I mean, the first paragraph lays it all out. The President, VP, and Agency officials, including the head of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, told us exactly what they intended to do & then did, which was use pretextual civil rights claims to impose ideological control on universities.

"...the fade-out effect has been viewed as a devastating critique of early childhood programs, our results highlight that fade-out is a key rationale for providing early education to all... largest benefits at scale when everyone receives such programs" #EconSky #PolicySky www.nber.org/papers/w33027

my man out here in a child's sports coat

while we're on the topic, though, people keep mentioning legislators that they like as candidates for who to get the senate leader job, and, gang, you don't want someone you like in that job, because, sure as the sun will rise, you will come to dislike them

the thing about predicting russia's collapse is eventually you'll be right you just have to wait anywhere from a few weeks to seventy years

Was looking at this again data yesterday. The BEA’s breakdown of PCE shows that the top 10% don’t even account for 50% of spending *within the categories for which they account for largest proportion of the total*.

This is what sent him into a week long crashout

looking great, mister president, top notch, they're saying things like "no one's ever stuffed more padding into a suit", and, "everyone can notice how great you look, you know, considering the circumstances" and "it's great when a man finally learns to stop worrying about his hair"

And they say deterrence doesn’t work

This is part of why, although I don't click the links and wish most wouldn't, I do think it's worth talking about the moral rot embodied by this piece and this career, even tho people say that's why Nuzzi types get promoted. I'm really not sure that is the main reason, and condemnation is important

I dream of a day when corporations have to reapply for every tax break, contract, and grant every six months, with a requirement that it is the CEO who must complete the paperwork, and attest under penalty of law that they personally did so.

Affidavits reviewed by WIRED cite previous @mattburgess1.bsky.social reporting revealing the use of Starlink systems in scam compounds in Myanmar:

This seems to be a common misconception. *There is nowhere to go* for most faculty & staff. The academic labor market is incredibly inflexible even in good times, we haven't been in good times for decades, and we're now in a *contracting* phase, not expanding. For most people, there's nowhere to go.

By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

every lawyer who participates in this subversion of law, bribery, and corruption should be disbarred and go to jail.

alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)

Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.

Remember when that train derailed in Ohio and we heard about it for months? Contrast - what have you seen about this since the week it happened? www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...

Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns

who gets this kind of shitty romanticizing prose written about them, and who gets dry commentary, depends on being in the club or not. as a journalist I find little more obnoxious than the idea of going to bat for somebody who violated basic professional ethics simply because she's in the club

you know, it's not the only thing going on here, but how the fuck does an english professor at harvard misread lolita this badly

addendum to agree with this. yes the writer is attempting to do the NYT patented knowing, above-it-all house style. it just is a) exceptionally ill-judged b) done poorly in any case c) coupled with a glamorous, high-status photo shoot and a plug for the book bsky.app/profile/davi...

Oh my god...

capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh

Ignoring reporters and responding with an instagram reel titled “Why I talked to Jeffrey Epstein” is insanely childish, and this decor is hideous

All the NYT defending on journalism ethics grounds and then they do this, lmao

Also one more article praising Sweden, which killed an unnecessarily big share of its population at the start of the pandemic by not taking the same common-sense measures other countries took.

This is like doing a glowing profile of the unwell women who’d write Charles Manson in prison. The only difference is that Kennedy has killed more people.

end of empire vibes. the most decadent media. all vice is virtue to them.

Having been involved as an expert witness in three documentary proof of citizenship cases I expect DHS will find there are 1,000s of naturalized citizens who haven't updated their drivers' license citizenship status but they'll claim they are noncitizens

Would be nice if we could remove this one. Also seems like maybe they don't have the stomach for the rank and open corruption necessary to sue the govt publicly for this payoff? Hard to tell for sure but it might just be too public www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

it’s fascinating to watch the coterie of straight white dudes who surrounded Obama and clearly consider themselves to have been running the show and responsible for Obama’s success due to THEIR brilliance in being willing to prop up a Black figurehead.

i think it's fine to go 'i think bsky's moderation policies should be different', but at this point i don't have much sympathy for super active users acting shocked about what the policies are. death threat-y stuff is gonna get you popped; act accordingly

downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.

this is the crux of the matter for me. I just don't believe Platner didn't know what he had on his skin for twenty years. I can imagine forgiving an edgelord take on this but lying about it undermines the entire whole apology, such as there's an apology.

using “disappeared” here is crazy work

Almost certainly Seattle. Population went from 600k->800k, the city went from no rail system to a top-10 busiest network, region became an absolute economic powerhouse, there’s a total transformation of the waterfront, and so much more

Oracle shares are down 36% from the date of this desk note.

Describing a 72-hour ban that you caught and lied about as being "disappeared" when there are people being disappeared in actual fact every day is certainly a choice.

It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The thing is this projection of adult sexuality onto young teens is already pervasive in our society in the form of purity culture. It’s just that purity culture frames it in a defensive posture, with that sexuality as something that must be resisted and denied. Both logics enable exploitation.

The problems with moderation on this site are real. People should pay less attention to Sarah Kendzior, though, who has tried to turn her suspension into evidence she is being personally targeted by the people who run this site

The history of f cked up movie soundtracks is a rich one, and the mid-90s went crazy my favorite might by Godzilla (1998), which features a Puff Daddy x Jimmy Page duet and Rage Against The Machine (in a movie tie-in!!), but also U2 doing the Batman Forever theme and R Kelly doing Batman & Robin 😂

Skandalakis’s appointment doesn’t mean that the Trump prosecution will move forward anytime soon—if ever. He could decline to move forward with some or all of the charges filed against Trump and others. He previously declined to prosecute “alternate” elector Burt Jones.

Abigail Spanberger was just elected Governor of Virginia by a wider margin of victory than any Democratic gubernatorial candidate there since 1961, on a campaign explicitly repudiating Platner's brand of anti-minority white populism.

Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH. (Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)

In addition to the fact that it's very much the power imbalance and legal responsibility to protect them that makes them children, it's also disturbing that so many people are willingly like "listen, 15 year olds are hot, and that's a fact." They are children. They look like children.

on a slightly closer read this piece suffers from the same malady as every TCW piece: he is incapable of dealing with the substance of a thing. the most relevant thing to him is that jan 6ers and george floyders *sounded the same*, the substance of what they wanted is irrelevant. this is stupid.

I like to think that reading philosophy is a good antidote to this kind of thinking, but then I see all the modern philosophers reaching the same conclusions about trans people, just with more bespoke arguments, and I’m not sure what the cure is.

you can't not be annoyed by people. i am annoyed by people all the time. i try not to make this my intellectual north star