We have not yet begun to fight. It is on us to take up the torch, it is on us to not just protect what once was but much more: to push toward the never realized dream of liberty and justice for all.

Reporting live from a location in which one can walk to a coffee shop and get actually good coffee. It’s great!

I really enjoyed chatting with Farrah about the state of play in UK politics, and much of our conversation feels even more relevant after today’s results. If you’ve had enough UK politics for one day, I recommend listening to something else from the Cross Tabs back catalogue - it’s great!

So last night was indeed a bad one for Labour. You can hear about the national mood and how British pollsters approach forecasting in the latest episode of @crosstabspodcast.com - it’s only going to get weirder, y’all.

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

I love that someone talks about taking jurisdiction away from SCOTUS on some things, especially in light of the leaked Court memos in the Times, which revealed that Roberts really does believe that the law is entirely up to the Court and not the people or their elected legislative representatives.

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Ohio Republicans overruled their state Supreme Court to implement their gerrymander anyway: Time for Virginia Democrats to do the same.

Can’t wait to hear another Democrat tell us how they don’t think structural reforms will work, we’ll just have to compete for votes.

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Here’s the thing: Since spring 2020, I have spent a considerable amount of every day not wearing shoes. Today I’ve had to wear shoes - CONTINUOUSLY - since 6am. I have like 3 more hours of shoe wearing ahead of me. My feet are screaming. Why are shoes?

Just concluded a workshop with some wonderful clients who share my enthusiasm for black post-it notes. Stationery nerds are the best nerds.

Continuing a sporadic schedule, I’m happy to share one part of my conversation with @matthewbprice.bsky.social from @focaldata.bsky.social about MRP polling, strategic voting, and the crack up of 2 major parties - good content for today’s elections in the UK! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Oooh a new top arrived and so did a new 23 ga finish nailer!

Putting out a long awaited ep of @crosstabspodcast.com with @matthewbprice.bsky.social from @focaldata.bsky.social about MRP, strategic voting and British politics. It’ll be out tonight, just in time to watch the votes roll in. Subscribe to get it automagically! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I don’t know how to tell the internet that I find Myers-Briggs content low-key offensive. I also do not want to know any celebrities’ enneagram.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

It is wild that part of Harris’ campaign memoir was a chapter about not being prepared to talk to Dr Mike when she could have just engaged him like this: youtu.be/9x0SBQKvmxk?...

There are still people on the internet who remind me why I used to love the internet - because it reminded me why I like people (I do! It’s my weird thing.) youtu.be/yUvp12he8h4?...

Bro I literally just walked into a restaurant and did not show id. Not to enter, not to pay. I am obviously committing diner fraud.

I wonder what would happen if people paid attention to Things People Do instead of The Way People Seem.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Dawkins is a great example that when you have a naturalistic view of "real patterns" but don't have a process ontology, you will end up in metaphysical dualism unintentionally. Minds are not software, they are what specific bodies are doing as they engage with the world.

Okay. The top answer is "not sure"... tied with "cut rates by at least half a percentage point."

Meanwhile I continue to ask why there are no right angles or parallel lines in my house.

It’s the “ill will.”

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...

I like the narrative frame here: Trump not as The Problem but as its avatar; The Problem is corruption/abuse of power; The Solution is us restoring a balance of power that is more democratic. Allow a candidate running this year to be anti-Trump while looking ahead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnj-...

Meanwhile, since I am wildly out of shape yet active in the garden and doing DIY projects to my house almost constantly, today I am bedridden with a transverse abdominal spasm that is truly, literally, breathtaking. Do your planks, y’all. Do your planks.

Listening to the Ken Martin interview with @podsaveamerica.crooked.com should fill no one with confidence that the DNC or professional dems learned lessons that will help to win elections. They learned lessons that will help them continue gatekeeping influence within the party. But on “lessons”…

Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

I would like to invite people who think that the conspiracy thinking around this (alleging Trump staged it to justify the ballroom/bunker construction) consider that America is so awash in conspiracy thinking that it’s no longer taboo & each “side” has its own version.

This piece is dumb and fundamentally misunderstands presidential security, as I explain in my analysis of last night’s shooting: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-quick-an...

Between this and some of the parts of the Palantir minifesto, it’s quite clear that CEOs have had enough of near-peer colleagues/direct reports, are perfectly happy to not only crush entry level jobs but also upward mobility for white collar workers. They see middle managers as docile - we’ll see.

Just for fun I tried telling the AI chatbot in One Medical’s app my two symptoms that have an obvious diagnosis and a clear treatment I have taken before and instead it made up 2 more symptoms and then didn’t include any of my other answers to its prompts. So now I’m messaging with an NP. (I think).

In MAHA's skepticism toward therapies, its fondness for supplements, its belief that exercise is the only good medicine, its hatred of global health and infectious disease research and vaccines, and this quote below, you see how much of this movement just straight up thinks: Sick people are bad.

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

I attended the trial of Renea Gamble, the Alabama woman arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest. Like the viral video of her arrest, it was both funny and enraging. New from me @theintercept.com:

Back at the car dealership - room full of men over 70 comparing notes about their physical health, how old they want to live to be, the benefits of marriage; the quiet ones are reading the Post.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

I was shocked to read in this @theguardian.com piece that a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, there is a family annihilation every 5 days in this country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

A new estimate puts the cost of dealing with robocalls, hidden fees and customer service chatbots that can’t solve most problems at $165 billion. Via NYT Business: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/b...

A month ago (a month and 3 days) I came out to my car to discover a branch had crashed down and smashed my windshield. Exactly a month ago, I got it replaced. Today, on my way to get the car serviced, a truck many lengths ahead of me kicked up a pebble that added a tiny crack to the brand new window

Setting aside what you think of Hasan Piker, I do think it’s fascinating that folks like Jen Palmieri and others are doing the same ”I don’t know her” routine and downplaying his relevance when - meanwhile - they are actively courting online creators with equal or smaller audiences.

This weekend we tile a floor. Then I become a house painter and cleaner until I get tired of doing those things and hire somebody. Yes this is a funny little bathroom in an attic.