What if we just had laws passed by Congress, without the personalist authoritarian grift & arbitrary policy cycling?

Spinoza died at the age of 44 because he inhaled the dust from the lens grinding that he had to do for his job because he got excommunicated and refused to profit from it by joining the enemy party of those who excommunicated him

In the TV show "The Leftovers", civilization undergoes massive transformations in reaction to a rapture-like event. While certain groups of conservative-leaning voters were raptured, some remaining behind became radicalized into extreme conservatism in reaction. In this paper

Similar to his 2020 COVID impulse: if you don’t measure it, then it’s not a problem.

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

I feel about cabbage the way Bubba feels about shrimp in Forrest Gump: a million ways to make it and they're all good

What we might refer to as a Kavanaugh Raid

We are governed by the dumbest, dumbest people

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Anyone who thinks constitutional violations ought be an "eye for an eye" endeavor is (a) shockingly craven and (b) neither a believer in our Constitution nor fit for public office.

A world in which I agree with Ted Cruz and John Yoo, in the same week? Boy are things messed up

Even ted cruz

Johnny Carson in the early 1970s: "Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?"

LMFAO

"opposition to physically violent attacks against Jews...weakens significantly when [the victim's identity is] framed in nationalist terms...rather than religious ones... We also find evidence this dynamic applies to other groups" (Hindus and Muslims) jmummolo.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

A guy named Bacon is working to exclude a product from tariffs and it isn't a pork product?

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Not silenced yet. I wrote about Trump and how pettiness and authoritarianism are connected. theconversation.com/the-presiden...

WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The American regime is planning to install a new prosecutor to more efficiently target its political opponents

The thing about complying is that you get 0 credit for it. Your just as like to survive as a quite resister. So maybe don’t comply?

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was 3 score cubits, and the breadth thereof 6 cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:1

Thrilled that my paper "Partisan disparities in the funding of science in the United States" with Nic Fishman, @leahrosenstiel.bsky.social, and @dashunwang.bsky.social was published in @science.org today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Star Trek was a documentary

gosh they lost Bari Weiss

Andor is trending. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-asb...

My headcanon is that this show is now about Evil C.J. Cregg and Evil Josh Lyman www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6UX...

If a comedian makes a joke about this they'll be out of a job tomorrow, so I guess it's a good thing FOX News is still broadcasting his senility

Colbert would be a solid Zelensky-style choice

The Supreme Court will come up with a "the 22nd Amendment only applies to Democrats" exception somehow, I'm sure

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

Times are scary, maybe more ominous than ever. Remember, Rule No. 1: Do not obey in advance.

I stopped reading Playbook months ago, and almost never click on Politico articles anymore. Garbage.

Ilya, this you?

At least some thing never change from administration to administration politicalwire.com/2025/09/18/t...

“But a Democrat was president in 2023!” ~ Brendan Czar

Oh look.

This particular moment is too much for Karl Rove. It’s important that he wrote this.

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

Who said this in 2024? "Of course, purely private entities like newspapers are not subject to the First Amendment, and...may publish or decline to publish whatever they wish. But government officials may not coerce private entities to suppress speech...."

When we told you democracy was on the ballot we weren’t lying.

Free speech or whatever

Hey remember when we lived in a free society

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Anyway not that there were really any doubt, but "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next" just weeks ago