You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
Texas Rep. Greg Casar: The mistake Democrats have made in the pas is playing by a different set of rules, a generally accepted set of rules, and then Republican governors like Greg Abbott draw radically racially gerrymandered maps ...We have to actually fight fire with fire here.
Men will literally release the MLK files instead of releasing the Epstein files
Dems criticizing the BBB b/c it makes cuts to medicaid or extends tax cuts for the rich is playing politics like it’s 2015.
Folks, don’t bury the lede: it funds an exponential expansion of the lawless, durable, authoritarian police state that is emerging from the mass deportation program!
In the NYC mayoral primary, the voters defeated the party establishment. That’s what people are saying when they say the party tried to stop him. Pedantic "erm, ackshually, the VOTERS are the party!" stuff is obnoxious.
the lesson you should draw from the most jewish city in the world putting an israel-skeptic muslim over the top in the mayoral primary is literally the opposite of "anti-semitism is a serious threat to local jews." trust me when i tell you we understand self-interest.
"Haha I'm still young" I say as I load up my multi-compartment pill organizer for the week.
It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
Tom Thibodeau broke Leon Rose’s rules.
@prezidente.bsky.social’s latest: a top-down breakdown of why Tom Thibodeau’s exit wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment reflex, rather a culmination of Thibs’ slow departure from Leon’s vision:
www.thestrick.land/strick/the-k...
Had this conversation the other day. Just regular dudes talking doom over here.
Authoritarian Occupation: Los Angeles and the Next Chapter of Our Lives
open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...
"He's leaving his job to make more family with his time" is a fantastic line about Elon Musk. Kudos, TDS.
hey man, i plugged your work into my ai bot and it asked if everything was ok at home
It’s so interesting that an outlet that encourages its writers to speak truth to power is flourishing in a media industry where everything else seems to be in decline. I want that to be a lesson to people. Kowtowing to power—if your job is not that, nobody fucking wants that. It does nothing for you to pull a punch at this moment. You have to be able to stand up for a baseline of humanity. That’s what we do here. And I’m glad to tell you that they never blinked. They never thought twice about it. They just always were like, “All right, well, let’s keep doing what we do here.”
People keep asking why The Onion is doing well right now, and it's simply because we just refuse to kowtow. I cannot stress enough how good it is for your business and your soul be strong and even fun in the face of the ongoing horror and bullshit.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Word to Clay Davis...
you're welcome
Robert Prevost and JB Pritzker
THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER
THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
Trump imposed tariffs by abusing emergency powers, claiming that all sorts of things unrelated to national security are national security emergencies, and largely getting away with it because the law doesn’t explicitly say they’re not.
Well, the same law explicitly says it cannot be used on movies.
Martin Brundle’s cringe is elite
