Jane Coaston
@janecoaston.bsky.social
Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.
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one of the stranger parts of US intellectual culture is people desperate to convince themselves that they're dangerous radical dissidents while writing for, for instance, the New York Review of Architecture or working as tenure-track professors.
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
one of the stranger parts of US intellectual culture is people desperate to convince themselves that they're dangerous radical dissidents while writing for, for instance, the New York Review of Architecture or working as tenure-track professors.
I got to talk to an adult survivor of Epstein's abuse a few months ago and it was harrowing. These were children.
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I got to talk to an adult survivor of Epstein's abuse a few months ago and it was harrowing. These were children.
Oh hey
"you need to purposely underthrow the football so your guy can come back to it and try to draw a defensive pass interference"
Airing of Grievances: what are your bespoke football pet peeves? Not just shotgun in short yardage (we are all people of good taste after all) but little things that go up your ass sideways watching a game?
I *despise* big receivers that don't play like big guys and manhandle DBs.
I *despise* big receivers that don't play like big guys and manhandle DBs.
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Oh hey
My mom spent the last 40 odd years of her life referring to State Route 126 as "Cross County." It apparently has a different name, but that's none of our business.
I'll call it the Kennedy Center bc it'll get changed back eventually.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
What are you going to refer to it as?
December 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My mom spent the last 40 odd years of her life referring to State Route 126 as "Cross County." It apparently has a different name, but that's none of our business.
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Pour one out for Dan Bongino
December 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Pour one out for Dan Bongino
I need a mournful version of "I Wanna Be at the RNC" by 8AM tomorrow
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to leave job next month, ending brief tenure as bureau's No. 2 official.
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I need a mournful version of "I Wanna Be at the RNC" by 8AM tomorrow
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Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
they aren't even really selling it!
Seems like Trump and his groupies think starting a regime change war of conquest out of nowhere is a political masterstroke that will get them back on the front foot, but I don’t think that’s how it will play out.
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
they aren't even really selling it!
"what do journalists like" versus "what do Americans want to watch on TV," exhibit 9000
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"what do journalists like" versus "what do Americans want to watch on TV," exhibit 9000
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Sure, the GOP Speaker of the Michigan House just unilaterally canceled $645 million in funding for much-needed programs, but he also seems to have a gambling problem and made death threats to his college classmates so who's to say whether he's a bad guy heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/15/m...
Michigan speaker’s tumultuous reign continues, cancels $645 million in state funding as negotiation tactic
Last week, Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) bragged to reporters about the House Republicans’ decision to block $645 million in state funding in another controversial move on the...
heartlandsignal.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sure, the GOP Speaker of the Michigan House just unilaterally canceled $645 million in funding for much-needed programs, but he also seems to have a gambling problem and made death threats to his college classmates so who's to say whether he's a bad guy heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/15/m...
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There's a special election tonight for the KY Senate in a seat that Harris won by just 5 points last year, but the GOP doesn't seem to be contesting it seriously.
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There's a special election tonight for the KY Senate in a seat that Harris won by just 5 points last year, but the GOP doesn't seem to be contesting it seriously.
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
One possible reason? Their candidate called young women “coddled americunts."
Our writeup: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
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why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
why would immigrants do this www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Thinking about how Stand By Me was one of the first movies I saw about children that could be watched by children that was also very cognizant of what it was actually like to *be* a child.
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Thinking about how Stand By Me was one of the first movies I saw about children that could be watched by children that was also very cognizant of what it was actually like to *be* a child.
also "all your efforts" are not "posting"
one thing i am learning is that people do treat the phrase “dicking around” as an insult and a pejorative. news to me
yeah man i can't imagine why someone would get upset when you tell them all their efforts are "just dicking around"
i mean your point was correct, but come on now
i mean your point was correct, but come on now
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
also "all your efforts" are not "posting"
Claremont Bear
This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Claremont Bear
oh good lord
"my terrorist diary / lmaooooo" www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
oh good lord
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I don’t understand people who see dumb social media websites as venues for Ideological Combat and not watching a football game and having the idle thought "i bet this is how Arnold Schwarzenegger would say the words Jerry Jeudy" and then deciding to make it someone else's problem
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I don’t understand people who see dumb social media websites as venues for Ideological Combat and not watching a football game and having the idle thought "i bet this is how Arnold Schwarzenegger would say the words Jerry Jeudy" and then deciding to make it someone else's problem
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Sometimes they even know @janecoaston.bsky.social
"it was '100,000 percent' that the FBI would be onto them," one alleged co-conspirator said during a meeting that was 40 percent FBI (one confidential human source and one FBI undercover). www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sometimes they even know @janecoaston.bsky.social
annoyance theory is a good one (that I invented) but if you are more annoyed by one group and the other group is dangerous and runs the government well
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
annoyance theory is a good one (that I invented) but if you are more annoyed by one group and the other group is dangerous and runs the government well
man, this story www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
Kenya Is Betting Its Economy on Women Willing to Risk It All
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
man, this story www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
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this one
it took 10 set points for Nebraska but they win set four 37-35, so it's one set for all the tostitos
December 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this one
Nebraska has 12 players 6'2 and above. Hadn't lost a set at home in three months. 33-0. My goodness.
Texas A&M knocks off undefeated Nebraska in 5 sets and is headed to a national semifinal, Nebraska's first loss at home since 2022 (Minnesota)
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Nebraska has 12 players 6'2 and above. Hadn't lost a set at home in three months. 33-0. My goodness.
And that set was in SEPTEMBER
they had only lost one set at home all year until this match
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And that set was in SEPTEMBER
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This was their first loss at home in THREE YEARS
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This was their first loss at home in THREE YEARS
Wait the what now set
The 37-35 set was one of most stressful sporting events of my life
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Wait the what now set