Brian Phillips

White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal ban on state AI regulation, as more lawmakers raise concerns about the technology.

Authoritarianism is the bailout.

May I Explain the “May I Meet You?” Meme? Bill Ackman thinks the cure to male loneliness is asking women these four magic words. Allow me to explain.

may I tweet u www.theringer.com/2025/11/18/p...

I'm expecting at least one "boldly testing the limits of marital fidelity" and an "in a move legal scholars say may have challenged the definition of consent"

That's right

I'm sorry this lady would have OBLITERATED SMU

Look, they're trying to find out if there's a level of bad taste that registers on a seismograph, and personally I think it's newsworthy that this White House is still funding science

College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,

You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Feels like I'm watching Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

Why is he so small, and why does his being so small make him seem gross

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

RIP Penny, an Essential Part of Americana Sure, the cent is ineffectual, outdated, and often in the way. But it deserves our appreciation—and our grief.

I wrote about the penny, a terrible coin that sucks, and one I'm going to miss for some reason

"Whoa whoa whoa...the name of that sled seems familiar to me for some reason"

"Palpatine survived? Makes no fucking sense. I don't recall a character named Palpatine"

"HANG ON...Luke is whose father now?"

Pat McAfee making a face like, "wait...how is Blofield Bond's adopted brother if one of them is German"

Pat McAfee making a face like, "whoa...those monkeys flew the Statue of Liberty to another planet??"

Pat McAfee making a face like, "wait...the little guy's limp just magically healed itself?"

Pat McAfee making a face like, "wait...how could that kid see Bruce Willis if he was a ghost? oh shit...the kid was ALSO a ghost..."

It's astounding how consistent this is:

Every photo of Pat McAfee makes him look like the only guy in the movie theater who doesn't understand the big plot twist

Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.

why is Nvidia propping up a company that seems doomed? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

What hurts most is the lack of respect. You'd think a coin that's been part of American life since the 18th century would inspire some heartfelt tributes - piles of flowers outside the Treasury, neighborhood murals featuring the penny and Frida Kahlo walking hand in hand into heaven, maybe a surprise Ariana Grande single called "100," to get the kids using the emoji-but no. "The Penny Dies at 232," the New York Times headline artisans wrote. "A long decline into irrelevance ended on Wednesday in Philadelphia." As commemorations go, it's an insult. On the other hand, I'll be keeping that subhed on file for my haters' obituaries.

RIP Penny, an Essential Part of Americana Sure, the cent is ineffectual, outdated, and often in the way. But it deserves our appreciation—and our grief.

I wrote about the penny, a terrible coin that sucks, and one I'm going to miss for some reason

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

waiting for the bamboo’s substack essay

God, is there anything harder or more believable than when you’re blithely going about your day alone in a room with your partner’s unsecured work bag and her compromising papers flutter of their own accord to the floor

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

the post should’ve been titled “bamboozled” but other than that, no notes ❤️

Just a little light carpentry on his reputation, you could say

Part II: The epic tale of the Las Vegas casino's struggle for conflict after the foolish brother elects to American traitor against the way of "La cosa nostra"

The summary of The Godfather on streaming.

I guess they’re using AI for the plot summaries now?

Is that a knee-high vacuum cleaner sitting in front of a monitor as thick as the Bible

I can't stop looking at it, and believe me I want to

Inexplicably only in the sense that Kafka died before Trader Joe's was founded