Is there anything I value in this world that this guy can't sully?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu www.espn.com/soccer/story...

So like what happens when you no longer need to fold a mountain of tiny underpants every week? Do you just exist in a perpetual state of euphoria?

This is one of those situations where the basic comparative statics are obvious, we just can’t wrap our heads around the fact that one of the model’s parameters is approaching infinity. Corner solutions are interesting sometimes.

2028 is going to see so many windows of opportunity closing for so many bad actors to do so many bad things

Can’t say SCOTUS preemptively giving Trump blanket immunity for criminal acts in office is the lone cause, or even a necessary condition, for this madness. But it sure as hell seems like it’s increasing the scope and scale of it.

Rocketships…famously devoid of downside risk

I remember in 4th grade a girl a year or two behind me in school died of AIDS. I remember crying in my room as my mom told me maybe by the time I grew up we’d have developed a way to treat it. I never imagined we’d accomplish that and then just be like nah black people can’t have it.

“Lemme get six schlitzes” was perhaps my most frequently used line in college

At least a third of time in the classroom is trying to translate complex ideas about international politics into funny anecdotes about my kids.

This is the entire ballgame. Either GOP elites need to be persuaded to just stop being authoritarian, or it needs to be electorally incinerated in the hopes that something more (small d) democratic rises from its ashes. One party winning every election indefinitely is not a sustainable democracy.

lol. lmao even www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

There’s gotta be a name for the phenomenon where the dumber a bit of scholarly jargon is, the higher the likelihood it’ll get taken up by outside audiences.

Yeah see there’s simply no military solution here at an even remotely acceptable cost. No one can impose their will by brute force, so we’re settling into a war of attrition with the negative externality of a rapidly increasing risk of global economic meltdown. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

Yes if we've learned anything over the past 30 years it's that economic crises in one country have very little effect on conditions in others.

Man it’s a lot to ask a bunch of 18 year old kids with sometimes millions of dollars being thrown at them, but holy shit they’ve got a ton of potential leverage…which I think helps explain why Colin Kaepernick had to be so thoroughly destroyed for…kneeling.

Holy shit…ok I guess I’ll start using conditioner

America First

So what’s the verdict on how long we have to go in between missile strikes for the 60 day clock to start over?

I’d also support a broad social mobilization to make shame a thing again and discourage the valorization of antisocial dumbfuckery but yeah that’s probably a longer-term project.

Yes who could forget the whole bit in article II outlining presidential edict power

I can’t stand Deery but man it’d be nice to keep Drumpf from a clean sweep of Indiana.

MOOCs 2.0

Ah so we've started another, separate war with Iran. Maybe this is the accounting mechanism they used to figure out that Trump had ended eight wars or whatever.

I feel the same way about AI as I do about the internet—both could be incredibly valuable contributions to society if they’re managed for the public good. In the hands of fascist tech billionaires, they’re a threat the civilization. It’s not the tech, it’s the ownership structure.

Two more this morning. Waffling back and forth between ignoring them and writing back with “I’m not your concierge and you should attend class every once in a while.”

Martin in, Martin out. DNC existing, DNC disbanded…whatever results in fewer texts and emails. I’m a single issue voter on this shit

Seriously by not beginning this headline “Trump, talking completely out his ass, says…” you’re actively misleading people

Students emailing to ask about the format and location of the final exam — after I discussed it all in class no fewer than 10 times over the past month — are what’s finally going to break me

A lot of people are sleeping on what an absolute rag USA Today has become, and how widely read it still is.

We literally *just* got to the point that the percentage of black members of congress roughly equaled the black percentage of the population and wouldn’t you know it, the VRA just had to die. But yes these “favored minorities” were the ones benefiting from “political entitlement.”

Installment eleventy billion in our series: anyone who actually succeeded in implementing the “don’t do stupid shit” doctrine would rightly be considered a modern day Bismarck.

Emotionally stunted bowl of cereal would be a pretty good band name tbh

Robert McNamara nods approvingly

Don't get me wrong, I hate every ounce of this, but at some level I'm always relieved that Trump's insatiable vanity keeps soaking up a lot of time, energy, money, and political capital that'd otherwise be spent more directly harming people and hatcheting democracy to death.

Lol no it’d mean Texas has been drifting purple for decades and it’s a D+47 election

Weird relic of my college days is that I love a shower beer. Except now I’m a boring old man so we’re about to see how the shower NA beer works out. Stay tuned.

I’m so mad at you all for making me know who hasan piker is

Not the most glaring error, of course, but…that’s a 500% increase.

This might be rational (if sociopathic) if 1) there weren’t a virtually inexhaustible supply of Iranian hawks, and 2) ostentatiously killing Iranian hawks didn’t totally discredit Iranian doves trying to wrest decisionmaking authority from those hawks.

Meritocracy! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Cool cool I also thought this when I was 16, you dipshits.

DD>CD

GWB-esque

Whatever close enough

Electoral map for anyone who runs on a platform of letting people individually sledgehammer Trump’s arch and ballroom into rubble, Berlin Wall style.

Society if we didn’t just implicitly give blanket permission for rich men to be absolute sociopaths.

What are the odds we get a late night truth social post announcing some kind of diplomatic breakthrough/capitulation from Iran (breathlessly parroted by all major media outlets) before markets open tomorrow?

Ah tails it is.

Some of this has to stem from >30% of the population being in thrall to a cult of personality who was suddenly out of power. In Aug 2021 Biden’s honeymoon period collapsed w the AFG withdrawal, and right-wing fever dreamers started getting traction, convincing everyone that everything was terrible.