“In California [the prevalence of autism] is really bad.” —Trump Oh really? You’re saying the people who figured out how to make sand think might be autistic? Bro, what a revelation.

Going down to the supermarket to buy out all the tylenol they have in case I need to re-up on my serum.

Cancelling Disney to stop fascism reminds me of bringing my own bags to the grocery store to save the environment. I mean I’m on board but like… we all gonna need to stretch a bit more too I think.

I mean this is total horseshit but at least I’m not getting rounded up yet

Pretty weird to go full fash at a wake, I usually just have a few drinks and share fond memories of the departed.

Very curious to see if this has a cooling effect on ICE activities. I’d sort of expect it to.

One of my favorite ways to deal with institutional resistance is the Reverse Karen. I’m not gonna ask for the manager, I’m just gonna be so curious about your policies and procedures that we get there organically.

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.

This is just straight up how the President manages his staff. Lol we are cooked.

We are living The Emperors New Clothes except it’s a version where the emperor’s brain is made of pudding

Disney, and more broadly the media sector, are just the first examples of why authoritarianism is bad for business. The administration took a stance of harming their business interests if they didn’t comply. This positioned them with a no-win business decision — either they… 1/

We have entered an extraordinarily dangerous moment as Trump now breaks laws on a nearly daily basis, making erratic and dangerous moves by firing US attorneys and declaring shocking new visa fees. And Nate Silver is closing his eyes. He can’t cope. So he fixates on Bluesky.

Illegal, vulgar, crass, and narcissistic all at once.

This is so stupid

I have recently been told the question of whether meeting my child’s needs stems from a (documented) neurotype difference is “philosophical.” Oh, friend. No. No, I am not the person with whom you call ableism a philosophy.

I sincerely hope I never hire anyone who wouldn't laugh in my face if I told them they weren't allowed to make jokes about a politician. The work product of sycophants is abysmal.

Do you have any idea how insane all this is?

Network news becoming a goddamn regime mouthpiece is yet another reason we should listen to Adam Smith when he says monopolies and titanic conglomerates are bad, actually.

Jerome Powell: authoritarianism’s final boss.

Cracks me up when people roll into the comments to complain about me using a big word. I’m not gonna dumb it down for you; this is your antepenultimate warning.

Had a philosophy professor once, an empiricist, who said of a rationalist colleague, “he has a powerful mind; what a shame that he has never plugged it into reality.” I am convinced we have a veritable plague of such rationalists and it is at the very core of our dysfunction.

What’s a podcast or similar serial media you listen to that regularly says/does stuff you don’t fully agree with, but it makes you think so you keep listening?

“I’m more of a classical liberal.” No. You’re a Republican who smokes weed and thinks it’s edgy.

The thing about libertarians is that they’re always totally full of shit.

Ezra Klein on today’s podcast: “The reaction to my article about Charlie Kirk was intense; it really made me think how America is in a dangerous place. Anyhow here’s an interview with Ben Shapiro about how society is made of lions and scavengers and how Obama being too woke ruined the country.”

Eric Adams: <incoherent babbling> People: “What?” Adams: “Ha! Gotcha.”

“There is no unity with people who scream at children for their parents’ politics.” — VP Vance, screaming on national television about people’s politics

The vocal prosody alone from this man is enough for me to conclude he’s a complete asshole. Imagine being like this in public. And then there are the things he’s saying, which are worse.

Elon Musk is openly working to purchase elections for MAGA candidates but yeah sure, it's the left that's the real problem. 🤡 How about advocating for overturning Citizen's United if you're serious about all this Vance, you malignant little Chucky doll.

I don’t know if you’re aware how old RFK Jr.’s toxic lies about autism are, but none of it is new. He’s simply recycling old stigmas promulgated by the same charlatans who spawned conversion therapy. None of which would have been possible without broad complicity in the field of psychoanalysis. 1/

Essential concepts to understanding the current political fault lines. Charlie Kirk was trying to yoke the fervor of Black Pill nihilism to the aims of Christian white nationalism, and it’s likely what got him killed. “…for as you gaze long into the abyss, so the abyss gazes into you.” —Nietzsche

I do feel bad for the troops being forced to randomly patrol cities. But also: this is hilarious and we should do more of it.

How can you write an opinion piece saying Charlie Kirk was “doing politics the right way” and then go on your podcast and excoriate the Dems for not fighting back? I think Ezra Klein really only makes sense as a slightly more bookish, glasses-wearing version of your standard shitposting edgelord.

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

This person is 100% gonna lose all their money and blame it on AI. “Give me some penny stocks that will return 10x” is such a funny request, highlighting once again that LLMs are really only a useful as the operator’s command of the domain.

Hatch chiles are awesome of course but if you find someone out there doing poblanos in the big roaster, get some. Trust me.

Witness, now, the intellectual bankruptcy of all those who reflexively claimed Kirk’s murder was “far left violence.” This country is sick, and the sickness is epistemic in nature.

These are the kinds of politicians we need right now — activists using their platform to give the people a voice. Not even in office yet and she’s doing more to highlight the injustice going on in this country than any elected politician I can think of.

We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do? Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.

This man is a clown

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Not sure if we should be able to talk to everyone instantly from anywhere on the planet it doesn’t seem to be going well

We are witnessing levels of epistemic dystopia only previously contemplated by extremely emo French philosophers.

If this is your first time living in an unstable country, allow me to share that politically motivated killings are always bad independent of your views on the victim.

America desperately needs more Thomas Paine liberalism and less Ezra Klein liberalism.

The geopolitical situation seems to be turning more unstable: a natural consequence of the Leviathan becoming fickle and chaotic. We will come to miss the soft power that has been dismantled by these hyenas.

I dunno know how we got to this state as a society where every halfwit thinks if you don’t actively refute their weird ideas it must be proof positive that they’re right, but damn y’all… it’s killing us.

This is completely egregious. We cannot have a proper country when the highest court in the land is rubber stamping discrimination.