This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Elon simply CHOSE to consign a million Africans to death for really no reason but the pleasure of it and it’s barely in the public consciousness

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this

Unreal levels of Cop Excellence here.

Everywhere that has federal jobs (which is everywhere, but some places more than others) has been punished by Trump for it.

Yeah oddly imho the goat conversation in basketball isn't tye peaks anymore it's literally the fact that the dude is Allstars level after 20 something seasons and continues to be a monster.

Our entire political system is built around this assumption. It infects absolutely everything in our public life. Even most Dems have kind of absorbed the lesson, or had anyway, that they're not allowed to govern without permission from R's. I guess Virginia shows that maybe they've un-learned it.

It’s the Reagan chart!

A line that lives rent free in my head since the first time I read this essay: “There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say "fuck you"!”

william baude’s post about how the SCOTUS shadow docket leaks aren’t scandalous - and the real scandal is the leaks themselves - is an unusually clear example of when someone enmeshed in an elite network fails to appreciate that what they’ve decided to normalize is scandalous to everyone else

Holy something from someplace it's real! I'm so happy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014...

The reappearance of this take from this quarter is really interesting, actually; I think it’s evidence of an ambient worry that Rooseveltian politics and policies look suddenly possible

This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work. Pure hackery.

Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

Very important to keep in mind that american logistical mastery is largely a memory of a bygone time before 2003. That was the year when our leadership just threw up their arms and said “what if everybody was stupid as fuck for a few decades”

The ironclad domination of the legal intelligentsia over American constitutional law is probably the single biggest barrier to any kind of long-term reform in this country, especially since basically nobody in power is able to ever conceptualize it as a problem.

One thing that getting yelled at on Bluesky all day reinforces for me is that anyone throwing up their hands and going back to Twitter because of a similar experience is truly not entering Poster’s Valhalla. Just really soft stuff.

We need AI regulations yesterday.

The destruction of all search engines is the tech story of the last decade imo

All four minutes and thirty-three seconds of John Cage's 4'33".

[deep breath] the project of defining discrimination as acknowledging differences between groups is a long term, conservative project fully embraced by the reactionary court and intended to make it so selecting for merit rather than inherited privilege is illegal

Today is my birthday! And the best gift you could give me is to share my artwork 🎉

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" Again, I'll note how incredibly extreme the GOP is, not only in absolute terms, but relative to other far right parties in rich democracies, which quickly concede elections <all the time> w/o a fraction of the post-election nonsense we endure.

the viability of many right-wing intellectuals and intellectual spaces is enormously dependent on the largesse of reactionary billionaires and foreign governments, who help them circumvent a marketplace of ideas where they would otherwise post extraordinarily poor sales

I love them. I love them.

there are so many consequences of everyday people not really understanding how journalism works and people on here thinking there was some sort of massive media coverup of Eric Swalwell being a monster fundamentally is rooted in total misunderstanding of what real reporting requires.

Claire, I just need to be sure that you saw this as well, because it's the perfect capper for the evening.

this is pretty much spot on imo

It's so fun when Claire gets a proper head of steam and does a thread about Catholics in politics. Like this one.

There are so many illegal acts for which members of this administration must be held to account. There are the deaths & physical abuses, of course. But there are also the many efforts to silence ppl & institutions for conveying ideas & info that Trump dislikes. Carr's actions top that 2nd list.

a sex pest real estate guy who lost money on his casinos got elected president twice because he played a deals man on tv and then he destroyed the global economy. baudrilliard would die if he wasn't already dead.

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

It's called firehosing and it's a deliberate tactic

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

you see this a lot with genre fiction, when people kind of sneer at fantasy or romance as being kind of junk food literature. okay was the book actually written poorly, or was it in fact an extremely well-executed version of something that is just NOT FOR YOU

the crucial division here is between the unhappy fans who just go “welp, it do be like that sometimes, gonna go write a fix-it fic about it,” and the unhappy fans who angrily demand that the show itself change to meet their expectations

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

This is one of the things that really cries for a constitutional rebirth. Congress makes laws and the president executes them. He cannot have the power to assert discretion to just not. The whole system collapses into elected monarchy at that point.

It’s literally the branch to “execute” the laws! To carry them out! He’s asserting he can just say fuck that and not. And with a captive Congress and a mostly captured, otherwise slow as hell high court, he just…can.

Trump is dismantling the forest service, exempting projects from the endangered species act, destroying the department of education. These are based in statutes duly passed by Congress. If Trump has the right to unilaterally do this then “executive” means nothing.

The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

i still remember Bezos inviting Shatner on one of his Blue Origins rocket trips and watching Shatner basically in shock while Bezos was "so you think i'm cool now?"

my level of stress has crossed a threshold where i think it would be funny if trump attended the birthright citizenship oral argument and scotus incoherently ruled in his favor 6-3. cortisol levels so high that i can't stop lolling about all my family members in danger. wouldn't it be funny tho

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.