Fascism is a counterrevolution against a revolution that never happened.” What fascists do is try to convince this reactionary base that they’re in danger, that they’re under dire threat from the liberals and the queers and the professors.

As the tweet says, this isn’t a cash strapped regional school that needs to focus on career oriented majors to attract dollars and students. It’s one of the premier universities in the country.

I generally consider myself on the left, but terminally online leftists are the absolute worst.

Lift this up!!!

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

this thread is such a great example of this tendency. instead of just arguing against the thing you don't like ("I think we should be allowed to drive over the speed limit") making up a bunch of other objections that you don't actually believe but you think sound more sympathetic

This is the platonic ideal of liberal policymaking: incontrovertibly correct, insane number of lives saved and overall QoL improvement, polls like dogshit and would be electoral suicide.

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

There are exactly two (2) generations who know how to use a printer and that knowledge will die with them

unironically, this is the song of the summer. it's been in my head for three days straight.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

A travesty and a tragedy.

Everything about this story is horrific: 1. The student never mentions Jews 2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide 3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist 4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved

Of the last 51 million jobs created, 50 million were created by Democratic Presidents

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

This is the best thing you'll see today, and I say that as a person who wrote something awesome today and does not lack for confidence.

One of the most dangerous tropes in political media is how the only Jewish voices that matter are the most right-wing ones, hence the ease with which reporters assumed Jews are scared of Mamdani. (This is also how Jewish protestors were erased from the discourse about antisemitism on campuses.)

@notalawyer.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social are prophets

We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.

Elijah D. Russo was arrested and faces a felony invasion-of-privacy charge.

After we shared that post about @axios.com saying Trump “crushed his first six months in historic ways”🤔 It came to our attention Axios is owned by Cox… which is currently looking for approval from the Trump regime to combine with Charter… 😬

as she does the right-wing media rounds today, Linda McMahon seems to have forgotten that Trump's shakedowns of universities are supposed to be about "anti-semitism"

Remember when the left was the place with ultra-academic and convoluted interpretations of seemingly simple stuff? Now Trump appointed Supreme Court justices are looking at “all persons born in the United States are citizens” in the literal constitution and saying, “ok, yes…but…”

Not only that, but their fiendish plan depended on making sure that Epstein be arrested in Trump's first term and then kill himself in a federal prison (again, while Trump was in charge) so he couldn't refute the Democratic forgeries ...

Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying it’s because CBP agents are just “arresting first and asking questions later.”