marjorie taylor green can get fucked for all eternity, what is wrong with people

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

there is already enough sadness in the world, why do we need IPAs

Beyond parody

You don't "earn credibility" when you disavow one of your deranged views but keep all the rest.

Fairly encouraging statement

Narrative violation

People need to sketch out what the next few years could *really* look like and plan accordingly, as there are not a lot of options left for a Happy Ending.

Gordon Lightfoot discovers AI

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

Announcing the New Jersey Transit Delay Tracker, a project that calculates the economic impact of mass transit delays, in hours wasted and costs to the regional economy. Transit powers our lives and the economy. Constant delays, in turn, drag down business and household incomes. bettertrains.org

This Times story doesn't mention it, so I will: When Ron DeSantis briefly taught high school in his 20s, some students "questioned the focus, and sometimes the accuracy, of his lessons," and mocked "his takes on the Civil War" in a satirical video...for the video yearbook.

Americans love to cheer for Andy and Red at the ticket booth and against them at the ballot box

Whatever your feelings on Matt Yglesias, it’s increasingly clear that internet criticism has completely broken his brain

Headlines from 1350 www.thedailybeast.com/hantavirus-c...

It’s Schrödinger’s War, we’re both at war and at peace until you open Truth Social

Happy five-year anniversary to the greatest tweet of all time!!! Life was never the same!!!

I think my most capital C Conservative position is that 'edtech' is almost always an expensive con that distracts us from what we know works best in education and that there really is absolutely no harm in a classroom looking broadly the same as it did 20 years ago most of the time.

what makes the SCOTUS Gang of Six acting as an unaccountable super-legislature especially intolerable is that they are not just setting up unfavorable rules, they are playing Calvinball where they selectively apply the rules case-by-case exclusively to help Republicans. A judicial dictatorship

Every. Single. Year.

I will never forgive or forget the cowardice of wealthy, powerful, safe people during this period. Yes, it’s a constant across history, in all periods of authoritarian ascent. But there is no reason — today — to bow to a historically unpopular, failing president.

Great arguments for growing the tent to include right-of-center folks, especially post-Hungary. None of those arguments demand we make common cause with an internet grifter who most recently made headlines by defending Jeffrey fucking Epstein.

it won’t be hard to discern to people in the future that the first black president led to a relentless and hyper-radical effort by conservative elites to destroy not only the voting rights act but reconstruction itself.

we all have our vices and i'm a hypocrite for judging them like this but "bringing back smoking" is an idea periodically floated by the dumbest people alive whose only real belief is edgelordism. i am totally unwilling to hedge on or reconsider this opinion

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

Me (2006): *sigh* sometimes I wish my degree in the history of late antiquity were more directly relevant Me (2026): no not like that

Also crucially important for understanding the American founding documents!

God in heaven. A level of chaos, discord, and civic violence unseen in the last 50 years.

Dramatic video from Getty Images from behind the dais. They actually got Vance out before Trump. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/vice-president-jd-vance-is-escorted-out-by-secret-service-news-footage/2273151734?adppopup=true

The existence of a play space called “Kids Empire” presupposes an ancient and more virtuous “Kids Republic”

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I understand that it may feel personally useful to attend if you’re a journalist, that there’s still value for you, but you have to recognize that there are bigger stakes and your presence will be judged in that context.

I think that we should simply run on prosecuting the rich for their crimes instead of creating a low trust society that will sow the seeds for further fascism

The basic challenge with discussing Sarah Isgur is that she's just not interesting. She is a Supreme Court fangirl who makes money by praising conservative justices in public. There are lots of conservative lawyers like her, and the next time one of them says anything insightful will be the first.

Adding to my reading list.

Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post [GIft Link] wapo.st/3OONwh6 1/8

Our goal should be to use language that is clear, descriptive, legible to the public, humanizing, and respectful. Without weighing in on specific terms, I reject the idea that we can’t achieve all of those objectives at once.

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

We have a serious problem with appellate courts not having district courts' backs on things like fact-intensive injunctions. The Trump administration literally lied about the need for ballroom construction, and the appeals court is saying we like to be lied to.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds over 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across all 50 U.S. states, supporting roughly 390,863 jobs and driving $94 billion in economic activity. I am one of them and am thankful to all who pay the taxes that support this enterprise 🧪

Immigrants Pay More In Taxes Than the Average Person: They get paid lower wages per hour, but they work collectively so many more hours that over the last 30 years, the average immigrant paid ~$100K more in taxes than the average person. cato.org/blog/immigra...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Really going to the mat over the idea that the teachings of Jesus Christ are reconcilable with the intentional taking of human life

Cranking Battle Hymn of the Republic up to 11 and belting “LET US LIVE TO MAKE MEN FREE”

In this clip Vance also says it’s the president’s job to “dictate public policy.” Remarkable word choice.

Out: Safety nets for senior citizens, paid by themselves over decades in the workforce In: squeezing every cent out of senior citizens to make sure health care/insurance is even more profitable at our elders’ expense

What exactly was the DoorDash government relations team thinking here?

This is such a sad and perfect illustration of the state of all the things