Noah Berlatsky

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Last Notes

2026-05-25 03:22:13 UTC

I really wish that people like TCW would grapple with the fact that Elon Musk murdered hundreds of thousands of non white people because he is a white supremacist.
like, maybe he's objecting to Black people on screen bec. he is a mass murdering Nazi.1
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2026-05-02 19:44:43 UTC

I would just quote James Baldwin here. "The spirit of the South is the spirit of America."
Donald Trump is from New York, where they had racist draft riots in the Civil War. John Roberts if from Indiana, home of the Klan. Alito is from New Jersey.
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#note1hhh…rj52

2026-03-03 00:50:54 UTC

the supreme court is as much of a threat to the constitution and democracy as Trump. maybe more.

2026-02-18 15:46:57 UTC

Wrote about the very unhelpful convo around gavin newsom. arguing over whether we all will or won't vote for him in the general is just helping him establish himself as the GE candidate. He's not even the leader! we don't need to pretend he is! [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/we-can-bea...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/we-can-beat-gavin-newsom )
[We Can Beat Gavin Newsom](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/we-can-beat-gavin-newsom )

2026-02-11 20:32:03 UTC

got a piece on why aoc should run for 2028 coming tomorrow. sign up and it'll be in your inbox in the morning, whoosh. [open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...](https://open.substack.com/pub/noahberlatsky/p/why-aoc-should-run-for-president )
[Why AOC Should Run for Preside...](https://open.substack.com/pub/noahberlatsky/p/why-aoc-should-run-for-president?r=1auo6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true )

2026-02-04 17:18:45 UTC

Jeff Bezos: [clears throat] DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS
Jeff Bezos: [turns off the lights]

2026-01-25 18:25:44 UTC

she sucks...but even she is calling for Noem to resign, is I think the takeaway here.
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2026-01-23 01:21:21 UTC

ffs
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2026-01-18 05:58:21 UTC

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

2025-12-22 05:49:07 UTC

really looking forward to conor friedersdorf's next column about how the real threat to free speech is once again people criticizing bari weiss on social media.

2025-12-20 16:43:12 UTC

still relevant
[www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-co...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-coverage-largely-ignores )
[Epstein Coverage Largely Ignor...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-coverage-largely-ignores )

2025-12-11 04:43:12 UTC

just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigrants-dont-have-due-process )
[If Immigrants Don’t Have Due P...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigrants-dont-have-due-process )

2025-11-25 01:52:06 UTC

I get that part of the media cycle is for deep thinkers to come up with global Takes on what the Nuzzi outrage means for our culture, but...like, the main thing to me seems to be that she helped whitewash a genocidal eugenicist? who is killing people? right now?

2025-11-20 16:09:27 UTC

People talk about the Epstein files like a magic button that will either destroy trump if pushed or not harm him at all. I think the truth is that they've already hurt him and will continue to do so, even though they won't probably end his presidency. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-epstei...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-epstein-files-will-continue-to )
[The Epstein Files Will Continu...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-epstein-files-will-continue-to )

2025-11-19 17:05:37 UTC

we keep getting more and more evidence that reactionary centrism is not some sort of electoral cheat code. Now Jared Golden and Labour UK have both gutted their careers through pundit brain centrism. maybe we could stop doing this? [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/centrism-c...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/centrism-cannot-fail-it-can-only )
[Centrism Cannot Fail, It Can O...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/centrism-cannot-fail-it-can-only )

2025-11-16 12:38:01 UTC

it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.

2025-11-04 14:59:38 UTC

"Republicans (and Joe Manchin) don’t attack SNAP and UBI because the programs are failures. They attack them because the programs are successful, and conservatives hate the idea that some poor person somewhere may be experiencing autonomy, freedom, or joy."
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#note1us4…eaxv

2025-11-04 14:51:44 UTC

There's extensive evidence that just giving poor people money is very effective public policy. The moral panic over what ppl buy with SNAP is about sadism and entitlement. the wealthy enjoy policing and tormenting those they see as their inferiors. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republican...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republicans-want-poor-people-to-suffer )
[Republicans Want Poor People t...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/republicans-want-poor-people-to-suffer )

2025-11-02 22:31:56 UTC

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

2025-10-28 22:59:36 UTC

fwiw, most political scientists argue that elections are often driven by factors that are out of candidate control, and obsessing about messaging and policy can end up being self defeating.
see this by [@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/jonathanbernstein.bsky.social ) from today: [goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/a-mantra-f...](https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/a-mantra-for-the-democrats )
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[A Mantra for the Democrats](https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/a-mantra-for-the-democrats )

2025-10-28 01:52:45 UTC

worth noting that the pols who most align with reactionary centrism are Sinema and Fetterman, both of whom completely tanked their popularity by essentially trying to be Yglesias or Nate Silver. [www.nj.com/politics/202...](https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/10/dem-senator-in-key-swing-state-has-had-a-stunning-reversal-in-popularity-new-poll-shows.html )
[Dem senator in key swing state...](https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/10/dem-senator-in-key-swing-state-has-had-a-stunning-reversal-in-popularity-new-poll-shows.html )

2025-10-02 14:17:51 UTC

"Our liberty is our neighbor’s liberty; our justice is our neighbor’s justice. Our choice is not due process for some or due process for all. Our choice is due process for all, or the boot."
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#note1w9j…qdnq

2025-10-02 14:14:39 UTC

wrote about how you can't remove due process from immigrants and keep it for citizens because due process is the only way you can tell the difference. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigrants-dont-have-due-process )
[If Immigrants Don’t Have Due P...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigrants-dont-have-due-process )

2025-09-25 00:48:03 UTC

vance literally called trump a nazi.
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2025-09-21 17:29:16 UTC

fwiw, I did have a convo with a right wing Christian trump voter whose kid's father was being deported and who was talking about how MAGA had betrayed her. 1

2025-09-14 01:10:52 UTC

the truth is that the most consistently thoughtful and theoretically solid left publication right now is probably teen vogue.

2025-09-11 14:14:10 UTC

I wrote about how Chicago's resistance led Trump to back down on sending the national guard. This is a victory for the state and the city, and shows that fighting fascism can work. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/pritzker-s...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/pritzker-scares-trump-away )
[Pritzker Scares Trump Away](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/pritzker-scares-trump-away )

2025-09-10 22:01:32 UTC

so it sounds like trump is not in fact sending national guard troops to chicago. the sweeping and unified opposition of state and city leaders appears to have deterred him. [blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/n...](https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/no-national-guard-in-chicago-after-all-trump-appears-to-sour-on-plan/ )
[No National Guard In Chicago A...](https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/10/no-national-guard-in-chicago-after-all-trump-appears-to-sour-on-plan/ )

2025-08-31 22:34:58 UTC

My daughter is trans. I'm not going to enthusiastically endorse someone who wants to have charlie kirk be a leading voice on trans policy. 1

2025-08-30 22:13:50 UTC

not to be overly optimistic or anything, but tillis and ernst both clearly think there will be elections in 2026 and that Rs may well lose them.
fwiw.

2025-08-26 04:04:36 UTC

fwiw, I think the big issue here is partisanship. the framers didn't anticipate political parties at all.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/post/3lxbgvkaw5c2h

2025-08-16 04:33:31 UTC

pritzker is not perfect, but...I think progressives would be wise to start thinking seriously about getting behind him in a very thoroughgoing way. 1

2025-08-11 15:47:25 UTC

"So, this is an empirical question. Are Democratic approval numbers low because Democrats have not been sufficiently solicitous of transphobes like Charlie Kirk and racists like Rahm Emanuel?
And there is an empirical answer. That answer is no."
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#note12u8…ceg3

2025-08-11 15:31:36 UTC

wrote about that wapo article recommending Ds embrace fascism lite and why that's ugly and counterproductive.
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2025-08-09 20:40:19 UTC

one big problem with community is that it involves other people.

2025-08-07 04:17:47 UTC

maga voters would be better off if they'd gone to the voting booth and just hit themselves in the head with a hammer.
and the rest of us would be better off too.

2025-08-05 15:00:21 UTC

again, this fails to take seriously the fact that MAGA fascists are in fact often sincere bigots who want to hurt people.
[www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not-be-safe-to-remain-friends )
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2025-07-31 14:59:31 UTC

we finally have polling on how Jewish ppl in NY feel about Mamdani...and he's winning by 17 points.
this is why polls are useful. they give you a sense of what ppl think, and let you know when leaders and pundits are full of shit. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/jews-like-...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/jews-like-mamdani )
[Jews Like Mamdani](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/jews-like-mamdani )

2025-07-27 16:47:08 UTC

two things are true:
— Massie is a far right asshole who doesn't believe in climate change and wants to gut all social services and cackle while children die without health care
—Massie is one of the most courageous opponents of Trump in congress

2025-07-22 14:14:06 UTC

mainstream media is writing about trump & epstein...but those articles don't inform readers that trump was held liable for sexual assault.
that's because they're covering epstein as a MAGA rift story, not as a story about trump's character or fitness. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-co...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-coverage-largely-ignores )
[Epstein Coverage Largely Ignor...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-coverage-largely-ignores )

2025-07-07 04:29:28 UTC

the nyt saying they must be doing something right because the left is mad at them is exactly the same as Jim Jordan saying the health care bill must be good because Ds don't like it.

2025-07-05 21:55:36 UTC

it would be kind of funny if Musk supports a Hanania/Yglesias ticket and we get to see just how popular the popularists are.

2025-07-04 01:18:42 UTC

the reason trump constantly says antisemitic things is that he's an antisemite.

2025-07-03 04:04:55 UTC

if Rs tank this bill after forcing all the moderates to vote for it, it's the absolute worst of all worlds for them. just completely pointless blunderbuss to their majority.

2025-07-03 03:09:23 UTC

people asking why massie would vote yes on the rule if he's voting no on the bill.
the answer is that massie is a fool and a bounder. his principles are internally inconsistent and have nothing to do with reality. he likes to be seen as tough, but stands for literally nothing. 1

2025-06-22 14:31:07 UTC

wrote about Charles Sumner, someone who proved that racism wasn't somehow natural or unquestioningly accepted in the past—which means it's not natural and shouldn't be accepted today, either. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/charles-su...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/charles-sumner-of-his-time?utm_source=activity_item )
[Charles Sumner: Of His Time](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/charles-sumner-of-his-time?utm_source=activity_item )

2025-06-08 00:16:31 UTC

calling up the military to shoot civilians is extremely risky, because if they don't, that can easily be the end of your regime. 1

2025-05-21 14:20:38 UTC

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2025-05-21 14:16:23 UTC

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2025-05-21 14:09:33 UTC

wrote about the covid vaccine restrictions and how Trump being bad at his job is bad for him and even worse for us.
ppl say nothing matters, but trump's refusal to take covid seriously almost killed Donald Trump. but he still won't take it seriously! [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-inc...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-incompetence-is-incredibly )
[Trump’s Incompetence Is Incred...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-incompetence-is-incredibly?utm_source=activity_item )

2025-05-17 01:02:56 UTC

it's pretty remarkable that as apocalyptically awful as Trump's SC appointees are, they are actually significantly less awful than Thomas and Alito. 1
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#note1hk0…029k

2025-05-09 17:10:08 UTC

going to re up this because it just seems important and I don't know what else to do really.
ending foreign aid is likely to kill 25 million people. they're overseas and spread out, so there's been very little pushback. but it's horrific. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-is-committing-a-genocide )
[Elon Musk is committing a geno...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-is-committing-a-genocide )

2025-04-30 16:29:32 UTC

Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-is-committing-a-genocide )
[Elon Musk is committing a geno...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-is-committing-a-genocide )

2025-04-18 14:28:41 UTC

wrote about gavin newsom claiming Abrego Garcia is a distraction, because gavin newsom is a piece of shit. [www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gavin-news...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gavin-newsom-is-a-piece-of-shit )
[Gavin Newsom Is A Piece of Shi...](https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gavin-newsom-is-a-piece-of-shit )