My new favorite conspiracy theory is that RFK Jr. is actually the most successful deep cover Deep State agent in American history

I guest host today’s What Next w/guest Yair Rosenberg The Atlantic Israelis took to the streets to protest the war in Gaza and Netanyahu’s government. But a defiant Prime Minister doubled down. slate.com/podcasts/what-… via @slate

Monocultures—whether conservative, progressive, or other—tend to produce ideologues who don't realize how they sound outside their bubble and who believe bad arguments because they've never heard them challenged. Stuff like this at Columbia suggests something similar is going on:

"Just asking questions" on every subject except, "Who is paying me absurdly above-market prices for my videos?" and "Why are they doing it?"

After careful investigation, this account does not actually appear to be about massage therapy.

You want to cosplay and cheerlead mass Jewish death? Fine. Wave Hamas and Hezbollah flags? Sure, live your best life. But you come for Mr. Broadway, you come for all of us.

"Are you saying everyone who criticizes Israel is antisemitic?" is a really roundabout way of telling me "I've never read your work and don't know how to Google."

"Billy, come upstairs, it's time for dinner. I made your favorite."

Really appreciate this explanatory journalism from Charlie Warzel: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The main character/mob culture of Old Twitter was bad. So is the rampant racist invective and financially-incentivized viral blue-check fabulism of New Twitter. The real takeaway here is that the net negatives of this platform for society have outweighed the good for some time.

Your deductive skills are impressive. Most people mistake me for an episcopalian clown.

I wrote about these divisive Kermits theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Trump has lost every presidential debate except for the last one, according to post-debate polling. To beat him, you just have to show up and let him alienate the audience with his conspiracies and weird online obsessions. Biden didn't show up last time. Kamala did. Game over.

Trump bloviating and disregarding the rules just makes him look bad. Democrats don't need to shut him up, they need him to remind the electorate why the majority of them have rejected him twice.

Some folks are complaining about the moderation because they can't publicly complain about their candidate. It's displaced rage, knowing that a half-competent contender wouldn't ramble about bizarre online conspiracies nobody has heard of, wouldn't get baited into debates about