Are you, fucking, kidding me? I have written a library's worth of articles, books, and hosted a whole fucking podcast with NOTHING BUT "concrete ideas on the subject." To quote Curt Cignetti: "Google me."
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Look, I like El-Sayed and I hope he wins. But I'm going to need him, I'm going to need the entire left wing and Democratic party, to do a LOT better on court reform. Because without it there *is no* progressive agenda. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda
The Senate nominee has woefully undercooked ideas on Supreme Court reform—and that’s a problem.
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Are we just supposed to ignore the fact that The Ghoul in Fallout got himself in trouble by doing ads for Vault Tech and now the actor who plays the Ghoul, Walt Goggins, is doing ads for WalMart? DID YOU NOT READ THE SCRIPT, WALT? THIS DOESN'T END WELL FOR YOU OR US.
10yo: That's so Unc. 13yo: Bro, I'm only three years older than you. 10yo: Yeah. Sad. 13yo: So when you're a teenager, you'll be Unc? 10yo: No. Because I have so much aura.
People suggesting "buy nothing facebook groups" are making me realize there's a thing called "Facebook" for the first time in a decade. :)
I have more than a few like that for sure. I'm not trying to donate those. I just open the box, stare into the middle distance, and weep softly at the unrestrained consumerism I too am a shameful part of. :(
I have so much good condition, child-based *stuff* my kids have outgrown (clothes, toys, entire bedrom set) and this fucking society makes it SO FUCKING HARD for me to give these items away and basically encourages me to place it in a landfill and I fucking hate everything.
10yo: You haven't gone outside willingly all summer. 13yo: I have. ... 13yo: Oh. God. It's so bright. 10yo: Exactly my point.
From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Democratic Leadership always talks about how they have to be pragmatic and move right to appeal to swing voters when it comes to social and economic issues, unless it's a winning issue like this of course where Jeffries and Schumer refuse to back any specific proposal on data centers.
Hart Cunningham@hart28.bsky.social · 3w agoData center protestors interrupt Trump event🇺🇸
Hey, remember when the head of GM -- which is, totally coincidentally, the manufacturer of the Cadillac Escalade -- introduced Trump at his political rally yesterday?
Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3w agoHey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.
I'm saying nice things about people from New York and New Jersey in this newsletter, which feels weird www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Protecting War Criminals Is As American as Apple Pie
In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent bemoans our long failure to prosecute war criminals. Plus: the death of Nolan wells and the nightmare so many Black parents fear.
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I will never get over my kids, playing video games with their friends, IN PERSON, LIKE WE DID IN THE OLD DAYS… yet still saying things like “Chat, am I cooked?” As if they’re playing on Twitch in front of an audience.
Do I have to bother to committ Andy Burnham's name to memory or will the Brits change their minds again soon?
I gave them a time limit for when they could start asking to do inside, and they misunderstood and thought that was the time they could actually go inside. They felt misled and I told them to pay attention to the fine print and the whole thing ended up as more lawyering than base balling. :(
This feels like a good time to share my newsletter this week. :) open.substack.com/pub/elienyc/...
If Hakeem Jeffries Won’t Save the Democratic Party, Maybe He Can Try Saving Baseball
ELIE V. U.S.
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Hakeem Jeffries should demand equal time and directly respond to Trump's lies about the election tonight, and tell us all what we're doing to STOP Trump from stealing this thing.
I was right about my pre-tournament pick of France v England. … I just got the date of the game wrong :)
Welp England, like us Americans, we’ll just have to content ourselves with our obscenely high standard of living won from pillaging the world of labor and resources. We’ll be okay. *Sorry, “labour.”
Every Football Manager player knows you *NEVER* go to “cautious” mentality with 30 minutes to go.
Legit feel sorry for the English for like the first time since Rome kicked their ass
An article about that charmer in the Senate, that so many Democrats find so "funny"
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.Here's my Lindsey Graham obit. While most people are focused on his late career villian arc, I will never get over his sneering, hysterical defense of an alleged attempted rapist. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Turning off the Blanche hearings and doing literally anything else with my precious fucking life.
That Spain/France games was like watching an eclipse. Seeing a Sun just slowly enveloped in darkness.
Every word of this. Lindsey Graham's misogyny - he repeatedly sponsored national abortion bans - has been overlooked. He hated women. And it was on full display at the Kavanaugh hearings.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.Here's my Lindsey Graham obit. While most people are focused on his late career villian arc, I will never get over his sneering, hysterical defense of an alleged attempted rapist. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...