"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

"Under the deal, large cargo ships would have paid a fee if their CO₂ emissions exceeded a certain level. The standard would get stricter over time, encouraging the industry to move away from oil-based shipping fuel to cleaner options." THE LEADING SHIPPING LOBBY SUPPORTED IT

just a big string of lies, and this was entirely predictable. i will never be over the fact that the country chose this again.

Smells like bubble bath.

Trump said he’d be “honored” to release SNAP funds with guidance from the courts. Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME. And he immediately appealed.

Also in his possibly drug fueled rant he claimed that the robots will obviate the need for money in the near future, which raises the question of why he needs so much money

Germ theory is out, Physiognomy is in.

So if I understand this correctly, Elon can’t be bothered to motivate others to make his vaporware a reality without a $1 trillion carrot. Isn’t that basically an admission that he’s a lazy toddler?

Regardless of what comes after, there simply will not be an alternative to demolition of the ballroom and very significant gutting and reconstruction. The new construction will not be secure and the old construction has been completely compromised.

Unfortunately, it's less petrol-masculinity (which I guess would be *literal* toxic masculinity) than the symbiotic relationship between the modern GOP and the fossil-fuel industry, particularly, IIUC, the refineries.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Can the Canada Explainers point me to a concise account of WTF is happening to the Conservatives?

When this regime finally falls, we'll need to restore the White House to its former glory and then make it a public museum. It'll probably be cheaper than the cost of sanitizing and securing the premises.

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

“And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer” Judge Ellis today not only denounced the Trump administration’s immigration action, but had biting remarks on its clumsy views of Chicago itself UPDATE: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

There are going to be pieces by journalists who claimed not to have speculated about Trump's health while he was in obvious decline because of the reaction we had to their Biden speculation - sometimes outright fabricated, a la the Parkinson's stuff - and I would like to preemptively say fuck you.

Academics figured out the "create prizes to give to your friends and allies" tactic decades ago. Yet I can't think of a single example that was either this obvious or this craven.

Gotta get away from the miasma before it sickens him as well.

The relevant counterfactual is probably Mamdani against Silwa, with no Cuomo.

I'm sorry, I just reread the part about Greenland and I just can't even.

Except the Mayoral race involved: 1) a contest between two Ds (don't well, actually me), 1 of whom secured a plurality of R voters; & 2) 2 extremely well-financed candidates with high name recognition We can recognize his achievement without thinking Dem Socialism is the key to victory in VA.

The number of steps between running on "affordability" and running against oligarchic corruption is greater than zero an less than one.

You could probably learn a lot about AI entrepreneurs by studying 19th century Christian millennial cults. They're now channeling the Charles Taze Russell approach.

Because I buried the lede:

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

Trump is having the government take active stakes in the commanding heights of the economy. Zohran Mamdani is proposing free buses, universal child care, and higher taxes for billionaires. Which one of these is the socialist again?

🧵 I'm trying to finish out a (slightly) overdue piece about how it's a waste of time to analyze Trump foreign policy through standard frameworks like "national interests," "geopolitics," "realpolitik," "grand strategy," and the like.

What this order makes clear is that plaintiffs can collect a mountain of animus, the district court can write extensively about the record, and the Supreme Court will just go “nuh uh.”

Not only was Marx more sophisticated than that, but there is absolutely no way that his theories would have looked the same had he formulated them under current socioeconomic conditions.

Friends, “Furious Minds” is out! @lkatfield.bsky.social wrote an important book - one that truly is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the rightwing intellectual scene, the defining ideas on today’s extremist Right, and the ideological traditions they draw on. Please read:

Many incentive structures in lib-Dem world strongly favor the overinterpretation of 2024 (Ds suck/too lefty/woke) and strongly discourage the more balanced interpretation (cost of living/Biden age/Trump cultural penetration). Everyone in that world knows this is how it works. They'll never admit it.

The big wins should lead Dems and certain writers to revisit whether they overinterpreted 2024. MAGA coalition is more fragile than it seemed. Their interpretation is now actively counterproductive. On the pod, @alexshephard.bsky.social is great on need to reassess: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

I assume I'm not the only one who lays awake at night think about the bad things I've done and the people I've wronged over the last 45+ years. Yes?

Guys…I appreciate your letting me know that the title is a Great Gatsby reference (thank you, I have read that too!) I was just driving home the point that they are in fact awful.

If he is saying billion, with a B, that's about 400 pounds per person, which seems like an unhealthy amount of weight to lose. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

I read this whole thing & learned what anyone who understands how absolute, arbitrary power works would expect: The prince asked for the impossible, was told by toadies it was in fact possible if expensive, then wasted billions as no one could tell him it wouldn't work (while many cashed checks)

Bluesky may not yet be great for breaking news but man is it good for court reporting.

I want to say, I think there is a basic miscalculation here; RI Dems had been under the thumb of a conservative dynasty that dominated the state party for three decades. Most state Dems underestimate the liberalism of their constituents. The 2026 primary electorate is going to be *very* anti-Trump.

Kavanaughed

Just because one is on the left doesn't mean you cannot understand that different sectors have different policy and economic interests. Treating "capitalists" as a homogeneous, reified class is a choice.

There is literally like infinity money going into solar and batteries. Most of the fight being put up here is NIMBYism, culture warrior stuff, coal producers using the state, private/state utilities making things hard. Like Trump just cancelled one of the biggest solar projects

Great piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social. Everyone — especially the slice of the pundit class Greg criticizes — should remember that Trump barely managed a plurality of the vote—in a climate that was toxic for incumbent parties, against a late substitute for a POTUS who was polling at 39% approval.

TIL that Roberts has never actually read the NT.

Jesus Christ himself famously never attended Jewish religious functions

Heritage Foundation having a normal one www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

First study of its kind finds deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone' phys.org/news/2025-11...

My book now has a page + a publication date!! Baby steps to feeling more real. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Earlier this year, I provided commentary to PBS Frontline for its investigation into the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany. The programme is now out, examining the forces behind the German far right’s growing appeal and the roles played by Russia and the US: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...