Ethical prosecutors act without fear or favor. Or on orders from the White House. My thoughts in @Bloomberg. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

this exists it is called thinking

People are interpreting this as snark or me calling McConaughey dumb but that was truly not my intention. I think human minds are extraordinary, including his! My dismay is with the way marketing is LLMs is leading people to doubt their own capacities in favor of something technological.

Of course there are some things that computers can calculate faster and more reliably than human minds, but that does not mean that computers are superior to our minds. We don’t even know all the things our brains are doing! They are weird and miraculous! And mostly unconscious! A grand mystery!

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

“Trump’s messages were one of his most overt attempts to date to override the traditional restraints on the president’s involvement in law enforcement investigations after months of calling for criminal charges against those he perceives as political enemies” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump demanded that Bondi prosecute Schiff, James and Comey because he believes presidents have the power to weaponize the Justice Department and the attorney general against real or perceived enemies because of course he does. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

The judge criticized the “laudatory” self-congratulation in Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit, such as statements about the “cultural magnitude” of his “singular brilliance.” He also cited Trump’s obsession with his own history and non-stop slagging of the Times. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge in Florida has tossed out President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times days after it was filed, finding the president’s lawyers failed to follow court rules requiring “short, plain, direct” claims.

“Americans of all political persuasions must consider what is at stake in silencing Kimmel — and what we risk losing — if such blatantly and undeniably unconstitutional behavior is not only allowed but encouraged.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“We need leaders in both parties, and at every level of government, to provide stronger leadership in these times. It is not enough for governors, mayors, members of Congress and state legislators to issue the usual statements denouncing violence.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

An ideological ransom for returning to the air? "[Conservative broadcaster] Sinclair is also demanding that Kimmel issue a personal apology to Kirk’s family and make a 'meaningful donation' to both the family and Turning Point USA, an organization the late political influencer co-founded."

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

This is wrong in several ways (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, Dean Withers ...) but I want to call one out specifically: Kirk's model wasn't "open debate"; it was owning sputtering young liberals and making viral content from it wapo.st/47ORq0L

More than two-thirds of Americans describe the state of the economy as ‘not so good’ or ‘poor’ in a WaPo-Ipsos poll: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

“Americans of all political persuasions must consider what is at stake in silencing Kimmel — and what we risk losing — if such blatantly and undeniably unconstitutional behavior is not only allowed but encouraged.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"Some military lawyers & other DOD officials are raising concerns about the legal implications of Trump’s expanding military campaign... [They] have provided written & verbal legal opinions to decision makers inside the Pentagon, but believe they are being ignored or deliberately sidelined..."

ICYMI: Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia grad student detained for more than three months before being freed, has been ordered deported to Syria or Algeria by a US immigration judge, per new court filing -- his lawyers say they'll keep fighting in fed court. From Patty Hurtado: buff.ly/lFGp3Fo

I'm not blaming anyone for being young but I am begging media reporters to Google Sinclair and Swift Boats.

"Breaking the distinction between protected political speech and illegal action is a frontal attack on the most basic freedom in our constitutional system...We must not lose that tradition of freedom to a president who neither understands nor respects it." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A sliver of good news from @liamdenning.bsky.social: "it doesn’t matter if you believe renewable energy is unreliable & expensive, what matters is if datacenter developers & utilities believe that. Judging from ongoing development, they don’t." Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

yeah no one prominent on the right wanted this. now to take a sip of coffee and look at the post on the screen

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"

“Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say — and threatened his employer until they shut him up.” www.vox.com/politics/461...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that Trump has been using to try to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump sued me for $5 billion and lost. This is what I think he’s really after in the $15 billion defamation suit he just filed against the NYT, four reporters and Penguin Random House: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

RIP, Robert Redford.

When you file a lawsuit animated by your fixation with TV ratings and a glossy revision of your business history you also get to include pictures of your buildings, the 2024 presidential vote, and a picture of yourself saying “You’re Fired!” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit is nominally against the Times and two reporters - Mike Schmidt and Peter Baker. But in substance it really aims at two other Times reporters — Sue Craig and Russ Buettner and their deeply sourced book, “Lucky Loser.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump says he plans to sue the Times for $15 billion. Been there, done that. (He sued me for less — $5 billion.) Discovery will be invasive and grueling — and involve Trump’s finances, family history and political machinations. And that’s just for starters. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these

“It was not clear whether anything the F.B.I. did in the days after the shooting played a decisive role in shortening the search.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show: “Cook’s declarations on loan, job-vetting forms appear to undercut fraud claims.” Via Reuters

AXIOS: Inflation ticks up to the highest since '21. Manufacturing shrank 6 months running. Unemployed workers exceeding jobs. If Biden had numbers like that, you'd be on Fox saying, 'What's going on'? LUTNICK: So, the economy that Trump owns starts at the end of this year A: Doesn't work that way!

When you have to blather this much about sanctions on Russia and the Ukraine war, you’re neither serious about sanctioning your pal Putin or aiding Ukraine.

Trump “instinctively assumed the petty job of mobilizing his base for retribution against another group of Americans — the “radical left” — whose rhetoric he blamed, before anything was known about the shooter’s identity or motives, for the murder.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

BREAKING: Trump says "with a high degree of certainty" that suspect in Charlie Kirk killing has been caught.

Kirk’s murder “represents a grave leadership test for Mr. Patel. His swift pronouncements about the inquiry have revived concerns about his lack of experience, obsession with social media and purge of some of the bureau’s most experienced investigators.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

I don’t get the appeal of sacrificing an iPhone’s battery life simply for thinness. Neither does @davelee.me.

The White House wants foreign investment in manufacturing. Raiding a Hyundai plant in Georgia is a strange way of getting there. 🎁 link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

📽️ Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window and slammed Daniel Flores-Martinez to the ground while his wife and children sobbed: https://propub.li/3IbPftA

Welfare for an industry that makes hundreds of billions in profits and ravages the climate is civilizational self-harm. End it now. Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column about the new study from @collinrees.bsky.social & @oilchange.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The White House has been issuing political loyalty tests at the FBI and directly ordering the firings of agents targeted by Trump and his allies, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by three former bureau officials. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

More legal support for an imperial presidency: “Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday temporarily paused a federal judge’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to pay out $4 billion in foreign aid that had been appropriated by Congress.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

“In a ruling likely to go down in history as a shameful expression of anti-immigrant prejudice,” SCOTUS allowed ICE agents to stop people “suspected of being undocumented immigrants because of what they look like, how they speak, and where they are gathered.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.