I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)

the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny

Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!

You - yes, you Ds specifically - will need SOF & just because the SEALs have cultivated a far right internal culture it doesn’t warrant disbanding a critical strategic asset. 75RR is fine. Others too. Infantry can’t do HR, hard target defeat, sensitive SI. Stop claiming it can, it’s wishcasting.

"what if 2003, but for the *actual* reasons conspiracy theorists thought we went in 2003 for?"

One thing I’d like to see with building codes is some of the onerous mechanical, electrical, and plumbing rules brought in line with national standards, and the main barrier to that is the construction trades (since inefficiencies create work). So it is interesting to see none of them on the list.

one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma. elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem

anyway noah smith knows what he's doing

Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one

modern day version of the guy who was supposed to ride along with roman generals in triumphal parades and constantly whisper "remember, you are mortal" in his ear so the cheering crowds don't drive him insane

Blessed are the peacemakers

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶

Half a century of low-trust leftist messaging about how capitalism is akshully just fascism with a gilded veneer hasn't turned the public into socialists but it has convinced an awful lot of ppl that it's actually just normal and expected for powerful ppl to rig markets for their friends.

business idea: Where’s Waldo but instead of finding waldo you have to pick out ian mackaye wearing a black beanie in various settings

truly impressive how much Target’s success relied on Woke turns out that’s all that really differentiated it from its competitors and when it gave customers a reason to go elsewhere they had no reason to come back

people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat

Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!

All of Bluesky this morning:

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Have we considered the possibility that the "67" meme is caused by Data sending information out of the time loop in an attempt to stop America from crashing into the USS Bozeman?

okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article “oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions ghouls, the lot of them

Getting caught up on overnight discourse.

not loving this new Kroger slogan

The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason

As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Once in a while you should remember there's a guy who invented leaded gasoline and a guy who invented CFCs and they're the same guy.

It appears that Donald Trump did in fact receive the light of Islam.

Trump after 30 minutes with Zohran

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

“We can’t do congressional restricting because it could give our primary challengers more time to campaign against us” … is exactly why these Maryland Dems deserve to be primaried. If they can’t be persuaded to put fighting back against Republican power grabs ahead of self interest, they need to go

For daring to throw off the Russian yoke and be a free democracy, we have decided to reward Ukraine with a stab in the back

you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*

damn they brought back literal filibusters

It was less true in the 1940s, but even then the US and the UK suffered vastly fewer casualties (on the order of 400,000 for both) than China, the Soviets, Germany, and Japan did (each in the millions). On the other hand, those nations suffered those massive casualties because they were incompetent

Pretty grim to go back and read this. The media liked Trump and helped him win the election.

In 1490 a meteor shower in Quinyang, China, killed over 10,000 people and all we just pretend it didnt happen because the govt was like no way that could happen on our watch

Fucking cartoon villain ass regime cutting aid and support while Ukraine is in an energy blackout in winter

Please we need to have a more sophisticated analysis than "capital wants this" in 2025 for the love of god. We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests

Quite,the crypto market is trying to tell us something.

(Sylvester the Cat voice) Thhhovereign Thhitizen!

what was this guy’s fucking problem

I’m howling.

The Washington Post, everyone!