Michael McCormick

I wrote something for The Nation about how Republican style has changed over the last fifty years. But first, let me tell you a short story. 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today “No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”

please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals

Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? Even in the summer, when it was scorching hot? Why is this? 🧵

I get the same amount regardless so I have no actual preference, buy it from wherever you like, from an economic point of view it's all the same to me. That said, if you also want to support a local indie bookseller while getting ebooks: bookshop.org/ebooks

"I don’t care if Clinton is in the Epstein files. I don’t care if any Democrats are on the client list. I don’t care if any progressives are on the client list... You know why? Because I'm not in a cult." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/i-dont-car...

I think people have yet to wake up to just how amazing e-bikes are. I commute about 20 miles a day, using about 10 cents of electricity. (Mostly on safe trails.) Every time I ride my brain is ecstatic. I get a workout, but don’t need to shower when I get to work.

Trade letter for the Heard and McDonald Islands just dropped.

For the first half of my kindergarten year, my family lived in a shitty little apartment complex somewhere in Central Texas. I forget where. I think Waco? Copperas Cove? We moved around a lot. If memory serves correctly, I attended three different schools that year. (thread)

Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.

I'm sure some of y'all are wondering what the hell is going on in D.C. tonight. Summary: GOP Senators are being openly greedy and corrupt with all their personal asks in the Big Beautiful Bill, but they're struggling to fit all those asks, like a snake choking on a bucket of dead mice. (1/3)

When confronted with the misdeeds of other nations, why did Donald Trump respond by saying that America is no better? @radiofreetom.bsky.social on the president’s smears on his own country:

As Pride Month comes to its annual conclusion, I've gone ahead and made some supplementary donations to @translifeline.org and Transgender Law Center, because now is certainly the time for that, isn't it. The world (and my personal world) is better for the trans folks who are in it. Simple as that.

Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

No matter where you live, please consider adopting an animal from your local shelter. I promise you they will brighten your life beyond measure. They are the comfort on hard days. Even if you can't fully adopt, your local shelter could use help fostering. Reach out to them to see.

USA foreign policy in the Middle East for the last 50 is basically just attempting to bomb countries into being liberal democracies and getting really mad every single time when it never ever works.

Remember this moment. Trump is reveling in the narcisisstic and sadistic thrill of threatening others with violent death. He will start to crave that feeling.

Happy No Kings Day to all of us who celebrate.

Oh, shit, this is perfect www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/con...

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨ Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky! In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires. Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

"I’ve been struggling mightily over the past two days with the question of what is and isn’t appropriate to say on an occasion that’s meant to be dedicated to remembering the women and men in uniform who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/feeling-na...

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Remember the name Rob Sand. He beat a Republican incumbent in 2018 for State Auditor & is the only Democrat serving statewide elected office in Iowa right now. He just launched his bid for governor of Iowa. He is a rising star & worth paying attention to.

Ut oh. Even the most committed MAGAts are disturbed by Trump's grift. 🤔

1. Tomorrow's my birthday and here's a gift you can get for me: Buy a small creator's work. Local band, indie writer, up-and-coming visual artist, that crafter down the street, or whomever. Your support matters to them, especially in this economic/social environment. And you deserve some joy, too.

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

🔹If you cut deals with our trading partners there won't be much tariffs revenue. 🔹If you keep tariffs high enough to generate revenue, you won't get deals. You can have deals, or tariffs revenue, but not both. Each flip-flop from one to the other drives paralyzing levels of uncertainty higher.

It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal: "President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "

Exclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained.

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

I’m going to tell you a wonderful story now. You see, Girldog is sixteen, which is quite ancient for a corgi. Her joints aren’t great, and her back legs sometimes give out when she walks, and she struggles with standing up, especially in the morning.

It's not relevant whether Abrego Garcia has committed thousands of crimes. Disappearing him off to an El Salvadorean maximum security prison *without due process* is wholly illegal totalitarian bullshit. Everyone who has been sent there by this administration should be brought back, not just him.

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

The morning after the election, I had a panicked thought: “My threat model is wrong.” I’d been giving privacy advice for years, but my counsel would not protect against an authoritarian president seeking revenge against political enemies. Tyranny was going to require a new threat model.

I suppose I owe it to all of you who are new and absolutely appalled at my views on travel to let you know that I've been like this for a long time and have rules I expect you all to follow: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-six-ru...

There are 2 economic ideas behind the Trump tariffs. One is obviously very stupid. The other is also very stupid, but less obviously so. (thread)

I am confused as to what this sort of revisionism is intended to accomplish. Quite a lot of people very obviously thought that, man. People have been coming here for a reason. There's a reason there's a giant statue of Bill Clinton in Kosovo; we didn't put it there.

“The eighty-year period when the U.S. embraced global economic leadership—when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of good and services—is over.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

It's the one piece of mine I don't ever take money for and allow everyone who asks to reprint it. In the cases where people who wanted to reprint it weren't allowed not to pay for it, I assigned the payment to hunger and poverty related charities.

Elon’s Downfall

Efforts to erase trans people will not be successsful. Today is a day for visibility of this community that's under fierce attack. #TransDayOfVisibility