When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
They have created this entire mythology around Justice Jackson being stupid, where her stupidity is refusing to accept the ascendant conservative legal norms
May 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
very funny that ilya shapiro walks around like he is some grand arbiter of merit when he would be unemployable if not for wingnut welfare
Funnily enough, if we create a special office for wingnut friends of wingnut ministers to get even with students who are mean to wingnut friends of both groups, then we are going to get a lot of official interventions on behalf of the wingnut friends of wingnut friends of wingnut ministers.
Oh my god the Arif Ahmed/Kathleen Stock email correspondence. It sure looks like he was pursuing a vendetta against Sussex for a personal friend bsky.app/profile/nate...
April 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Funnily enough, if we create a special office for wingnut friends of wingnut ministers to get even with students who are mean to wingnut friends of both groups, then we are going to get a lot of official interventions on behalf of the wingnut friends of wingnut friends of wingnut ministers.
i don't love the image rehabilitation of this guy from 'total wingnut' to 'harmless oddball' but i do think it's worth pointing out that even the total wingnut keeps being way more sane and normal about zohran than various professional commentators
Reporter asks Zohran Mamdani's former political opponent, Curtis Sliwa, what he thinks about the campaign to stop Mamdani from attending the 9/11 ceremony: “Ridiculous. He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers.”
August 14, 2026 at 8:59 PM
i don't love the image rehabilitation of this guy from 'total wingnut' to 'harmless oddball' but i do think it's worth pointing out that even the total wingnut keeps being way more sane and normal about zohran than various professional commentators
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Honestly the projection here is just off the charts since this is exactly how the GOP operates. Democrats don't have the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society Rolodexes to staff our governments like Miller claims. And it's the GOP that has worked to unravel everything good about society.
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
left wing books actually sell rather than being bought en masse by wingnut welfare groups, for instance