Old people: "Kids these days have no manners!" Also old people: [PLAY VIDEOS ON THEIR PHONES IN PUBLIC AT FULL VOLUME]

What country do you think Trump is going to bomb after Macron gets the peace prize?

Drone to right of them, Drone to left of them, Drone in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they sailed and well, Into the strait of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred

(Notably, this is how many DA offices actually work. DAs are generally much more willing than the Feds generally to try to take a marginal case to trial.)

This is the foundational belief of almost every American outside of Manhattan and certain parts of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

To think that just under six years ago, we were all watching the WTI crude oil April settlement price go negative. It was a simpler, more innocent, more carefree time.

It's so nice to wake up on a weekend morning, stretch, make coffee and turn on the death screen to see what the Mad King is up to now.

Had to doublecheck the date on this

With the obligatory disclaimer that I don't support ANY of this Iran war shit, people figuring out in real time that the purpose of submarines is to attack without warning and then disappear and who REALLY want to talk to the manager about it is darkly funny given...the entire history of submarines.

When I teach the session on the laws of armed conflict I begin by telling my students that LOAC does not forbid killing in wartime. It is a surprisingly overlooked and widely misunderstood point.

I can't get "Turning Japanese" out of my head as I read this.

US metric conversion jump-started after gas retailers, not wanting to pay to change signs, discover that it’s technically allowed to sell gas measured in liters.

Lying on the procedure table and listening to the medical staff talk about how the issue with Raleigh is that the shops and restaurants don't have enough parking, I think to myself "It's a good thing I'm sedated."

I'm just a down-to-earth guy whose grandfather has a 1000+ word page article about his interior design work.

FOLKS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU USE OLS ON A BOUNDED CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 🤦

The Money Stuff podcast now has LEGO ads, and, while they say it's for the audience's kids, I'm not convinced it's not really meant for the audience itself.

Some personal news:

Me, economics brain: "Certificate of Need laws raise healthcare prices and lower healthcare quality while failing to reach their goal of reducing aggregate healthcare spending." Me, waiting seven weeks for an appointment using an obscure device that requires a CON: "CERTIFICATE OF NEED DELENDA EST"

Ignore whining of lefty transit anarchists. Harden entries leading to collecting more farebox revenue for system fiscal solvency AND reducing system costs for maintenance & repair from vandalism. Bonus: Increase Clipper card applications. Grown-ass transit policies. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

The answer, if my neighborhood is to be judged, is "indefinitely." www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Our retirement plan automatically invests at the end of each month, so I would prefer that the President stop doing things that crash the stock market in the first week of the month (fentanyl tariffs, Liberation Day, bombing Iran) and start doing things that crash it in the last week of the month.

(Sorry, but "Tout part d'une connexion" is the perfect background for that photo.)

There should be a FIFA Economics Price, the same way that there's the FIFA Peace Prize. But the FIFA Economics Prize should be awarded by UEFA and officially be called the UEFA Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of FIFA.

Found dead after having died peacefully in his sleep from a missile strike.

Our (two hour) long national nightmare is finally over.

SOTU comes from an alternate universe where Temporary Protected Status for Venezeualns wasn't revoked and the United States didn't deport Venezuelans directly back to the brutal communist regime they escaped, as well as to third countries like El Salvador, where they were arbitrarily detained.

(This is measured in USD, so a weakening dollar is doing a lot of the work.)

There’s a certain type of person who sees this as evidence that planning practice drives scarcity and a certain type of person who sees this as evidence that you could make housing cheaper if you never let anyone have a building permit

Funny thing is Canadian prime ministers actually do have a button they can push to lower the price of eggs and many of them personally think it'd be a good idea but they're far too scared of the blowback from the egg industry from pushing it.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Sure, studies, data, yada yada yada, but this firefighter and union boss says PEOPLE WILL DIE. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Just hours? Wow. AI is already working at a higher level than graduate students. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/s...

There is, in fact, no longer a road test for new drivers in the State of Mississippi. Given the overall quality of driver licensure in the United States, I'm not even sure if this matters for safety.

The resistance to proof-of-payment ticketing among commuters railroads is insane. Just making stuff up that’s doomed to fail, rather than accepting that they need to do it the way everybody in Europe does it.

With TrumpRx, you can now pay $200/month for medicine instead of $140/year. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR MAKING LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE!!!

When is Trump going to tariff Heated Rivalry? I'm tired of being asked about it. Canada must pay.

I am frequently told that licensure and registration violations are "victimless" "paper" crimes, when these people are not paying the taxes everyone else has to pay and do not have insurance for the harm they do to others, and there's often a reason they cannot be licensed or should not be driving.

NEW VIDEO: North America’s Elevator’s Problem Elevators are absolutely essential to modern cities..... and it turns out North America kind of sucks at them. We partnered with @sightline.org to look into the many issues plaguing our elevator industry, and what it might take to fix it.

S&P futures and foreign markets up, US dollar down a fifth of one percent on news of the erosion of rule of law and end of central bank independence in the United States.

What is law?

The only thing that can halt the ongoing MAGAfication of the judiciary is a Democratic senate win in November. If you’re not thinking about how to win in Texas, Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, and Florida you’re asking the wrong question.

If your hotel tells you "we upgraded your room" but they do not specify how (eg, "to a suite"), you have almost certainly not received a real upgrade.

One of the alternatives being used to "distract" him is another strike on Iran.

This is excellent news for the future of transit in the US. LA is just too big to rely mostly on buses and light rail and needs to return to building subways. A NIMBY-pleasing highway-median monorail without a direct connection to a major trip generator (UCLA) would have been a huge mistake.

Today is the day! We're so excited to welcome everyone to TransportationCampDC! We heard a great Keynote from Jarrett Walker, author of @humantransit.bsky.social, and we're moments away from heading to our first round of breakout rooms!

"Ma'am please stop using your speakerphone." "I ain't on speakerphone. I'm on FaceTime." That's me shown then.

Holy cow: TRUMP LEAKED THIS MORNING'S PAYROLL NUMBERS. At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning. (Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)