David B. Bernstein
@dbbernstein.bsky.social
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3 cheers for Old Nassau
3 cheers for Old Nassau
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Eleven months.
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Eleven months.
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The most transparent administration in US history
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The most transparent administration in US history
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Presidents who attended Kennedy Ctr events since its opening in 1971 and did not dream of putting their names on it
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush I
Clinton
Bush II
Obama
Biden
Very different people. None of them this vulgar.
Would have made more sense for DJT to put his name on the Supreme Court.
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush I
Clinton
Bush II
Obama
Biden
Very different people. None of them this vulgar.
Would have made more sense for DJT to put his name on the Supreme Court.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Presidents who attended Kennedy Ctr events since its opening in 1971 and did not dream of putting their names on it
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush I
Clinton
Bush II
Obama
Biden
Very different people. None of them this vulgar.
Would have made more sense for DJT to put his name on the Supreme Court.
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush I
Clinton
Bush II
Obama
Biden
Very different people. None of them this vulgar.
Would have made more sense for DJT to put his name on the Supreme Court.
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It will take decades to correct the damage wrought by this presidency. And that’s assuming we get the chance.
December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It will take decades to correct the damage wrought by this presidency. And that’s assuming we get the chance.
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Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation
Don’t log off. Keep score.
bit.ly
December 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
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A bribe masquerading as a movie.
Here’s the trailer for “Melania”
Reminder: Amazon paid tens of millions of dollars to Melania Trump for this.
Reminder: Amazon paid tens of millions of dollars to Melania Trump for this.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A bribe masquerading as a movie.
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How utterly lacking in class or even basic human empathy.
What a curse for our nation and the world.
What a curse for our nation and the world.
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
How utterly lacking in class or even basic human empathy.
What a curse for our nation and the world.
What a curse for our nation and the world.
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Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He's flailing on the economy. Epstein haunts him. Republicans are beginning to revolt against him.
He's not all powerful.
A tyrant can exercise tyranny only insofar as the objects of his tyranny continue to allow it.
Remember this.
He's not all powerful.
A tyrant can exercise tyranny only insofar as the objects of his tyranny continue to allow it.
Remember this.
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He's flailing on the economy. Epstein haunts him. Republicans are beginning to revolt against him.
He's not all powerful.
A tyrant can exercise tyranny only insofar as the objects of his tyranny continue to allow it.
Remember this.
He's not all powerful.
A tyrant can exercise tyranny only insofar as the objects of his tyranny continue to allow it.
Remember this.
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Reactions to Biden Administration having shot the serif continue to this day.
"The Justice Department will be switching to Comic Sans because current fonts have a veneer of professionalism that feels out of place in communications written by Lindsey Halligan."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"The Justice Department will be switching to Comic Sans because current fonts have a veneer of professionalism that feels out of place in communications written by Lindsey Halligan."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Finally!! No More Woke Fonts!
Marco Rubio has spoken—get out of here, Calibri!
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Reactions to Biden Administration having shot the serif continue to this day.
"The Justice Department will be switching to Comic Sans because current fonts have a veneer of professionalism that feels out of place in communications written by Lindsey Halligan."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"The Justice Department will be switching to Comic Sans because current fonts have a veneer of professionalism that feels out of place in communications written by Lindsey Halligan."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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“Where in the United States does Antifa exist” proved to be a real stumper to the guy who just said Antifa is the biggest terrorism threat in the United States.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“Where in the United States does Antifa exist” proved to be a real stumper to the guy who just said Antifa is the biggest terrorism threat in the United States.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give his girlfriend’s drunk pal a lift home
The FBI director’s use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he’s “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”
The FBI director’s use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he’s “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
FBI agents have grown increasingly concerned by Patel’s use of the bureau’s strapped resource.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give his girlfriend’s drunk pal a lift home
The FBI director’s use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he’s “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”
The FBI director’s use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he’s “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”
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Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
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Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Invoking "color revolutions" as a boogeyman like this really goes to show how much these guys have cooked their brains on Russian propaganda specifically.
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Invoking "color revolutions" as a boogeyman like this really goes to show how much these guys have cooked their brains on Russian propaganda specifically.