Dude just straight up says he’s motivated reasoning on purpose

Exit, voice, and loyalty

Imagine if Nixon had demanded that the Watergate burglars receive a massive taxpayer reward and that all future investigations into him and the whole cabal be blocked forever. Sounds bad? Well, things are much worse than that today.

every goodbye is a little death

Yeah, this is the stuff.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

The real "big naturals" 🪳

People who make their transactions public are wild

Tillis was quite literally the pivotal vote for Hegseth

Ethered

Trump ran on mass deportation (including of people on parole and TPS) and “remigration” (of people here many years, w/ US born children, refugees!) and no more immigration from “shithole” countries. Focusing asylum “abuse” and “criminal aliens” has always been diversionary. It’s been this!!!

I’m so mad about how many good small EVs are available everywhere in the world except the US

No it the fuck was not.

Joe Rogan now has the favorability distribution of a Fox News host. Remember all the 2024-2025 hot takes lmaoooo via @carlbeijer.bsky.social

Kind of wild

Toddler update: my husband let her taste his ice cream and she took the ice cream and ran. My husband has tried to bribe her to give it back my replacing it with a biscuit. Anyway now the toddler has an ice cream and a biscuit

I’m at the natural history museum and tbh we should never forget how big bugs get

Cult of personality watch

@robertkelchen.com So I know you’ve said that we should expect that there will be two pools of Presidents - those who can only do red states and those who can only do blue. What happens if the red state ones can’t do red states either?

just saved the life of a chipmunk

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

/9 Defense lawyer: Can this plz go RIGHT TO THE TOP Judge: Oh fuck yeah

/7 This encapsulates how Trumpism and Trumpist prosecutors have destroyed, probably for a generation at least, the reputation of DoJ and federal prosecutors.

important stuff here

AI is being built into hiring, housing, medicine, courts, classrooms-the institutions social science has spent more than a century studying. Social science didn't invent AI, but the social worlds AI is trained on, sold into, and reshaping-those are ours. The future of AI is a social science problem.

This is an issue. It is not *the* issue. *The* issue is that everything about this is illegal and corrupt as fuck. Relenting to a $2 billion theft for Trump and his cronies because at least the money won’t go to people who assaulted cops would be the most Susan Collins move ever.

If it was staged then why do we have a slush fund for the actors

Its very hard to have viewpoints diversity when some viewpoints openly disregard reality and would rob your political voice if given the chance.

These prosecutors who made my family’s life hell for a year are criminals. I want justice and we’ll seek it. This can’t happen again.

It's a shame Mitch McConnell couldn't convince Mitch McConnell to impeach and convict President Trump after January 6, 2021, preventing him from running again.

This is a massive moment, and the Times is covering it as if it's a run-of-the-mill moment where we resolve unanswered questions about the application of power.

the core problem of the Corruption Perceptions Index

idk i think a future administration could put the arch to some good use tbh

Little discussed, but Senate Republicans ARE impeding Trump in some ways. 1. Refusing to nuke the filibuster, which means no SAVE Act 2. Still adhering to the Blue Slip custom, which requires Trump to win approval from Dem senators before appointing US Attys or District Court Judges in their states

my policy proposal: police misconduct settlement payments come out of police pension funds

Obviously, Maureen Galindo is a ridiculous conspiracy theorist whose brain has been seemingly steeped in some sort of algorithmic hellscape, but 🚨🚨🚨 no, I do not think that we need "Section 230 reform" to fight antisemitism, former Second Gentleman Doug. Absolutely tf not.

This is the sign I’ll be tapping from now through to the 2030s. Sorry, I know we wanted to live through a different moment in history. But this is ours. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

My own personal favorite Barney Frank quote: "The key to understanding deal making in Congress is to remember that the ankle bone is connected to the shoulder bone. Anything can be the basis of a deal...In Congress, the jurisdiction is universal."

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

sure jeff

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

say goodbye to bank loans if you own a home

"People are as unavoidably political as they are diverse, social, and self-interested. Liberalism recognizes that and provides the institutions under which peace is still possible. Liberalism can explain why politics is a result of cooperative positive-sum exchange."

Also in this piece: Senator Ron Wyden tells me Dems will pursue testimony from the Treasury official who resigned after Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund was announced:

This is good politics. This shit needs to be made salient!

new WP (w/ @ntd.bsky.social): we use the case of Christian nationalism to make a broader point about "niche ideologies" in mass opinion research, and why you shouldn't scale them the same way you'd scale more general attitudes Link: osf.io/wbdut/files/...

he thinks he is talking about their negotiating team, but he is talking about his own

As a Jew who’s regularly posted for years about antisemitism, I’m expecting major US media to sound the alarm about Islamophobia to the same extent they did about antisemitism when college students protested the Gaza war. Not “expecting” in the sense of “I think it will happen,” obviously.