I endorse @gtconway.bsky.social!

Finally got around to reading this piece. It’s great. if this isn’t obvious to you now youve never engaged with a conservative irl. I’ll add, their “payoff” for voting R is not policy, it’s “liberal lose,” that’s essentially it. They don’t even need their material conditions improved. Pure hate

You only need a compass — a way to orient through the storm. On guilt, love, the work of release, and the music underneath all of it.

Wow.

This is incredible.

What I want in a president.

She's running.

I love @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Well this aged terribly

The way you know that neoliberalism is a dead political program, is all the actual intellectuals associated with neoliberal thought have more or less abandoned neoliberalism and become critics of it themselves.

Damn good read from Mike Brock I Endorse Graham Platner open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

People have come to associate the emdash (—) with AI-based writing. But I’ve aggressively used the emdash in my public writings since long before ChatGPT or Claude. Here’s me in 2011 using the emdash!

I was one of the early people who was very freaked out by COVID-19 in Wuhan, and then extremely freaked out after what happened in Italy. And I have next to zero concern about this hantavirus outbreak. This is not a pandemic threat.

@brockm.bsky.social great conversation. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/nftc-live-...

Look at where the receipts run. Vance called for the overthrow of the Constitution in Vanity Fair, on the record, under his name. Mamdani has run for office, built a coalition, accepted results. The discourse calls one of them far left. New Dispatch on why.

Okay liberals, we have important information. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat up Donald Trump. We're facing a mob of losers and posers here, folks. Update your priors.

I endorse Graham Platner and I no longer like David French.

Wow.

The suspicion that any criticism of Beijing is "imperialist propaganda" is the analytical paralysis I've been diagnosing in other domains. Selective universalism is not universalism. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-clean-...

Iran has become the frontline of the new Cold War with China.

What I think about free speech and "woke", no holds barred.

It's kind of crazy that Satoshi Nakamoto knew Jeffrey Epstein.

I would like to make my position extremely clear: Woke 1? Wasn’t real. Never happened. Didn’t take place. Woke 2, however? Extremely real. Never been more real. Targeting your grandmother.

A generative conversation, I think, with the Mooch.

Alright, I've seen enough. We are all very confused about this AI thing.

The doomer and the accelerationist agree on more than either of them notices. They agree intelligence is the order parameter. They agree there is a curve, and the curve goes up. They are arguing about the same graph. They are wrong about the graph.

The Catholic intellectual class is arguing JD Vance is a bad Catholic. They're right. They're also missing the point. Whether Vance and Thiel privately believe the theology they're deploying doesn't change what the deployment is doing to the country.

I consider myself a classical liberal, if that is to mean a liberal in the classic tradition. And I resent that market fundamentalist libertarians using classical liberal as a synonym for minimal state involvement in economic affairs.

Trump tore up a 159-page nuclear agreement, started a war over the consequences, killed Spirit Airlines and an unknown number of Iranian children, and is now ending it with a one-page memorandum he is calling already legendary. Many Americans still believe he is a master dealmaker.

✅ EVAPORATION DOWN ✅ ALGAE GROWTH DOWN ✅ BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER SAVED Solar covered canals are delivering for Californians!

Why would people want to have children in the world of the GOP?

It reflects so poorly on us that we collectively permit this to go on. We are morally failing the world and ourselves. This stain will not come out of the cloth of our nation's dignity for a long time.

CHEVRON CEO WIRTH: PHYSICAL SHORTAGES IN OIL SUPPLY ARE STARTING TO EMERGE AS A RESULT OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ CLOSURE.

For the record: I think Shannon Watts is a very stupid person.

The Graham Platner is a Nazi strategy was designed for a target who would not defend himself. Platner refuses to stay off-screen. He sits for Pod Save, for Stewart, for local press. He answers questions. A Crisis Dispatch.

I am going on the record with my formal opinion: Graham Platner is not a Nazi.

And the worst is yet to come!

My discussion with Lyn Alden on the future of money and macroeconomics. If you’re interested in money and economics, I think you will find it worth your ninety minutes.

It's really quite something how the Vichy Republican establishment has deluded itself into thinking Marco Rubio will be their post-Trump savior. They are unable to process the fall in status they are about to endure.

I support the impeachment of Chief Justice Roberts!

I dislike how the executive branch just lies to me and my fellow citizens with reckless abandon, the oil-industry captured Supreme Court insists on their prerogative to go on lying to me, and the Congress that's supposed to represent me does nothing about any of this.

Wow. Jonah Goldberg and Tyler A Harper had such an amazing conversation that delighted me, that I just had to go and provide it some light critique.

I have started and stopped writing a piece to respond to Richard Dawkins' thoughts on consciousness that grew out of his interactions with Claude's chatbot in UnHerd. But the TLDR of my take-away is that he needs to take some psychedelic drugs.

Spirit Airlines ceased operations last night. The CEO named the cause in plain language: doubled jet fuel prices, smaller cash pile to start with. The doubling came from the Strait of Hormuz closure. The closure came from Trump's unauthorized war on Iran.

A government that calls itself pro-business has confused itself with the contents of its own framework. The confusion is the corruption. The corruption is what the announcement is.

Look, I’m not—in principle—against the notion of worker solidarity. I recognize what today is and I made no mention of it until the day was almost gone by. But here’s the thing: I’m not a materialist. 1/3

ive watched this part like a dozen times now

It's really quite something that so many of these tech leaders think they understand the universe. It's an insane decrepit epistemic object that millions of people on the internet came to believe the self-delusions of a bunch of tech investors and CEOs.

The people do have representatives in the structure of the Madisonian system we have to remove these corrupt men from power. But it seems we've sent corrupt people to represent us. And that presents some challenges.

Mr. Jabbour, I regret to inform you that I am unable to join the Department of Justice in their celebration today because I have observed, among other things, that the institution in question is corrupt instrument that treats law as a weapon against the people it's supposed to protect.