We could have nice things.

NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A detailed run through of literature and claims concerning vaccines and autism. Long story shot: vaccines do not cause autism.

This is a fantastic bit of lawyering by a prosecutor who just effectively told the judge that a declination memo exists without technically violating his direct instructions

"America at a Crossroads" is a great series--serious, in-depth conversation. Well worth tuning in!

My terrorism class finished a section on jihadists and is now discussing white nationalists, and it occurred to me that in some states (Florida? Texas?) I might not be allowed to teach about the latter, since it mentions race, and doesn't balance it out with pro-white-nationalist-terrorism readings.

Interesting little update on the Trump "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," a clumsily-drafted suicide pact for higher education. Can you believe MIT passed up the chance to be on this list www.steptoe.com/en/news-publ...

This succinct recap of a wild Kansas politics story has a lot to say about why the people turning up the Epstein emails were so comfortable that the veil would never be lifted. kansasreflector.com/2025/11/17/f...

The only thing more performative and fake than leaving Dante on your dining room table for visitors to see is pretending it's been there for months. This is pickup artistry for writers. Wrapping a pristine hundred around a roll of ones and "accidentally" flashing it in the bar.

I just rewatched Glass Onion and this is exactly the kind of nonsense they threw in as a gag to signal to the audience that the character everyone thinks is a genius is actually extremely stupid.

I'm Colin McRoberts, running for Congress in the Kansas First District. And I approve the hell out this message.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline? Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.

A Conservative view of mine: Hume was spot on to criticize the Stoics for disregarding reputation. We need to bring back shame, fear for reputation. Like: giving a public speech to defend promoting a proud, sneering NAZI—then mumbling “I don’t know much about him”—is craven and filthy.

a “Space Force”, if you will

So this is around the time Ivanka asked her dad not to date anyone younger than her.

New at Can We Still Govern: The IRS is a key agency and its decline is emblematic of Trump-era mismanagement. @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader. Incredibly informative piece. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

What’s crazy is that this is functionally what’s happening with the ACA tax credits. You’ve basically got a certain amount of subsidy from the credit and you pick a policy off the exchange; the credit reduces the premium.

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

It's my favorite day in the negotiation class I teach: the Kobayashi Maru exercise. It's a hell of a fun negotiation. To watch. From a distance.

This is lifted from the novels of Iain M. Banks, which Musk has claimed as an inspiration before. It wasn't stupid in the novels, because they're sci-fi. Banks famously wrote a villain eerily similar to Musk; he covets ideas and advances he doesn't understand. www.reddit.com/r/TheCulture...

If I'd voted for this the aftermath would haunt me for the rest of my life. I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.

He straight up Roger Marshalled it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKP6...

I just wish the CEO of Novo Nordisk would have turned to President Trump and said “that would be very communist of you to force a company to ‘give a piece’ to the government when it demands it” -or something like that.

Should we refrain from forcibly tattooing Betteridge's Law of Headlines on the torso of every pundit and thought leader, upside down so they can read it before they sin again? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is why Facebook is leading the way in workplace well-being with the installation of Meta Menstrual Hubs conveniently located in the parking facilities of corporate offices, so that employees can safely isolate the causes gossip, indirectness, frivolity, and other KPI afflictions

I've always been a big fan of Saddleback Leather products and super curious about whether the company is a great success story or a wild trainwreck to come. This doesn't completely answer the question, but ...

This is why Congress exists--to be a check and a balance. Time to elect some congressmen who remember that. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Happy Halloween!

Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes is even worse for the right—and America—than it looks. My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

An American degree is our greatest export and universities and colleges are the backbone of flourishing cities and communities. This is like setting fire to silo after silo of grain, burning the fields, poisoning the ground. America is currently in a war to survive its own federal government.

Is AI aluminum? I was randomly thinking today about the plausible (but maybe not strictly true) story that Napoleon III used aluminum tableware for VIP guests because it was more valuable than gold at the time--largely because of the cost of electricity. history.stackexchange.com/questions/51...

When Trump hears what Ronald Reagan said about immigrants he’s going to have DOJ arrest him for mortgage fraud.

I'm not in the habit of reading Fox News, but I was curious about how they're covering the demolition of the East Wing and I'm honestly floored. This is the first sentence: Everyone on the planet knows that Donald Trump has executed a political, ideological and cultural takeover of the government.

Ooooh! Allow me to introduce you to Civix Comics! bsky.app/profile/wash...

Two $20 billion gut punches to American ag, already suffering under illegal tariffs. And not only do we have nothing to show for it, it's looking more and more like we're going to be bailing them out for the third or fourth time. This month. The third or fourth time *this month.*

The theme of the midterm simply has to be putting Congress back in order. Everything follows from that.

Kansas has much potential. Plains people quickly tire of the bullshit. And @colinmcroberts.bsky.social is stepping up in Kansas. colinforkansas.com

No they're not. Glad that cleared things up.

Just spitballing here but what if we did Chick Tracts for fact-based reality. Like, just mail all these folks short comics that explain reality. It worked for the loony tune Christian right.

Stop, stop, I can only cringe so hard

DHS's propaganda poster of AI slop knights uselessly standing in a circle waving swords at each other really reminds of something. But what? It's on the tip of my tongue.