David Faris
@davidfaris.bsky.social
Prof. of Politics, writer at @slate.bsky.social, @newsweek.com and @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone.
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
“And if ye try to come see me I’ll cut off one of my four fingers I will”
January 29, 2026 at 4:38 AM
“And if ye try to come see me I’ll cut off one of my four fingers I will”
When you've lost The National Review....
January 26, 2026 at 8:08 PM
When you've lost The National Review....
Love how the main Google search page, in addition to being completely useless and headlined by AI slop, is now festooned with the equivalent of Taboola clickbait stories.
January 22, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Love how the main Google search page, in addition to being completely useless and headlined by AI slop, is now festooned with the equivalent of Taboola clickbait stories.
Never change, Bret.
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Never change, Bret.
The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
(A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life it’s the only weapon we have).
(A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life it’s the only weapon we have).
December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
(A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life it’s the only weapon we have).
(A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life it’s the only weapon we have).
The president is an indefensible human being, the very kind of cruel, impulse-driven, violent and morally debased person that society exists to restrain and, failing that, to shun. Instead, we have twice elected him as our political and symbolic leader.
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The president is an indefensible human being, the very kind of cruel, impulse-driven, violent and morally debased person that society exists to restrain and, failing that, to shun. Instead, we have twice elected him as our political and symbolic leader.
It’s hard to know where the bad faith ends and the double-blink stupidity begins but would someone please explain to the esteemed Lt. Gov of Indiana why it is not possible for more than one party to be represented in the House delegations from Delaware and Vermont?
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
It’s hard to know where the bad faith ends and the double-blink stupidity begins but would someone please explain to the esteemed Lt. Gov of Indiana why it is not possible for more than one party to be represented in the House delegations from Delaware and Vermont?
Who taught you how to read Olivia Nuzzi? WHO
December 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Who taught you how to read Olivia Nuzzi? WHO
What’s the population of metropolitan Chicago?
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
What’s the population of metropolitan Chicago?
more than 80% of Americans support and trust childhood vaccines. Ds, Rs, leaners, independents. This is as close as you can get to public opinion unanimity and Dems should put this madness front and center in every election until these deranged murderers are defeated and hounded out of public life.
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
more than 80% of Americans support and trust childhood vaccines. Ds, Rs, leaners, independents. This is as close as you can get to public opinion unanimity and Dems should put this madness front and center in every election until these deranged murderers are defeated and hounded out of public life.
Yeah everything sucks but try to find a way to love something like my daughter loves Bluey
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Yeah everything sucks but try to find a way to love something like my daughter loves Bluey
I don’t generally sit around headline carping but I really wish the NYT would stop describing the occasional failure of Trump’s outrageous authoritarian escalations as “setbacks for Trump”
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I don’t generally sit around headline carping but I really wish the NYT would stop describing the occasional failure of Trump’s outrageous authoritarian escalations as “setbacks for Trump”
"There is no thing worth nuclear war. But Winston Churchill said it brilliantly when he said that war is horrible, slavery is worse." He says basically if we allow a Soviet-backed government in Oman to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, "freedom will die."
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"There is no thing worth nuclear war. But Winston Churchill said it brilliantly when he said that war is horrible, slavery is worse." He says basically if we allow a Soviet-backed government in Oman to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, "freedom will die."
It's basically a long simulated newscast about a Middle East crisis triggered by a Soviet-backed coup in Oman, with a very young Scott Glenn playing a reporter embedded on a U.S. aircraft carrier. But the most fascinating part of this movie is that it features a young Newt Gingrich (!) as himself...
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It's basically a long simulated newscast about a Middle East crisis triggered by a Soviet-backed coup in Oman, with a very young Scott Glenn playing a reporter embedded on a U.S. aircraft carrier. But the most fascinating part of this movie is that it features a young Newt Gingrich (!) as himself...
So A House of Dynamite has sent me down a leeeetle bit of a nuclear war movie rabbit hole, and I just watched one that I not only had never seen but had never even heard of: an early HBO original movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984)
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So A House of Dynamite has sent me down a leeeetle bit of a nuclear war movie rabbit hole, and I just watched one that I not only had never seen but had never even heard of: an early HBO original movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984)
Was reading Peppa Pig to my two year old and she pointed to a picture of a landline and asked “what’s dat” and I said “that’s a phone” and she laughed and laughed and laughed and said “Oh Daddy” the way she does when she thinks I’m obviously joking or lying.
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Was reading Peppa Pig to my two year old and she pointed to a picture of a landline and asked “what’s dat” and I said “that’s a phone” and she laughed and laughed and laughed and said “Oh Daddy” the way she does when she thinks I’m obviously joking or lying.
This seems totally fine, sports gambling is going great.
October 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This seems totally fine, sports gambling is going great.
Was an honor to share the stage with @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social yesterday @rooseveltu.bsky.social to talk about the future of the Democratic Party.
Also, 2022 Pennsylvania primary voters—you messed up not picking this guy.
Also, 2022 Pennsylvania primary voters—you messed up not picking this guy.
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Was an honor to share the stage with @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social yesterday @rooseveltu.bsky.social to talk about the future of the Democratic Party.
Also, 2022 Pennsylvania primary voters—you messed up not picking this guy.
Also, 2022 Pennsylvania primary voters—you messed up not picking this guy.
No Kings Evanston!
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
No Kings Evanston!
got it got it got it
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
got it got it got it
You have really got to be kidding me. She would be 79 when she takes office.
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You have really got to be kidding me. She would be 79 when she takes office.
Greetings from the war-ravaged Radical Left shithole of Chicago.
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Greetings from the war-ravaged Radical Left shithole of Chicago.
Baseball group chat full of Phillies, Cubs and Yankees fans
October 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Baseball group chat full of Phillies, Cubs and Yankees fans