Nah, he got you this time.
Nah, he got you this time.
But his uncle was president 62 years ago. I think that should count for something.
I've read part of it and liked it. I plan to finish it if I go back to Hawaii someday.
Sarah Vowell, more of an idiosyncratic essayist than a historian-historian, wrote a book on that called Unfamiliar Fishes. www.goodreads.com/book/show/88...
Which one is Buddy Hackett?
The NYT’s white supremacist collaborator is probably quite pleased. www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
The NYT has thoroughly lost its mind over Mamdani.
That really is not the right answer. The Covid vaccine is a massive success. I suspect there is also not a lack of confidence in the CDC. This response validates the fringe wackos.
This is what I assumed after 2020, but it only happened because of January 6 and it only lasted a few months. Trump laid low for that time, but once he started posting again and having rallies again, republicans realized his power hadn’t gone away and they had to continue kowtowing to him.
This is completely unsurprising. AI hasn’t been trained to be truthful, only to recognize and produce patterns.
I think this is at the heart of the anti-immigrant panic — besides skin color, it’s hearing languages one doesn’t understand. It makes people feel a loss of control when they’re only used to hearing English.
I’ve only prayed to God twice as an adult, once when Trump got sick and once when Clarence Thomas did.
I start and finish my run at this park over here in Hoboken. The kids are usually playing on the swings, but you can tell they aren’t happy.
He looks miserable.
My gosh, it’s so great to be reminded of Molly Ivins. The documentary about her was a joy.
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
That acorn is now a beecorn. Tiene sentido en inglés.
I think you’re right.
I agree, but she was already lobotomized by right-wing media and told to go do what she did by Donald Trump.
Ashli Babbitt was essentially murdered by Donald Trump and Fox News.
One little note to @timmiller.bsky.social on this conversation — the impact of interest rates goes way beyond consumer purchases like houses and cars. Interest rates determine business financing, so easy credit pushes faster GDP and job growth, and tight credit restrains GDP and job growth.
Right. Let’s hear what America’s clearly healthiest man has to say.
You know how people try to avoid Hitler comparisons?
Between his labor practices and his wrecking the Washington Post, I agree.
I have completely accepted it as normally because our society has no intention of doing anything to stop it.
It's been 113 years.
(It had to be the discovery of old, anonymous and faraway bodies, too, because we wouldn't have mocked people who just died or had local survivors. We were rude but we weren't monsters.)
When I was a New York Post headline writer, I waited and waited for the right story and finally ...
That is really terrific.
You know what's embarrassing? The New York Times collaborating with an anonymous white supremacist and lying about it. I don't understand why you're even doing an incredibly stupid story like this one, but more than that, I don't understand why you've never explained how this thing happened.
In fact, this isn’t even nullification. There wasn’t a crime. You can’t harm a person in body armor with a sandwich. It’s like the crime of breathing on someone.
Yeah, this is a good point. Oh, point 1b is probably that they have dimwit consultants telling them what to think and say.
You have to wonder what sickness RFK Jr. sees when he looks at his own face in the mirror. Because …
What do you mean that “feminism became politically verboten”? I think I agree but I don’t know why.
That’s a funny coincidence, to see your name pop up here while I’m listening to …
Please don't post anything good until Obama's third term. Thank you.
2. I’m going to claim that the Senate is the obvious Worst Idea in the Constitution. The Electoral College now mimics the Senate because most of the states have gone to winner-take-all (actually plurality-take-all) allocation of electors. So you can win 100% of Pennsylvania with 47% of the votes.
1. It’s great that this puts you among “the best historians and experts.” Congratulations!
Yes, this is true. The whales’ view of the beautiful golf courses is obstructed by windmills, and that makes them sad, and they lose the will to live.
Not sprayed. Grew.
One more thing: The ghettos, violence and concentration camps were an atrocity in themselves, before it came to the extermination of our actual lives. And we are getting there now in America.
Yep. He was very adamant about free speech.
Just picking one at random, here’s an episode with Fontella Bass, Lyle Lovett, Wayne Shorter and Carlos Santana. youtu.be/VW1V-wXFlBI?...
This deserves to he remembered as one of the 10 best shows in TV history. It had so many moments and musical meetings that never would have happened without it. Thanks for bringing this back.
I’m not sure there is a Constitution anymore.
Not only that, Scalia was in the majority. He was adamant about this. Not only that, but the approved method for disposing of a flag is burning it. I believe you can take your flag to the American Legion and have the patriots there burn it for you. So what’s illegal is your attitude.
I remember Pat Buchanan saying basically that white people built the South and I thought that was hilarious.
Here we go.
The whole thing was to tattle on Zohran by working with an anonymous "academic who writes about race and intelligence" (which was a lie by the Times).
I don’t think the #1 ranking is that clear anymore. There’s everybody involved in this … www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
Zohran Mamdani: [seizes 10% of Goldman Sachs] “I just want to get as much as I can.” Everyone: “He really understands business.”
I just had to go double-check that the actual US Constitution prohibits excessive bail. And it does. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...
Back in the days when they lowered the screen from the ceiling and everybody was shown the same movie, they showed Hot Shots, a hilarious spoof of Top Gun that featured lots of planes crashing. Great fun on a flight.
Chicago, not sure. Depends on where. Other cities?
When they went into LA, I had the thought that they could get away with a certain amount because of the city’s low density. If there’s an ICE or military action in LA, you might have 4 or 5 people around. If it’s New York, you would have 30 people around in an instant and 300 in five minutes.
Schumer has already written “a strong letter” with “eight very strong questions.” That’s beyond “slightly miffed.” I would call that an expression of significant concern.
There was the famous negotiation with Hitler in the Eagle’s Nest.
That’s ridiculous. They’re not going to end elections. (2026: Oh, I guess they ended elections. Didn’t see that coming.)
What if a private contractor does it? Not to give them ideas, but they're already full of ideas.
More and more people are saying it. Europe is giving him the Man of the Year Award, in fact.
The first time and the second time and the third time and the fourth time and the fifth time and the sixth time and the seventh time were all tragic mishaps. So unfortunate.
Today.
Schumer should resign and be replaced by AOC.
Jeffries and Schumer have thoroughly failed.
Yeah, that is some bad journalism.
In fact, Scalia was very strong on this.
Now I wish I were a Pisces.
Ha! “A president who didn’t know what he was doing”! That sounds really bad!
Checks out. Absolutely true story. www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
I try to double-check these things before commenting or sharing, and … yes, absolutely true. My reaction was this is incredible but it is actually completely credible. www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
Here’s what I see: A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform. B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors. C) Those two encampments are miles apart.
I saw it a second time about ten years ago with a live group performing the music, and it was still great.
There’s nothing voters love more than a paragraph of text the end with a discussion of tariff policy.
Oh, an outstanding book about how people behaved during the Nazis’ rise to power is: The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town. 1922-1945, William Sheridan Allen.
Most memorable novels I’ve read in the past few years: - The Pole, J.M. Coetzee - Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer Non-fiction book that comes to mind randomly in the moment: - Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America, Jeffrey Paige.
I recently bought it. It is on my read-soon shelf.
Omg, I would say this can’t be real but these days it can be real.
Nobody said that was okay. This is whataboutism, actually.
Underlying all of our current political climate is that Fox News (now joined by many more outlets) has to put out max outrage every single day or it will have nothing to broadcast. There was never a day when they could say, “Good job by Obama.” That’s a big part of how we got to this extreme state.
So plainly incorrect. It makes you wonder exactly how stupid JD Vance is.
Thank God we spent like $30,000 on that.
Yeah, we didn’t think you were in the room watching.
The 2.5% growth last year was in anticipation of Trump coming back. The 1.2% growth now is a hangover from the Biden economy.
I’m a very satisfied subscriber to Mother Jones. Can I say one thing that makes me grumpy about the magazines that I subscribe to? I wish you would put at the top of the online articles if they also appear in the print magazine, so that I know whether I can save them to read in print or not.
I agree.
It’s okay to talk about this.
I have to point out that in general these people are all pundits and do not do investigative journalism, so no.
Except for two huge front-page stories I can think of that were both famously wrong.
As a former employee of the New York Post, I can confirm that practically every story they print that doesn’t originate in New York City is copied from somebody else.
I’m curious who some of those columnists are. Does that include ones who should know better or just the dumb ones?
I’m starting to wonder if they’ll find a way to remove her. We’re almost at the “telling the truth will not be tolerated” stage.
The president is just buying companies?
Bolton actually spoke out quite a bit. That’s why he’s being targeted.
Today I was listening to a podcast about Johnson’s drift into the war, and that got me thinking about Americans’ utter failure to understand the Vietnamese people, and that also made me think about how Apocalypse Now mirrors the American mentality by failing to recognize Vietnamese people as human.
I am not going to start reading articles about recipes in a newspaper that collaborates with white supremacists and then lies about it. You owe your readers an explanation and honestly people should be fired. How can you lie and then claim to have credibility the next day?
I finally just realized, when JD said Trump “could be America’s Hitler,” that was an aspiration.
60 days is a shocking amount of time.
It’s okay because all of the fired cancer researchers can pick the crops and take care of people in nursing homes.
Children could see that.
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