Marc Malon

President Taps Insurrectionist to Lie About Jobs, Corrupt Economic Data

This is the problem with having national news covered primarily by people like Haberman and Anderson Cooper who 1.) live in bubbles of extreme privilege and 2.) are not really experts on anything other than the general vibe inside those bubbles.

I jammed my finger playing dumb grad student football and a few weeks later got my finger sized for my wedding band. It’s never fit right and I’m constantly fiddling with it. Married 18 years. Still fiddling with a mildly misshapen ring.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

This is so dumb. The FBI has actual skills to contribute to fighting crime—and walking a beat in Georgetown as a large group in tactical gear isn’t it. This is public safety LARPing.

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Outside of this correct analysis of Stewart and the more basic point that only skilled politicians should be nominated for the presidency...If it was up to me the only candidate over 60 (by Jan '29) the Democrats should even consider is Harris.

Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? I was skeptical about a Stewart candidacy, but maybe ‘The Daily Show’ host is the right person to shake up the Democratic presidential primaries.

my serious analysis of the idea of a stewart run is that he is too much of a "pox on both houses," anti-politics, anti-partisan to be able to do the work of reconstruction and reform in the wake of trump. zeteo.com/p/should-jon...

It is genuinely to Bernie's credit as a politician that you could wake him up at midnight screaming that Carthaginians were invading Tanzania and the Prime Minister of Venus needed a response and he could rattle off a stump speech about healthcare. But you shouldn't treat it as useful analysis.

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

again, what is interesting to me about this stuff — beyond the obvious fact that what trump wants is propaganda — is that it is grounded in a political theory which holds trump to be the sovereign will of the nation, who can impose his demands on every aspect of the nation's society

Correct. They’re lying to you, and it will hurt people. In this case it will cost lives for no good damn reason.

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student said unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts after a Buffalo Wild Wings server didn't believe she is a woman.

Right-wing ideologues have broken our brain.

"The 18-year-old high school student said unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts after a Buffalo Wild Wings server didn't believe she is a woman."

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

This is fun:

The man Meta has appointed to help address "ideological and political bias" in artificial intelligence is a conservative influencer who believes that pesticide turns children LGBTQ+ and that the COVID-19 vaccine caused Matthew Perry's death.

www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Camp’s going well

I am now fully convinced, like never before, that if President Trump somehow cured cancer... ...that Democrats would protest in favor of cancer in the streets

it's wild to post this when a more realistic version of it actually happened and it was conservatives who refused the treatment

Homeland Security @DHSgov Which way, American man? http://JOIN.ICE.GOV photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

this dude got his law degree at Georgetown & worked at CEI, he lived in DC for many years!

Imagine intentionally sounding this pathetic

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

Persian cat named Pudge

Bowling Green has got a locker room cat named Pudge.

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.

I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before.

But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.

He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.

Lord help us

you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools

the Chaos Zone. the region that makes this sport great. I cannot wait.

email to me: Our disabled son has CP and bladder spasms so urologist is recommending Botox treatments and we read your article and are concerned about the presence of mRNA in the Botox. Is mRNA in all brands? How can we know if it is in there? Is there a safe brand you recommend? He has to have this so what do we do? Thanks

my reply: personally, i'd recommend you follow the advice of your doctor. but what do i know, i'm just a random person you emailed. I have no more formal education around botox than the author Naomi Wolf, whose advice I assume you were actually seeking. but since you emailed me, my suggestion is that you listen to your kid's urologist, who is a trained medical professional, rather than seeking out medical advice from someone with an english degree and a history of making significant errors in her research. best of luck!

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

How RFK Jr. Mastered Fake Science—and Screwed Us in the Process He’s Making America Great Again—for lethal pathogens.

A must-read from Jonathan Cohn on RFK Jr.’s appalling decision to stop funding mRNA research.

Congress could of course override Kennedy and continue funding for this life-saving research. They could do it in whatever funding package they pass next month. So?

www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-ken...

CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the man who opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Patrick Joseph White. White died and a police officer was shot and killed.

CDC shooter was "...very unsettled, and he very deeply believed that vaccines hurt him and were hurting other people...He emphatically believed that."

www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...