guys i think a reader wrote this

5 rules of writing: 1. The reader can only read your words, not your mind. 2. Never make the reader work. 3. The reader is always right. 4. The reader has many other choices. 5. You have (at most) two paragraphs to keep the reader.

I’LL GO TO YOUR WEDDING

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

SPD — outlawed Zentrum — folded DNVP — absorbed Trade unions — dissolved State governments — seized Enabling Act — passed Incredible few weeks for Chancellor Hitler’s political operation.

Six months from now US will be bogged down in its failed attempt to conquer Greenland

BREAKING: Trump Administration backs Holocaust-denying antisemite to lead Iran, sanctions itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Why does everyone hate the Democrats?

Credit to Todd Blanche. Most defense lawyers try to keep their clients out of prison. He became Attorney General to do it.

Every hour, Trump makes Chief Justice John Roberts look like the biggest fool.

This is the way

Hayek, as usual, saw it first:

Terrific piece by Kate Andreas: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...

Finale to the MAGA saga: Trump stands on the White House lawn, visibly melting from Ebola, insisting his eyes aren’t bleeding while taking Ivermectin.

This is entirely warranted and justified. And I really don’t want to see anyone complain this is a result of antisemitic double standards from the ICC, which also issued a warrant for Yahya Sinwar. One legacy of the Shoah is that international law matters. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

SCOTUS reform: Elect Democrats so conservatives enforce the Rule of Law.

Embarrassing confession: I find Github confusing.

Starting to think that JD Vance is hurting his reputation for honesty.

If Biden had attacked Iran, inflation in gas prices would be his fault. Since he didn’t, Trump had to attack Iran, so inflation is still Biden’s fault.

Bluesky is not perfect, but at least it isn’t a Nazi Bar.

In hindsight, electing Donald Trump President was a mistake.

To further enshittify the @washingtonpost.com, Jeff Bezos will have the storied newspaper declare war on Iran.

One day, being able to code in Python will be seen as the equivalent of being able to speak Latin now.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Supreme Court is not a partisan institution.

Why does everyone hate the Democrats

Sorry, but you don’t get to claim a theorem as your own if you used a calculator, slide rule, or pencil. Real mathematicians do research in the dirt with a stick.

"Oh absolutely, tell Iran to call me back whenever they’re out of the shower."

Why does everyone hate the Democrats?

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

The Virginia Supreme Court just showed us that restoring the rule of law requires electing Democrats, so courts can get back to applying the rules against Democrats.

Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department, is one of the plaintiffs #philtwit

Send a payload into space, undress a minor, and explode a car engine all with the new Everything app

Plantrustmaxxing

Congratulations to Justice Sam Alito for winning the Roger Taney Memorial Prize for Antebellum Constitutionalism

I find myself, under the regulative ideals of late-liberal rationality, in qualified accord with Barack Obama.

The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the US is not even a Republic.

It's suspicious that he got a mortgage with a credit score of . . . four

on his mortgage application he illegally used a Gettysburg address

BREAKING: DOJ to exhume Abraham Lincoln's body in mortgage fraud investigation.

Some personal news: I tried to sudo something and now am being reported to the administrator.

Perfect setup for a @scottjshapiro.bsky.social 6-3 joke

Some personal news: I am leaving OPEC.

"Scott Shapiro has bowed out of White House Correspondents Dinner Appearance because he has no tie. However, he faces a fresh controversy after sources confirmed he is wearing a tie in his Bluesky avatar. A spokesperson for Shapiro declined to comment."

Some personal news: I will not be attending the White House Correspondents Dinner tomorrow night.

Incoming American Society of International Law President & Just Security Executive Editor Oona Hathaway (@oonahathaway.bsky.social) spoke yesterday at the ASIL Annual meeting. Read her remarks here — including why international law has never been more important: #ASILAM

After ending the Iran War, Trump plans to start a new global pandemic.

I hadn't heard about Kash Patel's drinking until I read about his defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. – Ludwig 7