If you love America, spend time with these photos today. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/america-250-anniversary-photos-civil-rights-moon-landing-9-11-gold-rush

Come to my Fourth of July party where I get drunk and rant about how America 250 is a crock of shit. Actually I’ll be launching fireworks as usual with the kids but 10 percent of my brain will be doing that the whole time.

I’m happy any time Jubilee gets to be the star

Need an AI that can clean a car seat. Also install it. Also drive around the kids. Get right on that Sam.

Odds are that Elon will always be the person with the shortest tenure as a trillionaire, right? There's something uniquely satisfying in that.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116800551324172331 "The punishment for the protesters exceeds the lengthiest prison sentences given out for the attack on the Capitol on January 6. "

No one can defeat the Heron-Turtle Alliance

At first glance, the Iran deal looks much more substantive than I imagined. Am I wrong? What am I missing? Note I am not saying it is a good deal or that the war was worthwhile. I’m just staying that until day I thought it was probably a fiction. #uspol #iran

Let‘s celebrate this weird-ass board game from the 90s where you tried to save the Enterprise while a VHS tape played in the background and a Klingon yelled at you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_Interactive_VCR_Board_Game

Why is it so hard for people to process that the Michelle Obama insult -- or some other slander just like it -- was the whole point of the UFC event? Of course Trump will never condemn it. #uspol

I feel like all the comparison tables on the Obama vs. Trump "Iran deals" need to begin with "actually exists?" Until they release it, I'm not confident there is a real text. It's just two half-baked authoritarian regimes playing footsie. #uspol

Pretty sure Trump will soon be arguing that green is blue #uspol

What Elon doesn’t know is that in this game if your score goes over 999,999,999.999 you start over again at zero.

We need a better way of articulating the position that Trump has no idea what he’s doing in Iran. I feel like among all the sanewashing episodes, this has been the worst. #uspol

Why didn't Medium become Substack?

I think it's funny that picking up on a D&D reference used to be like discovering a secret coded message just for you but now those references are almost unavoidable. Not against it, just amused.

So they've fired 90 percent of the crew of the Enterprise and the other 10 percent is all trying to talk to Data at the same time.

Has anyone gamed out the scenarios with Congress limiting Trump's war powers? I'm assuming the likely end is a filibuster in the Senate. And if the Senate passed the House bill, a veto from Trump. No way to get a veto-proof majority at this point. But... would there be some way of suing Trump […]

Every “Congrats Grad’s” sign causes me so much pain

🕍 The ruins of an abandoned synagogue in Constanta, Romania #ruins #Photography #romania #synagogue #lostplaces #Travel

Confession time. What's the word you most overuse in your writing? Right now, in my writing at work, it's "crucially."

They've changed the gmail search function to "Ask Gmail." omg get bent. I've got to get away from this stupid corporation.

The absurdities built into the American health care, education, and social welfare systems have only resulted in minor inconvenience in my life, not trauma. I know many people in the latter group and don't claim to speak for them. But I will say this about the many hours of my life wasted […]

I'm well-aware of the pessimists' case regarding LLMs/chatbots/AI and I believe it myself. But just curious... is anyone aware of an optimistic case that is grounded in reality at all? Just trying to make sure I'm not getting too attached to my own personal information bubble.

Pretty sure Trump will try to sell the Kennedy Center before he leaves office. #uspol

Pretty sure human civilization peaked one night in 1975 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSYxHUHK44&pp=0gcJCTkCo7VqN5tD&ra=m

Got lazy and tried to design a deck with Claude and now I know why everyone's decks look that way.

Will the day ever come when we can collectively admit that Trump has no Iran policy? Is there some way to break through these silly stories of diplomatic footsie? I only want to read about when we bomb something or sign something. #uspol

Apparently Senate Republicans won’t vote for war but also won’t vote for peace? Give me a break. #uspol

There are so many things that bother me about my nation’s 250th birthday right now, but here is number one. In no instance have I seen anyone using this occasion to make an argument about where we’ve been, where we are, where we are going. Hell, I’d even love a bad argument at this point — I’m […]

a very hot trend right now is every politician/party/faction about whom you for a single millisecond entertain the thought "perhaps they might be alright" doing something completely fucking disgusting before you have time to blink

Okay guys, I think we have enough bunnies and robins, you can stop now.

Remember when Obama won Ohio? And Florida? And **Indiana**? #uspol

Democrats should absolutely campaign on not just abolishing Trump's slush fund, but clawing it back and giving it to people who deserve it. #uspol

If they’re going to destroy the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, then we probably need a new Civil Rights Movement. #uspol

We’re taking a relatively small improvement in information technology and using it as an excuse to build a society without people. What the heck is wrong with us?

Just when you think you’ve aced it with your well-considered, scientific answer to HOW people have babies, your kid comes back around with “WHY do people have babies?”

How many parents of Star Trek characters can you name unassisted? Don’t list them in the response, that will ruin it. #startrek

Please no more maxxxing

So now we know... 1. Democrats can defeat incumbent Republicans in special elections in 2026. 2. *Republicans* can defeat incumbent Republicans in special elections in 2026. Conclusion: incumbent Republicans are going down in elections in 2026! #uspol

So the Supreme Court has ratified one of America’s great lies, that fighting racism in elections is itself racist. Yet another day when the stakes get higher and the possibility of compromise slips away. We have to stop these fascists from returning this country to White minority rule. #uspol

like...now is the moment. make the positive case that immigration is good and that the problem is not that people are cheating but that our laws are so restrictive people are put into impossible positions, which harms them and us.

Hot take: the US-UK "special relationship" is the most oversold pile of crap in all of global relations. It doesn't deserve a second of analysis by anyone, anywhere. #uspol

I liked this analysis of why Chicago Pope does not bow to Trump. It's not so much commentary as explanatory journalism with quotes from Milton. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/24/trump-pope-leo-catholics

I had heard Claude Code was getting better so I had it build me a little game where you guess whether an actor was ever on Star Trek. We ended up arguing over whether Kirsten Dunst played Young Guinan in “Rascals.”

Trump’s twisted use of diplomatic rhetoric is part of the sham of this war. The press is acting as if when the ceasefire expires the cruise missiles will automatically start flying again. In fact, it would be completely within the President’s power not to kill children, not to waste resources […]

I feel like the American media spent a decade learning the word "lie." We don't have time for them to spend that long learning the word "chaos." #uspol #iran

I suspect that the rest of the war with #iran will be a lot like it is right now. #uspol

I’m 42 and it’s my first day on Adderall. AMA