Andrew O'Hehir

this is incredible

Pete forgot to say "Thank you for your attention to this matter"

I'm thinking that right now, in 2025, that sticker on Woody's guitar would be designated as criminal hate speech and get him banned from the airwaves and potentially prosecuted

"They cling their whole life long painfully to the irrevocable past, to the dream of a lost paradise, the worst and most deadly of all dreams." — Hermann Hesse, "Demian"

Well, this is exactly right with the minor edit that EzKlein thinks the role of the et cetera is to do strategic politics *poorly*

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

It's becoming clear that this is not an administration that is popular or skilled enough to do the consolidation needed to implement actual fascism, so they've decided that constantly creating fascism-flavored content is good enough

How the left can win: Drop the statistics and tell real people's stories - Salon.com Sociologist Jessica Calarco explains why the right keeps winning, and how progressive narratives can turn the tide

Yes, as in this illuminating interview you did with Paul Rosenberg for Salon. As the assigning editor, I have to admit I was initially skeptical about this pitch, but (especially) in retrospect, I'm glad I trusted Paul's instincts
www.salon.com/2025/03/15/h...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

I don't play golf or watch golf. I'm a dual citizen, but basically a Yank. And it was deeply satisfying to root against the US in this tournament. Very confident I'm not alone.

Yes, thank you. I've been minutes away from yelling at strangers on the street about this for the last several weeks

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

I do think MAGA managed to make the Kirk assassination their 9/11

Not in the sense they wanted, but in the sense that they took their brief window of public sympathy and strip-mined it so totally that everyone hates them even more, now

Yeah, every time I ask myself this question (not often) I have that feeling associated with being challenged to "debate" someone willing to call themselves"catturd" in a public forum.

I hope this one distills a lot of things that are individually obvious about the post-Kimmel moment into a bigger picture that is ... still obvious, but widely ignored or evaded.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading "Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,"

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

literally was just saying this to my colleagues at Salon. What country have these people been living in? Reciting that particular mantra is like "thoughts and prayers," but for liberals.

Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left

So much about this is striking. "Continental Europeans" appears to grant provisional Americanness to Italians, Jews, Poles, Germans and so on without getting specific. "Scotch-Irish," if it means anything, refers to those who left the 17c. Ulster Plantation for America: Settler-colonial 1.0 to 1.1

Truly grieves me to hear that, Doug. I believe the Day of Judgment will come, in some fashion and eventually, for the consultants and influencers and sensible centrists [TM] eager to throw young trans people under the proverbial bus. But it can't be soon enough.

This is absolutely great -- Assayas' best, and it's not close. Also the point of reference when I try to tell people that global politics were way more utterly nuts in the 1970s than literally anything you might encounter today

Yeah but it's a very important Vibe Shift, Larry! Because Josh Hawley said this thing one time and AOC wears nice suits! Don't confuse the issue with these boring details no one cares about!

We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.

Baudrillard’s 4 stages of simulacra applied to pumpkin spice Stage one (next to picture of pumpkin): Initially the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality Stage two (next to picture of pumpkin pie): the sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality Stage three (next to Starbucks pumpkin spice latte): the sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists Stage four (next to jug of pumpkin spice flavored coffee mate): the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is it’s own pure simulacrum

Don’t know who made this but thank you

Trust me on this: You can bring this up like 16 years from now, and even if she rolls her eyes about hearing it all over again, it will be almost as good

Great piece, Sam. Hope you're well!