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.
It's blackberry season again, which means I'm wasting precious energy fretting about the inexorable march of time! This and lots more in the new issue of my free newsletter: buttondown.com/paulconstant...
Fear of a BlackberryIn which seeing a berry practically sends me into a panic attack.buttondown.com[Turns chair backward and sits down facing a high school drama class:] You know who else was a delusional old Don who hated windmills?
Aaron RuparTrump: "Any time you see windmills, you see a failing country"
Amazon doesn’t sell stuff anymore, Google’s search is terrible, and Facebook would rather eat a thumbtack than show you what your friends are up to. Everything is going great!
Eric Budddoes anyone know the margin on Alexa because it can't be good
He’s a historically unpopular president who can’t stay awake for 20 consecutive minutes. He’s losing his juice with his own party and he’s a joke to everyone else. The media still treats him like a frightening genius because it’s in their best interests to prop him up. But this is embarrassing.
Chris GeidnerWhat a horribly bad framing. The president can’t get his own party to vote for his own nominee that they confirmed for the next-rung-lower role just last year! That’s not a “threat,” you incompetent people.
Napoleon would still rule the world today if Russia was a tropical nation and also human beings didn’t age and die.
Max P IIIThe US would have won this war if physical reality was totally different lol
“If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project?”
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?www.nytimes.comFinally! All this raw, naked charisma was wasted on print media.
Oliver DarcyScoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
Customers of X Money will lose everything, they will be mocked mercilessly, and they will deserve it.
The VergeX Money is launching in the US starting today
“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome interviewer who asked me the softest of softball questions?”
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Can't wait to learn all about the Balrog's childhood trauma.
IGNFor the first time ever, the Balrog will speak in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3! Star Trek and Mission Impossible actor Simon Pegg will be voicing the fiery creature, as revealed at #SDCC 2026.
It is criminal that no journalist has gotten to the bottom of this yet.
Charlotte ClymerIt feels like we're all pretty much waiting for news that Mitch McConnell has been irreversibly incapacitated or dead for weeks and the GOP has been doing their damnedest to keep it covered up.
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The latest issue of my newsletter came out today. It's always free and packed full of books. You can read the latest issue here:
Help! This Terrible Guy We Keep Featuring On Our News Site Is Going Mainstream!In which we talk a lot about books and take NPR to task for platforming a bigot.buttondown.comI can’t even imagine how bigoted you have to be to get banned on Facebook in the year 2026.
Alex KaplanProud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast today that he "just got banned on Facebook."
If you’re dumb enough to trust OpenAI with an always-on microphone in your home, you deserve to have your life turned into AI slop.
George Pearkes"believes" lmfao *OPENAI PLANS TO RELEASE HOME SPEAKER AS FIRST HARDWARE PRODUCT *OPENAI BELIEVES DEVICE DOESN’T VIOLATE APPLE’S TRADE SECRETS *OPENAI PLANS TO UNVEIL SPEAKER THIS YEAR, WITH RELEASE IN 2027