Alex Holt

"I'm going to start a 4-hour podcast" is the new "I'm going to open a restaurant"

The "Axis of Evil" speechwriter?

it's a fairly obvious choice imho bsky.app/profile/josh...

Jewish Currents has learned that the Conscience flotilla, with
Emily Wilder aboard reporting for us, has been intercepted and boarded by the Israeli military. Communications with Emily and the rest of the boat have been cut. We are awaiting further updates.

Re: the priest getting shot

i just want a governor who’s constituents are californians, not 70 iq swing voters in pennsylvania

You are a two term governor of California who has been a right wing boogeyman for years, being a bastard now ain't gonna erase that shit

Honestly so fucking transparent that he's trying to "wash the California" off his record which is a facially fuckin stupid thing to do

Donald Trump is really all the vices of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and Charles I crammed into the body of an upjumped gameshow host

Something bleakly funny that the tyranny that infects America is not some kind of nouveau 20th century authoritarianism, but truly 17th century monarchic "rule without parliament"

Somehow, Stuartism returned

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

"everyone is so mad at me, i need to be filmed on a PT run"

"something has gone wrong, if i get photographed looking cool, it will all be alright"

he literally can only think of things in terms of photo ops

They put them into different buses is what I was told (and this reporting also says). The black American residents were held in a bus for hours but eventually let go, at something like 5am. The person I spoke to said their bus didn't go anywhere

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

I think I had a post a while ago that was like “I’ll take Bill Kristol if I must but I’ll be damned if I’ll take Frum”

anyway,

Seth Mandel and Douglas Murray were also providing speech writing assistance to this ambassador without disclosing this publicly.

BTW if you read these emails you may get the sense that they're recent but they're actually from 2014. Frum has been on the same job for an additional 11 years without this being public knowledge.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

it's no gravel pit for shooting pets, but if Noem looks over to her right she can go to the flagship Old Spaghetti Factory here and get the noodles with mizithra cheese and browned butter

They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

most people assume private schools are all #4 but # 1 & 2 are by far the most common

four types of private schools in america:

1) catholic schools for racists
2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science
3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges
4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges

Miami-Dade voters voice opinions on key political issues in new countywide survey A new Bendixen & Amandi International poll reveals sharp divides and strong opinions among Miami-Dade County voters on a range of political and local issues.

Poll of Miami-Dade County finds:
-50% of residents oppose Trump ending temporary protected status for Venezuelans
-42% oppose Trump using military force to make Maduro step down as president
-60% oppose arresting undocumented immigrants with no criminal record
www.local10.com/news/local/2...

Yankees fans eyes rolling completely back and turning black, heads tilting backwards at an impossible angle, and their jaws opening and opening horribly like a shark's as they all emit the PC Richard Whistle Sound as one.

Hinenu Baltimore

It’s a good vibe, yeah: www.hinenubaltimore.org

Really there for us in our time of need, to the point where our mom, who’s not *quite* as far to the left as me & my sister, has started coming to some services with us herself (Our old rabbi from Buffalo actually moved down here a few years before us but is now retired so we needed our own shul)

VERRRRRY queer congregation, nice mix of ages, the rabbi came to my dad’s bedside last year, said Vidui for him, & took it in stride when my dad, fully delirious by this point, cursed her out.