Ryan Toole

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Not that anything matters anymore, but no other FBI director (not even Hoover) would publicly dishonor the office with a smarmy attempt to end-run both tradition and the Hatch Act with this kind of weaselly "I can't tell you who to vote for, but..."

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Our technology keeps getting better. Our social lives keep getting smaller...

Everybody might prefer, in the abstract, a world of dinner parties, neighborhood friendships, and spontaneous gatherings. But on any given Wednesday at 7:45pm., it is easier to look at a screen than to host a party.

Modernity has shifted leisure from activities that require coordination with other people toward activities that can be consumed without the permission or participation of others. Compared to TikTok, a dinner party is a terrible leisure technology. It requires matching schedules, cleaning the house, buying food, accommodating children and allergies, tolerating awkwardness, and taking the risk that the evening is mediocre. By contrast, what does television ask of us? Nothing. TikTok? Even less.

We keep creating opportunities for downtime that eliminate the need for other people to be present."

https://t.co/kJ5qiH2ruT

[Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markomihkelson]

If scenes like these came to us from Berlin, Paris or Washington, would the world remain indifferent?

This image was taken in Kyiv around noon today, after terrorist Russia struck the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with a drone.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Over and over, President Trump and his officials tell Ukraine to stop bombing Russia's oil refineries. When will they tell Russia to stop bombing Ukraine's apartment buildings, hospitals, shopping centers, and academies of science?

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

After claiming its publicly funded campaign-style ads promoting Trump were mere “public service announcements,” the administration uses public money to re-run an actual Trump campaign video from the 2024 election; instead of the 2024 campaign logo and phone number, it now says “paid for by the US government”: https://t.co/Fnhln7vjAl

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

They’re just stealing your money to pay for this.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump's such a piece of shit.

[Dave WinX 🍉 🌺 @dave_winx]

This is patently illegal. The President does NOT have the authority to refuse to spend money allocated by Congress. This is Fascism.

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

What makes the Covidian lesbian bar story so appealing is its quintessentially American and specifically New England character: a remote sect of true believers trying to preserve the old faith, but consumed by vicious factional conflicts over how to live up to its strictures…

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

It’s always funny when a conservative takes a second to look around and realize every one of their compatriots is a slack-jawed, drooling moron who would rather watch 15 hours of Yellowstone than step foot in a museum.

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Xi is thinking that he cannot fathom his good fortune that this ridiculous insecure easily manipulated childlike oaf has somehow managed to spend the past decade+ as his supposed greatest geopolitical foe & simultaneous fangirl.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

We're really deep into the banana republic zone here, Trump has hundreds of billions of dollars in superpac money to spend but he's still stealing your tax dollars to run extra campaign ads.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

There is no better example I can think of how Trump isn’t a steward of America or remotely patriotic or even nationalistic. He is simply a partisan of his own ego. This is just gross. He’s trying to suck up to a dictator and adversary by mocking another American president. And, btw, the anonymous functionary running this account will be remembered as a tiny little throne-sniffing weasel.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of missing insulin shots and meals to manage his diabetes is the third detainee to die in less than six months at an ICE facility in Louisiana. https://t.co/fQswZocwSP

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to https://t.co/LpKzEcL0V5 to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

America the predatory. America the rapacious. “To the victor belong the spoils.” This is autocracy-talk. I hope that we Americans will recover a right sense of our country and its purposes soon. 🇺🇸🗽

[S @even_steven8tht]

I don’t think there’s a statement that better captures the conservative world view

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The Kennedy Center was a beloved Washington institution, enjoyed by millions of people. It has been destroyed for no real reason. Just vanity, carelessness, indifference.
https://t.co/w9owtUfOGi

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Reminder to those who apparently don't know: the Kennedy Center was financially robust, with many private donors, before this administration undermined it, chased out the National Symphony, Washington Opera and others. Trump has forced it into bankruptcy out of sheer vanity.