basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.

If you're on the fence about adopting a blind or otherwise impaired pet, I can vouch, they're just as loving and chaotic as any other. You'll love being the one to give them a home!

i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative

These numbers are shocking. It’s also worth remembering that OpenAI is largely marking its own work here “The company designed its own benchmarks, and it's unclear how these metrics translate into real-world outcomes”

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

(from the inbox) Bikes were essential to ICE watching and rapid response on the north side today, helping people better locate feds in traffic. In this anonymized video, cyclists tail masked agents in a white Denali with Georgia plates through Rogers Park:

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

"women don't like the vehicle" is going to be lodged in my brain's neocortex for the rest of my natural life www.wired.com/story/owning...

According to rapid response, feds have grabbed one person from the Addison/Kimball Home Depot this morning. Several people detained in Back of the Yards as well, still all over the area. They've also returned to Carpentersville this morning, and were seen near an elementary school there.

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

No it isn’t stop complying in advance

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss. reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

the chris caldwell of 1948 would have been arguing against desegregation of the armed forces www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

OpenAI is discovering that there are reasons the fan creativity problem in copyright law hasn't been solved yet, despite decades of work. More later, but a couple of quick points now. futurism.com/future-socie...

sounds great

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Tomorrow’s free 18k word newsletter- The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel and the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA’s growth, leading to dark, dangerous circular financing reminiscent of Nortel. Wheresyoured.at

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

"I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate the way you lived your life." Amen.

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

consistently lost in navel-gazing about political violence is that, generally speaking, the kinds of people who engage in it individually are generally pretty incoherent and the act is usually more attributable to personal heroic narratives than actual, clear politics attributable to a real ideology

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

I always found this funny with trad divisions of labour where they're like "the woman takes care of the children and the home, and the man protects them" and it's like ok but one of those is a real job that actually happens and the other one is something you imagine while watching an action film

Making it explicit

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

What Brooks means when he says "values" are a set of gut intuitions shared by conservatives. Those intuitions do not actually reflect reality & cause disaster whenever they are translated to policy, but to people like Brooks they are primal, inarguable, the atomic units of politics.

The premise of this column is that the left is materialist & refuses to discuss values. Of course, the left tried to discuss values -- anti-racism, anti-misogyny -- in those heady years around 2020 & the result was immense, sustained backlash from people like Brooks. So ... not *those* values.

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.