The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. trib.al/xaPuJZc

There has never been anything approaching this scale or scope of corruption from a presidential family in US history. Hunter Biden, Billy Carter, and even Lady Bird Johnson (prior record holder) are small fry by comparison.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

The Pentagon wants to use hypersonic missiles in Iran b/c they think we're stupid: 1) we can already bomb targets at will, making their extra speed pointless 2) they cost 10x more than the expensive missiles we're currently using 3) we're demonstrating their capabilities to other potential foes.

I suppose it is fitting that the new passport portrays Trump defacing the Declaration of Independence, a protest against a king who also thought he stood above law and custom. They didn't quite think this one all the way through...

A broken Congress produces an overpowered presidency and Supreme Court. The ways in which Congress is broken are a consequence of the electoral system. None of these things improve in any viable long-term way without structural electoral reform. It's not a nice-to-have, it's the bedrock necessity.

Depending on who's correct about the future of A(G)I, this chart will be (in)famous a decade from now.

I wonder if Lina Khan or any of the antitrust hawks responsible for blocking the Spirit Airlines + JetBlue merger feel even an iota of chagrin for the unnecessary financial pain they've caused & idiotic follow-on policy they've enabled?

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

Abundance socialism.

If some, young grad school historian wants a paper idea, compare the micropayment network of Nick Fuentes to the very similar funding model of conservative broadcasters in the mid-20th century. ie, there's a box full of donor envelopes in the Carl McIntire archives.

People keep reading the retro-tech and physical media revival as a political project, either resistance to platform capitalism or a version of frictionmaxxing. I think what's mostly driving it is much simpler: we like how physical objects look and feel.

Many, many people will die unnecessary deaths over the next decade because the Trump administration put a vaccine skeptic in charge of approving new vaccines at the moment when we were developing cures for cancer with vaccines.

Maine leading with the anti-abundance agenda. In 2022, they blocked renewable Canadian hydropower & now they're blocking data centers. Hard to think of a state less well-equipped for either policy: the oldest average age + highest poverty rate in the region + lagging high-skill economy penetration.

If you need any more reminders that we're not the good guys in this war, the US interdicting vessels from neutral nations which pay a transit fee to Iran is the same conduct as that which led to the War of 1812 when Britain interdicted neutral US ships to block trade with France.

Liberalism creates spaces (in literal space!) where both an evangelical astronaut can share his faith AND hopecore feminism has a moment. Reject reaction, ditch hate, and enjoy this otherworldly moment of humankind reaching back out to the stars.

The time is ripe for the return of an anti-masonic style movement. All the preconditions are present like in the 1830s. We've got a literal cabal of elite traffickers manipulating politics to avoid accountability & a party system that's degraded into pre-modern dysfunction.

downwardly mobile gentrifiers want riding the subway to be Cool, urbanists want the least cool person you know to prefer riding the subway to owning a car

The reactionary right pushed a government takeover of New College in Florida. What hath Chris Rufo, Ron DeSantis, and their miserable band of culture warriors wrought? Budget nearly doubled, student outcomes plummeting, reputation in freefall. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/13/n...

And Partridge is a pastor, which makes his bigotry all the more vile. Unsurprisingly, he's part of the "empathy is a sin" crowd, who are heretics prostituting sound theology in service of their political idols.

Under Trump, the US has been as dangerous as Iran, Netanyahu's Israel, or any other malign state actor. We brazenly flout the laws of war, promote regime change in non-aligned states, launch conflicts at the executive's whim, assassinate foreign heads of state, and blatantly murder non-combatants.

Waymo helping cities track potholes is a clear public interest win. Then again, reflexive AI skeptics, neo-Brandesians, and anti-capitalists will likely just confirmation bias it away.

Trump says everything and means nothing.

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Reflexive anti-AI sentiment on the Left is as silly and self-defeating as anti-EV sentiment is on the Right.

Even more specifically, *strong parties* are good.

To be fair, Philly's been famous for its protests for 250 years.

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

The Washington Post editorial board cited my work in their call to abolish the Federal Communications Commission.

Why you shouldn't be worried about the exhaustion of high quality training data for AI.

I watched Trump's presser while at the dentist getting work done and I can't recommend highly enough the value of listening to this insanity while just a little bit high.

I'm really curious about a provision in the proposed SAVE America Act. Many provisions of this bill would empower the Election Assistance Commission [EAC], an up-to-now obscure federal agency appointed by Trump, by authorizing it to issue guidance to states on how to enforce the Act. /1

A "limited" invasion of Iran "would move the killing ground ashore, hand Iran the narrative of foreign occupation...and commit [us] to an open-ended ground war against a population with deep ideological motivation, interior lines, and a military system purpose-built to make that war unwinnable."

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Immigrants are being jailed in conditions as bad or even worse than those for the worst felons in maximum security prisons.

The Tesla Cybertruck is the Ford Pinto but deadlier, uglier, and more expensive.

So the president is sending in 2,500 Marines as the first ground troops deployed in this war, but that's not going to lead to any further escalation? We've heard that exact same claim before, right down to the specific 2,500 number -- Vietnam, March 1965. Remind me, how did that wind up working?

Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco

Another aspect of this is I suspect, for regular people who are aware of the headlines but don’t closely follow the news, “we’re bombing a country in the Middle East” sounds like something we do all the time and not particularly novel, when in fact this is a war on a much larger scale.

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

It is long past time to repeal all the flawed, easily-abused, and antiquated regulations that Carr's FCC is weaponizing for partisan advantage.

Stephen Miller has been very clear that his goal is to return to the Klan-backed immigration regime of 1924.

Pet peeve: the lack of differentiation between what's actually a side effect of GLP-1 medications versus what's just a side effect of losing weight. Folks, things like hair thinning, loss of muscle, etc are things that happen any time you lose significant weight in a short period of time.

Just waiting for the next shoe to drop: finding out that one or more ex-DOGE hooligans was a foreign agent who sold that info to a hostile regime.

Bigots like Rep. Ogles are bad at history. I was a research assistant for this book, which notes the ways that the Founding Fathers explicitly linked their own freedom of religion to preserving the rights of the small Muslim communities that existed in America at the time.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

New Jersey's open space tax is a wildly regressive & underrated tool of NIMBYism. It drives out lower income homeowners by raising already ludicrously high property taxes and then spends those funds to prevent building more homes, a one-two punch that boosts housing unaffordability.

Hard to get excited about the release of the new MacBook Neos. The paradoxical effect for many folks who have company MacBooks is that our next computer will be *worse* because our corporate IT departments will downgrade us to the Neos from the Airs.