Andrew O'Hehir
@andrewohehir.bsky.social
Editor and writer at Salon since Al Gore invented the internet.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
Yeah, I'm hearin' stuff like this all over the place. There's a reason the Gang of 8 are all politically invulnerable for different reasons, but the party leadership will pay a well-deserved price here. So, unfortunately, may the rest of us.
The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Yeah, I'm hearin' stuff like this all over the place. There's a reason the Gang of 8 are all politically invulnerable for different reasons, but the party leadership will pay a well-deserved price here. So, unfortunately, may the rest of us.
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RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
Well yeah and hibachi law combines (and supersedes!) all this: We must all paint-brush sauce on grilled wings, crank the undeniably rockin tunes and crack open a beer on a brisk autumn day. (Alcohol-free if desired.)
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Well yeah and hibachi law combines (and supersedes!) all this: We must all paint-brush sauce on grilled wings, crank the undeniably rockin tunes and crack open a beer on a brisk autumn day. (Alcohol-free if desired.)
Seriously, what does it say about Man City fandom when a Sunday home match against *Liverpool* FFS has loads of empty seats? The upper level at Emirates looks to be half full, and there are visible empty seats in the midfield VIP section. No other big team has such (literal) fair-weather fans.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Seriously, what does it say about Man City fandom when a Sunday home match against *Liverpool* FFS has loads of empty seats? The upper level at Emirates looks to be half full, and there are visible empty seats in the midfield VIP section. No other big team has such (literal) fair-weather fans.
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
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This Field of Dreams theme park sucks
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This Field of Dreams theme park sucks
You know, I didn't intend this as the exact opposite of whatever-it-is that Jonathan Chait just argued. But I'm definitely OK if that's how it seems! www.salon.com/2025/11/08/z...
Zohran Mamdani took on the entire political establishment — and won - Salon.com
It isn't just MAGA moonbats freaking out: Zohran and his voters are an existential threat to the power structure
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November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
You know, I didn't intend this as the exact opposite of whatever-it-is that Jonathan Chait just argued. But I'm definitely OK if that's how it seems! www.salon.com/2025/11/08/z...
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I’m watching this dizzying political makeover like I would a bad Christmas romcom
Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m watching this dizzying political makeover like I would a bad Christmas romcom
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Let me tell you what Madonna's Like a Virgin is about. It's not about some nice cis-het she/her. Tell that to the fucking tourists. It's about he/they/it agender system in a kitchen-table relationship anarchy arrangement. In Portland.
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Let me tell you what Madonna's Like a Virgin is about. It's not about some nice cis-het she/her. Tell that to the fucking tourists. It's about he/they/it agender system in a kitchen-table relationship anarchy arrangement. In Portland.
Magnificent. Although arguably unfair to Chiang Kai-shek, who looks like Lorenzo de Medici compared to Cuomo
A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Magnificent. Although arguably unfair to Chiang Kai-shek, who looks like Lorenzo de Medici compared to Cuomo
Lévy once extensively cited the fictional Paraguayan lectures of Jean-Baptiste Botul in a one of his many ponderous tomes.
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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on this day in 1930, writer Sinclair Lewis becomes first American to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
on this day in 1930, writer Sinclair Lewis becomes first American to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
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The old world* is dying.
The new world** is waiting to be born.***
Now is the time of monsters.****
* Dick Cheney
** Mamdani
*** elected
**** They did the mash
The new world** is waiting to be born.***
Now is the time of monsters.****
* Dick Cheney
** Mamdani
*** elected
**** They did the mash
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The old world* is dying.
The new world** is waiting to be born.***
Now is the time of monsters.****
* Dick Cheney
** Mamdani
*** elected
**** They did the mash
The new world** is waiting to be born.***
Now is the time of monsters.****
* Dick Cheney
** Mamdani
*** elected
**** They did the mash
Intriguingly, "Smell the Onions" is the name of *both* an unreleased Metallica outtake from '97 with no vocal track (available on some compilations), and a jazz-funk fave from Clifford Coulter's explosive 1970 LP "East Side San Jose"
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Intriguingly, "Smell the Onions" is the name of *both* an unreleased Metallica outtake from '97 with no vocal track (available on some compilations), and a jazz-funk fave from Clifford Coulter's explosive 1970 LP "East Side San Jose"
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
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That’s helpful, thanks Google AI
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
That’s helpful, thanks Google AI
All these things can be true: 1) clearly one of the greatest World Series ever; 2) Yes, the Dodgers bought the championship, although they also had to fight for it; 3) MLB's destruction of the Oakland A's, a legendary underdog franchise with a remarkable history, was corrupt and unforgivable
November 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
All these things can be true: 1) clearly one of the greatest World Series ever; 2) Yes, the Dodgers bought the championship, although they also had to fight for it; 3) MLB's destruction of the Oakland A's, a legendary underdog franchise with a remarkable history, was corrupt and unforgivable
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Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire
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Genuinely hilarious that Bill Kristol has more moral clarity in the moment than Chuck Schumer
If I told 14 year old me this had happened hed say "time to cut back on the beer old man."
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Genuinely hilarious that Bill Kristol has more moral clarity in the moment than Chuck Schumer