Tobias Barrington Wolff

Let me see whether I can help Jake Tapper out —

Picture 1: A President of the United States listening attentively in a meeting where he is in command.

Picture 2: Not that.

Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country

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The nominal occupants of the U.S. presidency and vice presidency. This racist filth is what Republicans in Congress are defending and enabling every day. It is equal parts nauseating and pathetic.

the Regime responded to seeing Bradley commit a textbook war crime they had not ordered him to commit by promoting him.

This is what it looks like when scared children try to lie their way out of consequences.

The Regime's current version of events (as of today) is that Adm. Bradley committed this textbook war crime on his own with no direct command and no give-no-quarter order from Hegseth. When Bradley knew the whole operation was being recorded on video and Hegseth was watching. And that

If the Armed Services Committee investigation bears out the Washington Post reporting, the Senate's next step must be a referral to the House for impeachment proceedings.

I am glad to see that Senator Roger Wicker (R.-Miss.) and Senator Jack Reed (D.-R.I.), the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have opened an investigation into the reports of Pete Hegseth's criminal give-no-quarter order.

Concerning the clip making the rounds of Katie Miller arguing with Bakari Sellers about the Regime's give-no-quarter murder of alleged drug traffickers on the high seas:

Why is CNN putting the wife of someone who may bear accessory criminal liability for these events on a discussion panel?

The headline is not just that Pete Hegseth issued a plainly unlawful order to intentionally slaughter survivors after an initial strike. It is also that senior military officers improperly carried out those orders.

say something we don't like we will abuse the rules and treat your service like dirt just to fuck with you."

Imagine how much worse that is coming from a fake-bone-spur draft dodger and a drunk washout.

Leaving aside the legal and constitutional arguments, important as those are, imagine how career military feel when they hear these thugs say: "You can serve honorably, even heroically; you can put in your twenty; you can embrace public service after you return to civilian life; but if you ever

Please add "anything RFK Jr. has ever said or written" to the list of materials I would like excluded entirely from my life, environment and awareness.

Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash

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The Regime is demanding lists of Jews at the institution where I work.

On MTG’s announcement:

Good. Let’s stop thinking or talking about her as soon as she is no longer a public official.

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Speaker Mike Johnson has officially become Fredo in the wannabe-mobster world of this Regime.

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The First Amendment and Opposition to Illegal Military Action The current occupant of the presidency, Stephen Miller, and apologists for this Regime have recently begun screaming that Democrats in Congress who served in the military and are reminding servicememb...

The First Amendment and Opposition to Illegal Military Action:

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career slapping his name on other people's work—but it is a setting where he feels in control. The destruction of the East Wing was an autocratic atrocity but also a flailing cry of fearful disorientation. 2/2

When I look at Geriatric Joffrey obsessing about "renovation" projects at the White House I see someone in serious cognitive decline trying desperately to ground himself in familiar situations. I doubt he has ever genuinely managed a construction project in his life—he spent his misbegotten 1/2

the fundamental shift in the political landscape that this episode has crystalized is an opportunity to be capitalized on across the entire resistance effort.

I suggest — in a genuine spirit of respect and solidarity amidst this awful crisis — that you are experiencing some combination of learned helplessness and blinders on your political imagination. The passage of this bill and whatever the Regime releases is not remotely the end of this effort and

If your reaction to the stunning political developments of the last few days surrounding the Epstein materials is to say "T***p and his cronies are just going to scrub the files of anything incriminating so nothing will come of this, it doesn't matter, nothing matters with these people" then

Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar | Penn Today Onyiuke has been awarded a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship, which funds tuition and a living stipend for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. She is among 32 American Rhodes Scholars and an ...

Bravissima to the extraordinary Florence Onyiuke who has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania!

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I am very glad to have been proven right on this Kim Davis business. I worry a great deal about what the radical majority on this Court will do with marriage equality but Davis's misbegotten mess of a case was never going to be the vehicle.

Think about what mainstream media would be doing if Democrats controlled the White House and both Houses of Congress and 10% of all airspace in the U.S. concentrated over 40 of the busiest airports were getting closed down tomorrow because of a politically dysfunctional government shutdown.

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states.

Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

He is terrified and desperate. Let’s make him even more so. Get out and vote!

Showed up to vote in Philly first thing this morning. I’m seventh in line. 💪