to be clear *a deputy director* of one department, not the deputy director of the whole CIA. story is still wack tho.
I like how the CIA deputy director's son getting killed fighting for Russia because he loved Lord of the Rings is like the 7th most outlandish story of the week
April 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
*taps sign* China is a real place with actual people and policies, not somewhere for you to project your feelings about the United States onto.
September 18, 2026 at 1:57 AM
so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault.
Full story here:
Full story here:
July 27, 2026 at 11:08 PM
My working theory is now that she tried to seduce Joe Biden and he politely turned her down.
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable
Call me old fashioned, but aren’t both parts of this relationship currently, uh, married to other people?
February 27, 2026 at 7:55 PM
a guy in a position to know described hegseth's military career to me as 'stolen war crimes valor' - that he had not actually *done* war crimes but really want people to think that he had.
There’s a real way in which — from defense to public health to foreign aid — a measurable increase in preventable human deaths and suffering is a central pillar of this administration’s policy agenda.
March 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
a lot of "dark academia" stuff is just the author wanting to tell you that they went to a good school but they're not like those other people there, but I think "The Secret History" really does get at the gulf between idealized humanities and moral reality.
But I don't think it makes you a *morally* better person. It might be one of the ways your morality is shaped or the language you use to express it, but it's a vessel, not the substance. We do not, after all, think of professors of English Literature as an unusually virtuous bunch.
December 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Meanwhile every long term NW Labour voter I know is spitting fire at Starmer’s move to the far right on immigration and planning to vote Lib Dem or Green.
Now admittedly this is self-selecting because my friends and family are good people, but I don’t think they’re unusually good people
Now admittedly this is self-selecting because my friends and family are good people, but I don’t think they’re unusually good people
I come back, once again, to the repeatable finding in numerous polls that statistically zero Reform voters in 2024 have moved to Labour
February 27, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
here's a whole bunch of immediate condemnations by Democratic leadership. www.npr.org/2026/03/09/g...
Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims 'don't belong in American society'
Rep. Andy Ogles' social media post is the latest in a series of Islamophobic statements from House Republicans.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2026 at 3:41 AM
reading books that keep getting upset about modernity breaking up communities. but 'community' being presented as an unalloyed good is always a red flag to me. many communities are bad! community can mean family, love, friendship but it can also mean insularity, clannishness, spite, shaming.
August 26, 2026 at 3:05 PM
center-left family in Manchester and the SW absolutely *spitting* at Starmer's speech, one resigned her membership, one was planning to renew a lapsed membership and now won't.
February 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
for all the grindset guys out there bsky.app/profile/beij...
the good news is that *at least* half of that ICE funding is going to be stolen. like, do you have a magical dowsing box you want to sell? now's your time. maybe it detects 'illegals' by using AI!
July 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
for all the grindset guys out there bsky.app/profile/beij...
back in the day before you got online you had to listen to the digitized sound of the forsaken child that powered the internet, and it was a lot healthier for everyone.
August 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our boy’s on three smoking brain cells and one’s making some scary quit-type noises bsky.app/profile/beij...
he literally said it himself
March 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Our boy’s on three smoking brain cells and one’s making some scary quit-type noises bsky.app/profile/beij...
every graphics card now comes with a free Zetas fent patch! supplies are limited so order soon!! bsky.app/profile/beij...
something I haven't seen yet: isn't a massive increase in the range of goods worth smuggling going to be a big boost to exactly the kind of cross-border organized crime the WH claims it wants to stop?
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
every graphics card now comes with a free Zetas fent patch! supplies are limited so order soon!! bsky.app/profile/beij...
August 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read.
July 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Well at least one person saw it coming
bsky.app/profile/beij...
bsky.app/profile/beij...
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well at least one person saw it coming
bsky.app/profile/beij...
bsky.app/profile/beij...
Crickets lol
bsky.app/profile/beij...
bsky.app/profile/beij...
the Taiping rebellion and its suppression killed somewhere between 20 million and 70 million people over the course of 14 years; the transatlantic toll is around 4-6 million at the higher counts (from the deaths *of the trade* not all of slavery)
September 18, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Crickets lol
bsky.app/profile/beij...
bsky.app/profile/beij...
here's a whole bunch of immediate condemnations by Democratic leadership. www.npr.org/2026/03/09/g...
Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims 'don't belong in American society'
Rep. Andy Ogles' social media post is the latest in a series of Islamophobic statements from House Republicans.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2026 at 3:41 AM
agree with this though. I've had my share of stinkers, it happens bsky.app/profile/beij...
it's ok to admit that good publications and reporters make mistakes sometimes. the verge is a good publication. I do not know this reporter in particular, but her work seems admirable. the stancil piece was badly framed, bitchy, and not worthy of either of them; people fuck up and that happens.
they really are circling the wagons on this one aren't they
February 23, 2026 at 1:16 PM
agree with this though. I've had my share of stinkers, it happens bsky.app/profile/beij...
you will be *shocked* to learn that the author of the piece is a raving transphobe herself. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic....
Louise Perry vs. transgender people – Transgender Map
www.transgendermap.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM
american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes
Oh?
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 PM
every time Argentineans post their little crybully rants about the Falklands it's a reminder of the mentality that resulted in their incompetent fascist junta getting hundreds of their own conscript soldiers killed in an unprovoked invasion.
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM