Free speech absolutism.

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

He notoriously has no respect for losers

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

"Trump's not conservative"

Oh no you don't. No no no no no.

I can tolerate Republicans moving on from Bush and the neocons, 9/11 and all that.

But you fucking own Trump from now until the end of time. He told you exactly who he was from day 1 and you voted for him 3 times. That's on YOU.

My favorite new subgenre of article is "why aren't young people engaging in the activity we just spent months demonizing as racist terrorism orgies and advocated for outlawing?"

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

Jared Polis @jaredpolis X.com The @rockies and baseball bring people together! Go Rockies! W @laurenboebert

worst democratic governor in the country imo

Intentionally?

actual nytimes headline FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides

the nytimes:

"NO ONE KNOWS MORE THAN JD VANCE ABOUT BEING A FRAUD "

"Republicans too radical, Democrats too woke" is the ideology of the owners of most major news outlets and many of the senior editors and reporters they have hired/promoted. This is Rahm's platform. So of course they amplifying his message. It is their message too.

To all the Dem factions, the actual right is mostly theoretical, alien, distant. In their daily lives they are surrounded by other people on the left & so intra-left disputes come to seem overwhelmingly important. They are more apt to *join* the right in critiquing their factional enemies.

No.

The Atlantic Subscribe IDEAS Where Are All the Campus Protests? Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.

Honestly, fuck off.

85% chance that Bryce Harper's actually doing this tho

The Most Fun Teams in Baseball A totally subjective guide to the teams you will want to watch in 2026 — and your chance to help build the Baseball Fun Hall of Fame.

Happy Opening Day! Let’s talk about the most fun teams in baseball.

An adult man named Esoteric Jeff claiming The Onion would be out of business by 2025.

A series of other guys with names like Esoteric Jeff giving The Onion 12 months to live.

The Onion being named one of the most innovative companies of 2026.

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

There are effectively 2 theories of the case

One is that silence on sports and minors made it easier for conservatives to push far broader restrictions. The other is there's no middle ground, and every concession just becomes grounds for the next attack

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

This is because hating the Democrats is a way to build social currency with other Democrats in a way that the Republicans don't do

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

I just saw Steve Hackett and his band perform “Dance On A Volcano” magnificently and in its entirety, and I don’t how I’m expected to listen to anything else for a while.

Why yes, I am day drinking at Hemingway’s favorite bar with my buddy Greg. Why do you ask?

#WriterLife

Like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright