Otherwise it's just sparkling disenfranchisement.

It would be an enormous step forward if the DC Circuit, and the courts more broadly, adopted this Groucho Marx test. There's no judicial obligation to fall for transparent legal bullshit that's obviously contradicted by the President's public statements on social media.

It's almost like these markets are literally designed to incentivize people with inside information to place bets.

i love her make her president

Added leftover farro to leftover kale salad and I am a culinary genius.

Ok, I've gotta admit: Trump did one good thing. It was an embarrassment that the largest performing arts organization in the nation's capital was dedicating so much performance space to something so excruciatingly dumb for *decades*.

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Wait, this thing is gonna be riding in bike lanes??

There's been lots of excellent reporting on the political influencer industry in the past few weeks, so here's an overdue thread with my reactions to the news and some loose thoughts on trends🧵

Florida history standards: "John C. Cal-Who??"

This proposes a licensing scheme, also known as a prior restraint on speech. Those don't usually do well in court because they give the government too much power over what can be said and are presumptively unconstitutional. Thank you for your time. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...

Very cool piece from @beccabranum.bsky.social on the 1969 "Art By Telephone" exhibition in Chicago and what it means for how the First Amendment interacts with AI. cdt.org/insights/art...

Was IRATE that Joni was left off this list until I remembered that she's Canadian. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sickos: Yes ... Ha Ha Ha ... Yes!

America desperately needs strong federal privacy legislation, but this ain't it. www.techpolicy.press/congresss-ne...

This is great and a sign of an economy that is super healthy.

Big if true.

These Looney Tunes mfers

So the only effect of this exercise was to show the world that (a) America considers war crimes to be acceptable and (b) American threats of military action are likely hollow. Great job everyone.

Stealing money from the humanities to build himself a triumphal arch is a little on the nose. www.notus.org/donald-trump...

This is intolerable and obscenely un-American. Every single member of Congress should be asked to repudiate this.

Almost impossible to comprehend the extent to which the US has liquified its international credibility.

One day apart. I genuinely don't understand how the markets still haven't internalized that what he says has only the vaguest relationship to what's actually going happen.

For the morning crowd, read @joshuakeating.bsky.social on Trump's Iran speech and where the war has actually left everyone so far. He spoke as if it's already an unambiguous triumph for the U.S., a conflict it has already won decisively. Uhhh...not quite. Gift link: www.vox.com/politics/484...

Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:

This is dumb and bad and I hate it. It's not the path to winning an election. It's not a path towards building a movement. Knock it off. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

I can think of few people less fit to speak about Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Great article. Let's talk about Afroman and Section 230. 🧵

I don't know what to say about the NYT story about Cesar Chavez but that it is awful, awful, awful and I (continue to) stand in awe of Dolores Huerta who is a force of nature.

Absolutely infuriating. It's built next to one Metro stop (with room to build another) and a short walk away from a streetcar that's getting shut down in two weeks. But sure, let's invite 8,000 new cars into the city.

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In the year of our Lord 2026, prestigious architecture prizes should not be going to monumental, standalone structures surrounded by highways and surface parking.

Free idea for an Errol Morris documentary: track this guy down and interview him about the post-truth world and its impact on the region since 2003.

"Landslide"

Today @cdt.org and allies shared a letter from dozens of military, national security and AI leaders raising deep concerns about the Pentagon's threat to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk: cdt.org/insights/def...

There is no more firey pit in Hell than the one waiting for whoever decided I can't print a black-and-white document until I replace my printer's yellow ink cartridge.

I'm an Eagle Scout, and Scouting was an important of my youth and who I became as an adult. This is some cowardly bullshit and the Scouts should be ashamed. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

My decision to root for Canada this year has been vindicated over and over again.

I recognize this is a niche complaint, but the quality of curling commentary drops precipitously when they let Americans do it. During the Round Robin matches we got a charming Scottish woman discussing strategy. Now I'm being told that Sweden is about the size of California.

This is a good but very disheartening piece.

Has anyone else in DC basically stopped getting mail since the storm last week?

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post and is turning it into the Washington Examiner.

The news from the Washington Post is just so, so depressing.

This kind of campaign against marriage equality is extremely worrying. The fact that the Religious Right is *choosing* this battleground means they think they can win on it. They overturned Roe and this is next on their list.

Tressie McMillan Cottom delivers an important wake-up call on the urgent need to enact strong protections for personal data -- and the world we could face without them.

Section 230 is good, actually. cdt.org/insights/sec...

I'm weirdly fascinated by this culture and I hope somewhere a sociologist is working on a paper about this psuedo-monasticism.