Matt Walker

"Understanding" doing some incredible work here.

NYT headline and image of four types of federal forces and their uniforms: border patrol, national guard, ICE and FBI/DEA-Secret Service. The headline says this is a way to make sense of federal forces in the streets, cheerily declaring “here’s how to tell them apart and what their powers are.”

Every so often you run across yet another reminder of how shameful the story of this era is going to be in the history books someday. On so many levels, including the dystopian cheery tone of this NYT caption…

Fighting the free press, from Moscow to Mar-a-Lago Can you tell Russian media crackdowns from Trump’s America? — Meduza Since Donald Trump returned to office, he’s waged what media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has called an “assault on the country’s press freedom.” He’s raged against the media, sued outlets over ...

10/10, somehow meduza.io/en/quiz/figh...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Hard to compete with this.

Billionaires offering you a chance to have your "come to Jesus" moment... or else.

One of the many Russian strikes on Lviv last night.

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka

Four members of a family killed in Russian attack on Lviv Oblast

💔 Four members of a family killed in Russian attack on Lviv Oblast

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

Government lists versus academic freedom, which side is your university administration on?
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Putinesque

White ISIS

Postcard from Trumpland

📷 WSJ

Oh nothing just advertising I see on the NYT site.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

За словами помічників, Трамп казав «Емануеллллль», розтягуючи «л», а Макрон у відповідь — «Дональдддддд», і так тривало деякий час.

jesus christ man, all these people are absolute fucking dipshits. i mean, i know this, you know this, everyone knows it, but goddamn, man.

"Quest"

“Six figures”

I’m sorry a ten percent chance of saving one (1) little girl at that camp was worth six figures, even in the relatively callous world of ‘statistical value of human life’ calculations

Challenger explosion.

Please don't quit your job. Thanks for being the best columnist in the NYT.

if i quit my job, the space doesn’t…go away? it doesn’t punish the NYT? and i have to imagine that the calls to quit my job won’t end if i go to some other, equally compromised publication. so no, i have a large, influential platform and i will continue to try to use it as responsibly as i can

"He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race" has to be the most extraordinary effort to avoid calling somebody a racist I've ever seen.

If you didn't know better, you'd think it was a parody of the NY Times' most pained euphemisms.

I can explain this Mamdani-NYT thing:

They assume anyone nonwhite who succeeds couldn’t have done so on merit. It must be because special treatment. He checked “African” on a college ap (because he was born in Uganda)? Must be it! Even though he didn’t get in it, uh, must’ve helped him somewhere.

Kyiv right now ‼️

California husband says he'll continue to support MAGA movement after wife taken into federal custody An Iranian woman in Diamond Bar, who supports President Trump, was detained by federal agents due to immigration issues stemming from a past conviction.

"Moscow region husband says he'll continue to support Stalin after NKVD took his wife."

www.foxla.com/news/iranian...

Footage shows smoke over Kyiv after Russia’s overnight drone attack.

Explosions just don’t stop and the sky is red and my heart starts skipping beats and I don’t fucking know anymore