McDonnell v. United States isn't the only factor that led to this, but it's a major one, and it's in the Top 10 SCOTUS precedents that must be reversed. I don't care that it was unanimous.

I read the sf chronicle. Not always the best paper or the most worldly, but at least I don’t get six Charlie Kirk articles in a row days after the fact.

It really does feel like the stock market is a graph of rich people feelings lately. (I don't think it was quite so true in the past, even if some grain of truth to it)

@sodrock.bsky.social civ mil relations?

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

California should just dissolve all of its city governments. Nothing is gained by keeping them around.

This sucks ass!!

The net effect is that parts of the left are curdling into paranoid luddites who, in their failure to at least acknowledge that the world is now fundamentally different, will forever be late to the party, whichever party that happens to be. Not good for coalition building.

Not that I'm recommending this, but if one of the 2028 Dems does some snark at the media's expense - like "look, I know you guys wanted Trump to win" - he/she will raise $2 million online in a day

Stuff like this is where the whole Abundance concept (much of which strikes me as obviously correct and worthwhile) flies off the rails into faffing about that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

I am curious in what sense "pro Israel" and "anti establishment" go together

Zuck has to be one of the worst allocators of capital in history right? Who else is even in that conversation?

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Perplexity is doing something around $100mm of revenue. They're valued at $18bn in their latest raise. But they've got private credit commitments to make a $34.5bn acquisition. I don't see how you get financial conditions looser than whatever the hell this is.

Ford raising investment in their new EV line *FORD TO INVEST $5 BILLION IN EV PUSH, UP FROM $3 BILLION PRIOR *FORD TO MANUFACTURE $30,000 MIDSIZE EV PICKUP STARTING IN 2027 *FORD PLANS $5B EV INVESTMENT WITH FOCUS ON LOW-COST MODELS

The CS slump is much more a story of political economy, the state/purpose of american education at large, and what remains of the middle class ladder

it's so obvious at this point that the american right wing, despite all their posturing about how they're pro-business, has absolutely not a single clue how actually producing items - be it ag, manufactured goods, etc - at scale is accomplished

They should ask Donald Trump to explain Ordinary Least Squares

Our entire government is run by conspiracy theorists less in contact with reality than the time cube guy

99% of media commentators think Elon Musk isn't an elite and a barista with they/them pronouns is

I made the concept. I tweeted about it way before “pedocon” was a term

Genuinely good to see that they're protesting Republicans, too. It's not viable long-term for organizers to only put pressure on Democrats.

Sure why not

the big money/media push against Mamdani seems like an attempt to use the same veto over Dem primary results that they used on Biden last year, but without “sounds old in debate” there’s more desperate and/or repugnant grasping for a different fig leaf

Coal fetishism is a *fascinating* phenomenon. It's highly gendered, makes 0 technological sense, almost every lobbying dollar spent is against it and there are ~0 workers. It's almost entirely hallucinated

schelling pilled

It is hard to describe this topological space precisely but it has become increasingly obvious that a disproportionate segment of the AI space has been taken up by people who sublimate 4chan and something awful underneath a veneer of intelligence and wit.

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I've made my masterpiece

Miran being forced to actually defend his boss’s stupidity is super revealing. The entire project and everyone in it is personalist and a ton of folks knew this long before last fall some are still only barely figuring it out! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...

kinda think we’re eventually going to settle on the consensus that RFK mattered a lot

I’m currently employed in manufacturing. Tool and diemaker simply do not have the capacity to actually make the amount of tooling that would be necessary to reshore even like 5% of currently overseas manufacturing. We’re already at like 16 week lead times.

I read so many papers to try and find the answer to the question of what the literature says about extreme candidate effect on base turnout. Spoiler: it's kinda blah. open.substack.com/pub/cauldron...

The really crazy thing is that as bad as things are in the United States - and they're really, really scary and bad - this is still a dramatically freer country than China, our supposed socialist competitor state

I'm worried people are going to gleefully take the wrong lessons from Wisconsin. We don't want to admit it, there is clear logic to having Elon do something insane at the last second. Republicans have a special election electorate problem, and

I think something older D electeds don’t get is that a growing number of libs see Israel as hostile not in an “activist SJW etc.” sense but a “this country’s government is openly aligned with the fascists taking over my country and is therefore actively opposed to my interests and wellbeing” way.

know how to cook, keep a clean space, be ok with going on a decent amount of bad dates, and cultivate good friends.

The American auto industry had a good run.

People who most strongly disagree with “I keep my promises” are ~7x likelier to support Luigi than those who strongly agree

do you think when Gavin Newsom's alone he likes to crawl on the ceiling using his sticky finger pads and adhesive pores since he can't do that in public

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24hrs remain until we put massive tariffs on Canada and Mexico without more backtracking from Trump

Effective altruism is a philosophical project where you make up reasons why rich people paying you to write about AI has more utility than solving world hunger.

he deleted, but saying the tiktok ban is "hard to think of a more directly negative impact on people's lives than this" is insane; some people are so insanely online that any change to their experience on the internet is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to them. It’s pathetic, really

I feel somewhat confident in saying, in a very handwavey way, that making a modern military turbofan is roughly as demanding and complex as making nuclear weapons.

to use my own field as an example, if you hire someone who insists that the 2020 election was stolen, and teaches undergrads this, and forms assumptions based on this in their empirical research, you have hired someone bad at the job of being a political science professor. because that isn’t true.

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

I thought we were trying to pivot form elderly leaders?

what I can’t work out is how you even had a 2020 tweet stuck in your Bluesky drafts to send