I am absolutely loving press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... by @lkatfield.bsky.social Completely engrossing, terrifying, and so well-written.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

Is there a term for when you asked the LLM to do something, it did it wrong, and now it's taking you more time to re-orient the LLM than it would have taken to do it yourself?

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

My life is too short to read another Olivia Nuzzi think piece.

Bone-sawed body parts don't just "happen." Disgusting.

Brilliant @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece by Kyla Scanlon, one of our best economic thinkers. The ultimate expression of neoliberalism is where the rich do all the gambling and everybody else takes on all the risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

So many things blatantly wrong, illegal, and batshit about this. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Good to know.

Somewhat confused re: the Bari Weiss freakout. CBS News–already distressed inventory–is just a thing Skydance owns, and Skydance drive meh content like Mission Impossible and Spykids: Armageddon. They brought in a right-winger to make their news more right-wing, so... still not getting it.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

The weakest president I’ve ever seen. While he has the Senate, the House barely has a governing majority. A smart man, like Bill Clinton post ‘94, would see this and trim his ambitions and work with opposition towards common goals. But Trump has no understanding of politics other than GOP good,

Why even have a congress

We cannot wait for the markets or the midterms.

We knew the moment would come when he told us how science worked. cf. "by injection inside or almost a cleaning?"

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

This, so very this.

I listened to this. Ezra said “we can learn things when we talk to people we don’t agree with “ and I learned that Shapiro is a small intellect. youtu.be/EAqG00FUOK8?...

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Trump Claims He Can’t Be Expected To Remember Every Birthday Card He Sends To Child Molesters https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-cant-be-expected-to-remember-every-birthday-card-he-sends-to-child-molesters/

Seems bad. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What good is the Democratic party?

The Record Label That Reset My Expectations for Classical Music www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/a...

Why So Many Key Institutions Have Folded Rather Than Challenge Trump newrepublic.com/article/1987... via @newrepublic.com

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

This is our country.

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

Absolutely loved this.

Oh.

I think the Democratic Party should be led by people who think the Republican Party is bad. Try it for a bit and see what happens, you know? Just to mix things up a little.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

See? Trump is a businessman! He knows business. www.forbes.com/sites/mayrar...

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

This seems bad. therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

this is how the GOP got the foothold they needed to do what they're doing now — they started small, and understood that even the most backward school boards have a shocking amount of power

“Elon Musk is firing military veteran firefighters for no reason” is the biggest slam dunk in political messaging history, Dems should be shouting it into the world’s biggest bullhorn from the top of the Washington Monument.

A harbinger of totalitarianism. "The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we’re the Happiness Boy... We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought." (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)

Contacted my congressperson and one of my Senators, calling on them to do something about Musk et al in the Treasury department immediately. We need to have our voices heard.

It's unfortunate that the history of the Civil Rights movement has been rewritten as "We marched peacefully until our enemies grew a conscience". MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy.

This is so incredibly true. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Current mood.

Delighted Health Insurance Executives Gather In Outdoor Coliseum To Watch Patient Battle Cancer theonion.com/delighted-he...