Michael Bérubé

Kansas Makes Trans People’s Driver’s Licenses Invalid Overnight Kansas is informing trans people that their driver’s licenses will soon be invalid.

Finally a law that will protect girls from having to compete with trans women driving cars tiny.cc/9wiz001

To be fair, he's ecstatic that he solved the Nancy Guthrie case

Not the worst thing about this video but just gotta say that OF COURSE it's Matthew Tkachuk putting that medal on Patel

Lots of fun right through all six seasons (and one of the very few SF franchises that takes gravity seriously)

Ha, well, your timing was impeccable. (And it's not even vodka they're complaining about!)

Opinion | The No. 1 item food stamps buy is a travesty. Now states can say no. States are empowered to block taxpayer funds from being used on junk food.

I thought you were kidding about the food stamps and soda-- and then this morning I see this in the Bezos Post: tiny.cc/g0dz001. I mean, did you know yesterday that this article was in the hopper for publication today?

Going to go punch a hole in a wall now

Hive mind question: does anyone have contact info for Kathryn Allan, the writer on disability and science fiction, who used to tweet as @BleedingChrome?

I remember when he took everyone's bullets

Just as Donald Trump tempts us to be nostalgic for the wisdom and eloquence of Dan Quayle, and Pam Bondi tempts us to be nostalgic for the sagacity of Alberto Gonzales or the rectitude of John Mitchell, the culture vacuum on the American right is almost enough to make us nostalgic for Allan Bloom.

It's almost as if Bari Weiss's "free speech" thing was a grift from start to finish

Seems odd that the dudes who want to smash the administrative state are also the dudes who want to build concentration camps throughout the US

Steven Miller is going to appear under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished"

It was funny because it's true. In fact if I had a kid who turned out like that I'd trade him for placebos.

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Oh look the President of the United States did another racism

Everyone who fluffed this little monster-wannabe, beginning with that pathetic Rod Dreher, has committed a crime against humanity

I am so old I remember Arthur Schlesinger Jr. getting all het up and panicky about the term "gorgeous mosaic" because it wasn't "melting pot." Ah, the enduring legacy of reasonable centrism.

I'll take "completely predictable things" for $800, Ken

Academic freedom is all about phrenologists being invited to campus with calipers of their own design to measure students' heads for criminal tendencies.

Trump now readying the bone saws for journalists who hurt his feelings

To be fair, little Marco is renowned for his groundbreaking derivations of Kepler's laws of planetary motion

I am aware of all internet traditions and therefore know that you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them," but it's still pretty impressive that they managed to find a #2 who is as much of a bleeding pustule of a human being as his master

And Samuel Moyn to the white courtesy phone

Apparently ICE isn't from the Gestapo region of Germany so it's just sparkling secret police

Weird! We saw it Nov 24 and they came racing out of the gate and never let up. My only disappointment was the decision to play Pozzo as Foghorn Leghorn.

Winters' and Reeves' pacing was *incredible* right from the get-go.

Yep

When you take the subway or go to an INS office, Brimelow wrote, "You find yourself in an underworld that is not just teeming, but is almost entirely colored." Check out his book *Alien Nation*, which is basically a blueprint for the spittle-flecked Nosferatu guy now running our country.

Terrific essay, Jessica. Thanks for writing it.

I sometimes wonder if people like Peter Brimelow and John Derbyshire are pissed that they were cancelled by their colleagues on the right for their virulent racism thirty years ago and now we're in the timeline where their virulent racism is a requirement for membership in conservative America

Absolutely staggering lack of self-awareness is his defining quality