Daniel Sohn

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Yo dawg I heard you like Khamenei so we put some Khamenei in your Khamenei

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Tweet by Igor Bobic "Fetterman responds to Graham Platner saying he should lose his seat: “Oh, really? The guy with the Nazi tattoo? Yeah, I'm devastated by that.” "

this is what awaits us if we fail to crush Platner in the primary, "oh the party of Nazi Tattoos has something to say?" every time forever

The same people telling you about losing young white men are the same people who used to tell young black men that police reform wasn't necessary, they just needed to pull up their pants

If you are an armed militia leader stupid enough to buy that trump will be there for you if you really go for it — like HW Bush telling people to rise up against Saddam then dropping them like used Kleenex — then — then best of luck to u

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

No one before Ben has ever considered that trans women might actually be effeminate gay boys. No one has ever suggested such a thing to us, repeatedly, in a bid to prevent us from transitioning, or developed entire typologies around the idea, or reinforced it in multiple academic fields!

Huh I thought Groundhog Day was last month. Guess we'll see the same lawsuit and same settlement in a year, because the police are never going to stop being opaque fascists

This was the original sin of anti-woke (besides being terrible people): Corporate diversity was a cash grab not something from central planning

If you told a studio bigwig in January 2025 that the runaway hit movie of the year would be about how white supremacists are worse than vampires, he would have gotten special dispensation from Gavin Newsom to kill you on suspicion of being a mentally ill homeless person

The correct word for killing a lot of people, destroying a lot of things, spending a lot of resources, and ending up back where things started is "failure." Or if you'll allow two words, "avoidable disaster."

I am tired of everyone trying to optimize everything. Life is full of disappointments, it's how we learn.

The rich always threatened to leave if you tax them. They never do. #taxtherich TikTok video by Ron Davis

The billionaires are bluffing. Tax increases in MA, CA, NJ, and Seattle were all met with “the rich and the jobs will leave” and yet they all grew substantially anyway.

Don’t buy the BS. Pass the millionaire tax, with no cuts for mega corporations or giant estates.

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Ask yourself why this one issue is not worth "both-siding" to death. Imagine a decade of where they don't ever talk to a Trump voter

But taking a broader view, Benghazi:
• eroded Clinton’s crossover appeal
• covered Clinton in controversy
• brought EMAILS to light
• paved Trump’s path to power…

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Seriously: Are we deliberately setting up a situation where it's "Whoops the Shah Jr is the only living person that can take over?". Or you have to donate $1 billion to be allowed to live and run for office?

Uh huh, OK, so, is there like a manager or someone more in charge we can speak to?

If they had DEI they’d know it was Targét not Tarzhay

call me crazy but I think the head of the Seattle City Council's library committee probably should be aware that Seattle taxpayers, who fund local libraries through a levy, don't pay an unrelated levy for libraries in other King County cities

Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues:

OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.

it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

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Nearly eight years ago, when I began reporting on the "working homeless," it was treated as an edge case, a tragedy at the margins.

That fiction has collapsed.

Housing insecurity is now an ever-widening sinkhole, swallowing not only the poor and working class but entire swaths of the middle class.

It’s also lazy speechwriting, and the public knows it’s just what hack politicians say. Makes them seem pathetic

Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

I will give $5 to any reporter who can get Trump to explain why the nuclear treaty Obama got from Iran was bad. One or two coherent sentences at least

Anyway, the republic is gone without massive Supreme Court reform.