We should use the correct term. Trump and his gang were trying to overthrow the government. We had a duly elected government that they were trying to dislodge. The election was secondary.

Derek Thompson is the canonical example of what staying on Twitter does to your brain.

Everything should change: The Supreme Court should have 5 justices per Circuit (so currently 65 justices), and each case that is taken up by the court should have a random selection of justices to hear and decide it. And each justice should also ride their Circuit for part of the year.

We all know this, but he's just such a terrible person. Like I find it hard to believe how terrible a person he is. I am so sick of this crap.

He has lost his tiny little mind. And no one will mention it.

Everything Should Change: We should pay our legislators far more, ban them from any sort of trading, and tighten up our bribery and corruption statutes.

Everything Should Change: The US House of representatives should have districts capped at 100,000 people, and each district should have 5 representatives chosen by instant runoff voting (or similar). The Senate should have all of its responsibilities taken away.

Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.

The man doesn't have to believe anything. The things he says and does are terrible - just say that. Don't try to look into his heart because (A) you'll never know if you found it and (B) he may not have one.

Slightly diminish a book The Casual Acquaintances of the Ring

This week in P-hacking

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

Good morning. I watched a livestream of a local airport commission meeting earlier this week. What I saw was, well, what we've been seeing in blue areas for decades now -- public outcry vs. so-called public servants. gillianbrockell.com/public-outcr...

This is totally actual news and something that we all needed to know about. /s

Let everyone file for free! H&R blockheads, amirite?

“It would be absurd to argue that having more psychiatric appointments 2+ years after *referral to a psychiatrist* was an indicator of issues with mental health.”

Again my thesis is the great divide in politics is being driven by positive emotions and negative ones, and the coalition of the loving needs to win .

I think the 2028 Democratic winner of the presidential election should declare, before taking office, that they will disregard any SCOTUS ruling that any illegitimate justice participated in. The justices and Congress can solve that as they see fit.

wow, looks like a rough patch for stocks AND bondis

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court's only opinion is Chiles v. Salazar. By an 8–1 vote, the court holds that Colorado's ban on LGBTQ "conversion therapy" for minors is viewpoint discrimination and therefore triggers strict scrutiny under the First Amendment. Jackson dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate." [kottke.org]

"Man convicted of manslaughter after girlfriend dies hiking in winter storm" sounds insane until you get into the details. He put an inexperienced hiker into harm's way despite explicit warnings and waved away numerous attempts to rescue her! The punishment was too lax here, not too severe.

Shorter Jason Furman: it used to be that the tech industry was dominated by only five companies. But AI has changed all that: now there's open competition from five whole companies!

Seriously, 12 step rooms are filled with bio-hackers. We just used to call it “self-medicating.”

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

The short clip has gone viral with people making out it shows something very different For 3 days a group of Americans came and stood near a Mosque and called Muslims sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred And the worst that happened was some Muslims asked the police why that was allowed🤷🏼‍♀️

HA! The Economist sure does write some funny stuff!

Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain. But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NEW: In Iowa, when someone's charges are *dismissed,* they still had to pay court fees. So prosecutors pressured ppl into pleading guilty: 'plead guilty, you'll have no fees. (If you win, you'll owe $$.)' Iowa's Supreme Court struck that down in January... but prosecutors want to bring it all back:

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

step 1: hire philosophers in your chatbot company step 2: train the chatbot to generate results based on materials the philosophers are familiar with step 3: the chatbot generates those results step 4: sentience??????

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

An observation I've been thinking about: Around 2020, we were told that US political & corporate elites had been gripped by "wokeness" & thus become obsessed with climate change & diversity. This wokeness was alleged to be so severe & monomaniacal that it threatened the entire culture & economy.

Love this. Love that we live in a world where the dumbest, most evil motherfuckers alive get to monologue incoherently into a microphone for 3 minutes and it's published verbatim on the website of the nation's most prestigious newspaper. Great work everyone www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

To recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Arrest the ICE agents. Do it now.

Miller REAAALLLLY wants everyone to be as racist as he is.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Incompetence, rushing, or willful disobedience?

This rates a "mostly bullshit" on the Bullshitometer.

"Ultimately, learning requires friction. It requires the uncomfortable sensation of not knowing, the strain of recall, and the cognitive demand that tech companies are seeking to eliminate."

I am SOOOOOO glad I got off of all of Meta's platforms a while ago. It's like one big dumpster fire composed of smaller dumpster fires.

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!