Senate Democrats: “well surely she won’t pull the football away this time!”

Probably best to consolidate DSA control over NY at the congressional level now? Gotta build the kind of stronghold that will never vote any other way and then try to build it out to other very blue seats (it never made sense to run centrist libs in deep blue districts).

Judge NYC-DSA by their enemies

this is a funny thing to write at the beginning of a book on law that no one in legal theory cites (Habermas, Between Facts and Norms at 6)

Satan goes so hard in Paradise Lost

I am a single issue voter (a fast lane on every sidewalk)

“Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.”

at this rate China will be turning Seattle into a treaty port by 2040. say what you want, you won’t be able to say they didn’t have it coming

The thing about the NDP is it’s like, what if The Democrats had less rizz?

Some of the better American political rhetoric (very low bar, obviously)

Thanksgiving preparations

Chickpea

why would you read a modern member of the Frankfurt School when you could be reading Neumann and Kirchheimer?

Bolivar really had a way with words (from the Decree of War to the Death):

Look what’s the worst thing that could happen

Is it possible to have too much kitchen/pantry storage?

Sometimes chess is a brutal game

like, what’s anyone supposed to learn from a book like this

lol, books I read in undergrad

You gotta make some friends in this business

It is shocking to me that no one has written a book called “American Gosplan” like what is wrong with you people

I worry sometimes about how stupid the average MP is, we are not sending our best folks.

Guys love to say “this one’s for Coltrane” and then play the most ass tenor sax solo you’ve ever heard

CHOTINER: So last week you said the word “strawberry” has six R’s. CHATGPT: Yeah and I want to thank you for the chance to address that because it’s a trick question— CHOTINER:—actually, no— CHATGPT: —since the word “strawberry” is spelled with a 9. CHOTINER: The number 9? CHATGPT: Absolutely.

When you choose to use endnotes you're just condemning your readers to convert your stupid endnotes into footnotes themselves (unless they, for some reason, want to keep flipping back and forth to the end of the book).

not a serious institution

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

Everyone making fun of him but these robes come with +1 spell save DC and +1 to ranged touch attacks so who’s laughing now?

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Isaac Chotiner: and value is measured by socially necessary labour time? Me: yep Chotiner: and the book defends a labour theory of value? Me: yep Chotiner: but here it says the question isn’t why value is expressed as labour, but why labour is expressed through value Me: 😬

CHOTINER: You recently wrote “It’s So OVer.” Can you elaborate? ME: Yes. Of course. By writing that, I sought to diagnose and provoke a conversation about the current moment. CHOTINER: But a few days later you wrote “We’re So Back.” Can you explain the contradiction? ME: Yeah well uhh you see—

How it started // How it’s going

do none of these people know who Chotiner is before taking the interview? (“Who he is”, by the way, is “a journalist willing to ask follow-up questions” which I understand is shocking to many)

He said basically the same thing again today. The Russians have been very clear about what their terms are for years. The problem is that there are no terms acceptable to Russia that Ukraine will accept and none acceptable to Ukraine that Russia will accept.

No woke? Go broke

Oh good, Carney and Poilievre are competing to see who can come up with the most austerity

My friends built me a end table/bookshelf, which has become my shelf for in-use books

Preparing for the Anglo Century of Humiliation. Part 1 - learning to use new tools. Part 2 - learning important phrases (“comrades, I surrender!”)

Let’s goooo

With the obvious caveat of “they are objectively stupid enough to try it” I think some of you are too quick to assume a conspiracy to plant false evidence in the Kirk shooting case. Evidence in criminal trials can take quite a long time to come out.

Probably fine that the Republicans are publicly talking about a huge crackdown and meanwhile Democrats are completely AWOL

Writers from The Atlantic should be kept in a kind of idyllic petting zoo without keyboards where children can give them handfuls of goat feed and scritch behind their ears

My #1 wedding fear was that the glass would roll or move instead of break

We’re very cute (featuring professional pics this time)

more like Years of Fed

(Although, since I’m the one doing it, luck will demand that AI companies post record profits)

Hegel* remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Sold my treasury bonds late last week on the (hardly unique) hunch that US tariffs have made US bonds into a less attractive alternative to other (normally more volatile) US dollar-denominated securities than they used to be.