⚠️ ALERT ALERT ALERT THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR HAS ARRIVED ⚠️

we will look back on the days before AI with desperate nostalgia, longing for a time when people released albums and books and movies. before the endless river of sewage was jammed into our eyes and ears and force-fed to us, until all movement and sound became repugnant.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Rather than just say “blue no matter who,” let’s take the time now to not only find someone whom we think could win but who also will not compromise on the rights of our citizens and who will not continue to fund and arm a genocide. There’s time!

But also, I mean, dude. Come on. He's never worn boots.

Read this elegant satire, so on the nose, each paragraph more refined and absurd than the previous. Sample graph in the next post. @mcsweeneys.net

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

O hi Mark

www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-d...

It still astonishes me that more people in politics and our media pretend to be concerned about kids having missed school than kids having been killed or sickened by Covid.

Substack choosing Bari Weiss's The Free Press as its official partner for a relaunch tells you everything you need to know about the values of Substack's leadership. I'm begging the writers I love to move their newsletters off Substack.

Source: on.substack.com/p/the-new-me...

Leaving Twitter is a matter of personal safety. "The audience will not respond to anything you post in good faith. They will weaponize it against you, and the platform itself will do nothing to protect you. If anything, it will accelerate and amplify the attack." @annehelen.bsky.social

There's no sugarcoating it: 2025 will likely be the end of the line for The Sprawl unless we get more financial support. Read our update—and please pitch in if you can.

The media is failing tremendously by not stating at the end of every single interview with these lunatics that “the science is clear, no debate is needed, vaccines work, and if we do not use them, many people will die.”

Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

The price of staying on a site bought by a right wing misogynist is you'll encounter more right wing misogyny than other sites.
Unless you have to be there for work (which most people don't), staying there is a choice, and one of the consequences of that choice is being exposed to more hate.

Poilievre is blatantly using homophobic and transphobic talking points to win support.

Despite months of warnings, condemnation, and education from LGBTQ rights organizations, he won’t stop.

Now he’s doing it AGAIN, and Egale Canada says he’s showing his “true colours.”

The same men who are trying to eradicate porn in the United States are rampantly sexually abusing women within their ministries.