If I ever launched an Abolish the Senate campaign, I'd start by taking out billboards all over Texas with images of stereotypical Vermonters saying things like "we choose what's best for Texas" and Rhode Islanders saying "Thankfully, the Senate makes sure my vote counts 30 times more than a Texan's"

big team of tech reporters peeling out what you need to know about the SpaceX IPO plan here... SpaceX spent $131 million on Cybertrucks y'all.

New headline hall of fame contender just dropped

BREAKING AP: When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note he was not on vacation. Left out of FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a "VIP snorkel" around the USS Arizona.

Yesterday the Senate moved forward with a package of U.S. Attorney nominees who have no prosecutorial experience + fueled lies about the 2020 election being stolen from Trump, which sure looks like they've been tapped to go after Trump's political enemies. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

two things. 1. when the trump administration says that something is “illegal DEI” they are saying “you don’t deserve this” 2. the practical effect of destroying the VRA is to make it nearly futile for these americans to get relief from congress

Oh my god. I've just realized that archaeologists are basically dumpster divers. We are the trash pandas of academe, rooting around for treats in piles of ancient garbage. Raccoons.

It's already outrageous and offensive that people with unimaginable wealth view themselves as the victims, but the fact they feel comfortable saying it in public takes it to another level. Their brains are broken, simultaneous delusions of grandeur and victimhood wrapped in malice and shamelessness.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Donald Trump's priorities: a billion-dollar ballroom and an increasing number of kids addicted to nicotine.

it suddenly occurs to me that most every sf movie or tv show I can think of defaults to showing any planet onscreen as a full disc as if the sun's directly behind the camera, and how the reality where you see less is actually way more breathtaking

Uno is a game where having all the cards means you lost the game

the thing AI chatbots are proving is that most humans want a mirror, someone* that reflects themselves back in a way that mimics connection without actually having to deal with the complexities of another real person

Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart

new from me: i wrote about the truly wild “no no, timeouts don’t count” argument from the administration trying to stop the clock on the War Powers Resolution’s 60 day deadline to gtfo Iran

TV: And if you follow the cold front through the weekend, you'll see we have a 30% chance of upset. Me: ...What's upset? The Egyptian God Set: NOT MUCH DAWG, WHATS UP WITH YOU

honestly, having something sitting on his desk for weeks and then having it take less than five minutes to finish is one of the most relatable things Mike Johnson has ever done

there’s still almost 20 Republicans left to vote, but unless Johnson flips 4 of the 7 current no votes, the rule letting debate start on the FISA extension, farm bill, and Senate-passed budget bill to fund ICE/Border Patrol is cooked

I don’t have a way to cover this in an actual article but I have just received a press release that I think my audience will want to hear about: White Lily tells me they are releasing a line of ready-to-bake frozen biscuits in southeastern supermarkets

Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

this is how I learn Justin Trudeau is dating Katy Perry???

free headline for Orban’s defeat: HUNGARY FOR CHANGE

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

“In bravely facing the cold vacuum of nothingness, the four humans on that spacecraft carried the warmth humanity holds with them. And by briefly becoming more alone than anyone has ever been, they served as a reminder that we can face the darkness together.”

You would be absolutely staggered at the amount of paperwork involved in getting qualified for one of these units. Streamlining and digitizing the lotteries should be an essential an city government project.

new from me: i wrote about the intense juxtaposition this week between the horrors of Trump’s threat to wipe out Iran and the majesty of our world as seen from the Orion capsule beyond the moon

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

"Mr. President, regime collapse usually makes things worse."

What must it be like to have as little object permanence as the markets do

the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering

This is *literally* how King Croesus bought it after misinterpreting the Oracle at Delphi

"If the DOGE cuts were like putting federal programs up for public executions, these days the abuses happen more like knives in a back alley." Important piece from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

My favorite recent example: bsky.app/profile/jame...

the way that quotes function in legal briefs/memos/opinions is so funny to me. like, you can grab an essentially random clause from a Supreme Court case, divorce it entirely from context, and as long as you slap a fancy citation on it? you're officially doing a Good Analysis.

it just really clicked for me how beautiful it is that Howard Ashman, a gay man, wrote the lyrics to “Gaston,” a satirical ode to toxic masculinity that uses camp to point out how everyone in town is swooning over a buffoonish jerk

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

There is at least one (1) very good thing today. Finally we have the technology to make “children do war crimes: the series” into something worth watching

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

It was the US that decided to limit the North Atlantic treaty to *defensive* obligations in *Europe and North America* because we didn't want to be drawn into imperial wars! The reasoning below could just as well be Anthony Eden shouting at Eisenhower in 1956.

new from me: i had the realization that everything about trump and his admin’s behavior towards u.s. allies over iran reads like the most toxic ‘friend’ in the group, who sees every ‘no’ as a personal attack and is more than happy to play the self-victimization card

You know, Tom Cotton probably should’ve watched what happened next in “The Dark Knight” before tweeting this.

new from me: i had the realization that everything about trump and his admin’s behavior towards u.s. allies over iran reads like the most toxic ‘friend’ in the group, who sees every ‘no’ as a personal attack and is more than happy to play the self-victimization card

She is just completely making this up. No such chair exists.

GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."

new from me: as the GOP was hammering Biden for record gas prices in 2022 i wrote that the “president does not, as [Republicans] would have you believe, have a dial in the Oval Office that he uses to set gas prices.” shoutout to Trump for managing to find the most damaging exception to that rule

Washington Post executives were troubled to learn that a single story could cost...thousands of dollars. Thank god they weren't around during the WaPo's coverage of Watergate, CIA dark prisons, or any of the many other stories that helped changed the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...