“Don’t give up” SCOTUS justice says to elite law students whose co-ideologues currently run the entire federal government. The persecution complex among these people is really something to behold.

Once again, CNN, you really don’t have to do this.

I think this is almost certainly right but I’m still struck that a president can just openly shred the constitution and the opposition party’s most effective message isn’t “hey look he’s shredding the constitution”

Against my better judgment I just turned on CNN to check in on election returns and literally the first words I hear are “say what you will but Trump does what he says he’s gonna do” so yeah I’m gonna go walk into the sea now.

Only caught the warmup act but it was 🔥

“He’s done everything he can to make it as unpainless as possible” is first ballot in the Freudian slip hall of fame.

Dear editors and journalists, You don’t have to do this. You really don’t. Sincerely, Common sense and weary citizenry

I have two main hopes in life: that I live long enough to talk to my grandchildren about this period in history, and that it sounds as preposterously unthinkable to them as it does to me…that this absolute madness somehow doesn’t become normalized.

And anyone consuming a lot of right-wing media is, frankly, just not gettable. Important part is keeping mainstream media from either echoing that nonsense or treating it like it has any merit. NYT, Wapo, CBS humoring it, even parroting it, strikes me as the most salient problem.

Don’t make it a profit-driven enterprise dependent on commercial publishers, i.e. properly fund universities. Boom fixed it.

Would love to see this plotted next to Google search trends for “inflation”

I have genuinely never been prouder to be associated with Purdue ✊🏼

I begin every course by telling students — I remember virtually none of the content I learned in college. And not that much of what I learned in grad school. But I learned how to read, write, and most importantly think creatively and critically. If you can do those things, AI will never surpass you.

If only there were a large body of research on whether disarmament demands ever torpedo peace agreements by creating massive commitment problems.

Very clearly just leaving themselves some minimally plausible legal rationale for reimposing constraints on the executive if/when Dems ever retake the White House.

Yes, you see, she “had to” do this. She had no agency in this matter whatsoever. There is no plausible scenario wherein an attorney could simply refuse to do this thing. Truly, woe is her.

I didn’t know you could fit a judge’s robe over a hotdog suit

Overturn well-established precedent? Perish the thought. Fortunately he only “hinted.” There’s no years-long, well-documented track record to support such a wild claim. www.rawstory.com/clarence-tho...

Ok but Trumpism goes well beyond all that, basing its claims for unchecked authority on the need to recapture a mythical national golden age by suppressing ethnic minorities and imposing strict racial and gender hierarchies. That’s the fascist part. Not all the bog standard authoritarian shit.

Maybe not the most absurd thing here, but if you claim your max squat is 25% higher than your max deadlift then not only have you never lifted weights, but you’ve never been in the same room as other people lifting weights.

Love the quick pivot from dropping his own gun and pointing it at bystanders to tough-guy, I hope no one got my pratfall on camera, wide stance. Perfect encapsulation of the malevolence and incompetence at the heart of this entire campaign.

Not impossible if you just start giving people money from the tariff shelf along with their meds. Negative prices. Boom. Eat it losers.

So the case hinges on interpreting “just kind of accepted it” after the fact as having “authorized” something. Lulz good luck with that.

This was always a big part of the concern with Trump and NATO. It’s not that NATO is the best security order imaginable, but it’s kept the peace for 80 years. As importantly, it’s the status quo. Abruptly kneecapping it creates lots of uncertainty & power vacuums that lead to lots of dangerous shit.

I agree with the sentiment but labeling the graph simply “military spending” and then measuring it as % of PPP-adjusted GDP is just wildly misleading. No, China doesn’t spend more than the US on defense. Just…no. Also, don’t use PPP as a cross-national measure of power. Again…just don’t.

Caring about this problem also doesn’t mean the only policy response is to coddle young men. It’s perfectly fine if your considered response is that young men need to be told, loudly and consistently, to suck it the fuck up like every other demographic has had to for the past few millennia.

Lmaooooo nobody should ever ask me where anything is ever again because always and forever I will respond, simply, “check the tariff shelf”

But Kavanaugh assured us this would all be minimally disruptive for anyone here legally….

Uhhhh that’s ominous on a whole bunch of dimensions

I generally have no interest in getting into the policy world but I’d pay a lot of money to be able to laugh in this dude’s face and say lol bring it you mark ass bitch

I guess all that tariff revenue is gonna go straight to the emergency creation of a strategic tofu reserve.

Random musing, as I teach the IR proseminar: very few people have done more to impede our understanding of international politics than whoever first decided to apply Thomas Kuhn to the social sciences.

I would die a happy man if I never had to read the words “raising questions” in another headline again.

Good. Russia is in no position to mess w NATO (even w US absent) & its incursions are (for now) empty probes. Risk is they’ll establish a precedent for when Russia’s military has recovered. A firm response led by the Euros would bolster credibility & accelerate NATO’s shift toward greater autonomy.

So the federal govt can trample on the first amendment to enforce the (totally undefined) "civic obligations" of private entities. Cool cool got it. That's definitely not an apologia for authoritarianism.

Homan really testing out administration policy that it’s not actionable corruption unless it involves a giant canvas bag marked with dollar signs and a notarized agreement entitled Massive Bribe

Interesting choice to reopen the one issue where Elon Musk’s economic self-interest seems capable of outweighing his virulent racism.

Russia is in absolutely no position to pick a fight with anyone right now so there’s comparatively little downside to taking a pretty belligerent stance on this to show NATO means something. Maybe not in response to a first provocation. But there will very likely be a next time…

you don't have to do this shit. really. you could always just...not.

Moving to Hollywood to take up screenwriting so I can pen my controversial masterpiece “Kilgore Wasn’t the Good Guy”

There’s a coherent grand strategy that’d support this, but as a means to radically cut defense spending. They’re…not doing that. So where’s all that money gonna go? Wish I could rule out “occupying major US cities and a fleet of armed drones for the border,” but… www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Clever of David Brooks to harp on and on about the importance of “culture” without saying how culture explains, say, persistent racial inequities. I doubt he’d say white racism. So…what about black culture is driving this? Do tell, David. Why I Am Not a Liberal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

Might wanna re-check the dates of the manhattan project and who we were fighting at that point

In all seriousness we could’ve avoided all this nonsense if legacy media outlets had called bullshit by its name…like Wired is doing…from the outset.

Rigorous, objective analysis of hard data.

An entire scientific field is being derailed. Countless doctors and scientists who could be, you know, curing new shit are gonna have to spend years systematically debunking stuff that everyone with 8 functioning brain cells already knows to be nonsense. The opportunity costs alone are staggering.

Deploying national guard to blue state cities is clearly an attempt to normalize using the military for civilian purposes in an “emergency.” Underappreciated possibility the transparent phoniness of it all just pisses off the people he’ll need on his side when he inevitably attempts another coup.

Can’t say they won’t stumble their way into trying it, but it is, and will be for the foreseeable future, next to impossible. Not saying ROC’s hair won’t get mussed. But transporting the necessary PRC troops and materiel across 100 miles of hotly contested open water would be absolutely suicidal.