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The Free Press; Is History Dead?
Brad DeLong here: If the piratical practice of presidents improvising piratical toll-booth empires in strategic straits half the world away and courts retreating behind self-execution technicalities is not a betrayal and a constructive repeal of the fundamental design principle of the American constitution that the president is a magistrate to faithfully execute congress-passed laws rather than a king with sovereign powers derived from Divine Right and salus populi suprema lex, it is not clear to me what it could be.
Wari Beiss' The Free Press: 'I Was in the DSA. Here's What They Really Believe.' Plus... Meet the 'Anti-Platners.' The Islamic Republic executes prisoners, and the world looks away. Inside Trump's decision to go to war. And more.
Status: Döpfner and Bar's Toast to Thiel By awarding MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel its highest-profile honor, Axel Springer is providing one of the clearest signals yet of the publisher's rightward evolution under Mathias Döpfner. Natalie Korach Jul 19, 2026
Another pic of the ugly motherfucker with (hilariously) the headline "is it time for another sexual revolution?"
Wikipedia: Scott's critics cited many examples to support this claim. While being briefed about the military capabilities of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Scott reportedly confused missile silos for grain silos and said "Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff." 25] In addition, 1975 press accounts of a trip he took to the Middle East stated that Scott was a "diplomat's nightmare" who mistook the Suez Canal for the Persian Gulf, refused to enter a mosque because it wasn't "a Christian building", and asked Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin "What is this Gaza stuff? I have never understood that."[26] Scott held a press conference to deny the claims of the New Times story, which had the effect of giving the allegation wider circulation and enhanced credibility. 27]
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From Google's shit AI: Al Overview Elon Musk aims to send uncrewed SpaceX Starships to Mars as early as 2026 to test safe landings. If these test flights succeed, he predicts that the first humans could travel to Mars between 2029 and 2031. f f Facebook • DW Af... +1 The Mars Timeline
All Rise News: Judge voids Trump V. IRS deal, refers lawyers for discipline The "collusive" lawsuit was the basis for the $1.776 billion slush fund and tax audit release order. ADAM KLASFELD JUL 13, 2026 [picture of schnook] Attorney Stanley Woodward boarding Trump's plane in 2023, while representing Trump's co-defendant. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
From the essay That is exactly what you are getting when you read a piece by David Brooks or Bret Stephens or any Wall Street Journal columnist about what the Democrats should do. (And I am only using the strictest definition of this dynamic here. In reality, it should be expanded to include all essays about What the Left Should Do by corporate Democratic officials, mewling centrists, "common sense" Democratic operatives who now write for the Free Press, and so on. In all of these cases, people who fundamentally disagree with your goals are allegedly giving you good faith tips on what you should be doing.) Our national political media discourse would be greatly improved by eliminating all of these pieces. Already, wise editors do not commission them, non-hacky writers do not write them, and smart readers do not bother to read them, except for comedy purposes. They exist in an intellectual world that is by and for suckers. If you find yourself in that orbit, now is a good time to show yourself out.
Promo for some social thing with a little kid on a ventilator and a haggard woman saying "raw milk almost killed my son"
An American shorthair cat, seated at a dining table (which only brings her slightly above chin level), looking disconsolately at some food just out of view.
Is there a rising Democrat who will give this speech — the one that says that Democrats stand for freedom and fairness, not radicalism and self-righteousness; the one that never disdains tradition even if it seeks to improve it; the one that knows that utopianism is no substitute for pragmatism, and that purity is not superior to compromise? That Democrat needs to stand up now, before his party gets swept away by the flood it vainly believes will soon recede.
Against this tide, the position of many mainstream Democrats is to dodge the ideological fight with the left while warning that, outside of deep-blue districts like those in New York City, democratic socialism is an electoral loser that only provides Trump with political ammunition. In Michigan, Haley Stevens, El-Sayed's opponent in the Democratic primary, is campaigning on the argument that "no one wants Abdul to win more than the Republicans" - that is, that Republicans see him as the more beatable opponent come November. I remember the same case being made by mainstream conservatives against Trump when he was running in 2016: A vote for him in the Republican primary, so the argument went, was tantamount to a vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election. Then he won.
...Palestine to Puerto Rico." A would-be U.S. senator, the Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, offered an alternative take on Michelle Obama's famous line about going high when your opponent goes low: "When they go low, we don't go high," he said. "We take them to the mud and choke them out." (El-Sayed is a doctor.) In
WSJ: GOP Leaders Speak With McConnell Amid Questions About Health Office of 84-year-old Kentucky senator has revealed few details about his hospitalization [photo of the deceased]
From the stupid article: Though it's hard to believe Trump's influence played no role in the suspension of the suspension — despite FIFA and Infantino's claims to the contrary - it's also hard to believe other countries in the tournament wouldn't have done exactly what the Americans did here, and then hoped for the best.
Once, in the confessional at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, I got into an argument with the priest hearing my confession, telling him that such-and-such was a sin, according to the Catechism. You don't expect to have to do that.
In [young O'Neill's] view the good things were not the home-grown products that played to packed houses but the serious importations that pleased only the few. What audience tastes of the day were like can be gathered from something Booth Tarkington once said about The Man from Home, a smash hit of the 1908-1909 season he had coauthored. A story of American tourists abroad, it was intended to satirize those who ran down Europe’s historic splendors in favor of the sights back home. “So when we built up the Hoosier in our play,” Tarkington recalled, “we gave him a lot of this kind of jingo patter. We thought our audiences would be amused with us and at him, and yet like him as we did. Instead, they cheered all his boastings…. They burst with loud patriotic applause when he said, ‘I wouldn’t trade our State Insane Asylum for the worst ruined ruin in Europe.’ The popular success of the play might be called accidental.”
I was moved to look up this largely unforgettable quote because people, including my colleague and friendly now-acquaintance (I don’t see him much at all since he moved out of New York) A.O. Scott, are talking about (and in Scott’s case, with) David Thomson about his book, dropping on Tuesday, called A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies, in which Thomson delivers the message “the condition of movie has an extraordinary way of telling us we don’t matter,” which isn’t exactly Hecht’s complaint, but I’m sure you get where I’m coming from here. One way the movies have bamboozled us, Thomson tells Scott, is that they compel us to like or identify with characters like the Corleone family, who are, you know, really pretty bad people.
Two screenshots from Hairspray on the Your Daily John Waters Bluesky feed https://bsky.app/profile/johnwatersbot.bsky.social "Now, I've got nothing but hampers of ironing to do / and my diet pill is wearing off."
The Free Press Teaching Immigrants the Bill of Rights My students crossed oceans to become U.S. citizens, but now they say America is taking away their rights. I wanted to show them otherwise—so I needed to learn them myselt.
From the article: C.J. Bartunek, writing in the Oxford American in June 2023, documented what the mountaintop looked like a year after the article. Visitors now arrived in pairs with scripted questions; one would loudly ask something provocative about slavery or states rights, while the other recorded. Bill Barker described the pattern: "They're always white men." When a volunteer asked one man to stop filming, he left in a huff but was soon spotted hiding behind the sugar maple, phone pointed at the presentation. Metal detectors and bag checks had been added to the front entrance. Pocket knives were confiscated and stored in what one volunteer whimsically called the "knife hotel." Nasty reviews, Bartunek confirmed, appeared on Tripadvisor "echoing the media commentators" —not the language of people who had visited and been disappointed, but the language of people who had watched a Fox News segment and felt deputized.
Bart Simpson: Do you even have a job anymore?
Washington Times NEWS ALERT Thursday July 2, 2026 NEWS ALERT Hamilton, Jefferson and Trump: Historians see a founding-era playbook still at work As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, some historians say President Trump's emphasis on states' rights, national self-sufficiency, "America First" foreign policy and a revival of manufacturing harks back to the vision of America's Founding Fathers. Read More >
Same image with a straight vertical line over Lee and a diagonal line over Grant, a reference to a right wing schematic for dominance and submission
The Atlantic Newsletters Ideas There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists The DSA was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become. By Jonathan Chait
New York Times: This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade. By Carl Zimmer and Marco Hernandez July 1, 2026 Share full article [Photo of cell] Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step...
The "corruption" of Supreme Court Justices-the friendliness with businessmen, receiving gifts from them, etc.—seems to recommend Miliband; they are part of the capitalist class writ large, but the clear referee role in these rulings, keeping the state structure intact, really looks much more Poulantzian to me. What we are seeing then is the Supreme Court decreeing how the "committee for the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" is to be constituted: it can be captured by quasi-criminal elements, manipulated by petty businessmen seeking a quick buck from fat government contracts, it can be used to line the pockets of cronies, and to practice increasingly outrageous forms of open corruption —but only up to a point. Just don't mess with the program.
Grandpa Walter from Get Out
Commentary JUNE 29, 2026 DAILY NEWSLETTER The Queering of the Purge By Abe Greenwald
THE FREE PRESS How the Left Abandoned the Jews. Plus...
The Washington Times NEWS ALERT Sunday June 28, 2026 NEWS ALERT Ceasefire again on the brink as U.S. strikes Iran, Tehran fires missiles at Bahrain, Kuwait U.S. forces struck targets in Iran again late Saturday while Tehran launched a fresh wave of attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait, both home to key American military bases, just hours later. Read More >
Google News: The New York Times: Top Stories World Mideast Live Updates: U.S. Strikes Iran Again, Testing Truce News Analysis Vague Language of U.S.-Iran Deal Comes Back to Haunt Peace Efforts Business Renewed Strikes Threaten to Set Back Shipping Recovery in Persian Gulf Showcase • 39 minutes ago
And then, disaster strikes: She starts to turn away. The conversation stumbles on for a few moments, but Crook can't find the words. It's awkward. It's over in seconds. A few paces back, Matt Artisan winces slightly. Unbeknownst to the woman, he's been filming the entire encounter. His earphones, connected to a microphone underneath Crook's shirt, allow him to listen, too. And as Crook returns gingerly to his coach, Artisan has feedback. The dynamic, he says, was "not good." "You were kind of behind them," he tells Crook. "You've got to get in front of all of them." He's been giving Crook feedback
Steve Crook squints through the sun, scanning his surroundings with precision. "I'm very picky," he says. Bachelorettes and dog walkers and bag-juggling shoppers are identified, assessed and disregarded. "They have to be physically attractive," Crook says plainly. "I'm a bit of a Barbie guy, really — long legs and big boobs and slim." Then, she appears: a young woman, laughing with her friends on this picturesque street lined with stylish shops. The mission begins.
And then, disaster strikes: She starts to turn away. The conversation stumbles on for a few moments, but Crook can't find the words. It's awkward. It's over in seconds. A few paces back, Matt Artisan winces slightly. Unbeknownst to the woman, he's been filming the entire encounter. His earphones, connected to a microphone underneath Crook's shirt, allow him to listen, too. And as Crook returns gingerly to his coach, Artisan has feedback. The dynamic, he says, was "not good." "You were kind of behind them," he tells Crook. "You've got to get in front of all of them." He's been giving Crook feedback
[Bender hugging a traumatized Fry after killing his cloned dog in the "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama] "НА НАНАНАА! Now I'm all you've got!!"
"Light Rail Accident" from r/baltimore Pic of derailed LR train w/ Pride colors that has shorn off the side of a Tesla
[another bit of the Summer of George end credits, with George on the therapy bars as Molly Shannon works on moving her arms as she walks.]
The show I'd like to see again would be either of two following the release of Tempest, either in New York or Oakland. The songs from that album come across directly but there's no getting to the bottom of them. The more you hear the less certain you are of where you are. On stage at that time in the mid 2010s he was so expansive, acting them out with grand gestures like someone doing "Famous Scenes from Shakespeare" at the Virginia City Opera House in 1885. I'm in Minnesota. I've seen fascinating shows here, but the one I most regret missing is one at a minor league ballpark where he went back to 1959 and sang Bobby Vee's "Suzie Baby" and introduced Bobby Vee from the audience. I'd met Vee-by then back to Velline-at an oldies show in LA in the '70s and at a Dylan conference at the University of Minnesota in 2007. Now he was deep into capture by Alzheimer's. But he was there. My daughter was there. She described a train on a nearby track blowing its whistle as it went on by: "The perfect midwestern moment."
From The Free Press Freeze the Rent' Is Really About Rage and Revolution Thursday's decision on rent-stabilized apartments in New York City will prove that what is supposed to be a deliberative, analytical process has been hijacked by Mamdani allies. By Matt Miller 06.24.26 —New York
Constanza in PT in what was supposed to be the "Summer of George."
Washington Times NEWS ALERT THURSDAY JUNE 25, 2026 NEWS ALERT Trump pledges to help Venezuela recover from massive earthquakes President Trump promised that the U.S. would help its "new friends" in Venezuela after major earthquakes rocked the South American nation, Killing over 160 people and injuring nearly 1,000. Read More >
From the story: In the end, this isn't so much about Rowley or The Free Press as it is about what will become of CBS News and CNN - two pillars of American journalism — under Weiss. Immigration, refugees, and the safety and well-being of child migrants aren't just profoundly consequential issues — they are moral ones, and they cut to the core of our national identity. The reporter Weiss hired to cover those issues ran interference for an aggressively anti-immigration administration. She valorized cruel policies that prioritize deportations over all else and tried to spin the caging, separation, and deportation of children as policies that are good for them, actually. This doesn't bode well.
From The Forward: In his address, given while standing in front of a column which carried Bloch's epitaph— dilexit veritatem ("He loved the truth") — President Emmanuel Macron underscored the tragic relevance of the historian's life to our own era. Referring to recent efforts made by figures on the extreme rightwing to reclaim Bloch as one of their own, Macron warned against "those who declare themselves more French than you..and yet are always the first to sell out France to hostile powers." (Among the conditions Bloch's descendants insisted upon was that representatives from the extreme-rightwing National Rally party could not attend the ceremony.)
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By contrast, Washington's poorer, working-class ZIP codes, which map to Wards 7 and 8, produced 579 contributions - just 5.8% of Lewis George's total small-dollar participation. These wards, while still pulling for the socialist, also voted less compared to their progressive enclave counterparts. These results reflect a truism in political primaries: More affluent ideologues tend to donate and vote.
Lewis George's small-dollar map complicates her working-class pitch Socialist Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic nomination for mayor of Washington, D.C., presenting her victory as on brought by and for the working class. But an analysis by the Washington Examiner found that many of her small donors are located in progressive enclaves. "I'm honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for the mayor [...]
Downwardly Mobile Elites Love Zohran Mamdani Urban millennials who are worse off than their parents embrace the mayoral candidate's zero-sum politics. But are those voters the future of the Democratic Party? [pic] Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the NYC Pride Parade, June 29. BRUCE COTLER/ZUMA PRESS
[another Free Press thing] The Revolt of the Rich Kids Armed with Ivy League diplomas and cultural capital but locked out of wealth and status, this disaffected class is fueling America's new radicalism. By Rob Henderson 09.09.25 -U.S. Politics U.S. Politics V Breaking news, deep investigations, and eye-opening con FOLLOW TOPIC
Washington Times: Trump tells gas companies to drop prices fast or face price-gouging probe [picture of high gas prices with the American Flag] more › G Add us as a preferred source on Google By Tom Howell Jr. The Washington Times Wednesday, June 24, 2026
One of the candidates—Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer—has refused to condemn Hamas. Another candidate—Claire Valdez, ua state assembly member—featured anti-Israel demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil, who the Trump administration has tried to deport, at her campaign launch party; “Free Palestine” appears on Valdez’s campaign signs. [next graf fades to gray] Both are emblematic of the new breed of radical candidates: They have elite credentials—including Chevalier’s undergraduate degree from Columbia—but call themselves working-class, and they are women of color, which appeals to the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) overwhelmingly white, urban, well-credentialed but downwardly mobile base.
The Free Press Mamdani's Socialist Sweep in New York On Tuesday radical House candidates won big in the city. *'It doesn't feel safe to be Jewish anymore.'* [emphasis added] By Olivia Reingold and Peter Savodnik 06.23.26 —New York -[picture of happy winners]
Politico CALIFORNIA & CLIMATE The conservative writer taking aim at Newsom's green agenda Christopher Rufo and the Manhattan Institute are critiquing California's green bureaucracy, and going viral in the process.
The end of mediocrity Max Tani Media editor, Semafor [Pictures of him and some guy]