Jake Anbinder

I like both of them

The synthesis I think is that good comedy comes from a place of the comedian inviting the audience to partake in self-hatred whereas moral superiority is humorless

The ones who don’t lean on their Good Politics too much in their comedy which makes them unfunny

The Riyadh comedy thing is validating in that ”comedians actually seem to have pretty bad politics” has long been a minor take of mine

The dramatization of the Klein-Coates interview is a perfect example of the internet’s effect on discourse. You listen to it and you’re like “seems like these guys mostly agree with each other” but on here you’d think it was Buckley/Vidal II.

An interesting throughline from Obama to Bernie is both tapped into this style of progressive politics (‘08 and ‘16) and benefited massively from it then promptly forgot what they learned

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

Tim Shenk great as always www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Death, taxes, and funky Nordic airline with suspiciously cheap transatlantic flights

I will grant that Ithaca might appear to be a rich enclave if your point of reference is, say, Binghamton

Look Ithaca might not be as cheap as it used to be but it doesn’t even have a Gap

more and more people are saying

I am skeptical of this premise, above all because becoming mayor mostly shows you are good at winning a primary

I don’t usually get hung up on people not calling me “Dr.“ but when it’s the school that gave me the damn degree…

YES

Way ahead of you

Cooking in your parent’s kitchen is always a fun guessing game of which common cooking item do they inexplicably not own

I will go along with all the other RFK crap if he cracks down on ”less sugar!” meaning “we added some stevia”

You, wise: I can’t believe they put William F. Buckley on a stamp

Me, a philatelist: yes but now he’ll get canceled

yes it is

you might say it didn't even make the papers in El Paso

Based and Mirabelpilled

in theory yes. in practice....¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Twitter is Italy: colorful, disputatious, led by possibly a fascist.

Bluesky is the Upper Midwest: excessive dissent is quietly discouraged, people mostly talk about the same things, but no one seems actively mad at you

Spent a day back on Twitter to promote my Atlantic piece and there is no doubt that it’s the more interesting website, but also no doubt that the default tone people use to engage with each other is much more adversarial.

thanks!

New York NIMBYs Turn Against Democracy Local lawmakers want to preserve their power to block housing. Does what voters think matter at all?

"New York’s growth machine has been replaced by an anti-growth machine—one that thrives on chronic voter disengagement.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

New York NIMBYs Turn Against Democracy Local lawmakers want to preserve their power to block housing. Does what voters think matter at all?

I am in @theatlantic.com today on the NYC Council's effort to kill the city's upcoming housing referendum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

More democracy isnt always democratic — from @jakeanbinder.bsky.social on NYC’s big ballot questions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thank you!

New York NIMBYs Turn Against Democracy Local lawmakers want to preserve their power to block housing. Does what voters think matter at all?

I wrote for @theatlantic.com today on the NYC Council's attempt to kill the city's upcoming housing referendum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...