In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Stephen Miller's suit here shows one of the biggest problems with men's tailoring today. 🧵

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

What in the actual fuck is this nonsense?

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

This liberal arts professor (and former soldier) approves this message.

American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 30% from its 2024 highs and 20% over the last year alone

My research is a part of this NPR piece examining whether federal loans have driven up the price of graduate school (evidence is mixed and depends on context) and whether capping loans will bring down prices (probably not in a meaningful way).

Lumumba does indeed Vea! At least until the knockout round. Big congrats to the Democratic Republic of Congo on advancing in the World Cup.

DR Congo scoring on command now.

Congrats to Cabo Verde: they didn't win a single game and advanced to the knockout stage. Really incredible stuff for a country of with a population smaller than Wyoming.

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Another quick thread on Tulsi Gabbard's documents, released on Thursday: There is finally a version of the May 2020 LLNL Z Division report. There are still redactions, but enough can be read to know it was baseless. ▫️1/5 www.dni.gov/files//docum... #covidorigin

I think she's conflating a yeast infection.

I’m not merely pro-penis, I’m a

Another day in MMA: top bantamweight Umar Nurmagomedov (cousin of Khabib Nurmagomedov) posts this on social media.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Utterly aghast at this thread. This guy is trying to make himself, his peers, his field “obsolete”. And he knows it’s wrong. Otherwise he’d have been open about it from the beginning. They’re trying to force us to accept it by sneaking it in. I’m not having it.

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

you've been in this business too long to think you can make a funny joke without consequences

An essential question on a first date is to know if the person across from you truly understands the progressive tax system in America. All income taxed at the highest marginal rate = Red Flag. Marginal rate only applies to dollars in that bracket = Green Flag.

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants stay of district court injunction in Alabama redistricting cases, clearing the way for Alabama to use its 2023 map.

lol if you bring it back to the states, weren't Black mothers literally DEMONIZED for having "too many kids"? Is that not the basis of the welfare queen trope? The narrow definition of who can be a mother and should be a mother too has racist roots. Color me shocked.

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

The Bluesky motto

When we want to blame Trump for the decline in American democracy, it is important to remember that Republican voters keep empowering him, over and over, with every chance they get.

A win for free speech, a loss for Matt Taibbi.

"Toyota in March announced an $800mn investment in its Kentucky plant to roll out a second US-built EV." www.ft.com/content/5c32...

Cracked had such amazing content, both written and video. And many of those creators went on to other impressive projects. I still go back and watch some of those videos because they are so wonderfully nerdy, funny, and and well-written.

Finite Jest

Tomorrow’s Page One:

Years ago, I chatted with a successful money manager for some private funds in the US. Leading up to the financial crisis, he bought CDSs and the funds made large returns in the fallout. When I asked him why he committed to that strategy, he said something to the effect of, "It was obvious."

I cannot amplify this enough. I've seen MAGA voters become disgusted with Trump over the Iran war. Yet they only post about the rare, still very conservative, GOP reps and senators who are standing up against Trump, not any Dem in Congress. These people will never vote blue EVER.

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Ah, once again Musk's version of "free speech absolutism" seems to be quite different than any actual definition of free speech absolutism.

Not sure what universities are supposed to do to win the respect of the right when we’re 3 years into the SCOTUS ban on affirmative action in college admissions and there are still all these viral stories of “this kid with a 1560 SAT score was forced to go to Duke instead of Harvard because of woke”

i remember a few years ago some prominent right wing chud insisted that a “friend’s son” had perfect scores but was rejected from UC colleges because they had quotas for black people. [stares at camera]

This aligns with his rapist mentality.

This is so true and frustrating.

Heidecker's impersonation is uncanny.

I must remind people how frequently Trump refers to black people as "low IQ". His racism is so blatant.

It gets worse: Not only has the turnout gap grown. It was pushed up in most places once covered by Section 5 BY SHELBY. Alito, presumably, knows this. It was published in a top poli sci journal and blasted from here to kingdom-come by BCJ (open access: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... )

If you didn't catch the reference, Obama teared up describing the murder of teenaged Trayvon Martin by noting that if he'd had a son, he'd look like him. So naturally this racist piece of shit is mocking that.

One of the “seven respected law professors” who think SCOTUS should end birthright citizenship

Everyone’s saying “no it’s just that they’re afraid to publish this for fear of losing sources and pissing off their bosses,” and, yeah, that’s what I mean.