Kara Swisher

I never turned anyone into a pig.
Some people are pigs; I make them
Look like pigs.
— Louise Gluck, Circe’s Power

Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps.

I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.

One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.

YouTube video by Oprah Why Young Men Are Struggling Right Now with Oprah & Scott Galloway

My man @profgalloway.com is stepping out on me but it is Oprah so fine youtu.be/E5l6sWqVpuw

When stack ranking pedophiles is not loathsome enough.

There goes “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” for the Pentagon press corps.

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

NEW: DOGE is far from dead, contrary to recent reporting. Instead, its operatives have “burrowed into” federal agencies “like ticks.”

Here’s what the DOGE crew is up to now:

From @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social

The buck stops here.

No, not right here. There.

Not there, way over there.

Yeah, keep going. Going.

There.

This kind of performative nonsense will not last one day in lady prison.

No

You have no idea

Just call me Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of MAKE IT STOP, BAMBOO BOY.

YouTube video by On with Kara Swisher Is Journalism broken? Jessica Yellin explains

Last week, "On with Kara Swisher" aired the interview between @karaswisher.bsky.social and Jessica Yellin that took place at our fall conference. We couldn't have hosted this without Milwaukee-based podcast production company, Podcamp Media.

You can listen here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlvU...

Exactly this. Thin skinned chodes all.

Anthropic CEO disputes Trump AI czar David Sacks' claims that company is 'woke' The company has faced repeated criticism from David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar, in recent days.

What would be nice is if he advocated for businesses as well as consumers and thought there were some important safety measures to propose that would benefit all. Instead he trashes those companies that think that way. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/a...

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

As I have long said, David Sacks is the biggest and most conflicted piggy at the trough: Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

The Language of Tom Stoppard, Ablaze With Energy and Urgency

No question seeing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life, esp this line: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart

Must read: The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

It’s always obvi been a biz grift www.wsj.com/world/russia...

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch

Just as fraud perpetrated by white people does not indict all white people, this does not mean all Somali-Americans should be either as Trump has tried to do. But it’s a major fail on many levels by Walz and is a clear roadblock to any national run www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

Trump plans to pardon former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison for running a “narco-state” that helped send cocaine to the United States.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration lets massive convicted drug dealers go free www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

Credit to @ellenwapo.bsky.social and the @washingtonpost.com for this important reporting on the lawlessness of Pete Hegseth www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The pants on fire award goes to hopelessly thirsty but defiantly mediocre “podcaster” Katie Miller who attempts the loud talking thing her even wackier spouse also does in place of facts.

The 2029 loser of Dancing with the Stars says

Gramps wishes he was this thin and also constitutional

Go back to bed gramps

This

💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

My persistent Nazi porn bar analogy on @pivotpod.bsky.social proved correct