A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

i love Bugonia, a fascinating companion piece to Eddington and not as nihilistic as an initial reading suggests (not mentioned in my review: it’s also in the “weird little freaks eating spaghetti” canon)

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

This is not a legally difficult question. You can't tear down part of a building just because you reside in it if you don't own the building. Even if you pay to tear it down you can't do that.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

this is why the whole world, the whole thing and not just the united states, canada, japan, south korea, and a few countries in the caribbean and south america call baseball "the beautiful game"

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all. apnews.com/article/adam...

I don't think we should let it go that the president posted a video of himself shitting diarrhea on us. It should be on his wikipedia page

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Of the five pals he mentions, the *least evil* one might be O.J. Simpson.

in the course of 48 hours he has figuratively shit on the American people and literally torn a hole in the White House

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

will post the link in the morning but The Insider essay is done and up on my patreon now

We bombed a fishing boat in distress.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Define "Perfect Ending"?

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

There was a heckler at our protest so we taunted him with chants of "Trump's a pedophile" so he started yelling "I support pedophiles" before storming off. Incredible interaction, all around.

"they shot it ✌️for real✌️" the setup: www.tiktok.com/@jeremyshipp...

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

I’ve been saying for like 3 months that Shohei Ohtani was good and people should keep their eye on him and everyone laughed. Who’s laughing now?

I realize things have never been great but it does feel especially lately like the main job of many people is to not know things, in an age where every day we're all knowing more things we'd rather not know so that takes genuine effort

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

🎶 No Kings 🎶

women will be like “date night with this handsome guy 💕” and it’s just ghost turnip

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

None of these people listed can vote.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

I think two things are true: 1. young republicans were always terrible and racist 2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

This feels equally as important as anything we fought a revolutionary war over.

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

This meme made me laugh.

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism....We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who *only* understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

Let's go! www.criterion.com/films/34221-...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.