All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

my offer to america: we bring woke back

“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

If you need to do this much throat clearing before you can manage to say "Kidnapping people for political speech is very bad, actually" then it's time to step back, have a lozenge, and cede leadership to someone more suited to the moment.

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

I’m done flying

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

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“…and give them all green cards so they are not so exploitable. Alas, that kind of sensible immigration reform is not going to happen with Trump as president.” Exactly. The real solution is solidarity and not scapegoating those, whether citizen or not, just trying to do here what any citizen is…

they are going to do the tariffs and fly the country’s economy into the side of a mountain

Correct. These are fundamentally scams. Perhaps a small number of supporters mistakenly believe the mission is genuine; that's irrelevant, because the mission itself is fraudulent and all the people in charge are scam artists. There's no scenario in which these scams are molded into genuine reforms.

bad case of being lawyer-brained, I’m afraid. The clear meaning of the 22nd is to put a 2 term limit on the presidency, in accordance with the norm established by Washington. This alternative reading is lawless and if it happens, we might as well say the Constitution is no longer in effect.

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Meanwhile the Atlantic published a whole thing about "decivilization" today: “The line between a normal, functioning society and catastrophic decivilization can be crossed with a single act of mayhem.” (they mean, of course, the CEO, not the genocide)

How it started: How it’s going:

the pardon power is good because laws are flawed tools executed by flawed people, and because prisons are specific man-made hells we ought to exempt as many people from as possible. But what's revealing about pardons is who the powerful will pardo and who they will just let rot forever.

See, this is why Yglesias is the way he is: because he lacks the memory and brainpower to be an interesting pundit. It's a lot easier to just constantly say stuff that certain people in power want to hear, they'll forgive how mindless and inconsistent he is.

I would pardon my sons if I were in the same position

Matt Yglesias in June vs. Matt Yglesias in December

Though there might be some very fine hairs I’d split, I think David Wallace-Wells got only one thing wholly wrong here—Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary are indeed, almost by definition, “transparent cranks.” Otherwise, DWW writes the piece I’d been wanting to write.

great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.

The NY Post editorial board interviewed RFK jr. a few months ago. This is what they wrote today about his nomination to lead HHS...

this dude is basically the nation’s leading expert on legal ethics, we are so cooked.

This a new paper where we compare methods of classifying head movements. A (hopefully) helpful guide for those striking out into new data streams with VR! www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24...