Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillis
@ProPublica. Author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC.
What the fuck is Britain even doing? Insane country.
The Western world has gone to war against the basis of its own uniqueness: Under a law about to be passed, "Britons can be prosecuted for a remark that a worker in a public space overhears and finds insulting."
Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding. propublica.org/article/texas-…
Hunter Biden, whose various scandals and criminal convictions dogged his father's presidency, lashes out in a profane outburst at Democrats like Clooney, Axelrod, Carville, Dunn and the Pod Save America guys for hurting Joe Biden. @reidepstein nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/…
If you could recommend one B&W movie to a person who dislikes them, what would it be?
It's good to have a crappy car when you are 16 - 20. Whenever I saw someone with a really nice car and they were 19 I always assumed they had some oddly strained relationship with their divorced parents who were competing for their child's love through things.
Same reason I can't have others research for me. Researching is how I learn and I can only write well when I really understand what I'm explaining.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Djokovic this, Djokovic that. This absolute legend was first and last player who completed the Golden Slam (AO, RG, Wimbledon, USO and Olimpic Gold in the same season) retired at 30 with 22 GS while dealing with stalkers and her dad imprisonment wile being a humble Queen.
Fewer.
We need more electricians and less sociology majors.
Hilarious for Hunter Biden to criticize others for only having influence based on their proximity to the president
Hunter Biden calls out the Pod Save America team as "four white millionaires dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago" as he outlines his issues with the greater Democratic establishment
I have a business idea: nap centers, where you can check into a bed and sleep for a few hours. You can go to the nap center when you have time between errands, when it’s too early to check into your hotel, or when you must check out and have hours before a flight. Nap centers!
.@TheEconomist letters: come for the Only Fans, stay for the Chaucer.
I think this is more like Luigi than anything else... Americans hate CEOs
"Traditional shamings would inevitably be restrained by the knowledge that...when it was all over, you and the transgressor would once again have to work, pray, and live together side by side. Online shamings lack this limiting principle." @katrosenfield:
Yes exactly At the St Albans parent party, out of the 28 moms married to dudes earning $600k+, 24 have full time jobs
Everyone is reading it wrong; 86% of graduate degree women who are married the literal 1% top earners…remain working even though they don’t “need” to Red pill guys hardest hit: providing your wife a $650k+/yr lifestyle will NOT satisfy her & the entire framework is wrong (1/2)
And I think that explains this graph: rich men have a massively disproportionate rate of having highly-educated nonworking wives. On its face this is strange-- these women have high earning potential (even though income tax structure penalizes work by the lower earner)!
Phones killed a lot of things. When I was in middle school, music would play after lunch on the concourse (courtesy of the shop class school radio station) and kids would literally gather in a circle and have dance offs. Kids today would be terrified unless they were showoffs…
MTV had a show in the early 90s called The Grind that was just people dancing to music
Shouldn’t he be a little grateful he’s not in jail?
Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party: "Fuck him and everybody around him... George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand." "James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years." "David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack…