Complex situation. One guy is doing armed robbery and wants to keep the stuff he stole. The victim wants his stuff back. As an objective arbitrator I'm at a loss

The succeeding in question

Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

Donald Trump is as gullible when it comes to Vladimir Putin as hardcore MAGA supporters are when it comes to Trump.

New article: "Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation" in @lsqjournal.bsky.social w/ Dan Butler and @steverogersinfo.bsky.social. GOP leadership doesn't shy away from policies where GOP constituencies disagree with the party platform, impairing dyadic representation!

shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same

There are always fine people on both sides

Once again raising the question -- why is the president's son-in-law at this official event?

the White House pool says it was served Trump-branded water for lunch

The inevitable result of giving presidents immunity for “official acts”.

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.

My dad just told me about the half-hour video he watched, starring Sanjay Gupta, hawking some new medical product. He looked it up after watching. Gupta never did the video. It was all AI. Burn it alllllll down, folks. Salt the fucking earth.

Meanwhile, Trump has obviously committed an unending series of actions that call for - demand - impeachment and removal, and the fault is squarely with Republicans for leaving him in office as his presidential crime spree continues. Any Dem story about this is far less important or interesting.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

“his trademark depth of…academic research” 🤔

My fav talking point of the 2012 Republican national convention was if you need to show an ID to fly on a plane (funny thing: sometimes there are ways around that but I digress), then you should need it to vote Ah yes getting thru an airport, the super calm and stress free thing all Americans like

"In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime."

Things I remain shocked by: -People in industries like journalism and education that are going to be turned upside down by AI who barely use or understand it -People in those industries (often the same ones) who still feel comfortable making sweeping claims about AI's capabilities and limitations

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

To recap: *The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law. *Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.

"Killing and damaging things without achieving anything lasting" is the hallmark of the Trump regime.

It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.

He can’t. It requires the shameful complicity of hundreds of legislators who swore oaths on Bibles to country & Constitution & refuse to do their damn jobs Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history & then it’s Saturday

We are getting to the point where white collar criminals are thinking, "why take the plea deal my high-priced lawyer negotiated when I can just bribe the President and skip jail altogether?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Saturday.

Scenes from a personalist regime: “Kalshi's newfound influence is further underscored by its deep ties to the administration: Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, has joined Kalshi as a strategic adviser.”

This was literally one of the concerns raised during the immunity case, and the majority hand waved it away.

Given my priors, I can't quite believe I'm here, but The next administration needs to staff up the public corruption section of DOJ in such a way that the WPA looks like a neighborhood lemonade stand

White House access is hard to secure, and being wealthy often helps get it (which exacerbates inequalities). In Trump II, this dynamic is turbocharged and leads to corrupt acts like this. thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

The priorities of the most powerful person in the world

Why deal with the inconvenience and hassle of a vacation - the money, the packing, the delays - when you can just have an chip implanted in your brain with false memories for a fraction of the cost?

Signs you might be a far white authoritarian party (#3279):

Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.

Make a Bond movie academic For Reviewer 2’s Eyes Only

Make a Bond movie academic: The Man with the Golden Gun: How a Billionaire Started Shooting People in the Middle of Fifth Avenue and Didn't Lose a Single Vote

CBS News has cancelled a story about Christmas because Stephen Miller was not allowed to argue that only Italian-Americans are worthy of salvation.

One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

Refusing to faithfully execute an important law that passed Congress with only a single no vote should be an uncontroversial basis for impeachment and removal.

Something I find really frustrating about extremely popular media people “just asking questions” or whatever is that sometimes they’re helping speak things into existence. Not this specific scenario necessarily, but it really does lay the groundwork for bad outcomes by normalizing it.

This agglomeration which was called & which still calls itself the liberal international order was neither liberal nor international nor (much of) an order. And yet, we are learning it is the worst form of international order, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” from the certified nut holding the nuke codes. That’s just great.

Trump: “Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, & thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT … Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”

“Who’s gonna stop you for that” is Trump’s key political insight