@jessesingal And so French that he seemed to have a good philosophical attitude about being ejected.
English
Jon Mermin
742 posts
Wemby is so transcendant that I don't think being ejected from the game will impact his ability to score and play stifling defense
English
@robertwrighter @ChrisMurphyCT Isn’t this just obvious stuff to say politically though?
English
Disappointing. I'd seen @ChrisMurphyCT as a presidential prospect who if elected might liberate our foreign policy from Blobthink--I've even touted him as such on my podcast. But now I'm rethinking.
Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT
Even if Iran reopens the Strait, how is that a "good outcome"? The region is on fire. The global economy is going to take a year or more to recover. An anti-American regime is in power and emboldened. Iran still has their missiles and nuclear program. That's "good"?
English
@EliotACohen @TheAtlantic Looking forward to your contrarian and unbiased thinking about “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
English
A bit of contrarian thinking here: its a piece on the cognitive biases that many commentators bring to the Iran War. I take just as dark a view of Trump & Co. as anyone - but I'm wary of motivated reasoning too. @theAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…
English
@mattyglesias Don’t judge us by our airport. City otherwise weird.
English
Eternal shame on those who have takes about Trump being an authoritarian but then carve out an illegal war as somehow justified or in any way normal.
English
@EliotACohen @TheAtlantic “a queasy doubt that Trump knows what he is doing”?? Trump stumbles for whatever insane or self-interested reasons onto a policy you happen to like, so you figure he probably (but you’re not sure) “knows what he is doing”? Trump? Really?
English
Something of an exercise in ambivalence here. I would like to see the Iranian regime go down hard - and am not confident Trump knows what he is doing. @TheAtlantic
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…
English
@mattyglesias OK but the tanking problem is created by decisionmakers believing it is important to have as high a pick as possible.
English
We rounded up some of our favorite Sandwich Guy puns for you, because it’s Friday and we so seldom get nice things.
washingtonian.com/2025/11/07/the…
English
@jayrosen_nyu @PuckNews Although they do still lean neocon on foreign policy stuff.
English
@jayrosen_nyu @PuckNews I wouldn’t even call it sort of conservative; it’s more whatever it takes to beat Trumpism, with a presumption that moderation is the way to do that.
English
@CHueyBurns @weijia Oh how dreadfully unfair to do that to DONALD TRUMP, who literally lies all the time about everything. Gotta uphold the norms!
English
@cisco8oona @mattyglesias so we probably are in agreement here. anyway we should catch up sometime!
English
@cisco8oona @mattyglesias I take the point to be not that those positions are necessarily more effective, but that the national party needs to be open to candidates who hold them
English
@cisco8oona @mattyglesias OK so what if there was an otherwise strong D candidate in a very red state whose one flaw was they were pro gun or anti-abortion?
English
@mattyglesias Yet, there is disagreement on which messages will best contest those seats. You say run pro abortion anti gun control candidates when both recent history and polling exposes these methods as failure.
English
Best show from last 5 years that isn’t Succession, Silo or Severance (all of which I loved)?
After one of my most insanely hectic weeks ever, I need some downtime.
English
@EliotACohen @TheAtlantic Your opinion on the merits doesn’t surprise me, but your “gotta hand it to Trump” take does. Maybe reflect a little more on that one.
English
I have been critical of Donald Trump for nearly a decade now. But when he does the right thing, I am going to say so. My latest @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
English
@ArmsControlWonk I’m sure the Iranian people will be open to taking advice from Israel.
English
Well, that was timely! Netanyahu just said the quiet part out loud, claiming the strike is "clearing the path" for Iranians to overthrow the regime. 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=fO8WlA…
YouTube
English
Netanyahu's attack on Iran is about sparking regime change with just enough strikes on nuclear facilities to frame it as an act of preemptive self-defense. I doubt this will turn out well. My latest in @ForeignPolicy.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/isr…
English
@mattyglesias The problem is biased officiating only works if it’s an unofficial de facto thing the league adamantly denies is happening. Unclear how you could recreate that situation.
English
@HeerJeet The response is that that’s how stupid/bad people want to respond to over-regulation; the abundance coterie is proposing a better response (reduce certain kinds of regulatory burdens in a democratic way).
English
I have yet to see a convincing response from the Abundance coterie to this fundamental political critique.
Sam Adler-Bell@SamAdlerBell
the fact that Silicon Valley reactionaries and "supply side progressives" (abundance bros) were responding to the same perceived impasse and swimming in the same currents was obvious to me back in 2022. nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opi…
English