I can’t do this anymore
06.03.2026 20:48
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I can’t do this anymore
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Last 2 weeks of reads/listens - been slipping a bit now that I am thick of primary coverage but driving in Dallas traffic gave me a lot of Audible time
Re-upping! My first ever piece for The Nation, adding it to my portfolio of indie magazines who punch above their weight.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
IIRC (you would know!) polling on whether voters blamed Bush or Obama for the economy at this point in 2010 was "better" for Democrats. And look what happened.
Trump and the conservative media ecosystem have done a ton of work to recast the Biden years as a Hoover/Carter disaster that Trump rescued us from. I do think that gets harder every month
putting my chips on Amy Madigan this year; Teyana Taylor was fantastic, rescued from the direct-to-streaming slush pile, but winning 40 years after she lost to Anjelica Huston is too good a story
Three kinds of Supporting Actress Oscar wins:
- big star who they want to give a Best Actress award to eventually
- older actress who never got the recognition people think she deserved
- non-white actress who never gets another good role
Have gone into settings and turned it off, and yet, every 10 min or so
Arguably bigger problems in the world rn but I will go on a killing spree if I can't make this alert stop happening
Does she get to keep the costumes?
Wonder if Noem is serious about coming back to DC as a senator. The quiet knock on her in the veepstakes was "she's really stupid" and boy did that pay off
If you've gotta use a pop culture reference there's a running gag in "In The Loop" about not mentioning "war" that is much more fitting
Dot plot chart from the Pew Research Center titled "Women are more likely than men to say pornography is morally unacceptable." The chart shows the percentage of men and women in 22 countries who consider viewing pornography morally unacceptable, based on the Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey. In every country shown, women are more likely than men to hold this view. The gender gap ranges from +6 percentage points in Nigeria to +22 points in South Korea and Spain. Countries with the highest overall disapproval rates include Nigeria (82% men, 88% women), Indonesia (81% men, 90% women), and Mexico (53% men, 74% women). Countries with the lowest rates include Japan (13% men, 27% women), Germany (21% men, 36% women), and the Netherlands (20% men, 33% women). The U.S. shows 47% of men and 58% of women viewing pornography as morally wrong (the U.S. used the term "morally wrong" rather than "morally unacceptable"). Only statistically significant differences are shown. This question was not asked in India.
New survey from Pew Research seems to explain a hidden reason that Republicans have been attacking adult entertainment: It's their new women's outreach effort.
After school boards and trans sports have fizzled, they are trying to reach women by bashing porn. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
It got cut from my interview when it ran, but I asked Third Way's president a very popular Q on here - if Dems moving to the center would fix things, how does he explain Keir Starmer doing that and destroying his party? www.semafor.com/article/03/0...
I do a column to open up the newsletter, fun to be back in swing
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. used a submarine-launched torpedo to sink an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean — the first time an American submarine has been used to fire a torpedo against an enemy ship in combat since World War II."
maybe i've memory-holed something from the first term, but I actually can't remember the last time i heard a republican senator talk to a republican official in public like this.
We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib
lol www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
v funny to me that I only got this scoop bc the metro wasn't running to DCA on Sunday and I had to jump out and get a cab
Johnson was not predicting victory when I talked to her last week - Allred is very well known in the new district.
Green definitely losing, Foushee was on a downward trajectory, Q is whether last-minute AI/pro-Israel money can save her.
"The world is entering a post-literate age, with huge implications for societies’ politics & structure.
The smartphone’s emphasis on photos & vids has driven a decline in reading, a consequence of which is that a growing number of people are unable to grapple w/ complex ideas and nuanced arguments"
Vaxxed?
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