As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
It guess it's good to know that if we win a trifecta in 2028, any accountability or reform agenda will be aggressively opposed by the media.
I’m on every one of these shows and I think Scott is too
A very handsome grackle preening on a branch above me, shrieking the song of his people.
Had a visitor showing off while I was waiting for my daughter today.
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Forget about the substance, the reveal that “most of” the justices talked to Mollie Hemingway for her book is bananas. Hemingway is a right-wing freak who runs a conspiracy theory blog. If literally any of the justices are taking this person seriously, the Supreme Court is GONE gone.
That’s a trap.
Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square
The #PostIronyCondition strikes again: what would have been absurdist satire in the 90s is current affairs now
WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
This is so incoherent that it only makes sense as a billionaires reactionary brain farts. Eg: public employees are not “priests” and are over compensated. Reality: they are underpaid and have been serially abused. Next point, people engaging in public life (read: DOGE, Palantir) deserve our grace.
Sure thing!
Never forget that Sam Harris is calipers-and-Bell Curve levels of racist against black people, but he is Rivers of Blood-and-nuke the Middle East levels of racist against Muslims.
I had robins in my yard earlier this year, but they’ve been gone a couple of weeks now.
I highly recommend her Eternal Sky trilogy. I liked it quite a bit. Karen Memory is also fun!
At this point I want the court packed out of spite
I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by Elizabeth Bear that I didn’t like.
There are many reasons I believe in the separation of Church and State and "you can't disagree with the head of state, that's against theology" is probably the most prominent "absolutely not" scenario.
The Inflation Reduction Act was the single most aggressive investment in rural America since the New Deal.
Direct investment, high wage jobs, energy security, you name it. It was all there.
Too bad it happened 200 years ago and all the records of it are lost forever.
anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is
The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story.
If you didn't read it already, read it.
Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
bringing back shame and social sanction for being a bigoted asshole is good, actually
