"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

Putting "the Hell?!" in Hellmann's.

From photo IDs and selfies to social security numbers and location information, data breaches hit a wide variety of companies this year. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

it’s 2045. the people take to the streets as Barron Trump’s grip on power begins to slip following his refusal to release the Mr. Beast files.

The dream of the Long '90s was to decrease the size and scope of political leadership to absolute zero so that various technocrats could collectively wield all meaningful levers of power forevermore. Then 9/11, 2008, Obama's Blackberry, and Hillary's emails happened.

"In a surprising number of cases, public agencies use taxpayer dollars to sue other public agencies, using environmental law as a tool for inter-agency turf wars. The result is a perverse loop where taxpayers fund the construction of public infrastructure, and then fund the lawsuit to stop it."

GET IN THE STABLE! EAT THE OATS! GET IN THE STABLE! EAT THE OATS! GET IN THE STABLE! EAT THE OATS!

As much as I enjoy giving Rep. Amodei grief from time to time, I'm pretty sure he did not, in fact, plan Charlie Kirk's assassination. xcancel.com/yashar/statu...

Former state engineer Adam Sullivan, who was fired amid a water rights struggle in an overtapped basin, said he “faced pressure” to change water management decisions. Read our exclusive: thenevadaindependent.com/article/it-w...

The most valuable piece of career advice I give young people is that being good at your job is not as important as the right people liking you. Just look at Bari Weiss.

Why aren't oil executives excited to invest in a risky overseas environment after a 20.3% drop in the price of oil over the past year? Can't imagine. Real mystery.

It's pretty easy to implement, actually, so long as you don't mind sky high interest rates and 10+% unemployment. You'd be... "surprised" isn't the right word, exactly... how many retirees would happily accept those conditions, at least until their adult children started begging for assistance.

To be fair, under the current administration, the popularity of chlamydia and other contagious diseases is markedly increasing, especially among minors.

If you're going to bully and pressure someone, you better make sure they need you more than you need them. You also should ensure you're not unintentionally making other enemies in the process. My latest for @thenvindy.com:

There's a ballot initiative effort underway in MA to adopt a CA-style Top Two system. I'm generally in favor of all-of-the-above experimentation on electoral reform. But Top Two is, I'm afraid, the one kind that's a proven failure at delivering any of the claimed benefits, and has major downsides.

OPINION by David Colborne: Bomb threats, ominous texts and swatting attacks — that’s how they do political lobbying in Indiana. After watching some of the ugly turns in the film tax credit battle, it’s fair to ask: Is Nevada far behind? Read more: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

Since it looks like we're going through the "liberals who stayed on X/Twitter trying to convince others to go back there," I'll just remind folks I already wrote a long article pointing out how that makes no sense and is, in fact, an incredibly dumb idea. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...

Jamelle is absolutely correct and I'd rather chew glass. Maybe if I can influence a too-online journalist who makes direct to camera videos, I can still win...

Even among Republicans, "give Trump a blank check to stochastically kill anyone who annoys him on any given day" is remarkably unpopular. Just ask senators in Indiana.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

good job gemini

The important thing is The Atlantic believes workers should have rights when they're shouting racial slurs, not when they're asking for better pay or working conditions.

For federal elections in 2026, I've decided I'm a single issue voter and that issue is, "If there are articles of impeachment before you, will you vote to impeach or remove this administration?" If the answer's no, I'll vote for someone else.

“You’ve got 50 states running in 50 different directions. It just doesn’t make sense,” [David Sacks, the White House’s AI and cryptocurrency special advisor] said alongside the president Thursday. “What we need is a single federal standard.” The order notably does not issue a federal framework.

We need to stop being so institutionally provincial! For every seemingly intractable institutional problem we face, other countries have pioneered multiple alternatives, some of which might even be quite trivial to implement!

𝚁𝚎𝚝𝚟𝚛𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 (the default font in Microsoft Word before 2007) [I'm not entirely convinced this isn't a "clever" plan to put some mothballed Windows XP systems back into production.]

"there's a new serif in town"

Good evening, "the Antichrist" was a 1,900 year sociological study conducted by the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

“You don’t have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers. www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Vaxxed??! (No.)

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

If there's one thing elected officials love, it's surprise op-eds from their subordinates pushing for policy changes.

(Programming note. I am gonna keep posting in the thread but I finally got around to collecting all this in a pdf + some stuff that din't fit, if you want to give me a few bucks in exchange for it here's a way. No obligation.) opinionista3.gumroad.com/l/skfmmt

Isn't this the business plan behind Substack or writing opinion columns?

The plumbing installation in the lower left would be illegal in most eastern US cities but is permitted on the entire West Coast. Here's why. 🧵

Several of them can't be found online. Many of them have elected trustees that have never appeared on a ballot. They frequently don't know what laws apply to them. The state can't even reliably count them. So why do we still have general improvement districts? My latest for @thenvindy.com:

OPINION by David Colborne: If you love transparent government, you’ll hate general improvement districts. They’re murky, unaccountable swamps of potential fiscal mismanagement and incompetence — and they’re almost impossible to get rid of. Read it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

There's a surprising amount of money in ranching near Elko.

Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

This is interesting because Nevada's constitution doesn't allow pocket vetoes. If Lombardo didn't sign the bill, it would have become law anyway so long as he didn't explicitly veto it. That he chose to sign it anyway suggests he thinks it's in his interests to affirmatively support it.

The logic of, "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out," may be more globally applicable for Costco's CEO than we thought.

Good morning from The #WeMatter State. On this day in 1921, UNR newspaper editor Leslie Bruce suggested the idea of “Wolves” as a nickname for sports teams. It had been "Sagebrushers." By 1923, "Wolf Pack" had taken hold. Days 'til my Reid bio: 50 Days 'til '26 election: 337

“I’m going, ‘Oh shit, those are really good-looking trees,’” [Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV] said. “It’s like, you watch the tape of the team that you’re gonna play, and you’re like, ‘Oh, we’re gonna get killed.’” Hope returned when he spotted one flawless tree — Silver Belle.

"When Nevada’s State Public School Charter Authority (SPCSA) was founded in 2011, it oversaw approximately 11,000 students. Today it oversees more than 70,000." Our Kate Reynolds delves into the increase in charter school enrollment in Nevada. thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

Stephen Miller waking up this morning and finding out today is Black Friday.

"At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands" is the position every former Californian conservative takes six months after they move to another state and slap a "Don't Californicate my State" bumper sticker on their new truck.

It has been 0 days since I injured myself in some inexplicable Thanksgiving preparation incident. Last year's incident involved finding the one sharp part of the carving knife the hard way. This year's featured a lid from a can of coconut milk.