I see this sentiment about girl scouts vs boy scouts a lot and I'm sorry but that comes down to individual troop leadership. Girl scouts has a wide variety of badges that kids can earn, but the people (usually parents) who lead troops have to set up the classes. www.girlscouts.org/en/members/f...

I was right. this is EXACTLY what I thought it was. And they're using the FOX & Tubi method....get hot off the backs of Black people to go viral.

Reconstruction bros have long understood that in the American context, "socialism" most often means "integration and equality" bsky.app/profile/bren...

OIRA 2.0. Instead of offering regulatory relief to entire industries -- a la OIRA 1.0 -- do it firm by firm. Great chances for corruption. ✔️ Weakens industry solidarity allowing the administration to further consolidate power ✔️

Whiskies! #cats #happygolucky

They literally have not had enough time to evaluate the evidence and research the shooter. This is a great example of how immigration enforcement agencies ALWAYS run to the media w/their version. This is to control the narrative. Press takes the bait every single time. 1/2

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

Not sure if it’s the place of the Treasury Secretary to say if we’re going to honor our obligations under NATO but 🤷🏻‍♂️

No, there isn’t a whole world out there capable of tending to the world’s problems. There’s a 🇨🇳 more authoritarian than even 🇺🇸 of Trump’s fantasies, a 🇪🇺 not remotely able/willing to become a viable hegemon, & no one else, etc. The alternative is a dangerous vacuum, not better hegemonic alternatives.

Maybe everyone—public and private—should be entitled to a publicly stated “for cause” reason before they lose their job.

Many such cases. But getting lucky and then lauded for the results of getting lucky really goes to their heads.

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

Some news.

Thread. The new McCarthyism is, and has been, tearing through education for years. These are just a sampling, and they have been the rehearsals for purges in places like late-night TV.

I think I missed the part where Skynet presented itself as humanity's savior before unleashing the nukes.

Turns out people really like state capacity and tech bros don't understand how much they depend on it.

German Jura Bubble, a snapshot.

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

Good morning to everyone except E. Gordon Gee. That dude can get fucked.

I feel like this is relevant every week at this point

Hahaha you stupid assholes!

Wow. It's the Necronomicon, and it updates daily. This surely won't be a problem.

if you can look at it without catching poster’s madness, the list of who actually gets engagement here is pretty interesting. somewhat dire at the top but quickly it’s real and high quality posters. bluefacts.app/top-reach

I’m being pissy now but i’ve heard this ‘tend our own garden’ canard a million times, and it’s completely untenable, because there’s no point at which we will be like ‘ok, we’ve solved all our domestic problems now, we can turn back to the world’ The world doesn’t work that way and never has.

Could have stopped at “if you were wondering what conservative MilTwitter is up to” Cause nope. I’m not. Be well, away from me.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

PANTANEY

Yeah, counterbalancing coalitions to hostile hegemons don’t just happen. We have been crucial to such coalitions for the past hundred years. And this argument assumes countries won’t try to bandwagon to the rising power if there is no counter-pole.

Massive false dichotomy that assumes we can deal with our own problems independently from the problems of the world.

OK, friends. What's the best history of GamerGate? Book or article, whatever.

Part of what's hobbled liberals on that, perhaps, is observing the traditional norm of keeping a distance between foreign policy and domestic politics. Politics stops at the water's edge, etc. Which had its merits but has now, as a reality, broken down.

everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

I thought she was awesome in Once Upon a Time in the West, which is also a grear (if really slow) film. And Peter Bogdanovich's commentary track is really interesting in that film.

Thanks to Judge Reyes, we may soon have an answer as to whether the DC Surge (tm) is still happening or not. (This is from DC's lawsuit against Trump re: the National Guard)

Ruin a band with law FOIA Fighters

That is literally what every victim of domestic violence hears when asking for help: "X couldn't be abusing you because X is always nice TO ME." The entire Trump era is the dynamic of DV scaled up to national level, led by people who'd be the first to ask any victim "why didn't you just leave?"

this really does succinctly explain every single pathetic, boot-suckling behavior we’ve been seeing from the pampered pundit class

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

wenn donald trump vor der UN-vollversammlung behauptet hätte, der mond sei aus käse, würden deutsche qualitätsjournalisten daraus die schlagzeile „Ist der Mond wirklich aus Käse? Donald Trump macht Weltraumforschern schwere Vorwürfe“ basteln. #medienversagen

His Majesty. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.

Conversely, a lot of civil talk masks downright vulgar stuff. Look at Bill Buckley.

When I was in law school, I said that Cass Sunstein was like the Linus Pauling of legal scholarship. Yes, he made some great advancements, but it was mostly because he spammed papers, many of which were incorrect, and had to be right sometimes.

The key, of course, is that the police themselves view even a 10% cut in their budget as an existential threat because its a sign of material accountability that they cannot afford to give even an inch on, and so respond with instantaneous scorched earth tactics whenever the subject is broached.

No, no, and some more no.

Many such cases.

many such cases

What I gather from the Chotiner interview is that Cass Sunstein has authored a defense of liberalism where liberals are defined as those who he could imagine encountering at a Harvard faculty meeting.

Ich wusste nicht, dass mit "mehr Milei wagen" in Wahrheit "im Ausland um immer neues Geld betteln" gemeint war, wir müssen uns alle bei Lindner entschuldigen.

The words "crime-fraud exception" excite any red-blooded litigator. So international arbitration can be interesting. I told you so.