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The Worst Campaign Book Season of All Time Is Here A feast for the middling political mind is just ahead, with upcoming releases from Kamala Harris, John Fetterman, and more.

. @kathkrueger.bsky.social wrote about the upcoming campaign books that will make your book club hate you and make you hate yourself www.discourseblog.com/p/the-worst-...

How Old Does This Man Look To You Let's judge a terrible book by its alarmingly worn cover.

Is he 30? 60? A creature beyond space and time?

www.discourseblog.com/p/how-old-do...

It Is Literally Too Late For This Bullshit You get zero points for suddenly noticing something bad is happening in Gaza.

Actually, we don't need to waste time on the precious feelings of powerful people who are only saying "gee, something's not right in Gaza" two years into a genocide. It is literally too late for this bullshit. (Me in @discourseblog.com) www.discourseblog.com/p/it-is-lite...

Love for Palestine Is All Around Us The visual landscape everywhere has changed, reflecting a world that demands a free Palestine.

Love for Palestine is on walls, sidewalks, bridges, street corners, and a million other places all over the world. You just have to keep an eye out. www.discourseblog.com/p/love-for-p...

This Hunter Biden Fella Makes Some Good Points Finally, a Biden with some smart ideas!

A Biden? With smart things to say? Well well well...

www.discourseblog.com/p/this-hunte...

This Hunter Biden Fella Makes Some Good Points Finally, a Biden with some smart ideas!

I wrote a little about Hunter Biden's heartening, DGAF interview:

This Hunter Biden Fella Makes Some Good Points Finally, a Biden with some smart ideas!

A Biden? With smart things to say? Well well well...

www.discourseblog.com/p/this-hunte...

These Substack Kids Wouldn't Last One Shift in the Blog Mines An unintended side effect of digital media's demise is that no one knows how to write anymore.

important context: @jscros.bsky.social is crashing at my house. i asked what he had to work on today and he said "i need to write a blog for discourse"
"what about?" i asked
"dunno yet" he said

that was like 2 hours ago. This is what the blog mines teach you

www.discourseblog.com/p/these-subs...

I'm biased toward the argument "everyone needs an editor" because I'm an editor, but also dear god everyone needs an editor

These Substack Kids Wouldn't Last One Shift in the Blog Mines An unintended side effect of digital media's demise is that no one knows how to write anymore.

These Substack kids wouldn't last one shift in the blog mines
www.discourseblog.com/p/these-subs...

I'm simply here, living life, having a nice time while these morons run in a circle trying to bite each other in the ass.

www.discourseblog.com/p/these-demo...

Gavin Newsom Is a Garbage Person He will not stop talking to fascists about how maybe trans kids don't deserve equal rights. Please go away!

Wrote about how Gavin Newsom is a garbage person and he should stfu about trans kids and also go away more generally. Simple as that. www.discourseblog.com/p/gavin-news...

These Demons Deserve to Argue About Jeffrey Epstein Forever The diminishing returns of a sex abuse scandal is all they've got left.

Who could have guessed that staking your career on labyrinthine rats nest of sex trafficking conspiracies would make you miserable?

www.discourseblog.com/p/these-demo...

These Demons Deserve to Argue About Jeffrey Epstein Forever The diminishing returns of a sex abuse scandal is all they've got left.

They all seem miserable and no one is having a fun time.

These Demons Deserve to Argue About Jeffrey Epstein Forever The diminishing returns of a sex abuse scandal is all they've got left.

Who could have guessed that staking your career on labyrinthine rats nest of sex trafficking conspiracies would make you miserable?

www.discourseblog.com/p/these-demo...

Bari Weiss Is a Perfect Fit For CBS News But only for the worst possible reasons.

Bari Weiss is actually the perfect candidate to help shape the future of CBS News—for all the wrong reasons. www.discourseblog.com/p/bari-weiss...

What the Fuck Are We Doing Our country's descent into an unnecessary measles pandemic is a new level of maddening.

Our country's descent into an unnecessary measles pandemic is a new level of maddening.

What the fuck are we doing? www.discourseblog.com/p/what-the-f...

Elon Musk's Pet AI is Off the Rails And it's claimed a CEO's head already.

There are many theories about why Grok turned into Hitler. Some of them are plausible. Some of them are less plausible. All of them stem from the same thing, which is that Elon Musk is a fucking idiot. www.discourseblog.com/p/elon-musks...

The Horror of Hakeem Jeffries' Ultra-Cringey Instagram Doesn't this guy have better things to do?

“The fact that the man ostensibly tasked with holding the line against that fascism is still posting glamour shots to his professional social media account suggests Jeffries is either not up for the job, or not really all that worried to begin with.”

The Horror of Hakeem Jeffries' Ultra-Cringey Instagram Doesn't this guy have better things to do?

“The fact that the man ostensibly tasked with holding the line against that fascism is still posting glamour shots to his professional social media account suggests Jeffries is either not up for the job, or not really all that worried to begin with.”

The Horror of Hakeem Jeffries' Ultra-Cringey Instagram Doesn't this guy have better things to do?

I took a horrifying journey through Hakeem Jeffries' cursed instagram account. Don't let my pain be for nothing!

www.discourseblog.com/p/the-horror...

The New York Times Has Hit a Desperate New Low The Paper of Record is competing for scoops with white nationalists in its efforts to sink Zohran Mamdani.

Just when you thought the scandal around that sleazy NYT hit piece on Zohran Mamdani couldn't get worse...it got worse www.discourseblog.com/p/the-new-yo...

Rest In Pieces, G/O Media Say what you will. It increased shareholder value.

Here is a great blog from @jscros.bsky.social about one of the worst media companies that has ever existed. Private equity really is the devil.

www.discourseblog.com/p/rest-in-pi...

Rest In Pieces, G/O Media Say what you will. It increased shareholder value.

The downfall of G/O Media gave us one of the funniest things that Jim Spanfeller could have said—one final dorky blunder from a truly stupid and evil individual.

Rest in pieces!

www.discourseblog.com/p/rest-in-pi...

I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Shouldn't Buy Concentration Camp Merch What kind of person buys an "Alligator Alcatraz" beer coozie?

Alliterative temptations aside, it's wrong to compare Florida's new "Alligator Alcatraz" facility to Auschwitz in no small part because we don't need an extreme foreign example to know that this is uniquely American fascism!

www.discourseblog.com/p/i-dont-kno...

thought that fascist grunt style bullshit and black rifle swill was bad enough.

the grimmest possible logical endpoint to the lifestyle brandification of everything

I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Shouldn't Buy Concentration Camp Merch What kind of person buys an "Alligator Alcatraz" beer coozie?

"This isn’t fascism as a political movement, it’s fascism as a lifestyle brand" - @therafischwartz.bsky.social

I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Shouldn't Buy Concentration Camp Merch What kind of person buys an "Alligator Alcatraz" beer coozie?

"This isn’t fascism as a political movement, it’s fascism as a lifestyle brand" - @therafischwartz.bsky.social

I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Shouldn't Buy Concentration Camp Merch What kind of person buys an "Alligator Alcatraz" beer coozie?

If you told someone wearing one of these shirts that they’d just paid 30 bucks to advertise on behalf of the federal government they’d laugh in your face. But that’s what they’re doing! They’re paying for fascism as a lifestyle brand, not a political movement. www.discourseblog.com/p/i-dont-kno...