Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Go Yeomen! I also refuse to believe Oberlin College is the 762nd best team in the country. That is entirely too high. 022
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Texas goes blue. In exchange for abolishing the electoral college, Democrats secure DC’s statehood. Check back on this in 20 years. 010
Reposted by JoelMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2buff.lyAn Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged... 530091
Reposted by JoelGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it. 5440741217
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The cynicism of this bill, its name in particular, is frustratingly typical. After all, how can anyone be against protecting college sports? 000
Reposted by JoelTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/09/2026"don't you have something better to be doing wi..." NO I DON'T I HAD TO DO IT 16917257
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Adam Sewer after each shift at the Atlantic Is Respectable factory 110
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The politics desk of the NYT is a national embarrassment, in addition to being an embarrassment to journalism. 010
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026We need a blue sky badge for journalists who attended the WHCA dinner 000
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Angelina Jolie. Met her at the National Geographic headquarters in 2004 and it was like meeting a different species. However attractive you find her on screen, she was 10x more attractive in person. 021
Reposted by JoelAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/07/2026Matt Yglesias is simply a horrible person. 1082582242
Reposted by JoelWorld Cup Scorigami @worldcupscorigami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026🚨 WORLD CUP SCORIGAMI 🚨 FINAL: France 🇫🇷 (4), England 🏴 (6) 6–4 has NEVER happened in men's World Cup history (1930–present). 161397424
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026They had their opportunity to shake up the party/leadership on their own terms. They didn’t do that. Now it’s being done for them. It’s inverting the relationship they think they have with their base, which is confusing so many of them. 316111
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026We're going to have to teach the billionaires how to pilot a yacht but I trust they're quick learners 100
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026We are going to financially cripple untold millions of people so that six guys can have more money than God. It doesn't have to be this way. 000
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026One thing about the United States is that our population is in a constant battle of More Racist vs More Stupid and it's usually impossible to tell which side is winning. 000
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The last Ohio college or university to beat Ohio State at football. Go Yeo. 010
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026There is a very strong case that TLJ is the best Star Ware movie, and if you grade against the constraints it operates under it’s not even an argument. 020
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The people hate Donald Trump so obviously the correct strategy is to not signal that hatred and instead politely applaud him when he says the economy is strong. 010
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026It’s very cute when justices talk about the major questions doctrine like it’s a real thing and not just some bullshit they made up, the imaginary friend of legal analysis. 000
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It remains bewildering that Bill Kristol is a better Democrat than the Senate Minority Leader 020
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026He broke his arm two weeks ago and then went out and nearly medaled. What a story. 001
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026This is one of the most brutal/cringe interviews he’s done www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...newyorker.comWhat a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to AccomplishDante Spinotti has had a legendary Hollywood career. Why is he making propaganda for the Trump family? 000
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Can’t call a lie and lie because that requires speculating what’s in one’s head, apparently less knowable than the future, about which it is fine to speculate. 000
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026If our taxpayer funded gestapo are going to assault and murder our citizenry, you better believe there will be real accountability. Vote blue. 000
Reposted by JoelAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics 155186114815
Reposted by JoelMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go. Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go. 33877831757
Reposted by JoelDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader? 13162842069
Reposted by JoelKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Danish parliamentarian fresh on the scene doing better retail politics than any American Democrat 61052269
Reposted by JoelPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit. 15587051882
Joel @jwitmer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Halt and Catch Fire is in the running. So is The Leftovers. 000
Reposted by JoelMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/11/2025"You mutter 'What fresh hell is this?' every ten minutes."buff.lyAmerica in 2025 or Hollow Knight: Silksong?1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare. 2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad. 3. Th... 0649
