Sorry, I'm just not the type to do that. Too shy
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Sorry, I'm just not the type to do that. Too shy
Deep in thought, probably about treats
These entitled rodents...
Btw, I'm heading to DC, where I'll be joining PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic tomorrow night - check local listings
He thinks he's a Valkyrie.
WTF
Hereâs Lily being a very good sport and why sheâs my late night TV pal (sound on)
Time for some crunchy treats
I read it. It was very good. Thanks for writing and sharing your personal experience
Well said
Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind. No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.
Here's what I think is happening in Poland. Thank you all for being patient. Gifted. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Little fur-ball. đ„°
Timeline break
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Who is this gift to humanity?
So that's how she looks without the weird eyes.
Goodbye Stranger would do. youtu.be/P1tWNcMRy0U?...
That's Roger Hodgson. Might be better to choose a song Davies sang lead on.
Irony about Rumsfeld is that Americans made the same mistake with him that they made with McNamara and later, with Trump: We are convinced that people who were in business can run the government like a business. It's a stupid, stupid belief but millions of Americans are wedded to it.
Happy Friday. But just be aware that sheâs probably judging you.
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Lily is in my lap and declaring that today is a no-work #Caturday
Here are some of the most mentioned cities in popular songs: New York (USA) - Mentioned in over 160 songs London (UK) - Mentioned in over 100 songs Los Angeles (USA) - Mentioned in 87 songs Paris (France) - Mentioned in 52 songs
Zonk
I was a known critic of many Obama policies, and not only was I invited to talk at the service academies but I was occasionally called up by the White House for intel briefs on China's economy. The people running the place now are children.
Make life miserable for ICE.
It's the act of a cartoon character.
Is there time left to remove this slimy, lying, incompetent assclown Eric Adams before he finishes colluding with Trump to try to fix the election for NYC mayor www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/n...
More (and exciting) news: I'll be joining a panel at @theatlantic.com Atlantic Festival with director Kathryn Bigelow about her new film, "A House of Dynamite."
People don't read. I've been on social media - and in classrooms! - for years warning that "terrorism" now means "anything a president says it is." Like, I was probably giving that lecture while this fellow was in high school. But thanks! Now I'll consider the possibility that Trump is lawless.
As a former Republican, this especially jumped out and something I've said so many time: "a long list of races we [Republicans] won that we had no business winning. We werenât brilliant or particularly clever. But we understood that far more races are won on emotion vs. facts."
They're never going to admit that what happened that summer was "rules for everyone except for this one thing I like"
Finally, someone gets me. My students can all tell you that for two decades I began my lectures on the subject with "genocide isn't a thing." And yes, the other thing is about garlic powder, but not today
Voting. Also, there's voting, and sometimes, voting
Iga Swiatek after reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon: "Do you think maybe you were good on grass all along and you were just in denial about it?" Iga: âWell I didn't lose on purpose to prove that I'm bad you know?" đđ (via Wimbledon Press)
No! Don't flush the turd in the bowl, it's presoaking!
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Lily really wanted to come outside and be part of the party today and my daughter filmed it and added a soundtrack (volume on)
"What about the three million Japanese, including a million civilians, who are dead, was it genocide to them?" "What about the 27 million Soviets who are dead, was it genocide to them?"
I've already said: War crimes, clearly. But if every instance of large and indiscriminate civilian casualties is "genocide," the word will have less meaning and world leaders will be more reluctant to use it than they already are.
And then the prosecutor stood up and pointed at the defendant and said: His victim is dead, what does it matter to his victim what we call it
How the hell is war crimes not enough? Widely respected spectrum of IR experts. âOk, we have a consensus on war crimes.â Dude who googled Zionism last week. âUm, clearly genocide and Iâm going to cite wiki to show 3 groups who have definitely put the word genocide in their donation requests.â
Yes, why is that word so important to people? Why isn't *war crimes* bad enough?
Non-combatant deaths are not immediate evidence of genocide, because every war has them (and some have immense numbers of them)
My daughter has graduated from college and I have successfully thrown her both a graduation and going away party. I think Iâve earned this.
Bad cigars stink, and make your mouth taste awful and make you throw up. Good cigars smell lovely even to non-smoker and provide a satisfying taste that goes away after youâve stopped smoking it.
Maybe you should write a piece on the wonderfulness of cigars. It's never appealed to me in any way.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social As an enlightened individual, Tom, I think it's time you, like Anne Applebaum, became a fan of the brilliant Polish tennis player, Iga Swiatek. đ
Got it, TV film Archangel.
Iâm going to start using this pretty much as my calling card
You say that like it's bad
Such a cutie-pie. đ„°
I turned up the sound and was not disappointed. But now I want potato chipsâčïž #CaturdayEve
That would do the same to me. đ
Zonked out while listening to 80s music
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More both-sides b.s.
1. They don't 2. I talk about those who do in the book
I probably shouldn't put it this way, but uh the "hide reply for everyone" button feels great to press. You decide what your posts are a platform for
Donald Trump recently said that he has âthe rightâ to do anything he wantsânot unlike the antagonistic Homelander of the TV show "The Boys"âand his followers are determined to prove him right. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Netanyahu's government approved the battle plan to head into a full takeover of Gaza City. Most Israelis hate the war and their government. But a tiny right-wing faction controls all. Sound familiar? trib.al/KNYdupr
This is why I have trouble getting work done
As someone said many years ago, Americans treat foreign policy like the plumbing: They don't understand it or pay attention to it until the basement is full of water
Amen.
This is the way. âWeak, Woke and Whinyâ No More www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
I think it's time for me repost and pin this: My advice to both liberals and conservatives in 2022 about how to build a coalition, including the sage advice of "get over it" www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
I donât care if theyâre right or wrong. (Personally I find them somewhat stilted.) The only question is whether they help or hinder gaining voters.
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ok ill bite whos taylor swift
You could power San Diego with the energy people invest in missing the point around here
âIf it wasnât this, it would be something else so why bother trying to do anythingâ is pure defeatism
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation â and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Morons. đ€Šââïž
Look, we have a new statement of principles for the Republican Party.
The Atlantic's origins were as a cultural and political - and abolitionist - journal founded by Emerson and Longfellow, among others.
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The idea that cats arenât needy isnât quite right. My wife just left the house and now I have a lap full of cat that wonât move.
The journalist sparked backlash from the presidentâs loyalists for criticizing his Trumpified Kennedy Center.
You must be joshing!
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Bcuz he lies as he breathes, bcuz he lies a thousand times every day, and bcuz heâs been doing this forever, the media no longer calls him out on his lies. They stopped doing that a long time ago. Shame on the media. Theyâve normalized his lying. Theyâve let him destroy truth.
At least they're not serrated.
Bluesky members *exist* to be pissed off.
DC occupation update: took my kids to go get haircuts, place we always walk in was appointment-only and had the front door locked. saw five MPD cars on the way and it wasnât a long way, no obvious Feds though
Legendary physicist, Richard Feynman: "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Alternative medicine practitioner: "I can use quantum physics to treat your health condition."
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
âTotalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.â â Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
I don't feel sorry for them.
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
Once this is all over, history will not look fondly on those who say they were just following Trumpâs authoritarian orders. Illegal orders are still illegal orders. Watch The Breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXv6Vxmg4RI
It's people who put pop-tarts in the refrigerator, obvs
Amen.
Perpetual outrage is a feature of extremists on both sides.
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She's a peach.