That big ass bluejay at every birdfeeder, telling the grackles and chickadees to clear the fuck out

It is essential to remember that the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights does not “give” anyone rights. It does not create rights. These are rights that every person has, by their very nature as a person. The Bill of Rights is just a list of rights that no government of a free people may violate.

Our justice system is saying very plainly that this administration is a threat to the proper order of a free people

"Why would the president pursue military action against the country without nuclear weapons instead of the one with nuclear weapons" is a question that answers itself when stated plainly, and also explains why any regime wary of foreign intervention would rationally pursue a nuclear arsenal.

old and busted: Kavanaugh stops new hotness: Kavanaugh tariffs

"I want to be a good boy"

I’m sorry, HBS and a16z Crypto told me that screenshots of things were going to be a new model for capitalism

I don't care where you get it from, gimme back my fuckin' money

This earnest but vapid take raises a question: has a campaign of "healing the country" ever resulted in meaningful political change in American history? It seems to me that meaningful change has exclusively been the result of a campaigns that openly celebrate stamping out evil.

Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.

You just know that somewhere, right this second, there is 2nd tier administration official scheming up some announcement like “Andrew is being persecuted” that will involve either tariffs or an asylum offer. Or maybe we’ll get this blurted out to Newsmax on AF1

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Love this for you guys. We don’t have have these things in our country, but it looks really cool

Virtue, wisdom, honor, honesty, judgment, and fellowship. Get used to hearing these words and working with these ideas if you want to name and defeats the enemy of the republic.

Building on this thought... I conjecture that the *only* way that a single overarching social category can create social order is if that category is fused to a strict internal caste/status hierarchy. Do you want integralism? This is how you get integralism.

*raises hand* Globalist here, and proud of it. This article is just stupid circular reasoning. The antiglobalists are just isolationists who refuse to participate in global governance, and who then conclude that isolationism is the solution to the failure of global governance that they cause

The video of our unbelievably excellent interview with @tompepinsky.com is up on YouTube right now - we discuss the US's slide into authoritarianism, what you or your Democratic representatives can and should do about it, and what gives us hope (spoiler: there's actually a lot to be hopeful about)!

Now posted ahead of print: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science. (Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...

"Liberals the world over have to stop playing defense if the left is ever going to stop the right's oligarch-fueled momentum. They must stop accommodating or—worse yet—imitating the fascists, and fight them." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...

This very smart post leaders to a much broader point: if the identitarian right is going to invent an exclusionary racist American heritage and history, then its opponents will need to their own positive, full throated statement of American heritage and history.

Celts, Romans, Danes, Normans... the very essence of "English-Scottish-Irish" culture is migration, settlement, and the blending of peoples. There is nothing more essential to that culture than the blending of native and immigrant

The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.

translation: "I don't know what I'm arguing for, but it's white stuff from England, you know, like pizza and hamburgers"

I told my toddlers that they were responsible for their own blankies and that made them stronger and more honorable people

This is my explanation for why we will see more coordinated efforts of AI agents submitting fake papers to journals. If you could develop skills that bypass journal editors to get fake papers under review, and there is a positive probability they are accepted, someone will pay for it.

Extremely missed opportunity to ask this man to name some white foods

BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Just found five AI-generated, completely fraudulent submissions to the journal that I edit. Submitted rapid-fire by a gmail address affiliated with researcher who does not exist. The era of AI slop in academic journals is here, right now. The fraudsters will only get better from here.

A simple way to think about this is, does your job involve generating words in a pattern? The computer can do that, and it will only get better at doing it as time goes on. Most people's job is not *just* to generate words in a pattern. It's the nature of jobs that will change, not their existence.

A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The tyranny of relative prices. As the abundance of a factor of production increases, its relative price decreases, and the relative price of the scarce factor increases. Be the thing that the computer cannot be: a friend, a thinker, a poet, a logician, an artist, an athlete. Liberal arts FTW.

Every academic in their 40s goes through this career/life stage where they decide that the journals are broken and stupid. It's mostly because they are bored of working on R+Rs given that the marginal benefit for their own career of another publication is close to zero.

The Prabowo administration is going all-in on its 8% growth target, and it’s going to wreck investor confidence in sound economic governance to get there www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Truly enjoyed this chance to talk politics and insanity with two of the most outstanding hosts. -- "It's going to be very hard for non-maniacs to continue the steal." -- "It's completely bonkers that these miserable billionaires cannot figure out how to be normal"

Good lord, Mr President, do you want some cheese with that whine?

I think about this with the frequency that other people my age and demography think about the Roman Empire

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

Grandmas and pop-pops all over the U.S. are excited to learn about Bad Bunny and want to know if Green Day is going to play "the hospital song" (Basket Case). It's the greatest day of the year.

Who you gonna root for? The U.S Olympic team and the Super Bowl? Or Kid Rock and this guy’s whatever feelings

In all seriousness, Gen X and the Boomers wildly underestimate how popular Bad Bunny is. Putting Kid Rock up against Bad Bunny in 2026 is like putting Ted Nugent up against Dre and Snoop in 1993

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to all who celebrate. Some have Holy Week; some have the High Holidays; and some have Grammys-and-Super Bowl February.

"as a staff, record label, and as a motherfucking crew"

Paesi Bassi is an incredible way to say Netherlands

Goddamn it JD Vance

Every day Trump: [says something absolutely horrible] Media: Why did the president say that WH: Obviously the president didn't say that Trump: Yes I did WH: Ah well nevertheless

This is just some striver Princeton shit, trust me

It's a Big Club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the Big Club. Why is the New Yorker platforming this guy in 2026? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.