Jeremy Fassler
@jfassler
Writer and Journalist. Substack: The Big Board. Words in: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones. Former: Daily Banter, Capitol Forum.
Good luck to Troy Jackson, the new Democratic Senate nominee in Maine. He's gonna need it when Republicans place this photo (and others like it) on every single ad for the next three months.
I think it's really pathetic that Rebecca Traister, who believed Tara Reade and called Biden's decision to choose of a female VP a "poison chalice" would swoon over Graham Platner despite all the red flags even before the first abuse accusations came in last June.
When I wrote about the 10th anniversary of Hamilton last year I had fun swiping at Matt Stoller, who hates the show because blah blah antitrust but it’s probably just because he hates watching people of color play White people.
BREAKING NEWS: Man who is famously wrong about everything refuses to admit he was wrong.
UPDATE: Ken Klippenstein has written a new piece where he refuses to apologize for supporting Platner because he is incapable of self-reflection.
Andy O’Brien, the comms director for the Maine AFL-CIO, has used his social media accounts to threaten and harass women who criticized Graham Platner. The AFL-CIO needs to fire him. This behavior is unacceptable.
Someday I really want to ask Nick Stoller what the fuck is wrong with his racist, sexist, all-around-idiot brother.
Last time the Knicks led in the finals, my Dad had wrapped a pilot called Frogmen starring OJ Simpson. His agent called him and said he had a dubbing session scheduled, and Dad said "no I don't. Turn on your TV, OJ's in this crazy car chase." The pilot never aired. And the Knicks lost. Thanks, OJ.
I think like a lot of people my age, I learned who John Waters was because of his great performance in The Simpsons episode "Homer's Phobia." This Pride Month, make sure you watch it - and then watch his Female Trouble. One of the funniest movies ever made.
So glad that readers gave Jeff Wells money to go to Cannes so that he could sleep through movies and take pictures of random French people without their consent!
Seriously, how does he do that thing with his face every time he looks at his phone? Is he capable of looking at it like a normal human being?
It would never have happened without it. That’s why this guy is such a hero.
Joseph Sexton blocking Julie Brown from winning a Pulitzer for her Epstein reporting because "nothing came of it" is the journalism equivalent of Wim Wenders refusing to give the Palme d'Or to Do the Right Thing because it had "no one to root for."
This is the most insane - and infuriating - bit of Taylor Lorenz lore I’ve yet encountered.
I’ve always known Hasan Piker was dumb, but this interview proved he’s even dumber than I thought.
“Get outta here Michael, you don’t want nonna this shit!” “What is it?” “It’s Graham King! He produced Bohemian Rhapsody and the Whitney Houston movie nobody saw! He’ll turn your life into Walk Hard! You don’t want it!” “I think I want it! Hee hee!”
The more I think about it, this might be the dumbest tweet of all time.
There's no strategic upside for Trump to use nuclear weapons except that I think he wants insurance that he will never, EVER be forgotten by history. As LBJ speechwriter Dick Goodwin said, "everyone's forgotten by history unless they're a mass murderer."