I’m very proud of my wife for sharing the details she did. I’m disgusted by all of it. She found herself in one of those moments where she didn’t care what she lost if it helped one other person. The reality is the truth don’t care who tells it, but she told it. Love you @allysammarco.bsky.social

eventually Peter Thiel’s little fashies are going to run out of “cool” LotR names and have to call their new company Mount Doom

How much money has the DoD lost this year on missiles

I appreciate that FT still has useful headlines like "China is not Dumping US Treasuries." Do I still open the tab? Of course. I think highly of myself. Do I have to read it? Certainly not. I'm a busy man.

Europeans, if not carefully attended to, will revert to their classical form

When a baby gets a social security number at the hospital, can you pay more for a cool number?

I was thinking of forcing him to resign by defunding the government until he does so. That's sort of exactly how parliamentary democracy developed; parliament's control of the purse meant a (royal) ministry that couldn't get it to vote for the budget had to go.

Call your Senator now, and demand they support the removal of Chuck Schumer from leadership!!! I just called mine:

democracy! work it while you’ve got it!

Did a Vance write this?

“oh we’re afraid of impeachment, people will just think we’re being performative ” what do you think politics is? have you notice what the other guy does?

For decades, the principled Republican economist argument against regulation was that it created economic uncertainty, which would destroy growth. I can only assume that the Economic Uncertainty crowd is so quiet these days because they’re thrilled to see white supremacy ascending.

Impeaching him is the very least that we can do. There are no mechanisms for immediate removal, but it merits discussion all the same.

Even if these mechanisms worked, it would be irresponsible to allow Trump to stay in office long enough for them to take effect. He has to be removed now. Saving the rule of law now requires stepping outside of it. A claim any side can make, but that’s sadly not a good enough reason not to do it.

College protests flourish when/because there is a nexus between the institution and the offense. Endowments have been the focal point of campus protest since the 1980s for that reason (smart, leveraged institutional power), and defense contracts. Iran doesn’t offer that nexus.

the reasonable answer is that protests have leverage when you have democratic accountability. It seemed possible protest could turn people against the Iraq War. It’s very plausible that protest could change Dem’s Israel policy. I understand if it feels pointless to protest this.

The malleability of even the most powerful AI models to facilitate potential slaughter is an argument against their being sentient or super-intelligent.

BREAKING CBS: Survivors of the deadliest Iranian attack on U.S. forces have disputed the Pentagon's description of events and said their unit in Kuwait was left dangerously exposed when six service members were killed and over 20 wounded. The members disputed the description from Pete Hegseth.

Incredible to see a mid 1980s Prelude on the street. All time excellent car.

Adrian Vermeule’s last name is onomatopoeia for his aura

Hall of fame FT correction

we have a new neighborhood eccentric who occupies our corner and she lets out blood-curdling shrieks at random intervals. i'll probably acclimate to it, but it's not the kind of thing that one generally wants to be acclimated to.

I've never seen an app that lets you choose more than one meeting reminder time. It would be great to have fifteen, five, AND one minute reminders.

Ackman launches new "contrarian" fund. So successful everyone follows him into it contrarian positions. His positions are no longer contrarian, he is forced to contradict the market's contrarianism. Fund collapses in semantic disarray. www.ft.com/content/70dd...

The institutional liberal freakout about Hasan Piker is basically this Australian reporter repeatedly asking a teenager to take his sunglasses off and feel bad youtu.be/968yNvFiVH0?...

If I’m expected to use AI in my job, I can’t keep worrying about “cognitive surrender.” I give up.

The world is too overwhelming. I must bait my friend into a “are there more uncles than dads” debate and go to sleep as soon as he gets worked up about it

Adrian Vermeule’s last name is onomatopoeia for his aura

There must be other people out there who 1) know who Leonard Leo is and 2) watched Clerks the cartoon, but I feel so alone.

DOW up 1200 on fake ceasefire not opening strait.

The New York Times wants you to know that sincere catholic JD Vance was very opposed to the naming of an anti-Pope, but knowing Trump would do it anyway, reluctantly supported the further elevation of Brett Kavanaugh

Moving this one up on my New Constitution Priority List, a couple spots below “abolish senate”

That steel is the property of the state and should properly be put to building a gallows

moon hubris, angry gods

A use case for crypto at long last!

some kind of medical infirmity, I’m afraid

I did not know until just looking this up: Ben Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz fame is the son of David Horowitz, of neoconservative fame.

Bill wants you to do the thing

Come on then, and remove him.

who is saying this? Who is this for? Are people’s feelings still that hurt about Kamala receiving bog-standard left criticism of a pres candidate during her campaign?

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

never forget to thank Vanessa Friedman for her service as a frontline journalist

“boastful claims” “risks misinforming” “contradicts reality, experts say” someone settle them down from that white hot truth-telling rage before it burns the whole press to the ground

It's another artifact the US press's normalization of Trump, where his deranged posture during this war, the whipsawing between murdering his counterparties and leaking news of "productive talks," is all sidelined in favor of serious-business furrowed-brow reporting about diplomatic breakthroughs

Croesus, the famously rich king of Lydia (there was an old saying "as rich as Croesus"), asked the Delphic Oracle what would happen if he attacked Persia They told him if he did so, "he would destroy a great empire" The empire that was destroyed after he attacked? his own.

Everybody is waiting for someone to do something, classic coordination problem.

finding my zen through a repetitive raking motion

This is how to do it. Sen Chris Murphy also tells me: "Everybody in that chain of command has to think hard about whether they want to be part of the execution of that order." He predicts bombing Iran's power plants/bridges will kill thousands at the outset. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Glen Kessler gives this an unprecedented 5th pinnochio

After 10 years of being forced to listen to this guy constantly, everyone filters everything Trump says through the “he’s a bullshitter, why are you taking him seriously” filter, which makes sense because he’s almost always just bloviating hot air for attention, right up to the moment he isn’t.