Paul Constant
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Seattle-based writer of journalism, criticism, progressive economics and politics pieces, and comic books. Snelson, my comic with Fred Harper was a New York Public Library Best Adult Comic selection for 2022. Email: thisispaulconstant at gmail dot com.
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I’m Paul Constant. I write journalism, criticism, essays, and comic books. I’m a fellow at Civic Ventures, a public policy incubator, and a cofounder of the award-winning Seattle Review…
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Lots more folks on here these days, so it's re-introduction time. Hi! My name is Paul Constant. I write about books, politics, economics, technology, and Seattle. I'm a fellow at Civic Ventures, I write comic books, and I have a free monthly newsletter. You can find links to all that on my website:
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"I heard of a man"
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"I heard of a man"
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Commissioner Gordon doesn’t open the gift on-panel. Does the label read “Bat-tobacco,” or “To-Bat-co?”
December 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Commissioner Gordon doesn’t open the gift on-panel. Does the label read “Bat-tobacco,” or “To-Bat-co?”
Kavanaugh: Stop the Kavanaugh Stop.
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Kavanaugh: Stop the Kavanaugh Stop.
Really feels like the pool of Christmas songs that businesses choose to play in public gets smaller every year. I keep hearing the same five songs in every restaurant, bar, shop, and gathering space.
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Really feels like the pool of Christmas songs that businesses choose to play in public gets smaller every year. I keep hearing the same five songs in every restaurant, bar, shop, and gathering space.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
I love the Avatar movies but Spider is perhaps my most-hated fictional character of all time.
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I love the Avatar movies but Spider is perhaps my most-hated fictional character of all time.
Between this and the administration yanking those Trump pictures out of the Epstein file dump, it’s been a huge weekend for the Streisand Effect.
the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Between this and the administration yanking those Trump pictures out of the Epstein file dump, it’s been a huge weekend for the Streisand Effect.
Yesterday’s walk: A lot of my preferred routes are messed up due to flooding so I went with a reliably dry route: up to and over 520 to Kirkland, then down the Kirkland Connector trail to Bellevue. 52,783 steps, 29.3 miles. Felt good. I really needed to get a bigger walk in before Christmas.
December 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yesterday’s walk: A lot of my preferred routes are messed up due to flooding so I went with a reliably dry route: up to and over 520 to Kirkland, then down the Kirkland Connector trail to Bellevue. 52,783 steps, 29.3 miles. Felt good. I really needed to get a bigger walk in before Christmas.
Deleting this photo is such a dumb move. It’s like a two year old with frosting all over her face trying to blame grandma for eating the cupcakes. We have eyes that see things! Many of us have developed object permanence!
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Deleting this photo is such a dumb move. It’s like a two year old with frosting all over her face trying to blame grandma for eating the cupcakes. We have eyes that see things! Many of us have developed object permanence!
If I have my timing right, this picture was taken right before the divorce.
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If I have my timing right, this picture was taken right before the divorce.
He sees you when you’re ████.
He knows when you’re ████.
He knows if you’ve been ████ or ████.
So be ████ for goodness sake.
He’s making a list and checking it twice.
He’s gonna find out who’s ████ or ████.
████ is coming to town!
He knows when you’re ████.
He knows if you’ve been ████ or ████.
So be ████ for goodness sake.
He’s making a list and checking it twice.
He’s gonna find out who’s ████ or ████.
████ is coming to town!
December 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
He sees you when you’re ████.
He knows when you’re ████.
He knows if you’ve been ████ or ████.
So be ████ for goodness sake.
He’s making a list and checking it twice.
He’s gonna find out who’s ████ or ████.
████ is coming to town!
He knows when you’re ████.
He knows if you’ve been ████ or ████.
So be ████ for goodness sake.
He’s making a list and checking it twice.
He’s gonna find out who’s ████ or ████.
████ is coming to town!
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Follow up Q: Did Brooks’s editors know he had attended this 2011 event (which was 3 years after Epstein pled guilty for soliciting sex from minors) when Brooks wrote his column last month?
NYT statement to me: "David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event. Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner."
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Follow up Q: Did Brooks’s editors know he had attended this 2011 event (which was 3 years after Epstein pled guilty for soliciting sex from minors) when Brooks wrote his column last month?
Brooks has written multiple books about the importance of living a moral life. By not divulging his Epstein connection while opining about Epstein, he has demonstrated that he either does not understand his signature area of expertise or he simply doesn't believe it applies to him.
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Brooks has written multiple books about the importance of living a moral life. By not divulging his Epstein connection while opining about Epstein, he has demonstrated that he either does not understand his signature area of expertise or he simply doesn't believe it applies to him.
“I AM STILL RELEVANT,” slurred the sad old man, adding, “AND ALSO YOUTHFUL.”
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“I AM STILL RELEVANT,” slurred the sad old man, adding, “AND ALSO YOUTHFUL.”
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I do think everyone that runs an article about this book should also run an article about a worthy book at the same time
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I do think everyone that runs an article about this book should also run an article about a worthy book at the same time
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
Nate Silverism has begun to spread through the timeline.
December 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Nate Silverism has begun to spread through the timeline.
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Politics are not a terribly accurate way to predict how a person will behave at an ethical crossroads; a far more accurate predictor is relative proximity to power.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Politics are not a terribly accurate way to predict how a person will behave at an ethical crossroads; a far more accurate predictor is relative proximity to power.
For real. Sometimes I search for that word on here and preemptively ban everyone who's used it in the last 30 days.
I absolutely fucking hate that the ‘R’ word is coming back into use, even among liberals!
STOP USING THAT WORD. IT’S OFFENSIVE AND DAMAGING.
Argh.
STOP USING THAT WORD. IT’S OFFENSIVE AND DAMAGING.
Argh.
December 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
For real. Sometimes I search for that word on here and preemptively ban everyone who's used it in the last 30 days.
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Kindle has an in book chatbot and we can't opt out, incredible stuff
December 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Kindle has an in book chatbot and we can't opt out, incredible stuff
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Well recent developments have put me off writing a canto
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Well recent developments have put me off writing a canto
Every year, this literary blog’s (admittedly unscientific) survey measures its readers’ interest in switching over to e-books. This year, “the brief surge of e-book interest during the pandemic has been erased, and print has opened up its biggest lead over e-books since 2017.”
Is AI to blame?
Is AI to blame?
Will you ever buy mostly e-books? 2025 results!
One of my longstanding beliefs about e-books was that their affordability and portability would eventually win out, no matter how much nostalgia people may have for their paper books, which would reta...
nathanbransford.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Every year, this literary blog’s (admittedly unscientific) survey measures its readers’ interest in switching over to e-books. This year, “the brief surge of e-book interest during the pandemic has been erased, and print has opened up its biggest lead over e-books since 2017.”
Is AI to blame?
Is AI to blame?