☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

I met with Finer, Sullivan, and a bunch of Biden's senior people several times throughout 2023-2024 and I cannot stress enough how maddening it is to watch them reposition now after spending the time they were actually in power gaslighting the shit out of everyone

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

Put a monument for the people of Minneapolis for this on the National Mall when all is said and done.

The summer I turned 20 I climbed out of the circled window here and into the window to its left, mostly to try to impress some women. My point here is it’s amazing there are any adult men alive on earth.

Kalshi is a vile pernicious company making the world worse in every way, so I was happy to cost them a tiny amount of money by taking a free cappuccino from a Kalshi branded food truck in lower Manhattan.

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

🚨NEWS: After raking in a $3 million payday as a corporate lawyer, Obama's former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is spearheading the campaign to block a ballot measure that would raise taxes on his fellow millionaires, cut taxes for 95% of voters & prevent huge health care cuts.

In new podcast, JPMorgan co-president alludes to "getting feedback from the U.S. military ... that the world needed to re-militarize"

"we Black Americans dont buy what the Leftist be selling"

What you see just before the world's greatest predators start eating you

This is by Uri Geller. I guess it's appropriate that one of the world's most notorious scam artists is also a hard-right hate-monger: jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

To my shock Tanguy Destable, Natalie Portman's boyfriend, is a real person who is genuinely named that people.com/all-about-ta...

My guess is that if the longest-serving Democratic Speaker of the House had been a convicted child molester, Republicans might mention it from time to time. By contrast the Democrats have always been committed to a discreet silence about Dennis Hastert:

One thing I've learned in life is that whenever someone says "What you have to understand about [some group] is that they're [some description]," the description always applies to all humans everywhere. This from the WSJ is a real classic of this genre: wsj.com/opinion/reve...

This is a great piece by Michael Lewis about the damage done by Gavin Kliger and the other youthful idiots of the Khmer Doge www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The review of Naza by Gal Beckerman in the Atlantic reminds me of a previous article by him, from which I learned that I and all my friends who lived in lower Manhattan in 2001 did not exist

DNA testing showed 30 years ago that *a* Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. But holdouts desperately claimed it wasn't Thomas. Now DNA from a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair cut on his deathbed proves it was him: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Everyone on earth should see Naza — except Palestinians, who are excused for having to live it and having told the world this was happening for the past 3 and/or 80 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...

One reason I'm skeptical that Elon Musk will save free speech in America is his bitter, lifelong hatred of free speech www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

I am surprised to hear myself saying "Wow, Sylvester Stallone is a genuinely interesting and thoughtful human being" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/m...

ho hum, just the Israeli government violating the fundamental rationale for Israel's existence www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The older I get the more I enjoy life's simple pleasures, such as rehydrating chickpeas in an instant pot

all literature is stink lines coming off the alphabet

My main question about life is whether the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. So far all signs point to yes.

A simple way to improve AI safety is to enforce the law. If Sam Altman knows that he will be treated like a drunk driver after an accident if his AI causes serious damage, he will be much more careful deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...

An underrated grotesque film moment is in Return of the King when the One Ring floats briefly on crusty burned bits of Gollum before sinking into the molten hot lava

My experience is that eating two kiwis before bed does, weirdly enough, make you sleep longer and more deeply: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uref...

USDA Replaces Food Stamps With One Giant Rutabaga To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.

Matthew Ygelsias knows very well that Medicare for All would cost less than our current healthcare system, and so there's no reason to worry about how to "pay" for it. But sometimes he just pretends to be stupid. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence currentaffairs.org/news/meme-in... by @eliseswain.bsky.social in @currentaffairs.bsky.social

25 years ago today, Barbara Lee cast the House’s love vote against the Afghanistan AUMF, to this day perhaps the most courageous act I have ever seen an elected official perform.

There's been some progress in the past 25 years on the right — here we see this guy acknowledging that al Qaeda attacked the US on 9/11 over our foreign policy, rather than pretending they "hate us for our freedom" or whatever

25 years ago at this time I was sitting on the stoop of my building on W. 11th St. with my neighbors, talking and drinking disgusting wine coolers. If you’d told me the US was about to kill four million people, I would have thought: Yes, that sounds about right.

The Viet Cong dug **250 miles** of tunnels to hide in, rather than using that money to develop their own country. Tells you everything you need to know about them.