80% chance we see more White House fistfights even before the July 4 cage match
07.03.2026 01:11
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80% chance we see more White House fistfights even before the July 4 cage match
Holy crap, Mamdani is finally doing something to bring down sidewalk sheds that will actually sort of work! Sheds will no longer be required more than 40 ft. away from buildings, which will be a help to NYCHA and other towers-in-a-park complexes www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Trump, with a fortune built on fraud, fundamentally believes that it should be legal: Perpetrators are winners; their victims are losers. So of course he agrees with fraudsters' claims of innocence, and of course there's an industry to call his attention to the fraudsters most loyal to him.
Trump, unlike his predecessors, invariably characterizes losses as illegitimate. So why should he change anything?
At least lying to the public is her only job. The others—except Vance, of course—are all nominally responsible for running large organizations.
If this were *any* other country, Trump would immediately lash out on Truth Social with insults and threats. But it's Putin, so there will be no response.
Gonna keep our reserved seats for THE BRIDE! on Sunday because it sounds like quite an experience—as @alisonwillmore.bsky.social puts it, "a huge swing of a movie." But 😬😬😬
I don’t think I’ll get over the rage I feel that we traded relative prosperity, security, scientific advancement, the possibility of upward mobility, and somewhat functional democracy for the protection of a felon child-rapist. Incandescent, unending rage.
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What else can Trump do to distract from this? He already released more Epstein files, started a war—two, if you count Ecuador—and fired Kristi Noem.
My assumption is that Vance can retain the MAGA base and Christian right but not the ~30% of low-engagement voters who—despite everything!—see Trump as a sui generis business titan and celebrity. Without his boss's decades of omnipresence in American cultural life, Vance is just an obnoxious troll.
Curious whether Trump, the next time he's asked about gas prices, again invokes the imaginary figures—$1.98! $1.85!—that have long been lodged in his head
Three weeks left on the job—plenty of time for romantic getaways with a certain Special Government Employee
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you had me at "Firefly"
Maybe today we'll see Noem publicly walk back her claim about Trump OK'ing her ad campaign while *not* walking back her claim about her boyfriend not actually running DHS
Does that mean it will cost taxpayers more when President Pritzker nationalizes SpaceX?
But what Mr. Trump gains in secrecy he loses in message control. On a range of issues, from the goals of the Iran strike to Mr. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela or even in threatening Greenland, there are a blitz of answers. Inconsistency is sometimes celebrated by the administration as wily strategic deception, rather than as a failure to think several chess moves ahead.
Correction: This makes *five* different rationales in eleven days.
screenshot of a 6/25/25 WhiteHouse.gov post, headlined "Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News" https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-been-obliterated-and-suggestions-otherwise-are-fake-news/
He seemed awfully definitive about it
Bench Ansfield, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Tom Sugrue with a microphone at an IPK table, and Bench—with fabulous nails—inscribing a copy of BORN IN FLAMES to me!
Fantastic @ipk.bsky.social talk & discussion tonight on @benchansfield.bsky.social's BORN IN FLAMES, with @tomsugrue.bsky.social & Ingrid Gould Ellen, hosted by @ericklinenberg.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading!
THREE KINGS [dir. David O. Russell, 1999]
She won't say no in this followup either! I mean, *now* she's squeamish about lying to Congress?
But he cited recent initiatives by the White House to address the concerns of Americans who don’t feel they benefit meaningfully from a booming Dow, including steps to bring down the cost of some prescription drugs and proposing retirement accounts for Americans whose employers don’t offer them.
Ah yes, "a booming Dow," basically flat for 2026 and underperforming nearly every overseas stock market
Literally, boots on the table https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/lazy-person-concept-mans-legs-wearing-1373101160
boots on the table
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/us/rfk-jr-medical-school-nutrition.html NYT hed & dek: How Kennedy Is Trying to Revamp Medical School The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has tapped into an old debate about how much doctors should know about nutrition. But some of his ideas, and tactics, concern medical experts.
evergreen dek
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
