Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

One of the amazing things about the Threads platform is that all the Ken Martin stans are there. Amazingly, many people spend time posting on Martin's titanic achievements and the vile hypocrisies of certain podcasters who criticize him. You would think his DNC tenure had been a victory lap!

Is that, umm, legal?

What’s the best search engine not made by Google? Asking for a friend.

The biggest ad campaign on @linkedin.com right now? Philip Morris explaining that nicotine is fine actually and all that stuff about addiction and lung cancer is just misinformation. I believe the point is to hype nicotine-based vaping, but I would have to click the link to find out.

Pretty well sums it up.

I have turned to @scotusblog.com many times over the years. So I was genuinely shocked, listening to an NYT podcast, to discover that SCOTUSblog's current editor-in-chief, Sarah Isgur, is a right-wing hack unable to even provide serviceable legal analysis.

I remember the original series. It was comic gold, the perfect spoof of true crime podcasts. theonion.com/episode-1-a-...

I really can’t get over President Trump selling out his country to a foreign dictator for a morsel of cheap flattery.

For years, people in higher education had to treat right-wing lunatic Virginia Foxx like a serious thinker because she chaired the House Education & Labor Committee. Now that she's yelling at 10-year-olds about indoctrination we can safely call her a nutter.

Great piece that considers counter-arguments to court-packing and emerges on the other side.

with election day half in now, CALL: Frank Vélez (D) unseats Michael Melham (R/D) in the Belleville mayoral election, and it's a blowout.

Heroes💪.Democratic members of the TN House have covered themselves in glory and set the bar for other elected officials.

SNL UK is so awesome. We should all demand further international expansions: how about SNL France? What could be more hilarious than SNL Hungary? Make it happen.

Glad to have another reason to reject the “democracy is over” attitude.

May I suggest a commemorative turkey drop?

🧵just adding: after the '93 WTC attack they were told to put the command center underground in Brooklyn. When Giuliani became mayor, he insisted it be at WTC. After 9/11 it was moved to a location underground in Brooklyn.

As a zealot devoted to the destruction of our nation, I am chagrined to learn about strategies I should have been using all along, chiefly the fabrication of stories. I thought that this is how one gets published in The New Yorker (which filled me with disgust obv) but now I begin to see my error.

Having worked in NYC politics during Giuliani's second mayoral term, I can attest that he has never felt the slightest hesitancy about dishing out "knowing falsehoods".

There’s a moment when he kisses his finger in an instinctive way, and I think “he’s definitely not American.” You could say it’s obvious, but I like to be concrete: identify the gestures that tell us where you’re from and who you are.

The fact that RFK Jr 1) thinks that all black children are being medicated; 2) sees this fact is a kind of tell-me-why story to explain why they’re so violent; and 3) proposes taking black children from their parents and handing them over to, I dunno, white parents…should be more widely known.

Gotta say, I’m warming to Graham Platner.

Never thought I would listen to an interview that makes Pam Bondi sound like a straight shooter. But this @jonfavs.bsky.social interview of DNC chair @kenmartin.bsky.social about the suppressed 2024 election autopsy blew my mind. Beyond weird. overcast.fm/+ABVKfMNvDD4

It's really striking how lies spread when delivered with confidence. None of the claims below are accurate. Yet somehow they are too satisfying to fact-check.

Good to know that after all these years, Donald Trump is still the same guy who insisted that Obama faked his own birth certificate.

This account of the collapse of domestic manufacturing in Russia due to state corruption is must-read material. It’s even more interesting in the context of a @zygaro.bsky.social essay on the trend toward deprivatizing Russian companies. open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p...

1/ Russia's attempts at import substitution have "completely failed" and the corrupt state procurement system is effectively killing off domestic factories, warns a Russian factory head. He says the system makes some rich, but will lead to a domestic economic collapse. ⬇️

Incidentally, the idea that a major shift to 'vocational learning' is a good thing when the whole nature of work is undergoing a seismic shift is, well, not exactly logical.

The epigram for tonight’s WHCA Correspondents’ Dinner with President Donald Trump will be “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.”

“Being an ally is not a one-way street; it’s a two-way street.” Hmm, Greenland would like a word. Also, speechwriting note: if you say something is not a one-way street, everybody knows what kind of street it is.

“Neil DeGrasse Tyson rules.”

This is an amazing interview. I also recommend the @kimlanelaw.bsky.social interview with @michaelpodhorzer.skystack.xyz, which has more to say about learning and applying lessons from the Orban defeat. Contra Ross Douthat, Dems do not need to prove they hate immigrants as much as Trump.

My theory is that the leadership of Palantir grew up reading cyberpunk novels in which massive corporations displace nation-states to become pitiless overlords and decided that they were excellent instruction manuals.

If you want to know what’s really happening in Hungary, listen to Kim Scheppele.

Trump administration has stacked this panel negotiating profound changes in higher education accreditation with flunkies and cronies. And they do not plan to unskew the playing field.

Fascinating thread about nepo-baby real estate moguls like Jared Kushner and why they make terrible negotiators.

The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment See MOOCs, and now AI Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

Also, check out the deadbeat dad who goes glamping instead of changing diapers like a real man.

The current time is 10 minutes to Mountainhead.

That Trump and his team want to slash domestic spending to pay for war & internal surveillance is not surprising. But they are also remarkably unwilling to change the strategy that led to humiliating defeat last year and indifferent to public opinion that could determine control of the Senate. 🫤

In the current fight in Congress about funding for President Trump’s mass deportation machine, Chuck Schumer has deftly outplayed his Republican opponents in the House and Senate, and looks almost certain to win.

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day. He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era. Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

It's certainly true that many 2024 voters thought Democrats favored illegal immigration. But that's because 1) The Trump campaign led a campaign of lies against Biden & Harris; 2) Most Americans didn't understand that people entered illegally because legal immigration was inaccessible to them.

It’s very Trumpian. But maybe not great for republican MoCs facing a tough midterm?

Graham Platner sets posters on this site off for pretty good reasons. But fearing him because he could be the new John Fetterman overlooks the fact that Fetterman experienced a massive stroke that rewired his brain in destructive ways. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This would make a great Amicus episode @mjsdc.bsky.social & @dahlialithwick.bsky.social!

Dear reader, remember the humanity of everyone you encounter on this site. People you will never meet have feelings too.

It's not the most awful thing about the goat rodeo @noupside.bsky.social describes below, but when a journalist pings you at 1:48 with a 3:30 deadline to answer a detailed list of questions, you're being set up. I mean duh.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Does free community college shift where students enroll? 🔍 @emileigharrison.bsky.social, Hallberg, Ruiz & Slaughter find students move from 4-year to 2-year colleges, but BA attainment does not decline. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1426

The Education Department says that its current headquarters, the Lyndon B. Johnson building, is 70 percent vacant and justifies downsizing. But staff who work in the building tell @insidehighered.com that's not the case. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...