Alan Neff

These people are just terminally online. They've convinced themselves that a conservative podcaster with a niche college audience was somehow a universally known and widely loved figure.

Most folks at the Emmys probably only learned about Kirk when their kids explained who South Park was mocking.

Bill! I agree that the proposed WH ballroom is gaudy and tacky. No surprise, given the source of the idea.

I question only whether it's fair to say that "Vulgarity is endemic to democracy." Please note that fearless aesthetic innovation is also endemic, and that produces great art and design.

Poll shows decline in belief that Blacks and Asians face racial discrimination Meanwhile, about three in 10 people said DEI increased discrimination against white people.

the idea that “DEI” is to blame for racist assumptions about the ability of nonwhite people and not actual racism is such a perfect example of racecraft www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

"I'm going to pardon the best friend of the guy who raped kids, who is herself in prison for helping him rape kids, in exchange for her telling everyone that I, another friend of his, didn't rape any kids."

The smart question would be "Why are you considering a pardon for Maxwell, who partnered with Jeffrey Epstein in sex-trafficking young girls?"

The fabled Protesting-Too-Much defense in action never fails to never succeed.

The fabled Protesting-Too-Much defense never fails to never succeed.

@amymarkopoulos.bsky.social and I have been hard at work cataloguing evidence of erosion of our anti-corruption systems across the executive branch. And today we are releasing a two‑part project at @justsecurity.org that documents just how these federal oversight safeguards are being dismantled.

One troubling aspect I've seen in the discourse of even well-meaning people around Trump and Epstein is an assumption that there's a bright line between pedophiles and rapists who attack adult women.

There is not. Most rapists prefer young victims, even if they prefer adult sex partners.

Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82

A great writer. Empathic, artful, and clear-eyed.

May his memory be a blessing to his family and friends

Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/b...

I note your juxtaposition of "oral history" and "read it" because my editorial reflex is excessively persistent.

Seems like sound analysis to me. 👍👍

The thing is, you could drive yourself nuts imagining what the DOJ is holding on Trump and Epstein, or you could simply believe the many victims.

I wish you were doing this in Chicago, because I'd join you. That said, have a great time.

I have no doubt some senior Democrats are in the Epstein Files and I want them exposed as well as any Republicans.

They should all burn and anyone who gets in the way of that should too.

Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a ‘twisted game’ with Jeffrey Epstein, former model alleges Stacey Williams says the ex-president, whose spokesperson denied the allegations, touched her in an unwanted sexual way in 1993, after Epstein introduced them

The *best* case for Trump is that he was friends with Epstein, did a little light sexual assault with Epstein, but didn't rape underage girls. In which case he's just having the DoJ protect other people who did. Which would be impeachable.

That's best case.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

WADR, it's not inexplicable. Humans make and execute bad decisions when panicked.n He's got good reason to panic, and he is, I reluctantly concede, a human.

2/2 To spell it out:

Apart from (a) $325k salary, beyond belief for speechwriter, (b) qualif list, clearly written for a pre-chosen favorite...

(c) NO UNIVERSITY PREZ needs *full-time* speechwriter. Any COMPETENT writer could handle this job 10 hrs/wk.

DAMHIK

(Former chief WH speechwriter)

Speaking as a one-time resident of NYC (in the 1960s) and a frequent visitor who rides the subway literally everywhere when I don't walk, I endorse this advice.

...yielding a clean-up on Aisle 1 of News Nation.

Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely When it comes to disasters, accountability delayed is accountability denied

@pkrugman.bsky.social: "...the tragedy in Texas...illustrates the kind of disaster that will happen with increasing frequency if we keep depriving government of the resources and respect it needs to do its job."

"Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

We were in London about a decade or so ago, and the food was excellent in the restaurants we tried based on Google review-sourcing. (not so in Glasgow.) I've never had anything better than swill in any sports stadium in the U.S. I cant think of a reason why the fan-slop would be better in UK stadia.

How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement Congress is pouring tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.

The Republican megabill pours roughly $45 billion into new immigration detention centers. "If you bring in detention centers to a community, this is the issue: They make the economies dependent on those detention centers," says an immigration expert. boltsmag.org/how-the...

Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by newer state laws regulating the procedure, includ…

State elections matter. Our votes matter.

D and other progressive voters disregarded state elections for years, allowing Rs to gerrymander several purple states' state and congressional legislative districts. Things can change. ⬇️

Cc: @taniel.bsky.social

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/02/w...

Trump’s budget bill:

💊 16+ million people could lose health care
💸 Health care will become more expensive
⚡️ Energy bills will rise
🛒 Families will pay more for food

All to give tax cuts to billionaires.

Please spread the word with friends and family.

It is worth noting that the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is incredibly unpopular. I haven't seen a single credible poll with support above 40% of adults.

And that's just if you ask people, "Do you support the OBBB." If you poll them about the individual components, it's 30+ points underwater.

one thing that is important to emphasize at that this is just republican governance at work! this is what happens when you give republicans power in washington!

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens

What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.