Oh no Not me I never lost control You're ass to ass with the man who gaped his hole

The TV in the FBI Director's office closet:

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

it is maturity and the ability to "walk a mile in another man's shoes, even if that man is a law professor" that separates is from the animals

When did "being autistic" become worse than death to the nominal populous?

I certainly wouldn't want to imply that law professors are naïve to the point of being nearly-braindead

The Wired article in one picture

H1B thing is just example 486 of how republicans can't deal with Real Problems. The system is flawed, it is a Real Problem. They are not interested in reform to do things like streamline the process and reduce the potential for fraud, they are interested in being racist to Indians.

Autistic traits are genetic and exist across every single human population, which means they had already evolved before Homo Sapiens migrated out of Africa. Autistic traits exist because they conferred our ancestors an evolutionary advantage due to its association with systematic thinking. 1/x

So @hollyanderson.bsky.social called it. She told me this whole debacle was gonna radicalize Cousin Sal

Of the 2 developments in the conservative drive to control American culture, Trump moving to silence criticism in the media is almost less impactful than MAGA-aligned billionaires buying major media outlets & moving them to the right. Paul Starr with a great essay: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

I think about this several times a week. bsky.app/profile/matt...

the happy little giggle after he pulls off the pot one, dudes rock so hard

Trump "desperately wants you to believe you're living in a fully consolidated authoritarian state...but you have to understand it is an illusion...all the authoritarian steps have to be balanced against the ways the entire society is pushing back." -- @jamellebouie.net bsky.app/profile/cole...

I wrote about the perhaps surprising American railway boom this week: www.economist.com/united-state...

From the perspective of Catholic dogma this is literally unambiguously heresy and if we still enforced the canons of the Council of Trent as written one could be excommunicated for publicly teaching this

marx was wrong. he was wrong in useful ways that pushed history as a field forward, but marxism as a “historical science” has been utterly refuted by actual history—Marx’s predictions did not come true, and the rise of post-industrial society renders marxism-as-written incoherent

marx predicted 1) the continual and worsening immiseration of a growing proletariat class, 2) which would gradually come to represent one of only 2 classes, with the petite bourgeoisie dissolving into it, and which 3) would inevitably overthrow the governments of the industrialized world.

none of this has happened, the proletarian class is both smaller, wealthier, and works less than in Marx’s day, and is shrinking in power. his relevance is as a notable historian, economist, and philosopher, whose ideas would leave important legacies in those fields, but are themselves obsolete

Impeachment is necessary but not sufficient

It’s so heavy because it’s full of mercy… (c) Nicholas D. Wolfwood

He certainly knows nothing

Maybe having the worst person alive dictating all laws was a bad idea

100% graduated income tax on all fortunes above $5 million. Problem solved

You cannot reason with people who have no desire to reason

The elites only care when one of their own gets caught up in the crossfire, because they then realize that *they're* in the crossfire, too

What must be done cannot be said on here

The amount of reeducation necessary after this makes my eyes water

honestly the simultaneously truest, funniest, most fitting, and most damning thing you can say about this is: he would have wanted it this way

"What if we monetized the torment?"

We used to bail out domestic corporations and banks; now we're bailing out crypto scammers on another continent

I cannot *wait* for the discovery proceedings

Good question for this Congress.

The Church must take up the mantle of command

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

Because he's the Antichrist

“Jesus said love your enemy, but not me, the guy who is definitely not the antichrist”

It’s the addition of wheels to make the act of carrying the cross easy and painless that really tells you everything you need to know about the absolutely uncritical and selfish ideological positioning of this kind of politics.

i coined it as a very bitter, derisive joke about lack of consequences for J6 but "posing zeno's paradox with the application of handcuffs" really seems to be the federal Democrat m.o. for subjecting elites to the rule of law

Texas is not a republic

John Roberts doesn't have an army.

"Freedom of movement is absolute!" Plaster it across every wall you find

The 2001 AUMF's natural conclusion

The difference between me and a never Trump Republican is that I was never stupid enough to vote Republican

"Bribery is legal, now"