Who wants to tell Pete Hegseth that he's about to be the first member of Trump's second-term cabinet to get the boot? I'm surprised he lasted this long.

The only truly new information we're getting from the Epstein emails is the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was functionally illiterate. I get some pretty poorly-crafted emails, but I've never seen anything like this. And this dude taught at Dalton?

Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

“Historians sometimes say that when societies are descending into fascism, it can be hard for the people to notice it in real time. Well, historians of the future, I’m here to tell you: We are noticing. Millions of us are noticing. And we are horrified and enraged.” newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

“In effect, Mr. Trump’s position is that Democrats must either support his plans to slash important public services, or else he will slash important public services.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Next time you hear someone cite an #Al model as a source, show them this — research from #openai on the accuracy and hallucination rate of its most popular #chatgpt models. LLMs are powerful tools, but a tool is only helpful if you know what it can — and cannot— do. #gpt #Ilm #chatbot

Why, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, do fully-grown “professionals” still not know how to properly craft a basic calendar invite? You seriously gonna send me a calendar invitation for “Call with Anthony Citrano”? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

I think one thing chatGPT's invention has revealed is how many people - including some very important people in society - find just basic reading and writing to be laborious and cumbersome to perform, and how oddly closely that type of strained literacy correlates with having other shitty opinions.

📌Consider where we are in our nation's history: European prime ministers and presidents are urgently flying into the United States to oppose the actions of its unstable authoritarian leader.

Out of the blue, Trump called the Norwegian finance minister to ask when he would get the Nobel prize suggesting he would impose tariffs if he did not www.dn.no/politikk/fre...

From Orwell's “In Front of Your Nose”. www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

“[W]hat were only a few years ago obviously impeachable offenses are now simply known as the Trump administration.” open.substack.com/pub/andrewsu...

Over on the x-bird site, this on the Trump and Putin meeting from @juliaioffe.bsky.social and @mcfaulmike.bsky.social.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Next up: “this is the well-established responsibility of the junior senator from Illinois, and has been for generations”

I feel like this tidbit from @carolleonnig.bsky.social's excellent reporting on #ButlerPA is being overlooked by the #cryptography community. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... #encryption

I feel like this tidbit from @carolleonnig.bsky.social's excellent reporting on #ButlerPA is being overlooked by the #cryptography community. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... #encryption

I do think it’s interesting that the White House’s official position is that God killed a volunteer fireman in front of his family

This is not only correct, but it's my favorite kind of correct.

"ICE is arresting people based on accent" is an absolutely wild sentence to read

Immigration raid at cannabis farm leads to chaos, one farmworker reportedly suffers grave injuries -- archive.is/MBd7j#select... via LATimes www.latimes.com/california/s...

if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?

Why do people keep referring to Elon Musk's new political party as a “third” party? There are countless political parties - what's “third” about it?

Today we celebrate the 249th anniversary of declaring our independence from the arbitrary, capricious rule of a mercurial autocrat.

I have finally had the opportunity to sample the new Trump cologne. It's brilliant. It opens with powerful top notes of Sharpie fumes, quickly replaced by mid notes of musty 1980s manila folders, which slowly make way to clammy, all-night base notes of fryer oil, damp polyester, and lost hope.

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” [Saul Bellow]

“The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office released several examples of Ten Commandment posters that schools could download and print, including one that added a depiction of Moses and a photograph of Mike Johnson..” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Well if this isn't embarrassing as hell. [Credit: Elizabeth Landers, Scripps.]

Trump saluting national anthem is not only nauseating, it remains inappropriate as he is a civilian who never served. #NoKingsDay #NoKings #Army250 #parade

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/a-permanen...

It’s not objectionable. In a competition for public sympathy across this country, it’s stupid.

“Domestic deployment under Section 502(f) has its limits, and for good reason.” The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check | Brennan Center www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... #ice #losangeles #nationalguard #california

Just gonna save this in the “future irony” folder for when Musk predeceases Trump.

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” [Kurt Vonnegut]

Ah yes, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, Americans may enjoy free speech as long as it’s in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish

I know the tariff exemption for Rolls-Royce engines is stupid but so too is the discourse around it. Why? Because no one who is ranting about it seems to know that most of Rolls-Royce's engine business ($10B+) is making massive $25M engines for large passenger jets.

“I swear these guys have never actually read a piece of humanities literature”, exhibit 92716B: “Altman’s project that aims to scan the irises of every single person on Earth in exchange for cryptocurrency has made its debut in the U.S.” apple.news/ApVwEBDc9Tra...

And the fentanyl doesn't do the dosing.

I lay a lot of the blame at the feet of social media, but I waver as to whether we’d be better off without it. More broadly, I used to be such an optimist about what the web would do for human progress and I still have a hard time admitting that I may have been so totally, painfully wrong.

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

I'm confused because yesterday Lutnick told me that's exactly what I want to do with my big strong hands.

The Vice President of the United States believes the stock market is “inflated”. In a normal world, this would be a headline-grabber by itself.

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Completely wild that even OpenAI's own research shows how terrible ChatGPT is at basic factuality.

How ignorant does a person have to be to think a trade deficit is, prima facie, a bad thing? I have a trade deficit with Whole Foods. I have a trade deficit with Starbucks. I have a trade deficit with Costco. With my dentist and doctors. And countless other entities.