Trump spent most of 2025 in an ideological holy war against solar power and offshore wind — industries that could be lifesavers at times like these but will now, instead, be lucky to recover within the decade.

Can we at least appreciate the oil pun in the chart

We can actually observe this empirically, as Obama’s increased use of drone strikes was hugely unpopular on the American left

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

I’m familiar with the idea that history repeats, but two wars against “IRA_” nations built on false pretenses spiraling out of control and ensnaring weak-willed British leadership within a quarter century of each other is uncanny

It’s weird that people online treat politics like sports, yet never learn the part where you’re allowed to be mad at your own team for blowing it.

Friendly reminder that Lords is far from the useless body it’s made out to be and, even without formal power, can weigh in authoritatively on tough issues exactly like this one

Sent money via Venmo to a friend who was collecting to help with someone’s medical bills and I got a draftkings offer lol, BLEAK

Gambling slop invades Venmo. Who asked for this??

On one level, the American presidency is broken and can never be trusted again absent massive reforms. On another, the only real solution is you just can’t elect people like this. No institution can be built that’s both useful and sufficiently restrained.

We obviously need Trump to be removed from power. Short of that we need the world to know that the majority of American citizens, and their representatives in the opposition party, can see that this is madness and are trying to stop it. www.offmessage.net/p/no-quarter

A presidency of, by, and for twelve year old boys

Never was a story of more “whoaaaa,” than this of Juliet and her Romeo

Thomas Jefferson knew

My refusal to hand over an irreducibly human endeavor to technologies that were foisted on society and became ubiquitous in like five years is a categorical one. When the machines learn to simulate a better me than me, they will still not be me. They can't be. So I'll do the writing, thanks.

Seems to me that whether AI is "good" at writing is not the most important question, at least for scholars and creatives. The real question, I think, is what endeavors are people willing to hand over? Maybe the AI will be a better writer than I am. I don't care. I'm not willing to let go of the pen.

Congress has effectively prorogued itself, with its only nominal defiance being a refusal to ratify illegal spending cuts that it also won’t try to prevent

This is the fourth story I’m aware of where a young Republican chat turned viciously racist. For those who’ve lost track, the last one involved New York Young Republicans. Vance defended them.

What’s maddening to me is it didn’t have to be this way. You could build an exciting, marketable image for AI if you wanted to. Tech elites just don’t think they have to — they’d rather steamroll critics for a quicker payout.

Raising my probability of a MAGA antipope to 10%

Wow sounds like complete chaos. If only federal courts had the tools to pause things that are highly likely to be illegal and avoid this type of mess. Ah well!

Reading the Magic Treehouse series with our five year old and I’m very concerned with how flagrantly Jack and Annie violate the temporal prime directive

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Extreme wealth concentration threatens democracy and undermines the rule of law, a lesson that is both extremely clear from history and always forgotten until it’s too late

Even MS Word out here saying “This job sucks. Hold me in contempt so I sleep.”

This sh*t doesn’t happen in other rich countries that are actual democracies, where people just vote, all major parties refrain from lying about mass voter fraud & constant attempts at mass disenfranchisement, & everyone’s vote just gets cast & counted. We don’t have to live this way, either.

I feel like I’m becoming a bit fire and brimstone in my middle age but we truly live in a deeply immoral time

Jamelle Bouie is one of the most insightful and morally clear-eyed political analysts working today and pours those talents into building a better and more equitable world for all of us. If you’re on the left and mad at him, I strongly advise you to touch grass.

Two tech oligarchs struggling to articulate the value of human life

The kids will hardly believe it today, but way back in 2024, the mental & physical acuity of elderly presidents was, quite literally, <the> single most important, nonstop front page story of American politics 🤔

We’re pinning a lot of hopes on the theory that mass legalized gambling won’t have any serious social or economic consequences, or that tax revenue will somehow dwarf them (it won’t).

I am, let's say, not an expert on this sorta thing, but shouldn't you plan for "what happens if this spirals out of control" before you bomb a country and kill their leader?

I don’t know who this is about but the thing is, I don’t need to! It’s a general rule that applies to everyone!

While advocates have spent YEARS screaming about the mostly-irrelevant 1994 Crime Bill, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (the law at issue here) quietly grinds away, shielding our brutal prison system from whole swathes of accountability, almost completely ignored.

Eisenhower

It is, yes.

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

I never thought living through history would be this absurd. It’s like Germany starting another two-front war just 23 years after the last one ended. Wait.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Incredible. If the AI “safety” community were less focused on sci-fi edge cases, and more on risks that are actually happening now, they might have seen this one coming.

True, zoomed-in. Zoomed out, we care about the rule of law and the constitution because without them an authoritarian can corrupt the system and harm us in many ways, internal and external with no check or limit. That’s also why emoluments clause and 14s3 needed to be applied, not ignored.

Messaging tip: We don’t care about the rule of law and congressional buy-in because we’re feckless cowardly do-nothings. We care because thinking through big things in public is how you make sure they won’t backfire horribly and look like a huge mistake a year from now.

Shouldn’t be too hard to find a personal injera lawyer who will take the case.

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

Moving right along

As a parent, a robot that can read books for me is infinitely less exciting than a robot that can do the dishes for me

Somebody poke Congress with a stick? Are they up?

OpenAI, 2015: We’re a new nonprofit founded to promote transparency and safety in AI technology 😃 OpenAI, 2026: We’ve reached an exciting new agreement with the Department of War, which pinky-promised us not to do mass surveillance or automate their nuclear missiles 😇

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

This would make for a great question at oral argument, and it’s the kind that Justice Jackson likes to ask. Let’s hope she (and others) read @jedshug.bsky.social’s brief.