I talk a bit about the history of bonds in this radio show. "We hear about their history, how they have shaped companies and countries, and why some fear the bond market could trigger the next global meltdown."

Welcome to the Resistance, concept of “money”

Ugh

please accept this photo of a dog who's wearing a turtleneck and has just received a greenie

He’s done being Federally reserved

I really felt the need to document this Texas A&M philosophy de-wokening syllabus exchange here, because... petty.

People magazine is indeed really stepping up to the plate with a lot of coverage of Renee Good's shooting. Couple of examples: people.com/renee-good-l... ; people.com/doctor-tried...

As I reported my book, I noted an uptick in openly misogynistic behavior and language among law enforcement and their "back the blue" and 2A supporters. Part of white supremacy and the "warrior mindset" is misogynistic paternalism -- women need protection except when they are bitches.

They at least deserve a follow. @people.com

Proud to say that is my nephew's reporting.

I keep coming back to this

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

Ludo Phalippou on the Wild West of private equity data...

Maybe it's clear now why I've described the Broligarchs' political project as "the New Colonialism." They're dead serious & mask off. They're not colonizing in the name of any country or corporation: they're divvying up the Earth among themselves, as warlords. brookeharrington.com/books/offsho...

Trump was always a threat to the republic. This thread is about how Trump corrupts those around him, turning even well-meaning people into his authoritarian goons. bsky.app/profile/jenm...

I haven't been doing explainers on Trump's rhetoric lately because, honestly, it's boring. I've said all these things for the last 10 years. A lot of this thread was written in 2019. But jumping in now to say this: this is new. This is different in important ways. This marks the end of the republic.

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.” ― James Baldwin

The fact that someone calculated that a $25,000,000 political donation in a six month period was a rational business decision says a lot about how precarious the people pushing AI think the fate of the technology is.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Well you gave it a shot but now that you see that it won’t work looks like it’s time to pull the plug and maybe spend your money on going away

in this very special episode of Hacks

It’s almost as if a high touch education costs money.

Canvas used to be helpful but that time has passed. Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.

Gonna name my next dog Soylent Green so that everyone knows he's people.

“You should see a therapist about that” can no longer be a reflexive collective response. Perhaps they should. If there is one available and insurance can pay for it and you can find a therapist on your insurance after you call 10 people.

I say all of this because I think the most urgent thing we must do now is reorganize our models of care. This has to become about how we must all care for each other & we cannot rely on “I’ve paid good money so professionals can take care of me” it never worked justly. It is not sustainable.

you guys

This is that 10/90 split economists keep talking about. If you make >$150k a year (top 10% of Americans), everything is AWESOME. If you make less than that, you are struggling to even engage meaningfully in the economy. The collapse has escaped the balance sheets and is visible to the naked eye now.

working at a university

They want “a right to monologue” that’s absolutely correct

Only I have ever read anything good about narcissism.

I have a voice memo saved on my phone that I play for people who ask my about my mask in public — it’s called “Hello Stranger”

Here’s a transcript of the voice memo: hello, if you’re hearing this message you’ve inquired about my mask and we are strangers. I’ve pre-recorded this message so that you can hear me clearly say that I’m wearing this mask because I’ve recently been exposed to a contagious illness…

inside you there are two wolves

"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant" Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended! proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

Minie Pearl Jam Rebecca Black Sabbath Beach Boys II Men Black Pink Floyd

Can someone please explain to me why nice lamps are so expensive? When did this happen?? What is going on???

Rich people threaten to leave of you raise taxes, but most won't. There's a great book on this from Cristobal Young that breaks this down.

Hear me out: we replace the Golden Bachelor with Golden Drag Race. Think of the possibilities for the Snatch Game alone.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Jordan Peterson watches Muppet Christmas Carol

I recently did a podcast for the Natural Rural Education Association on a law review I co-authored on the creation of "education preserves," which would protect rural school districts from voucher and charter school expansion. Here is the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

What if the years greatest called shot was also an incredible shitpost

Mitt Romney was apparently visited early by 3 ghosts.

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Just to be clear, he means the people who are Democratic county chairs, the people who go canvassing, the people who are making sure that doors get knocked on and we get out the vote.

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.