Here is something to help your quality of search experience slightly: When typing your query, add "-ar" to the end. This suppresses the useless AI slop.

Here is something to help your quality of search experience slightly: When typing your query, add "-ar" to the end. This suppresses the useless AI slop.

A preview of the 2026 election?

I think this is an another data point concerning where things are going, nothing more. but, it’s worth a read. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Few things sum up our current national mood more than "This was meant to be an optimistic outlook and now I’m speculating on mass-death scenarios."

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

Yeah so when you read a summary of an overview of an area you don’t become a subject matter expert. You’re just a guy who read a Wikipedia article.

Your time would be better served ruminating on what we are saying, admitting AI is a profound mistake, and figuring out how to atone for it going forward in your "work." Your Plagiarism Button has made our jobs infinitely harder and we are disgusted with everything your industry has foisted on us.

You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Reporters Working on Epstein Documents: Please refer to FILE NAMES. If there are 4 or 24, "paintings depicting nude women" isn't sufficient. Unique identifiers, not narrative, are required to disambiguate among thousands of items. Esp. if some disappear. File names are in the lower right corner. ⤵️

Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable

House member WAR is a reasonable guide to how much slack you should cut red district Dems but it is not a terribly good basis for shittalking sitting reps. as Brian Scalabrine once said “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.”

He at some point tried to advocate for change. But around 2017 he saw that half of Dems in Congress want to roll over and play dead, and he gave up on them. And then he went fully over into saying things that the powerful liked. If you believed there was no fixing the US, would you do it too?

On the Yglesias debate today: I disagree with a lot of the takes about him. First, he is smart and works hard and his blog can be good. So, the problems? He’s become nihilistic about politics so he is now self-serving, he butters up the wealthy and powerful, and he uses social media to troll.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

I know their work, it's on my field and they are a kickass and respected scientist!

This really sucks, and we are underestimating the massive demand for AI-free *anything* out there. It's a massive cultural, political and business opportunity, though one that'll require effort and the skills of old-school journalism, verification and fact-checking

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back with a flamethrower

There is also the fact that all of Colin Wright's highly-cited articles were co-authored with Jonathan N. Pruitt, whose scientific career was ended by findings of widespread fraud, calling into question the entire body of work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

This is literally one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen, anywhere.

I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines

Remember when Klein wrote the "David Shor is Telling Democrats What They Don't Want to Hear" piece in 2021? It was comical, because Shor was/keeps saying exactly what the party establishment always want to hear. (Progressives are pulling the party too far left.)

If you want to take one thing away from the art of the New Deal it is - in my humble opinion - that throwing money at *NORMAL* artists to decorate public buildings makes the world a much nicer place, particularly if you charge them with making the decorations evoke the history of where they are.

on the bright side three years from now will be boom times for businesses that specialize in removing garish brass letters from buildings

It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.

Some registered voters Texas flagged as ‘potential noncitizens’ had provided proof of citizenship

of all the things we should be worrying about, trump serving a third term should not be one of them. the man is visibly dying

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

It's still very bad the extent to which we've normalized this idea that the president can spend money because he feels like it

Simpler times

trump is panicking because democrats have a huge lead on affordability right now www.gelliottmorris.com/p/affordabil...

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.

Call to weigh in with Congress, 202-224-3121.

Wiping out Oracle's IP--all of it--with a quick Congressional bill at the start of a new admin--would more than suffice to make everyone realize that liberals, when sufficiently angry, are scarier than reactionaries. And it would destroy a parasitic copyright troll of negative economic value.

Just say women. This is taking forever.

I feel like it might have been a bad idea to get rid of all the people who know how to find mass shooters because like, DEI

hey tweeps and bleeps: all of my tweets and posts for the last 5 years are off the record

This is just one example, but this story is the perfect example of why mediocre white guys are against DEI and this is the “American Dream” they’re trying to preserve. This is the “western culture” they want to protect, and anti-discrimination laws and policies destroy that.