Bagehot on the conceit of an "upper chamber"

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

Presupposes a fact not in evidence.

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We can, must, and will abolish time itself

Call me old fashioned but I think the Parliamentarian should get to weigh in too

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Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”

[alive in 2003] All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

Not coincidentally this is one of the charges in the Declaration of Independence: the King obstructed the expansion of the frontier and seizure of native lands and expulsion of their inhabitants. Staying within their own borders IS suicide to a settler colonialist. What if they want more land?

Oh my gosh

I wrote more about the perfidious Chase Ultimate Rewards devaluation and the, happily, working workaround freequentflyerbook.com/blog/2026/3/...

Peters Thiel have always been with us

Prof. Robert Pape: In my book I invented the concept of Coercive Air Power as a cautionary tale US Department of Defence: At long last, we have created Coercive Air Power from classic political science work Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War.

Say what you will about him but he's a great judge of character. He knows Mamdani won't suck up to him so he sucks up to Mamdani instead. He knows Bowser won't stand up to him so he walks all over her.

So based on this weather, I guess we are here at Third Winter?

As I said last June, Iran's restraint was admirable: it is better to be at peace than war. But when a pattern of restraint increases rather than decreases the toll of war it becomes restraint's foul doppelgänger, appeasement. Restraint now would be a generational catastrophe

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

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every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

Understanding our current predicament requires acknowledging that every single conservative from the establishment “intellectuals” like Ross to the lowest jug hooting simpleton has driven themselves insane via a media diet that hasn’t communicated a single true fact to any of them in 6 years

I used to think it was poor planning that kept me from learning anything about the Vietnam War in high school.

It's been hours and it still hasn't occurred to them to accuse these kids of attending a Hamas-Allied school yet? Guess they're lucky the Hamas-Allied first responders didn't get double-tapped yet www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

"I never supported a full-scale invasion of Poland, but something did have to be done about the attacks on telegraph stations along the border." —Moderate Sensible Centrist German opinion columnists in 1939

Fellas is it soft anti-semitism to accuse Israel of attacking Iran

I hope no country ever gives up a nuclear enrichment program again and that the existing nuclear powers pursue a campaign of rapid proliferation. It is the only remaining path to a peaceful, stable world

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

this isn't a distraction from epstein class pedophilia it's an expression of the epstein class worldview

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

Fitting that in America’s final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.

A better future, you say www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...

Makes you think

You're absolutely right. The Republic of Iraq didn't have a weapons of mass destruction program, which was easily verifiable. That was my bad with the unilateral invasion and assassination of Saddam Hussein's sons - It's good you're such an intuitive thinker who can avoid future missteps like that.

Interesting thread. I had kinda assumed I was missing something and all these idiotic designs were beloved by Serious Bicyclists and it was my dumb ass who couldn't figure out how to use them

Passed along without comment

I am old enough to remember when the ACA reached the Supreme Court the mostly heavily-mocked part of the case (that the federally-funded Medicaid program could not alter the terms and conditions of Medicaid funding) was the part that prevailed. The amateur judiciary makes anything possible

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Amazing Graze

Happy SOTU, proud patriots. We’ve come a long way, baby! @theonion.com

I guess he finally read those "president xi please my country yearns for freedom" tweets

Gonna go way out on a limb and guess the minimum wage contractors and work-study students "controlling" "access" probably get about 45 minutes of training which probably does not include identifying the difference between judicial and administrative warrants.

[Norman Rockwell guy] I don't think public transit services should be able to charge fares and brag about all the fare discounts they provide. If fares are good [🙄] they should charge them and if they're bad they should not charge them.