This is very good. Pair it with @mikeblack114.bsky.social thread . So many very serious unanswered questions. I recall the time we had months of debate about the authorities for killing al-Awlaki but mostly silence now. bsky.app/profile/mike...

God, if I make through today alive it’s going to be a miracle.

And understand that this is EDVA is critical. It is easily one of the five most important USA offices offices out of 93. For many extraterritorial jurisdiction issues, even more important.

Thing about the “Z needs Trump to approve their doohicky w whosawhat” crap is that it’s almost all bullshit. No, Disney doesn’t need to buy a bunch of stations. No, Ellison doesn’t need to buy CNN. They want Trump to approve not what they need, but what they _want_. Because they’re greedy fucks.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

This aged well.

Great uber thread on the Caribbean “narco” shit show and under what authorities it may or may not be operating under

Shanks a lot update

Reminded again of my friend who had just moved to DC (mid-to-late aughts I think?), found himself in a conversation about politics with his new neighbor, & thought “this guy is an idiot.” Eventually he realized he was talking to Ezra Klein.

Starting my 12 hr lamb shanks

To @moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @bsky.app : this vile story by the New York Post is actively attempting to incite mass violence against a vulnerable minority. The New York Post must not be permitted to remain on this service.

I suggest everyone report that horrific New York Post post to Bluesky’s moderation service.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

This is the entire franchise. It's "what if i press the button marked with sign marked "Do not ever touch".

I don't think this is helped by the nearly universal framing of US history (especially political) as "Presidential History", and the legislative branch is just some vestigial limb.

It's the lack of standard bearers that's hurting us now.

I have just received a monster order of twelve books in the mail and it's Christmas in September

@leahlitman.bsky.social I got the book! It's so pretty! Can't wait to dig in, but it radiates the snarkiest vibes on my to read pile

@wellerstein.bsky.social Finally I finally got Restricted Data! but I don't have clearance to read. Can you help?

Lethality, baby!

The Curse of Watergate - "it's only a crime if it's in secret, and the cover-up is always worse than the crime"

Watched this again recently when Criterion had their Michael Mann package and it is definitely a quintessential "great movie that is more relevant than ever"

Great thread in the current state of the threat and how we can counter it

Saying “Democrats are using all these obscure, trendy, jargon-y, woke, & occasionally silly words” & defending your claim by arguing w randos defending the terms, but not acknowledging you’re wrong & that Dems aren’t using those words, is a choice.

Rest in peace, he bought something sharp and relentless and stylish to everything he did

There wasn't even anything really new. For example, they don't talk about the NEW allegation in The House of York that Epstein fucked Melania a year before Trump did.

Carl's post inspired me to see how well the current free version of ChatGPT did when asked to draw basic nuclear weapons schematics and the answer is "impressively bad" given the amount of source imagery it has to work with.

one of my favourite, lols, slow cook moments was when I made shanks with about $90 of ingredients in the pot, went to add a couple of dashes of balsamic and the little plastic stopper went out and before I realised what was happening the whole bottle emptied in. Not good, bob.

Interesting seeing people on here - who are all very *sage* about not fetishising political figures, for very good reason! - going all full fetish on Pritzker with all this "Great Khan" juvenile bullshit.

Thinking about buying a pack just so I can write "NAZI" on his face when I mail anything. (Buckley absolutely hated being called a Nazi).

Breaking News: James Lovell Jr., commander of Apollo 13, the spacecraft that survived a near catastrophic explosion as it approached the moon, has died at 97.

RIP to a legend, and a truly good man.

Did someone bust out the special K for him?

We need to think out what we want the world to look like. That will help us to build pathways to it.

Really glad that our most prominent public intellectuals are still doing the "It's not fascism unless it comes from the Champagne region of 🇫🇷" thing, while Trump is setting up concentration camps, extorting universities, & doing this textbook dictator stuff 🤷‍♂️ adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

I'm just a small-town political scientist, but <gestures at the daily fascism> let's not dump something into AI & then use it to argue that global & 🇪🇺 governance & the policy responses to the GFC are on the same etymological spectrum & very much like Trump's fascism. It's unserious, if not obscene.

The Supreme Court knocked down one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 in the Shelby County case. It has now gone out of its way to consider whether it should knock down the other, by rescheduling arguments in a case it could have resolved in June under existing precedent.

"Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him." -- Plutarch, ≈ 100 A.D.

NEW Constitutional law during a carnival of cruelty Protecting rights when causing pain is the point of policy By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/constituti... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/07/cons...

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BREAKING!! Front page NYT!!!!

I’m so old I remember when raising consumer prices was uniformly considered a political disaster by the political press, now they’re the day Mister Trump finally became president

Progress Pondcast Episode 26: What Do Jeffrey Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald Have in Common If you want to know why no one believes anything but bullshit anymore, listen to this podcast.

@brendancalling.bsky.social and I drop Episode 26 of the Progress Pondcast. We tackle 2 major conspiracy theories: the CIA's relationship to Lee Harvey Oswald and Epstein's relationship to the president of the United States, and why no one believes anything anymore. youtu.be/IJxg9AdRLDQ?...

Ghislaine Maxwell is every bit as much a pedophile asJeffrey Epstein. At her trial, two victims testified that Maxwell sexually abused them from the age of 14.

How DARE you blackmail me with SCOTUS to get me to vote for HRC! (Immediately loses Supreme Court for next 60 fucking yrs)

The new merits docket