Jonathan Blanks

Williams’s book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue: For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database) — and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement — the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama’s second administration. Huh? In addition to such passages, “Summer of Our Discontent” includes many distended excerpts — some spanning three pages — from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times. Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding “an excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.” Regrettably, I know the feeling.

jesus christ this is an actual fisking

Having spent almost two decades in and around right-adjacent spaces, it remains astonishing to me how much GOP politics is just projection.

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

Few commentators appreciate why the disbarment decision for former Trump acting Attorney General Jeffrey Clark is important, but Ryan Goodman fully gets it.

I've gotten two independent reports now of people being approached online by a fake WIRED staffer.

Not sure what this actor's goal is, but don't hesitate to reach out to me, @couts.bsky.social, or someone else you know on our staff if you receive a suspicious message.

I’m imagining Kash running around FBI HQ like Wadsworth explaining theories at the end of Clue.

Atlantic headline: A Requiem for Puff Daddy Subhed: When I was growing up: the now-disgraced mogul was the most formidable ambassador of _Black cool._ [ed note: No the fuck he wasn’t] Byline: by Thomas Chatterton Williams

It is the benighted ignorance of white moderate gatekeepers that allows men like this to earn sinecures commenting on cultures they don’t understand.

CNN CHYRON: TRUMP ON GAZA AID, AS STARVATION CRISIS DEEPENS: "IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE AT LEAST A THANK YOU"

a moral degenerate

Yes

A picture of a young, backpack wearing Kenny G, smiling and pointing at iconic jazz legend Miles Davis, who looks at Kenny with deep dismay and concern, as if he thinks something is wrong with the excited soprano saxophonist.

Another formidable ambassador of Black cool

Atlantic headline: A Requiem for Puff Daddy Subhed: When I was growing up: the now-disgraced mogul was the most formidable ambassador of _Black cool._ [ed note: No the fuck he wasn’t] Byline: by Thomas Chatterton Williams

It is the benighted ignorance of white moderate gatekeepers that allows men like this to earn sinecures commenting on cultures they don’t understand.

Second Whistleblower Backs Up Claims Emil Bove Told DOJ Lawyers To Defy Court Orders

NEW: A second whistleblower and former DOJ attorney has produced evidence that backs up allegations that Trump's court pick Emil Bove told DOJ attorneys to defy court orders, mislead judges and say "fuck you" to judges who rule against them, says whistleblower group. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Wack Panther hawking his Soulless on Ice

Lee Atwater is chef's kissing this from his little corner of hell.

"Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don't they fit him to perfection? And see his long train!"

There is nothing this fat dumb poodle loves more than giving things stupid names or restoring old ones.

The Gulf of America
Victory Day
The Arabian Gulf
Mt. McKinley
All the military bases

All he cares about is branding, and of course he's fucking horrible at it.

As Stevie Wonder · Songs In The Key Of Life · Song · 1976

For no particular reason, a damn near perfect song for your feed.

open.spotify.com/track/13toFl...

So heartbreaking.

The WSJ exclusive had originally just been intended for their best longtime subscriber, Larry.

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

Thank you!

*New Carrollton bound train

@wmata.com silver line just left fed triangle (8:40a) stopped at Metro Center but didn’t open doors, offered no explanation. What happened?

I don't know why it's so hard to link to the lawsuit you're writing about, but here it is for everyone else: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

From a New York Times email I received: There is a photo of a man standing in a large open doorway opposite another giant door or window on the opposite wall that is similarly open. The text above the photo reads: “Inspired by homes open to their natural settings, the architect Piers Taylor designed a house on the Greek island of Corfu with doors and windows that don’t close.” The text below the photo reads “The result is a home that is impossible to close off from the elements.” While I concede I’m operating on an N of two, men named Piers don’t seem to be the sharpest fellows on earth.

Uh, yes. That’s what the doors and windows are for.

@wmata.com any idea what happened to the C43 to Union Station that was supposed to arrive several minutes ago on Maryland Ave?

You have far more faith in the signers than I have.

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MAGA Pundits Are Triggered That Superman Is an Immigrant But he is an embodiment of America’s essential goodness and promise

Francis Fukuyama writing for The Unpopulist: "There have been three essential justifications for liberal societies that have been put forward over the centuries."

Me writing for The Unpopulist: "You guys like Superman?"

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