Noting again that WaPo seems to be still functioning normally where it is functioning (news side only, of course). Still breaking news, including plenty that's bad for Trump.

our money being sent to bail out gulf oil monarchies while we pay $6/gallon at the pump. Hail to the thief

We're in Publishers Weekly talking about Travis Muñoz and the Fire of the Aztecs! Out next week!

Link: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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I hate him so much.

What if I told you government could do things to meaningfully improve your life?

i think it's just my algorithms since i interact w feminist content and this stuff often cloaks itself in that philosophy, but the fatalistic gender essentialism being fed to young women on social media rn is SO bleak

Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie: "Email is an important distribution channel. It should not be your only one." then he quotes Mills Baker on his team: "I know l've said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to change, to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business, as you may know! You can blame a few things:"

Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.

2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’

John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”

A sowing/reaping for the ages

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

"Bartov’s insistence that Zionism, as originally conceived, was essentially a movement of liberation helps explain his refusal to identify as an anti-Zionist... he does declare himself “completely, vehemently opposed to the kind of Zionism that exists today.”" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

Seals predictably clapping

This guy hasn’t read a single book about military history, has he?
Can we bet on how long this policy lasts?

Screenshot of a WSJ headline: "Germany Is Reinventing Itself as a Weapons Factory"

Has it been good when this happened in the past

Wow i cant believe Trump got on CNBC before markets opened and did the exact same substance free bullshitting about the Iran War he's been doing every other day for the past two months

I don’t think we quite appreciate how consequential Kotaku’s revitalization under new ownership, after being dragged to the absolute brink by Great Hill, is for the industry. It proves what many of us knew in our hearts; bad management is the beating heart of digital media’s woes.

Why America is falling out of love with Israel Public opinion and elite sentiment has turned decisively against Netanyahu

"There should be no mystery why younger Americans are as pro-Palestinian today as their forebears were once pro-Israeli. Rabin staked his life on peace. What will posterity say of Netanyahu?" My column on why America is falling out of love with Israel. www.ft.com/content/353e...

EU top court strikes down Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ rules Viktor Orbán had banned mentions of homosexuality in media accessible to children and outlawed Pride marches.

Odd timing to make Peter Magyar deal with this in the immediate aftermath of his win, but clearly it was coming given how blatantly the Orban law clashed with EU principles www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

The social media pivot from chronological timelines to popular-first was done at least partly to throttle real time organizing

Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.

Gender should literally just be a common thing that people *should* examine in order to have a fullness of life, even if nothing massively changes. It should be as common as developing a fashion style or a music taste. Deconstruction of societal imprint, no matter how “far” you go, is freedom.

A tall, older woman with sun-damaged skin, gray hair, holding a giant bleeding suture needle. She's got a cool vest and cross-body bag that I wish I could pull off, too.

In my bimonthly allowance of a free morning I think about strange, angry old women that go around trying to fix things with giant sewing needles and sutures.

Got exactly one citation and ignored by several major pubs covering the official Microsoft post here, looking forward to Thursday when they get to do it again when token-based billing is announced ❤️

dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden

swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively

there's a moral here, of a sort

The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.

I think the PS4 era cemented the idea that melodrama equals story into the minds of gamers harder than any other specific time period, often to the detriment of storytelling, and it’s gonna take years to unlearn that.

Again: Jerusalem crosses are common in many Christian contexts. I’ve seen progressive Christians who have them as tattoos.

But like many symbols, context can alter their meaning — incidentally or on purpose.

E.g., Hegseth has the cross tattoo *and* one that reads “Deus Vult” — the crusader war cry

Kevin review – Aubrey Plaza’s new cat comedy is so irretrievably bad it must never be allowed to happen again The team behind this adult animation is unbelievably stellar – Jason Schwartzman, John Waters, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Sedaris … Sadly, it’s so awful it’s hard to even express its direness

All I'm going to say is my God, I think the most professional people I've ever met are TV and film industry artists because they will take the most dogshit scripts imaginable, and stay in their lane to focus on making the most beautiful art they can that time, budget, and style guide will allow

I'm so tired of this "false sense of victimization" these weak men feel.

"Oh no, women don't worship. Women don't want me. Women are too independent. Women should be sex toys. Women shouldn't have rights."

Like fuck that. Only weak men are screaming victimization.