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National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”

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damn fine

10.03.2026 17:27 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH
Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

Watching the DOGE boys try to describe their mission and define DEI is tremendous content

www.youtube.com/watch?v=joma...

10.03.2026 14:16 👍 481 🔁 93 💬 29 📌 13
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Important keychain advancement

10.03.2026 14:07 👍 314 🔁 6 💬 17 📌 0

Perfect for us tbh bc the vast majority of our commutes are less than 25 miles round trip but I sometimes need to do 100 mile work trips without the time to charge en route

10.03.2026 14:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She got the balance right in The Mandibles imo

10.03.2026 13:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Plot: nice liberal mom with three childless kids signs up with a program to resettle migrants in homes. She lets in a helpful Honduran woman who finagles to keep letting Hondurans into the house until they take it over, steal the mom’s property and money, wash their feet in her sous vide container

10.03.2026 13:03 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 1

They all said I was a FOOL for buying a plug-in hybrid when gas prices were low last year.

Actually, nobody said that. But I’m going to pretend they did to burnish my ego.

10.03.2026 13:01 👍 389 🔁 9 💬 18 📌 5

It’s so good on stuff like the Devil’s Scenario and then she’ll, like, skip over how we have Aegis missiles

10.03.2026 12:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

10.03.2026 03:09 👍 15380 🔁 3775 💬 275 📌 224

Shriver is an increasingly important anti-woke author (started a decade ago but there’s bigger ecosystem for her now). She’s getting more Ayn-Randy, with more long monologues laying out the perspectives and data (like a dinner party scene where the hosts info-dumps about racial birthrates)

10.03.2026 12:43 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 9 📌 1

I said “okay man I get it” out loud after the yo-yos returned

10.03.2026 12:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, a new TWILIGHT ZONE host

10.03.2026 12:41 👍 101 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
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Last week’s books. Disappointed by The Score, impulse bought it after reading a good interview w author. Shriver book is The Camp of the Saints in Flatbush, Nuclear War is outstanding even if (like me) you’re bored with apocalypse stories

10.03.2026 12:37 👍 58 🔁 0 💬 15 📌 1

Oops! Looks like "Chicago Progressive Partnership" (the supposedly separate super PAC running this attack ad) just outed themselves and confirmed the speculation that it's the same group (AIPAC) behind the pro-Fine/anti-Biss super PAC "Elect Chicago Women" aka: ECW

"ECW: You are now opted-out..."

10.03.2026 00:07 👍 831 🔁 202 💬 14 📌 11
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Let's check in on the leading candidates to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in tomorrow's primary.

09.03.2026 20:56 👍 129 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 4

Not at the ones with the DAVE BANNED FOR LIFE signs (they use an old photo on the poster so don't always recognize me)

09.03.2026 20:44 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yeah I first learned of her by watching "Wild Rose" on a plane and going "wow she's amazing!" Happy for success just didn't love her breakout movie

09.03.2026 19:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Will the world keep turning if "Hamnet" wins best adapted screenplay, or if Rose Byrne loses the Oscar? Maybe. But why take the chance?

09.03.2026 19:17 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats to new Bluesky CEO @jamellebouie.net

09.03.2026 19:11 👍 438 🔁 24 💬 8 📌 4

I'm a white dude with a cop mustache who usually wears blazers and slacks; have definitely used this privilege to walk into a hotel I'm not staying at and use wifi/men's room w nobody asking Qs.

But stealing from the supermarket? foh

09.03.2026 18:42 👍 51 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Take pity on those of us who think Buckley's great, have watched entire movies ("Men") bc she's such a compelling presence, and were kinda bored by "Hamnet" (3/5 stars)

09.03.2026 18:34 👍 84 🔁 0 💬 13 📌 0

bezos bought a prestigious national investigative newspaper so he could gut it and run "consider setting a monthly budget" and "pay off your credit cards" tier financial advice columns like those blogs with adsense spots on all 4 corners of the screen

07.03.2026 14:27 👍 1699 🔁 270 💬 20 📌 2

I mean this only half jokingly but pretty much any country could just ship oil to Cuba right now and the US really couldn't do anything could it

07.03.2026 04:23 👍 216 🔁 32 💬 6 📌 1
If It's Really Got to Be This Way
If It's Really Got to Be This Way YouTube video by Arthur Alexander - Topic

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/x51iF-IRt-g?...

07.03.2026 13:29 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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nl

07.03.2026 12:19 👍 52 🔁 3 💬 14 📌 0

I can’t do this anymore

06.03.2026 20:48 👍 2324 🔁 274 💬 94 📌 14

All-timer file photo here

06.03.2026 20:53 👍 336 🔁 45 💬 17 📌 2
The Vandals "The Legend Of Pat Brown" (Kung Fu Records) [Official]
The Vandals "The Legend Of Pat Brown" (Kung Fu Records) [Official] YouTube video by Kung Fu Records

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/6AcS-dPZMpo?...

06.03.2026 17:50 👍 50 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 1
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Last 2 weeks of reads/listens - been slipping a bit now that I am thick of primary coverage but driving in Dallas traffic gave me a lot of Audible time

06.03.2026 14:55 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 0

Re-upping! My first ever piece for The Nation, adding it to my portfolio of indie magazines who punch above their weight.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

06.03.2026 14:11 👍 146 🔁 26 💬 7 📌 1