The press has historically been a liberal institution, not in the sense of pushing left-wing politics but in its understanding of itself as existing primarily for the public good. But I don't think even that's the case anymore.

I was walking around in Denver a few weeks ago and saw some graffiti that said "FUCK THE BEATLES, GO YOKO." It made me smile.

That moment where he accused Obama of doing the exact opposite of what he had actually done was probably peak Trump: no relationship to the truth whatsoever, but delivered with absolute conviction. What's his angle, you wonder? Is he dumb enough to think he won't get caught in an obvious and basically unnecessary lie,…

I think I'm going to start rocking the safety pin. Earlier today there was a Latinx couple parked outside my house and standing outside their car with their dog. I think they were waiting for the person across the street to get home but they were there for a really long time so I went out to see if maybe they needed…

Hahaha I like soccer but this was pretty funny.

Got screwed out of one of the little Nintendos this morning. Went to Target right when they opened, waited in line, only to miss out due to two separate families abusing the one-per-customer policy—i.e., Dad buys one, Mom buys one, teenage son buys one. Pretty weak.

Clinton ain't running anymore, dude. Y'all are going to have to start defending your guy on his own merits now, I'm sure that will be a lot of fun.

If there's a silver lining here, it's that Sanders and Warren should now have some license to say, "Okay, we tried it your way, now step aside." There is an opportunity for them to establish themselves as strong opposition leaders heading an insurgent left wing in a Democratic Party with nothing left to lose. The Dems…

I think "struggled on issues" would be an exceedingly generous way of describing the guy who actually won the election. Bernie's narrow focus on a handful of issues was perceived as a weakness, but they were issues basically everybody worries about: getting a good job, having health care, paying for school, retiring…

Honestly, the Democrats fell victim to John Kerry Syndrome: they thought the opposing candidate was so clearly deficient that they forgot to try to win. They did all the big infrastructural things you do in a campaign and they did them flawlessly, but they never really bothered to lay out a competing vision to pit…

Is there any liberal in America who, knowing what we know now, would not go back in time and put Bernie Sanders on the ticket instead? I think he would have been strong in some of the demographics where Clinton needed a bigger push. I also think he would have had more success at running an issues-based campaign, which…

I don't know, this is the first time I've ever felt like it might be existentially imperative to defeat a particular candidate. I was against Romney and McCain, but I wasn't scared to find out what would happen to the country if they won. I thought Bush was terrible on pretty much every front but I never doubted…

I think part of Trump's appeal in an election comes from the nature of elections themselves: there can be a sense of subjugating and humiliating a political opponent, and Trump certainly played into that sense. But I think a lot of people are about to find out that it's not going to be them laughing along with Trump…

This is going to be a bleak post. Sorry. We've essentially sown the seeds of fascism in the United States, and every institution that was supposed to guard against it—the media, the political parties, the vote itself—failed catastrophically. Now it comes down to a harrowing and unprecedented test: can the ordinary…

Of the 331 Donald Trump statements that have been examined by Politifact, a meager 51—15%—rated "True" or "Mostly True." A full HALF of his examined statements were rated "False" or "Pants on Fire." His "Pants on Fire" statements alone—those comments so divorced from truth that they can only be called bald-faced…

That's a redundant statement, both in this context and all others.

Grab him by the pussy.

I actually thought about saying Pynchon instead.

He's a David Foster Wallace character that attained human form and got into some bath salts.

I just went and looked at some pictures of haggis online because I've never actually seen it before, and it looks like it probably tastes good. I'd try some.