You get Alan Dershowitz and Tulsi Gabbard. We will take -- check that, can't think of anyone we want.

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

New York Times writer Norimitsu Onishi argued that the killings might be "the natural byproduct of the country's culture of violence, drinking and machismo"

Eric Alterman, CUNY distinguished professor in English and journalism, wrote a critique of Onishi's article. He observed that the article did not provide any evidence - witness or police reports - to back up the story. Alterman says that this is the issue with journalism: "You can make up as much stuff as you want as long as nobody in power has a reason to object."

Hahaha -- I had an instant stfu reaction to this NYT shitstain, and then 2 paras later saw this response

We might be due for a sequel to this book. Things have only gotten worse in the following 23 years.

Opinion | There Is a Contest Trump Is Winning

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

The Invisible People - Tablet Magazine Jewish creators represent everyone’s stories on TV and in film except for their own. And that’s a problem.

This article is comically ignorant, simple-minded, whiny, boastful and dishonest, even by Tablet's considerable standards for all of those qualties. Who are the chumps paying for this crap?
www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court

The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.

I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.

When I visited Cornell in 1978, it was a nice day, but literally everyone I spoke to would not shut up about what a nice day it was. I was like 'yeah, a nice day, I get it. Relax." I should have thought a bit more about why they were all so excited. Ithaca. Oy.

Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Screenshot of a Substack note by account 'JoJoFromJerz' that says: 'In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.'

None of this is normal.

While we're on the subject of assessing people for what the harm they cause society...

“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition

He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.

Reduced prices, alas. $12k for June, $20k for August
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10cc - I'm Not In Love YouTube video by 10ccVEVO

Maybe a year or two ago. This song used to terrify me as a kid, later I found it annoying, and now I accept that it's actually really well crafted.n

youtu.be/STugQ0X1NoI?...

Wichita Lineman, Superstar, This Guy’s In Love With You — so many of those 60s/70s AM radio songs I thought were schmaltzy have amazing rich chord progressions I appreciated when I started playing guitar

Journalistic weasel-words at work

There's a whole set of conservative grifters out there saying that Americans have lost faith in American higher ed.

I've been listening on audible to Molly Crabapple's history of the Bund, and I can't escape thinking of how much the Russian pogroms of the early 20th century have in common with the rampaging of West Bank settler/terrorists. Not in numbers of course, but in "smirking indifference of the state."

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They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.

Landing of a great thread on the Yale Report.

1989

Iran’s Regime Has Changed—for the Worse The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump negotiating $20 billion bribe from US to Iran to get a worse deal than the one he abrogated - Lawyers, Guns & Money Great job American voters! You put a “real businessman”* in charge, instead of all those clown politicians acting like clowns. *Not a real businessman. Also, too, you know Needy Amin is going to get h...

Trump negotiating $20 billion bribe from US to Iran to get a worse deal than the one he abrogated www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/trum...