Remarkably, much of political science doesn’t consider this to be “money in politics”

Look who's defunding the police www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

As FBI Directors normally do in totally legitimate criminal cases, they go discuss the prosecution on Hannity

Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.

I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.

In other news, Jeffrey Dahmer apologizes to the people he ate ...

Just out here bragging about how effective the war crimes are

1/3 Putting tariffs on Canada and Mexico makes no sense at all, even though they run trade surpluses with the US. That's because in a hyper-globalized world, trade imbalances are always resolved systemically, never bilaterally. www.ft.com/content/22f2...

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

One of my favorite end-of-semester traditions is that I shake every students’s hand after the last class to thank them for an enriching semester. One of my law profs did it; I always remembered it l. What I didn’t realize is how sappy it would make me on the other side of things. 🥹 I’m getting soft!

Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS? I have a bill to get that done.

Excellent piece on why the experts got the Russian invasion of Ukraine wrong (without snarkily dismissing them as “so-called ‘experts’” or claiming superior insight), and what that means for China/Taiwan. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Yet another chapter in the story of stupid and lazy lawyers using AI: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Lmao: “We choose to go to the Moon because it is so easy now. They wanted me to go with them. I would have been a great astronaut, maybe the best ever. I wanted to go but they begged me, ‘Mr President, we need you here to open up the Fuckin’ Strait.’” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Just came across this passage in Alena Ledeneva, “Telephone Justice in Russia,” Post-Soviet Affairs 24, no. 4 (October 2008): 324–50. Posting it here for no reason whatsoever.

Excellent review of "The Chinese Computer" by David Moser. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72879

Great line as political rhetoric, as with the very mercantilist trade lines. As actual defense policy, where is the necessary procurement coming from instead?

The trials won't stop, the US just won't be part of them, RFK is core America First- he only wants to kill his own citizens

yes AI hallucination is a distraction. It's the people's lives that are being dismissed, knowledge & culture being erased, that we should never lose focus on.

Megalomania gone wild. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Covid will miraculously go away

There has been a lot of criticisms of that this piece had AI-hallucinated citations already. Prashad has apologized--and yet it's very telling that he feels more accountable to academic integrity than the 12 million lives whose erasure he and Chak contribute to the erasure of

Commentary on the Li Rui diaries case from a transnational litigation expert. tlblog.org/who-owns-the...

Artemis II returns… 🤦‍♀️🙁

It just occurred to me that I haven't heard anything about NFTs for ages. Dare I hope that it's because it's a fad that fizzled out? How much were those stupid bored ape NFTs selling for (I won't say "worth") at their peak, and how much are they selling for now?

Is it an FCC violation to quote the president verbatim? Asking for a friend

My fears of an invasion of Taiwan in the next couple years are going up.

I have never seen DOJ lawyers write like this before. Trump has ruined the greatest legal team in the country.

Excellent post not just on AI in China’s education system, but on the education system more generally. open.substack.com/pub/chinatal...

The thing about being the incumbent is that you own the economy, whether you like it or not.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Matthew 6:5: “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.”

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

Matt currently trying to position himself as Chief Head Cuck at the “Great Trump Betrays You All-a-Palooza”…

I think others have posted this before, but just in case you missed it, here's an impressive AI-rendered animated version of the 清明上河图: youtu.be/sG-G1a_N-7w?...

Murderers, pedophiles, and rapists are protecting us from murderers, pedophiles, and rapists.

Wacko attacks Japanese in China. MOFA: "Such isolated incidents could happen in any country in the world." Wacko attacks Chinese in Japan. MOFA: "The incident once again highlighted the danger of the rampant spread of far-right impact and neo-militarism in the country."

Call for papers: Asian Law Junior Scholars Workshop eals.law.harvard.edu/students/jun...

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Rosewood deciding to pivot to serving rapists and human traffickers is a bold business strategy, let’s see if it pays off for them

Perfect. Less accountability. Less transparency. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

There’ll always be an England. www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2585376...