Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

Nice of @nytimes.com to make clear that, whenever its dull conservative columnists complain about the evils of "feminism" or "liberal feminism," they of course mean "women."

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

SCOTUS is rapidly destroying "public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary" including with their numerous unexplained shadow docket orders, but the fault lies with lower court judges honestly saying that inexcusable anti-rule-of-law tactic is making their jobs harder?

Seeing deranged takes using Jared Golden's retirement to blame progressives or whatever. Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family. This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.

This video is bonkers, he seems unwell, but just to be clear about the history: The "nuclear option" to blow up the filibuster was a Republican idea. Trent Lott (R-MS) coined the term in 2003, and in 2005 Republicans used the threat of it to confirm several wacky federal court nominees.

NYC has gone Communist already? The inauguration isn't until January!

I drove through Bucks County last week and saw a couple of these signs. Bucks went just barely for Trump in 2024, it's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack. But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏

“You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID. You go to a gas station, you have to give ID.” This guy has never once bought a box of cereal or pumped his own gas. And we’re the one who are supposed to be out of touch. 🙄

the cope, it's so beautiful

Saw a perfect gift for my kid's 18th birthday. It ships from Japan. Cost $159. Tariff was $42.70. I had to pay it. Not Japan, not the Japanese seller, not even an importer. Me. But somehow the government's demand I pay it 26.9% of a gift's value was, they say, not a "revenue-raising domestic tax."

For all the anger at the pitiful Democratic leadership, rank and file Democrats seem to be demonstrating that they are actually in charge of the party and will set its direction. That is a good thing. The GOP belongs to one man; the future of the Democrats is up to every Democrat.

a good article but i got distracted by the choice of pictures that make it look like these two are high AF 😂

This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

That is surprising. Topline races were all judicial retention which generally do not excite, well, anyone, especially not typical voters. Seems blue areas are fired up. (MontCo was +22% Harris in 2024.)

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Here are @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social's resources on Trump's war on aviation safety: therevolvingdoorproject.org/aviation-dis...

Normally, it's a problem if you say something to a federal court then the next day go online and admit you lied, but we're only talking about the President, the DOJ, and the US Attorneys lying about his plan to illegally withhold funds to starve people, so there likely won't be any consequences.

Google tells me Sabrina Shroff has been a federal defender for 18 years so I'm gonna go with 'she totally intended the pun but will never admit it." 😆

When they say they’d never support Fuentes, ask them about what they used to say about Trump. This is from a now deleted piece on The Blaze from Matt Walsh

Gruesome testimony of the severe injuries suffered by a brave DHS officer in the line of duty. Thank God he survived this brutal attack. 🙏

Me Too was Pearl Harbor for elites. Most of them saw Harvey Weinstein and thought, "that could be me," and since then every hint of accountability for elites, or mass movements by peasants, has further convinced them they are facing an existential threat that must be destroyed at all costs.

even if it's a hoax, I feel like the mere threat of bombing a polling place is political violence

Let's go vote, Pennsylvania!

Forgot that punchbowl was some kinda news site so for a few seconds I thought wow that must have been a pretty crazy accident

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

This is amazing news. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

stupid planet teeming with diverse forms of life, making me waste several guesses in the same clade I figured it out in 11 guesses! 🟧🟧🟩🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

In a normal situation, this order would be so humiliating the district judge would act within the week.

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

I appreciate this. I'm sure plenty of people are deliberately mispronouncing Mamdani, but I'm not, yet my brain still wants to pronounce it (and spell it) in precisely this wrong way.

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

You see that? It's "Love Your Lawyer Week." I expect all of you to reply to me with "wow, good post, you're so smart" and the like, not your usual "jfc you're such an asshole" fare. Be guided accordingly!

If you're going to rely on "strong assurances" from Republicans then you're stupid and weak and you should resign. There is only one path to getting Democratic assistance with anything: the House reopens, swears in Adelita Grijalva, then passes an acceptable budget. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Taxing commercial flight to reflect its true environmental costs presents genuine policy & economic tradeoffs, but taxing private air travel does not, and the latter should be taxed at ludicrously punitive rates to address the deficit created by the former.

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.

Soon after publishing this—and it's not ironic, it's intentional—Heritage was given near-total control over the fed gov't and filled it with unqualified malicious incompetent crooks. Any one of these imaginary enemies of his would be better in the job than all of Trump's actual appointees.

RIP Adam Greenberg He was the superb cinematographer who shot Near Dark (watch it!), Terminator 2: Judgment Day and, of course, The Terminator, which means he’s responsible for one of my favourite shots in cinema that also coined a new genre for its film:

After gleefully and illegally plowing over every statute and regulation they don't like—such as by destroying USAID, refusing to enforce CFPB regs, and withholding SNAP funding—the Trump admin has decided 88 FR 8255 is ironclad law that must be ruthlessly enforced to ensure more people go hungry.

Eh, the "out of touch" poll doesn't say much beyond "the majority of U.S. adults think politicians are out of touch." That's always true, and it doesn't tell us what to do about it. And there's significant variance in the generic congressional polls. ABC/WaPo says D+2, NBC says D+8.

Historical FYI: Nathanael Greene was asthmatic, had a limp and a perpetually infected eye, and was constantly sick. He was also, as Cornwallis wrote, "as dangerous as [George] Washington. He is vigilant, enterprising, and full of resources–there is but little hope of gaining an advantage over him."

As I predicted in @thehill on Friday, the Project Esther coalition is crumbling. This morning a prominent Jewish lawfare advocate resigned from Heritage Foundation’s ‘fighting antisemitism’ task force in the wake of the Kevin Roberts/Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes fiasco

Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.