It turns out that when you jettison the idea that our politicians are actually pursuing some greater ideological goal, what is left is...well, a man in a suit doing stuff.

Jimmy Kimmel becoming the face of First Amendment rights in the US was not something that I had on my 2025 bingo card.

For whatever reason, the Supreme Court seems like it has decided that it is their job to throw chaos into the US legal system. For my money, that’s not just bad politics—it’s bad lawyering.

1) this was from a couple of weeks ago but still thinking about how “one of the key tools of despots is not only the deprivation of our legal rights, but the deprivation of our intellectual ones” 2) is it weird to quote your own writing