Ben Novack

need to make everyone in San Francisco watch this video every morning and every night

As far as I'm concerned continuing to support Trump in any capacity from a position of power is a hanging offense

Weird how Trump seems more mad at MTG and Massie than Epstein. Probably nothing

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

i love how texas started this and was all “neener what you gon do” and a buncha blue states said “lol watch this”

We often have a cynical attitude that power should never be wielded by those who desire it. But you know, sometimes it’s good to have people doing a job that they think is fun and cool and interesting and they want.

“what cool shit can I do as Mayor? oh, I can marry people? awesome, let’s do it”

once again the constant theme of “New York is great, New Yorkers are great, isn’t this great?” comes through

He’s a patriot. Punching Nazis is a great American tradition.

sand ghost @moutheaters Me: Is the natural state of the soul quiet or chaos? Taco Bell cashier: Look buddy, it's transient, shifting like water 4:36 AM • 2017-11-09

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

"give them all basically the same skin tone"

There were in his first administration but they’ve spent the last five years purging everybody who can even think of the concepts of facts or truth or morality.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

The number of people on the left who will not only argue that Epstein was obviously an Israeli agent, but who will treat you as somehow part of the conspiracy if you criticize that view, is, uh, not great

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Picture of a gray haired woman wearing a shirt that reads on the back “come see my daughter’s film A Woman’s Work at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2/11 at 11:20am 2/12 6:20pm I am a Jewish mother seeking a girlfriend/future wife for my filmmaker daughter (she is multilingual and has an adorable dog). Please inquire with me”

Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met

it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

im obviously in the "aoc should run" camp and i def think she can win. but i have a hard time with the people who insist she cannot win. after these cycles with improbable/surprise winners over and over (both obama and trump), i dont understand how you can say the outcome w such certainty.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of this and it's great for all parties!

a wrestling match is going on in front of a crowd of people ALT: a wrestling match is going on in front of a crowd of people

politics is wrestling. we can either fold our arms and be mad about it or cut better promos than the other guys.

So, it appears that FAA made the right call (in frustration to force the issue?) on issuing a NOTAM because CBP was cowboying around with an anti-drone laser "on loan" from the DoD and nobody was coming clean in a timely manner about safety and fire control after they fired on some mylar balloons.

When you dig deeper around mysteriously successful figures you generally find that rather than being incomprehensibly brilliant masters of the universe, they actually just lied a bunch and committed a bunch of crimes that no one wanted to look too hard at

I’ve got no issue with a Frazier statue but I do think it’s insane to have multiple boxing statues in a damn art context.

I mean the sports culture of the city doesn’t talk about it in the present tense. We have history, but that’s not the same thing.

We’re not a damn boxing city! Literally nobody ever talks about it!

They don’t, they’re also obsessed with trying to solve this problem with eg shock collars and shit.

God help me I’m like “oh yeah I know that one”

"Should the federal government pursue policies that try to reduce the gap in wealth between the richest and poorest Americans?"

All:
Should: 59%
Should Not: 19%

Should Not Among:
Republicans: 40%
Independents: 14%
Democrats: 5%

YouGov / Feb 9, 2026

Madani was naturally born, and he is a citizen, thus fulfilling the constitutional requirement. Obviously.