Dan Mitchell

Red Summer of 1919

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

We've strategically placed mediocre hacks at the top of every political and business organization, let's see what happens next

The Necessity of Shame Shame is dangerous, yes. That doesn’t mean it’s dispensable.

We are in the middle of a moral revolution, which inevitably involves making racism, misogyny, and transphobia shameful. The Trumpian flight from shame is predictable. Throwing the victims of bigotry under the bus is not an option. We have to stay the course katemanne.substack.com/p/the-necess...

Was Antifa Behind Lawmaker’s Murder? It’s Complicated

NYT tomorrow, probably

I truly think a bunch of pundits and consultants have told them “democracy messages didn’t work in 2024 so you shouldn’t use them”

This ignores the extremely different contexts imo. In 2024 Biden was president and people had sanewashed trump 1. Now there are violent secret police in the streets

lmao

Wow. Cool.

If you were a serious journalist at the Atlantic, would you continue working with these ridiculous, vile people, or would you take your own dignity into account?

The Atlantic we all knew is long dead. The magazine is a farce (but with money, so it continues to afflict us).

how fierce and combative

I guess this is what Schumer was talking about when he said Democrats are fighting the fascists with “the social media.”

These people think Jeb Bush is the president and everything’s basically fine. They certainly behave that way, at least.

all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

remember when Matt Stoller was quoted repeatedly during the election season insisting that Trump 2.0 would be a continuation of Lina Khan's antitrust legacy and that we should take men like JD Vance and Josh Hawley seriously?

"Give Trump the Nobel Prize (if they develop a pill that instantly cures malignant narcissism, sociopathy, and dementia)."

By A. Mustache

This weird quirk comes up regularly. It befuddles me. The presidency is an administrative position. Governors are administrators. Congresspeople are basically professional yammerers. They make speeches, listen to lobbyists (plus, ok, sometimes constituents) and vote on bills.

Tom Friedman believes that Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize (with, naturally, caveats; after all, Tom's not *crazy*. He's a Reasonable, Rational Man).

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

He's killing civilians in boats. He gutted USAID and millions are now dying. He's threatened Norway if the the Nobel committee didn't give him the prize. He's constantly threatening to imprison his political foes, and is now indicting them.

You know all this, so I must ask: what is wrong with you?

This is a pathology. You are sick. Incredibly, while for years you were the worst columnist at The New York Times, you are now perhaps the fourth- or fifth-worst. I assume this is part of a gambit to get back to the top.

You understand Trump is waging war on American cities, right?

I have questions.

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Ok, let’s do that. Everybody in? Good. Problem solved.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face: Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver ‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown Marc Rowan Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

Ro Khanna represents a reliable Democratic district. We deserve better from Democrats in seats like these. Not clowns who rush to defend and coddle right-wingers.

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

Fleeing fascism *to* Spain.

My strong guess: cultural references and parodies to it have made people think it was a bigger deal than it was. I’m thinking particularly of the one “The Simpsons” did.

Serious newspaper run by serious people.

Really, those people are just as delusional as Trump. In terms of presentation, I mean: they know what they are doing.

Gotta love the double "President Trump"s, too. Three Trumps in one chunk of display copy, by the nation's top professional journalists.

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

Jesus. People with college degrees running around with no earthly idea of how to reason at an elementary level.

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win