40 years from now, when a bunch of 7-foot-9 dudes with Kyrie handles have rendered the three-point line obsolete, Dillon Brooks will be one of the plumbers that guys like KD scored all his points against.

One thing I didn't discuss is the Orbán/Fico angle. The Iran War is being used as a lever to reopen Russian energy flows to Europe, which undermines the Ukraine sanctions regime. The war isn't just stripping American assets but also European strategic coherence on Russia.

Wanted to make sure everyone knows this: Congress isn't due back until April 28. Democrats have tried at least 100 times to call an emergency session or a resolution and either the Speaker didn't respond or Republicans gaveled out before a vote. 1/2

Updated thoughts on the Iran War🧵: The US guarantee of free shipping is gone. The war broke it. Iran closed the strait for 40 days and the guarantee turned out to be hollow. The ceasefire announced this morning broke hours later Iran halted tanker traffic again after Israel attacked Lebanon.

The US doesn't need to actively want this. It just needs to lack the institutional capacity to recognize it as a threat, and the crypto has done so. Ideological capture has made the administration unable to distinguish between Iran's sanctions-evasion strategy and its own monetary policy aspirations

More on Hormuz Bitcoin payments 🧵: The postwar liberal order wasn't solely enforced by the U.S. Navy. It also was enforced by SWIFT, correspondent banking networks, and the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

People need to talk more about Iran's Bitcoin demand and the potential for the US to accept it. Every piece of American structural power: military presence, sanctions architecture, dollar hegemony, and freedom of navigation is on the table as a tradable asset for another revenue stream for the admin

Trump's sphere-of-influence framework was never really about geographic withdrawal but about converting American commitments into monetized bilateral deals. The sphere boundary isn't "where the US is" but "where the US extracts versus where it doesn't." It turns our navy into a protection racket.

The problem isn't that we're running DemocracyOS 1.0 and need to upgrade. It's that the operating system was designed for hardware (civic culture, institutional trust, interbranch good faith) that is degrading, and no software update fixes a hardware problem.

The US Forestry Service news should probably be bigger news and any news really for the mainstream sources

Not a lawyer, but I'm a political economist and historian of ideas with experience in legal history. This is some law office history. For Lash's arg to work, he has to ignore that Natives were excluded by name and then that modern issues are moot due to the Indian Citizenship Act and US v Kagama.

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

No where, no where not a one… Can touch what New Orleans brings to the table. We are the Culture Standard in the whole US of A ⚜️

I think this is right, but to @thomasjerome.com's point: When you work through a problem with a person with complementary expertise, you're exposed to their concerns, framings, and intuitions. You often come out with a different question, not just a better answer to the one you walked in with. 1/

I agree that Conservatism has failed and fallen. I also believe that Liberalism in general and Progressive Liberalism in particular cannot generate and tend to deplete the moral, cultural, and social substrates from which they build and borrow. It's a project surviving on, well, borrowed capital.

I am a firm defender of Birthright Citizenship, which is why I want to talk about the USCCB's brief for Trump v. Barbara as I think its critics and supporters are both making errors. So, here we go:

My niece's scout troop did a model legislature thing recently and the piece of legislation that they decided to pass: banning the use of laptops and tablets in classrooms. They hate it, man.

This is, of course, a poor reading of history and theory. If anything, the causes or roots of fascism are contingent and institutional which resist any clear causal relationships. Fascism somewhat famously placed itself as a "third way" between market liberalism and Marxist socialism.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Catholic Bluesky discourse from last couple of days drove me to make a realization about the extent to which "openness to life" is popularly framed within what nearly amounts to a heretical Origenist* framework with preexistent souls, when Catholic teaching is clear the soul is created at conception

It's 2026 big dog

This might be naive given the politics of the court, but the concurrences highlight the complexity of CPE: how to design institutions that are flexible enough to manage a complex world, while maintaining strict enough rules to prevent political actors from inevitably expanding their own power

This is, oddly, true. Jefferson's Manual (Section 370), which governs House parliamentary procedure, explicitly rules out language that is "personally offensive" to the President or Vice President. Chairs of committees frequently remind members of this rule during contentious hearings

Pels traded Jose for Temu Tony Allen

Don't know if anyone can help with this (maybe @allenk81.bsky.social ?) but from a friend in New Orleans: "They’re taking the papers of Hispanic mothers and babies (whose husbands/fathers are here legally but now detained) and their IDs so they can’t even get food and baby supplies at food banks" /1

Yeah that punt might be the game there

Feels like Indiana just doesn't have it.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Respectfully, ​"Collectivism" isn't a synonym for community. It's a technical term for a system that absorbs the individual into the State. The Church has condemned it for 130 years starting long before the Cold War, because it inevitably violates human dignity. The Mayor chose a loaded word.

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

Eli's list of Manningcast guests is everyone who intercepted Peyton when he was a rookie

Looks like it's still paper too

Dr. Davies was more right than not back in 2016

My non-cynical take is that the GOP had a credible commitment to end SNAP, the ACA in total, increasing RIFs, etc., and the Dems only option other than to let people suffer was to choose who would fall on the sword.

No matter how cynical you are, you aren't cynical enough

No matter how cynical you are, you aren't cynical enough

No matter how cynical you are, you aren't cynical enough

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

They, uh, they definitely already stole this money, didn't they

George Retes on His 3 Day ICE Detention

I hate Ja Morant almost as much as Bill Vinovich

I kinda get the feeling that Trump is going to tear down the entire White House

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Hard to explain to my kids about the distinct lack of insects in the environment now

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

Noticing all the great Khan pritzker stuff has stopped now that his state police is beating protesters

With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11. And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.