David Litt

I just think it’s hilarious that people went to college with the Pope. “What’s Ken up to these days? Partner at a law firm outside Pittsburgh, that’s nice. And Bob? Oh, he’s the Pope.”

On one hand targeting lawmakers in this way is terrifying. On the other hand, the fact that Alina Habba had to drop her first set of charges because they were too flimsy, and trade them for even flimsier ones, is encouragingly inept.

Sorry, we can’t afford more air traffic controllers, we have to pay Ashli Babbit’s family $5 million.

If a politician’s words aren’t clear enough to be taken literally, it’s dangerous to take them seriously. open.substack.com/pub/dlitt/p/...

Parts of President Trump’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk were very carefully written. That’s what made them so alarming. My latest for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Wrote for @thedailybeast.bsky.social about why Trump’s crackdown might backfire - and what all of us can do to help make that happen. (It starts with cancelling your Disney+ and Hulu subscription until Kimmel’s back on the air.) www.thedailybeast.com/crackdowns-c...

I’m cancelling my Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions. I look forward to resuming them when Disney reverses course and puts Kimmel back on the air.

Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because his tariffs are killing jobs is the ultimate “this scale must be defective” of economic policy.

IT’S ONLY DROWNING on the Today Show! Including some embarrassing surf related mix ups and plenty of wipeout footage. www.today.com/video/david-...