New paper out in Nous

Times New Roman sucks. Garamond 4 Life.

oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen

If only we still required our university students to learn all of the liberal arts (like 80 year old history).

That is not remotely the point Jesus was making by breaking Sabbath law. It is instead a flat denial of the rule of law in favour of the rule of men.

yeah sorry you don't get to do blood and soil bullshit and pretend you're a liberal

Clearly we need more healthcare CEOs on twitter

The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians. As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office. At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune. At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.

one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of

yeah this irritates me too. "there is NO AUDIENCE for this", I say as I repost and share the link. it's you. you're the audience. clicks and being talked about are the measure of professional success for these people, and you're sharing their stuff and talking about it.

Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay) www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

How is it possible that every successive sentence gets crazier

We live in an episode of Veep

Small domino: Donald Trump runs for president in 2015. Large domino: Tylenol no longer sold in the USA.

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

i hate "fuck off i got mine" and all the other kinds of puerile selfish nativism

We literally have laws!!! Who will stop this!!!

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

They don't think they're public servants. They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms

my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk

ICE is lying. Go figure

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle

The bees have discovered Brutalism

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

New Substack

I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

Domino Theory but for authoritarians

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.

I see the Right, in a combination of stupidity and dishonesty and self-blindness, is leaning heavily into “this happened because the Marxist subhuman terrorist scum of Left keeps escalating the rhetoric!”

Miles Donahue and I discuss a cool new paper of his about fine tuning and alternatives to theism. youtu.be/vHTD5qIq-04

Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

the answer to "why has the supreme court gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has elon musk gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has my uncle gone insane" which is that people mostly mirror the prevailing beliefs in their social environment and they're immersed in nazi media

So the US military is now at war with a vaguely defined enemy (drug cartels) across a vast area (the Caribbean) with no specific goal (“winning” and “defeating them”) and accusing a regional government (Venezuela) of sponsoring that vague enemy without showing proof? Sounds pretty forever warish.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but, Shaka when the walls fell

If only he had been warned repeatedly during the confirmation hearings.

It's kind of convenient for me, coming from Michigan, that "Go Blue! Ohio Sucks!" works for both sports and politics.

Scammers are going downhill. In the early days of the internet, they promised exotic wealth in movie-worthy dramas. Now they are either pretending to have texted the wrong number or are offering a low skill/low wage work from home job.

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

The key to Trump’s authoritarian encroachments is pretext. He pairs some shockingly dictatorial move with an incredibly thin pretext everyone knows is false - fighting crime, concerned about fraud - and every public figure talking about the situation feels the need to debate the pretext.

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education 1/

I will not yield to popular opinion, nor be baited by the rabble's curse, though etymology be against me, still I refuse to concede: it is not a priori obvious that Bob the Builder can fix it, his name alone does not settle the matter, and the thoughtless mob's enthusiastic assent will not sway me.