82 years ago today my grandfather, who lied about his age to enlist in the military, was in one of the first waves of landing crafts to hit the beaches of Normandy. He's been gone a long time now, but today I remember him and the other brave souls who fought and died for a righteous cause.

Then we don't prosecute them.

Between crises such as unleashing screw worms, dismantling public science funding, rolling back environment protections while opening public lands for extraction, and stuff like this, "we are ruled by Christian fascist Lysenkoists" is a plain description of the actually existing American government.

This guy is so Dad coded. I love it. Wearing his Pride sticker like he's at parents weekend at college and he's supporting his recently out kid. Says things like "here comes trouble" when you walk in the room

You pack the court or 6 justices face the wall for treason under the color of law.

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

Actually, just make them a fourth branch of government responsibile for identifying government corruption and then shooting those responsible with arrows.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then John Thune is deferring to Tom Cotton & he has no observations on the matter.

Monday to Friday 50% of my road miles are deadheading (driving to/from daycare without my daughter in the car). We should probably treat human deadheading the same way we do AV deadheading.

that’s right. and important to emphasize that when Republicans have made the entire core of a campaign transphobia, they have eaten shit

out: white boys saying “inshallah” in: older Polish Catholics sitting shiva for a seafood chain

[tapping earpiece] i'm hearing reports that elections matter

“We’re going to make our own world-class university” is on paper a much healthier response to dissatisfaction with academia’s issues both real and imagined. But you have at least try to *actually do that*, rather than make Seething Resentment U. with seminars in Lib Owning

Univ. Austin is kind of the whole national conservatism thing in miniature: there’s a few worthy things in the concept, but the people running it are all either stupid, corrupt, or just so consumed with various resentments that they totally undermine it and become *way* worse than the alternative

game recognize game

watching a journalist I respected degrade himself defending a serial liar with a SS tattoo has ... not been a pleasant experience.

I really think “serious people” in finance, and business more generally, underestimate the backlash that is going to occur when people feel the effects of AI data centers sucking up all the capital and debt available to the market, stranding and squeezing more and more capital and credit seekers.

the romans absolutely put a horse in the senate

In my 56 years of life, I’ve learned that whenever people start confidently talking about anything “changing the rules for investing”, run.

I can't stop mentioning that Marco Rubio was confirmed in a 99-0 vote that had a celebratory atmosphere and literally none of them have apologized, explicitly, for that vote

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Steyer: I have a strong anti-ICE platform. I think they are a criminal organization, and we have a very strong plan when it comes to prosecuting them. You don’t have to trust me. The head of ICE went online to say that my program is unfair to ICE agents, and I took that as a huge compliment.

Huge corporate news from Japan—the largest keiretsu (interlocking shareholding corporations) representing ~15% of total JP market cap just surprised the market with three massive stock offerings totaling over ¥40 trillion to drain market liquidity in order to sabotage a rival group’s hot coming IPO.

you're not from "real america" if you didn't know someone who died or was otherwise permanently disabled by a four-wheeler accident

The most underreported story in America today is the extent to which neo-Nazis and neo-Confederates have taken over the Republican Party.

the major asymmetry in our politics is that the median conservative believes liberals are the spawn of satan and the median liberal doesn't. Carl Schmitt was not totally wrong. we should view Trumpism the way our abolitionist intellectual forefathers viewed slavery.

peaking on acid at 7-11 and a hot dog gets up from the roller and starts yelling at you

1 AM – Trump whining at the people "negatively 'chirping'" about him & Iran "at levels never seen before". At levels "never seen before"? 🤔 B/c if Trump believes that, and Senate Dems did a letter to Iran merely ~verbatim to the one Tom Cotton & 46 other Repubs sent in 2015… he might stroke out. 🤯

yep

disclosure policies are like "say how you used your chat butler" but no one ever asks "tell me what your RA did" or "did your wife actually write that manuscript that you dictated to her?" gonna be super weird as academia confronts both the usefulness of the tool and the stigma associated w/ it.

It's fun to dig up replication packages and look at the code. In some disciplines you definitely see "contact [RA email] for questions about this code." RA does not appear to be acknowledged anywhere else.

If your only value in the classroom is knowing more than the students, you don’t understand pedagogy

Burgum used to be a "normal" figure, w successful tech-biz career. When he was running for prez in 2024 primaries, against DJT, he told Meet the Press that he "wouldn't do business" w Trump, because "you're judged by the company you keep." www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJU... Indeed you are.

Every single one of them pushed for the release of the Epstein files

Mikie Sherrill has been governor for four months and it's already time to resign. If you are a Democratic governor and this takes place at your direction, then there should be no place for you in the party.

Mikie Sherrill campaigned on "I'm a tough military pilot who isn't afraid of Trump and will stand up to Trump!" The first time she's tested, she works with ICE to beat up her own citizens. And her backers explain "she's working with Trump STRATEGICALLY, because she's scared of Trump." OK, got it.

it’s also the fact that the right stormed the capitol and 5 years later are asking for millions out of it. the left and the right are absolutely not living under similar first amendment paradigms

This motherfucker is out here making trades that would get him fired from being Larry Kudlow’s cocaine dealer, but everybody in a position to stop him just shrugs (because they’re controlled by republicans, who have overthrown the rule of law).

Dudes would rather spend $6000 on Man Camp instead of listening to Brother Talarico's sermons on how to land a baddie for free.

Imagine moving across the country to do a PhD, only to lose funding. Imagine making a commitment to a tribal nation, nonprofit, or business, and being unable to deliver. Meanwhile, the already spent funds would basically be flushed down the toilet. That's what this would mean. 8/n

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

It's going to be a good future when everyone reading Animal Farm looks back to 2026 USA and compares each pig to Musk and Sundowning Donny. Anyway is the new movie good or not or what

I would like to see this sort of thing out of every Dem candidate for office it's not that hard to be a decent human being, it just isn't and I know the world is full of shitty assholes who will try to tear you down for it, but I really believe that it doesn't have to be a liability

look the thing is that steyer is just Good, Actually

Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

this is what Twitter is for now, this is what you legitimize by posting there

If solar panels or heat pumps blew up entire apartment buildings as often as natural gas systems do, they would be banned tomorrow.

i would respect these people a little more if they just said straightforwardly that they think “voting republican” is a sacrament on par with the eucharist