Literally wrote this last week! amandalitman.substack.com/p/the-last-1...

Spot on & why the factional fights drive me up a wall: Most people don’t have coherent ideologies - they just have problems they want solved!

An idea that somehow never really comes up in any political theory literature is that, if someone is, in fact, incapable of participating in the business of self-government as an equal (say because they're eight years old), what that means is the rest of us owe them a very strong fiduciary duty

ever since i was a little boy i always knew i wanted to be 38 years old writing short sentences on a website

According to an analysis by IDRA, 18% of students who started 9th grade in 2020 left school without graduating last year — a record low attrition rate.

it's cool that cops get paid overtime and everyone else in the public sector is expected to just do it for the love of the game

Folks on YouTube in 2008:

“.. After the new issuance, Oracle’s outstanding debt load surpassed $100 billion, making it the most indebted big tech company with an investment-grade rating.” @wsj.com $ORCL www.wsj.com/tech/oracle-...

The USDA has designated 444 counties as farming-dependent; their average vote share for Trump was 77.7%. investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/t...

There's something so... disturbing about MAHA using incredibly low, low rates of adverse reaction to justify putting what are obviously harm reducing medications from people

trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”

Cory Doctorow: "Tesla sells cars with software that limits the amount of battery you can use & it charges a subscription to unlock the rest. And yet, the driver owns the whole battery—they’re being charged to use their own physical property.

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

It's one thing to say that AI and crypto are bubbles. It's another to watch senior US government officials use their positions to cash in on it.

Pick any group of 11 people including Elon and he ain't ranking in the Top 10 minds.

🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

a nyt headline you’ll never see: did republicans ruin america?

Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk this is the bargain you made, asshole you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

This remains the provision that makes me want to smack the taste out of Democratic Senators’ mouths—with votes

Definitely a game changer.

Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

welcome back 2003

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

I believed in ghosts when I owned an old house. Assuming those strange noises were paranormal was cheaper than figuring out what it really was.

do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”

162 years ago today, Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address.

For the 487th time: Vox fumbled that bag so hard

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

The Decembrists guy now looks like he could be a mutual angry about local zoning ordinances.

NEW from me —

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

Visitors can explore Bikini Bottom and Shrek's swamp.

I hope this woman gets the help she needs bc this is insane.

When you get your Ultimate Warrior from Temu

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

@sfasu.edu We need to do this.

A scarification artist?

Minnesota what are y'all doing? www.startribune.com/minnesota-no...

I’m in this picture and don’t like it.

Idiots lament their idiot king

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18 reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011 all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend. Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

I feel confident at this point that I could restart the tulip fever market with some shiny buzzwords and a fake techbro persona. Might even diversify into daylilys and irises. Corner the bulb market.

Her first film will be g rated

12 Years A Slave was one of the best written books I've ever read. Empire of the Summer Moon is good as well.

Trump saying he would bring prices down on day 1 was complete BS. He’s busy hanging out with soon-to-be trillionaire Elon Musk again, while leaving working people struggling to pay the bills and make ends meet.

To quote @mcopelov.bsky.social, “‘Who was actually president in 2020?’ continues to be the central cleavage in American politics in 2025.”