Terrific reporting, sad piece:
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Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe
The problem is, everyone I’ve spoken to in MAGAworld content creation — comms staff, influencers, whomever — knows their identity. In off-the-record conversations, people will simply tell me their name as soon as I ask the question, as they’re familiar with the memelord’s style from interactions in the disappearing MAGA group chats. (I do have to pause for a second and acknowledge that the meme zoomers have better opsec than the senior officials who did Signalgate a year ago.) But the moment I ask if they’d be willing to go on background about it — surely they aren’t Nazis, and shouldn’t they call out behavior in their own ranks? — sources immediately clam up. If I prod, they’ll shrug it off as everyone’s just having fun.
So @tinanguyen.bsky.social has spent weeks trying to identify the person at DHS who posts all the racist memes, and instead uncovered a fascinating code of silence: everyone in Trump's Washington knows who it is, but refuses to say. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/column/89298...
for the record, I have never knowingly "noshed on" anything
laughed out loud
tempus fuggedaboudit
tfw a country's DMs aren't open and they don't follow you back
Kirov reporting... Kirov reporting... Kirov reporting...
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Our base is under attack. Low power . . .
shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad.
we live in a society, act like it!
well, I just decided this is the last post I can read tonight before I sign off and go to bed, where I expect to lie staring at the ceiling for three hours
They wrapped my recent order (an LOA collection of westerns) tightly in fine paper, and on top of it in the package they placed a tiny fold-out popcorn box and a Valentine’s Day–themed lollipop. Incredibly charming. 10/10, will buy from them again
very enjoyable diversion here, in case you need one youraislopbores.me
Imagine being mad that your daughter is a genius
I'm starting to think we're living in a dystopian parody, a cross between SOUTHLAND TALES and BRAZIL with a dash of HER and THE TERMINATOR. Buckle up, things are going to get weird. www.thebulwark.com/p/every-day-...
was the grink there
i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!
If "one day" and "eventually" are "imminent," then words have no meaning. At least not to this administration.
New from @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4b8J1oR
Oldest son told us this morning he had a nightmare where a wolf was stalking him and trying to eat him but he realized it was a dream and that he had the power to end it so even though he was terrified he lay down and let the wolf eat him (!) in order to wake up. Some kind of terrible lesson in this
just one more demeaning nihilistic provocation in an endless series of them
Hand it me
And if that doesn't work, we can always force more of our mutual friends to get married! It is always an option!!
I never got a lot of clarity on the nature of the latter’s business because he didn’t talk about it with me much (possibly because he ended up having a pretty mixed record of success in that area…)
finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype
Aubrey is a first-class guy for whom I have enormous respect—consistently so intelligent, forthright, and generous, a true poster’s poster (complimentary)
"A big part of Noem’s legacy also will be her alleged corruption: her use of government planes for personal purposes, her abuse of her staff, her unprecedented choice to live in housing usually reserved for the commandant of the Coast Guard—the list goes on."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puts...
One was a small-scale farmer in eastern Ohio; the other started his adult life as a member of the Dutch resistance and after the war went into business
Auspicious!
Close head-on view of a beautiful pug dog standing on a tiled floor just inside the doorway to a kitchen. The fur around his face is starting to go grey. Because of the angle, he sort of looks like just a head on two legs, full of wisdom and hunger.
Happy 10th birthday to our pet gremlin, Mr. Bingley
She was very gracious