"He recounted a strange dream he'd had the night before: 'I was supposed to marry Arianna Huffington,' he said, 'and J.D. was supposed to marry the girl I had a crush on in high school, but couldn't have. I arranged things so that we switched brides...'"

Irvine, featured in this article, is politically fascinating: a private New Town built not long after Reston and Columbia, but unlike them it incorporated—and after about a decade, it elected a DSA mayor.

"The El Paso Drone Scare is the future of national security paranoia"

Super Bowl ads get results!

"The horizontalist response to the failures of horizontalism in the 2010s...is that we're really just getting started."

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"A western European 'water world' was a holdout for hunter-gatherers for thousands of years..."

The Washington Post withdraws; the Baltimore Banner steps in

Someday someone should ask him what exactly he means by "Transgender for Everybody."

"more information about the rural Roman 90 percent has emerged from the construction of Euro Disney than from the well-intentioned excavations designed to find them"

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If this looks like pathetic flailing *now*, just wait til the primary season is over.

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

The FCC vs. "Radio Touche Douce"

"That is, after all, the consistent story of the Epstein case. Whatever damage leaks or conspiracy theories would have done, the government's ham-fisted attempts to control the narrative have only compounded it."

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...and another crack in the edifice...

"Back at base, bugs in the software/flash the message: 'Something's out there'"

Boy, those 10 days just flew by!

Banning all medevac helicopter flights over a big city for 10 days so the military can do whatever the hell it's doing seems like a really bad idea, even in the unlikely event that the military is doing something worthwhile.

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The first good clip I have ever seen from this show.

Grand jury refuses to go along with obviously unconstitutional horseshit

"I was shocked when Spotify told me, with its usual breezy confidence, that I was the number one listener in the world for an artist named Lorenz Graham. I was shocked, mainly, because I hadn't the faintest idea who the guy was."

"The deepest South": interesting article on slavery in Latin America

"It was utterly banal, but at least there wasn't much of it."

"When it finally got quiet and I realized it was cops shooting at me, I asked them, 'What is all of this for?' They were looking around and saying, 'We're trying to figure that out.' And I'm like, 'How do you not know why you just shot at me?'"

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People gave Megyn Kelly a hard time when she wasn't upset about the feds killing Alex Pretti, but you have to understand that she was saving her outrage for something big:

"Not until 2011—36 years after Nixon's testimony and 17 years after his death—did the National Archives release the grand jury transcript....Seven pages remained withheld, until now."

At first I thought the response to this was sarcastic—that the advice columnist was making a point about how insane it is that people call CPS for such reasons. But no: The columnist is as crazy as the letter writer appears to be.

Discord is getting less Discordian

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Operation Metro Surge is actively undermining the crackdown on Minnesota fraud.

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"The Taj Mahal, India's most famous landmark, is haunted by a conspiracy theory..."

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

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witchcraft in the news

I gotta trademark my name, man.

They were playing Buzzword Bingo and came up with "Gen-Z led progressive content hub."

"One gets the impression that Doctor Who writers are just constantly working through the implications of their own kinks."

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"These paramilitary tactical units behave not like local police, but instead like special forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other far-flung battlefields from the Forever Wars of the past quarter century."

"Trump" vs. "White House"

The squatter-landlord: "In some cases, that money was going to other tenants who claimed to be the managers. ProPublica interviewed a U.S. citizen who said that he and others moved Venezuelan families into empty units, charged whatever amount they believed was fair and pocketed the money."

"But a funny thing has happened with Miller's authoritarian fever dreams. As plans for these new detention facilities have become public, they're encountering opposition in...regions that backed Trump in 2024."

"You shouldn't be stigmatized for the rest of your life. Fundamentally, I agree with that concept. But...it doesn't mean that you have a right to be a cop."