Socialism was once the battle cry of factory workers and coal miners. Today, it’s increasingly the pet ideology of upper-middle-class urbanites sipping fair trade soy lattes and chanting of their wish to globalise an intifada that they know little or nothing about.
We don't yet know the timeline, but the Trump administration appears to be planning to use the power the Supreme Court just acknowledged to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third-party country.
Free bus rides.Childcare at no cost.Freeze the rent for rent-stabilized tenants.And city-owned, “public option” grocery stores.
They don't want to admit error, the WSJ later notes, because they don't want to expose their news operations to further legal liability for cooked reporting and corrupt election meddling.
The changes come as Post readership is declining at an alarming rate, even in an era where all newspapers are struggling to attract readers.According to data provided to City Paper by the Alliance for Audited Media, the Post’s paid average daily circulation is now down to just 97,000, with roughly 160,000 on Sundays. That’s a fraction of the 250,000 average daily circulation five years ago, when the Post was one of the largest newspapers in the country by circulation.
Fordow is gone and nobody knew until Trump made a Truth Social post.
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) June 22, 2025
Now that's stealth
Nonetheless, I look forward to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s next book, Original Djinn: Ayatollah Khamenei’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Remain Supreme Leader.
I’ll close with a question. Those of us who favor a secure border, an orderly immigration system, and the swift deportation of illegal aliens are often told that this view must be motivated by animus. In particular, we are accused of wishing to remove those who came here without permission because we believe that they are in some sense “second-class.” But is that not, in fact, a perfect description of the approach of Karen Bass, who apparently envisions a city in which some of the jobs are done by her friends at a minimum of $30 per hour plus benefits, and the rest are taken care of by the faceless “immigrant labor,” which does not deserve to benefit from such rules, and cannot?
Progressive America has a clear misandry problem they won’t acknowledge or address, even as they wring their hands about losing male voters. https://t.co/8UI580cEJ6
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 15, 2025
Anti-Trump protesters raged at his near-omnipotence. "He's just doing whatever he wants," another rallygoer said. "Nobody is standing in his way. Except for Congress. And the media. And Hollywood. And multiple rogue federal judges. And every member of the Democratic Party. We don't even live in a free country where we can protest, which is why we're protesting. It's time for us to draw a line in the sand and stand up to demand the right to do exactly what we're all doing today."
In the communications training sessions I lead, I regularly warn clients against manipulating audiences through fear and anger — for example, by mislabeling reasonable objections as “bigotry.” Not only does this poison public discourse, it sabotages campaigners’ own mental health. I speak from experience here.The belief that entrenched, identity-based socioeconomic systems dictate most of our life outcomes fosters what psychologists call an external locus of control, which is associated with poorer mental health. That’s because such narratives make us feel powerless to change our lives.
Now, if this were two men, we’d just chalk all of that up to politicians being like this. And that’s how we should respond. But do the people who routinely make a gender issue out of this when it’s a Republican man and a Democratic woman have even a little self-awareness? Or do they just understand that it’s always a partisan racket?
If I were in the Iranian government, I would not have let Israel build a secret drone base in my country. Just my opinion, YMMV.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 13, 2025
Again, I ask, if they’ll lie about something this obvious, countering video evidence, what won’t they lie to you about?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 9, 2025
How did we get four years of lying about Joe Biden’s health? This is how. There are no limits. https://t.co/c6UCzs289G
While Democrats have not succeeded in making a convincing political case for opposing immigration enforcement, they may be making a stronger case for federal deployment in increasingly hostile blue cities.
In the first weeks of Trump’s term, I grew physically ill at how these policies would upend millions of American lives. But a few months in, though I remained just as opposed to what was happening, I was surprised and disturbed by how calm I’d come to feel most days. The rhythm of my daily life somehow remained the same as before: the kid drop-offs, the virtual meetings, the school event blitz. Like the proverbial boiling frog, I seemed to have gotten used to the water even though the temperature kept rising.
Laurence Tribe, a law professor emeritus at Harvard, said he’s confident the university would prevail before the Supreme Court.
While the courts may chip away at Trump’s offensive, the president has multiple funding spigots over which he has near plenary discretion. Harvard, Columbia, and others have few pressure points other than the courts, which have already, in the case of Harvard, slapped down some of its discriminatory programs.Accordingly, they should, and likely will, soon come to the table.
Slow news day, what are we even going to talk about? @TheoVon pic.twitter.com/LVmtK219Dt
— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 6, 2025
As some have noted: When you pointed out that Latrine John-Pissoir was an incompetent incapable of answering basic questions without reading a largely-unrelated entry from her giant cheat-sheet briefing book, you were a racist homophobe who hates women and immigrants.But when Latrine John-Pissoir pisses off Biden staffers, and they say she's an incompetent incapable of answering basic questions without reading a largely-unrelated entry from her giant cheat-sheet briefing book, they are heroic truth-tellers correcting the record.
Can the institutions and the “responsible people” make a comeback? I’m really not sure. But any revival will have to involve a much deeper reckoning with the failures of that mad, mad year — 2020. Maybe start by calling riots and lawlessness what they were. Make peace with the biological reality of two sexes — man and woman. Retract the ahistorical claptrap of the 1619 Project, which still enjoys the imprimatur of The New York Times. When ideology corrodes public trust, there’s only one path to winning it back: intellectual humility.
