The Trump admin said “Deploy Van Halen”

Each tiny mistake from Trump’s team is one butterfly wing’s flap away from a world war

they’re gonna make a trump car

Forget Klein’s obsequious “politics the right way”. Listen to Daniel Martinez HoSang’s thoughtful analysis on how an open racists are winning over racial minorities.

Thinking about when one of my favorite directors (Ridley Scott) and actors (Joaquin Phoenix) made a film on one of history’s most interesting figures (Napoleon)—failing in basically every respect. An art crime.

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

Projecting farce

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

If Trump deported the liberal justices, I think SCOTUS would rule in his favor

Slightly diminish a book Triassic Median

“It’s going to fight… not not to lose.”

On this day 50 years ago in Sacramento, Squeaky Fromme did not assassinate President Ford.

The West Sacramento-based railroad operator said the locomotive is a first-of-its-kind and plans to build more.

Kantians must be stopped.

Not to be a drag, but it seems pretty clear the goal of the President dominating the Fed is a calculated end run on the Congress to make sure the midterms don’t matter either way, now or ever again.

The late great Hannibal Lecter says he never ate anything inappropriate.

The problem: Microsoft has sunk more billions into AI than any company and has yet to find a profitable or productive enterprise use for it while accelerating an energy and climate crisis. The solution: Tell people that only way to solve the crisis is to use the product that caused it.

A fascinating interview. The right is winning racial minorities over in large number with affective strategies that the left can in theory employ. However, the more money than god factor of groups like TPUSA may be distorting its success.

Free beer is so powerful it can bring 5,000 people together to celebrate a Lt. Governor's inauguration in a parking garage. If you asked those who attended what a Lt. Governor is, they'd likely answer "the free beer guy."

Slop governance continues apace.

I’m not losing to my enemy, I’m letting them win 😌

Ah yes the nuclear warming he was warning us so much about in ‘24

I liked Eddington. If you didn’t like it, it’s probably for the reasons that I did like it. We are on opposite sides of an irreducible difference that shakes our self-certainty. The only path forward is a Kampf auf Leben und Tod to determine once and for all whose opinion is correct

Amazing things happening at the California state fair. 🧵 1. Shots fired at Paul Krugman

Friday Aug 1 6-9pm at Hasta Muerte Coffee, Oakland! Fundraiser for a couple of rad bond funds

Adding to all the other crimes NY Times perpetuates, it ranked Borat above Pan’s Labyrinth, Uncut Gems, Oppenheimer, Kill Bill Vol 1, and Amour in it’s top 100 movies of the 21st century.

Call me Nucky the way I run a seed oil and artificial coloring speakeasy

returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...

here are four different images of the new york skyline trump has auctioned for charity

We deserve a city affordable enough for frivolous japery, not one so expensive that we must chicane to survive.

Noticed a worrying vision change. Asked AI and it gave me a scare enough to call an advice nurse. The advice nurse told me to go to the ER and here I am waiting to be seen on the night before my vacation 😣

Great read on the lessons in mass politics from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign by Ben Davis aka big dog aka thiccgenius

NYC has become a policy wonk paradise. Congestion pricing, just cause, universal pre-K, ranked choice voting. Just bold experiments, derided and fear-mongered by centrists and status quo supporters, that ultimately are revealed to work EXACTLY AS ADVERTISED.

Another masterful gambit

dropping the f-bomb on Iran and Israel is no path to peace, sir

Mamdani surges past Cuomo in final Emerson poll, pulling nearly even in the first round and winning final round 52/48. Crucially, the poll shows Mamdani with a 41/31 lead among those who have already cast their ballots.

News: Today, on behalf of affected state employees, #SEIULocal1000 and President Anica Walls filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom and CalHR, challenging the legality of the #RTOmandate.

There is always a tweet.

more like paper of wreckers amirite

So is the Manchin-ization of the DNC in full swing?

The assassin is apparently deep into evangelicalism. Here he is delivering Sunday sermons at a church in the Congo. 👀 www.youtube.com/live/fCA4uLk...

Protest has network effects. In my calculations, the (now) well-known data of Chenoweth and Stephan shows a large effect: the 100th person to join a protest has 100 times the impact of the 1st person. (i.e. effectiveness ~N-squared) So get out there! samwang.substack.com/p/network-ef...

I and thou

Not a great week so far

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

Join community now. Stop the kidnappings

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

I wrote the Jacobin editors and it appears they struck the offending paragraph. I appreciate that they took my concerns seriously and made this factual correction.