So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

This is some of the best journalism news I've heard since forever. Radley is absolutely indispensable for pulling back the curtain to show how the carceral state works.

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

guys I know every one of you wants to act out this specific tweet to the letter but one of the non-negotiable things about being a catholic is that the pope is the real pope

Putting this disclaimer before an angry boy editorial calling for violence in the streets is so so so funny to me. Literally undermines the piece entirely.

I was having a similar thought yesterday as I was reviewing the Supreme Court's racial profiling shadow docket order, which--like so many of the Court's orders, as @sifill.bsky.social has pointed out--just substitutes their own nonsense for all the diligent, real fact-finding the trial court did

If your worldview can't coexist with facts, the solution isn't to just change the facts.

Jimbo just wanted to expand his soft porn business by having an expert-edited encyclopedia with ads use free labour by nerds doing working drafts on this wiki thing that Larry Sanger set up for him

ok felt compelled to look this up due to the reskeet and a apparently it is even better/pithier “it works in practice but not in theory” and apparently it is bandied about the wiki community but i didn’t see anything convincing about the first person to say it.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

the tiny people who live in my phone should be friends and when they aren't it makes me sad

Oh by the way any nerd or journalist that wants an overview of this stuff: COIN: FMI 3-24.2 Opsec: JPUB 3-13.3 UW: Best high-level right now is Understanding Urban Warfare, Liam Collins & John Spencer None of this is super well-written but it's got the broad strokes.

there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

It was perhaps more stark for me than most, but SCOTUS clerks aren’t “smart” in the way that, say, the theoretical chemistry grad student lunches at Berkeley were. They’re just really aligned with power.

While I haven't seen any evidence Tyler Robinson was a groyper, I have been getting a lot of questions bc I write about Nick Fuentes. Here is a thread of some of my work about Fuentes and/or his followers.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

*extremly gritted teeth*

This tracks with one of my favorite tweets about relationships

Ok, having (kinda sorta) conquered Grill Girl Summer™️, I’m gearing up for Soup Queen Fall 👸🍁 HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SOUP RECIPES ⬇️

I am determined to become a grill girlie this summer, so: GIMME YOUR BEST RECIPES for grilling out

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment. For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You will want to find a high quality dry cleaner. If you can't find a suitable one, Rave FabriCARE in Arizona takes mail-ins. Most people will only need to dry clean a suit once a year even with regular wear. Regular maintenance can be done with a garment brush.

The record is suffering

I listened to Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast. If you want to know how it went, see the following email that I just sent. 1/13

#SCOTUS *denies* emergency application from NetChoice seeking to put Mississippi's age-verification-for-social-media law back on hold. Kavanaugh concurs, noting that NetChoice is likely to prevail on the merits, but that he's denying relief anyway because of the equities (which he doesn't address):

/15 The two FBI guys were like Ken, why are you mad, we KICKED ASS, everything went great, look at all this great stuff we got! And the DSS agent was like Ken, you did a great job explaining, but we have different jobs, and sometimes that means different outlooks.

I am a *lawyer who practices federal law.* Several times a week I see a headline that makes me think "there's no way the President can do that, right?" and I look into it and it turns out that maybe he can because Congress ceded some of its power in the What's the Worst That Could Happen Act of 1983

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Motherfucking wind farms…

A lot of people who voted for Trump did so because they believed he would help fix the economy and immigration. Thats not what’s happening, in fact he’s doing quite the opposite — his attacks on immigrants are backfiring and impacting our economy. Let’s talk about. A 🧵

Folks, get in here. We’re admitting all the dumb wrong shit we believed until we were way too old.

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

Text 24. "oh, you know the ones" by @ndrew.bsky.social xcancel.com/ndrew_lawren...

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

"Arrests at End of Shifts to Rake In Overtime Pay" "All of NYPD's worst misconduct officers are paid about $200,000 a year" "$500 million in police misconduct lawsuits over 10 years" "Police solve just 2% of all major crimes" "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"

Who voted for this?

"US representative democracy" update: GOP and Dem prez have held WH 24 yrs each since 1976. Carter/Clinton/Obama/Biden, vs Reagan/GHWB/GWB/Trump. -Most recent Dem prez to appoint a Chief Justice: HTruman, 1948. -Most recent Dem-appointed majority on Scotus, 1969. Long before most Amers were born

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵