very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

okay

Do trucks do this by you? In the south they block both lanes when there's construction so nobody can move up to the merge point. I feel like they'd be risking murder if they did this in the northeast

How your email finds me

My book is officially here! Today (well tomorrow, actually) is the release date for The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000. If you like the art check out Shakti Kroopkin, whose painting Journey Into Freedom graces the cover. shaktikroopkin.com

Local public radio reporting on Texas National Guard sent to Chicago who had to be sent home for failing to meet basic physical fitness standards, which is very funny

No, I did not write that grant proposal today, but I did finish Hades 2

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

omg this old man is sick

Hey it's the meme!

What is going on in Canada

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

Has anyone tried invading and taking it

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

I spent a few days in Los Angeles. It was a total war zone. You should have seen the lunch rush at Whole Foods

The ideal moment for George III revisionism. Just what we need. Really nailed it

YOU HEARD THEM

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Look that new Zohran video is outstanding but I am not happy with his haircut, that's all I'm gonna say

A student missed the midterm exam and was very contrite and apologetic-- which is fine! people make mistakes!-- but they offered to send me their "Life 360" profile to prove they were home and studying all night. What are we doing to these young people?

If you live in a society where this is allowed to happen, you do not live in a society governed by the rule of law.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

The generous reading is they believe there is no limit to the money worth dumping into any project that could lead to a future AGI, because the AGI will be essentially invaluable. But this is the equivalent of building the world's largest economy around the expectation that the rapture is imminent

"subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance" is my new favorite way to describe why everything is terrible

I don't know why these senators aren't bringing armed escorts and forcing their way in. Unless they're doing it just for posting

I do not regret to inform you that Carly is an authoritative source

This Tumblr post gave me a huge confidence boost:

Buried in all of today's news is the fact that I, too, did not win the Nobel Peace Prize

Trying to think of another country that made a sudden hard turn right toward violent authoritarianism and then started losing all its Nobel laureates

Soaking up Eagles fan vibes this morning like

policy idea: something good for once, anything really

Oh I don't want to give the impression that the conservative students have always been happy about what I teach. First time I taught the gun class we held a campus forum and they held their own opposing event with Larry Pratt, a man famous for hanging out with Nazis and white supremacists

The Uber driver has had his blinker on for like 10 minutes and doesn't notice because he's listening to headphones and I don't know what my play is here

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

These people brought a whole spread of homemade taco salads on this 45 minute flight. We used to be a proper country

United just texted me like "we had to change aircraft for your flight today and we had to give you a new seat. We wanted to make sure it matched your preferences so we have moved your window seat near the front of the plane to an aisle seat near the back"

They shut-up-and-dribbled the pope

I really don't like this move of pulling Nola but I'm just a jerk with a phone, what do I know

It's not a pronunciation as such (though you could distinguish the NYC and Phila pronunciations) but anyone who said "down the shore" almost certainly did not live at the Jersey Shore

One Belichick = four Scaramuccis

I am scheduled to comment on a panel of great papers on Friday but I'm wondering if anyone would mind if I just offered some thoughts on Hades 2 instead

I asked the google device in the house to find my phone, a task it's done without a problem for like 8 years. But today it said it had to verify my voice and set up a new profile and I had to do x y z to do that. I said something unkind. Google said my words were hurtful. This future sucks so hard

Good god Jamelle no, Mike Johnson is not from bayou Louisiana. Mike Johnson is from "are you sure that's not South Arkansas?" Louisiana

A remarkable number of people in Mike Johnson's district think Mike Johnson is a "good Christian" and also agree with this

This is good but the second post in this series makes it outstanding