One day, Democrats will actually start voting for what they believe in, and not the bland mean they think can win. /end

Porter is the only serious candidate, and the fact that so many Democrats, especially the mediocre centrist wing, seem to be rejecting her because she is "abrasive" or "difficult" feels all to terribly familiar. 2/

It is, frankly, pretty revolting to me to watch so-called California progressives running fearfully into the arms of another billionaire on another ego-trip campaign. If this state lets another wholly unqualified rich dude buy his way into office, they will deserve everything they get. 1/

Love seeing this! I am very happy on beehiiv and hope to see a critical mass develop over there.

Tim Cook Is An Embarrassing Coward Apple CEO Tim Cook represents soulless, rudderless contrition, unburdened by consistent ethics or any sort of overt moral compass, desperate to delude you into believing that fascism can be a reasonab...

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Really a fantastic novel. A real frolic for fans of Oreo by Fan Ross.

The location of the Strait of Hormuz on google with the opening hours shown at Mon-Fri 9.30am - 4pm

Someone has actually done this on Google 😂😂👏

Undoubtedly.

I am full of piss takes today, it seems.

"Patel is a drunk" won't move the needle any more than "Hegseth is a drunk." Trump only rouses himself to fire people when he feels he is being made to look bad to the population at large. Noemi was a PR disaster. Bondi inflamed the base. Some tasty dish in the Atlantic, though fun, won't do it.

Chacun a son gout!

THE PITT is terrible.

It had to be said.

Sure, it's realistic and yeah, Noah has charisma to burn. But there's not a single dimensional character in the show; it relies entirely on the inherent drama of an ED. And it's familiar as hell.

I was out after five episodes; which was a chore.

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.

Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

If you dumped Twitter but are still on Substack, consider taking another look.

Reminder: Substack is not the only game out there, folks.

"We actually hold our candidates accountable" is a good message, actually

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Just noting that this kind of collective reaction does not happen in a void of knowledge, or at least suspicion. There is no credible "This is a frameup" argument to be made.

End Notes: Absalom, Absalom! - Believer Magazine It’s 1997. Or maybe ’98. My father is still alive. I’m spending Christmas Eve alone. I forget why. I must have been nursing some wound I no longer remember. No, I do remember. I just don’t want to…

"My adviser, Frank Conroy, said anybody who didn’t read Faulkner, and Absalom, Absalom! in particular, had as much chance of becoming an American writer as Mother Teresa."

—Peter Orner, with a cover by @liniers.bsky.social:

Viktor Orbán has been ousted—and efforts by Washington and Moscow to prop the autocratic leader up give his defeat implications that extend far beyond Hungary, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Budapest.

Read more: theatln.tc/KdGVkPGT

Fischer is particularly egregious, sadly. Has always been a troll.

Whil we’re waiting to see what happens in the Hungarian election, here’s something I wrote in 2013 about Orbán attacking cultural dissenters and handing control of arts institutions to loyalists. Remarkable how much of this has now been replicated in the US www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

Have held off getting a Hungarian passport for years due to Orbán. Now I can get the application rolling at last.

It’s a great night for the Leftist chatterati

A toppled tyrant in Eastern Europe makes me think of Leonard Bernstein on Christmas Day 1989 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Be funny if Usha was like “how’d the trip go?”

No amount of gerrymandering will fix that