We got a new puppy and his name is Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wanna see?
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We got a new puppy and his name is Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wanna see?
It’s @zachwahls.bsky.social time
As I am (genuinely) always saying, @radleybalko.bsky.social is a national treasure. Speaks well of O that he can see this. Also I think O was really into the book recommendation part here so be sure to tune into that
oh my god
Thank you !
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
The weirdos were right. The West really is committing suicide. But it's using the weirdos to do it. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
imagining the imagined mother’s reaction to an imagined citizen soldier is so funny
i didn't get into it in my essay on this speech, but beyond the basic incoherence of vance's assorted grievances, i'm struck by how ungrateful *he* is, a man who owes his fame and fortune to the open, cosmopolitan society he is trying to destroy for the sake of power
the line between what they will and won’t do is extremely mysterious
They seem nice
and then they forget it ever happened !
Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful
I would rather die than create an account to continue
Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
Calling these outcomes 'deals' or 'agreements' is in the interest of both university administrators (who do not want to appear passive) and the White House (which does not want to appear authoritarian). They are extortions—displays of power & dominance designed to coerce all universities watching.
not really clear what columbia offers beyond the reputation of a credential it devalues day after day after day ..
when i arrived in myanmar in 2004 as one of a handful of americans one of the first questions i got was “do you know Hulk Hogan?”
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
did the Air Strikes write this
Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
Haven’t really been following any of this but my impression is that no one has ever looked guiltier in the history of crimes
he's bitin the heads off the angels now
incredible AI-relevant essaying in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon
Amazing. Do Trump’s lawyers not know what exclusive means?
have rarely identified so closely with a narrator as i did with this great @annielowrey.bsky.social piece on plastic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
For literally decades climate hawks and progressives have warned that internal combustion will die off and the tech of the future is electric + battery power and that if we didn’t seize the initiative China would eat our lunch and…welp!
It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign
The speed with which the admin created and enforced this new "of course immigration officers should conceal their faces and identity" standard was amazing.
Some relevant context for Rufo pretending to care about the solemn integritude about the Columbia admissions process is that he massively lowered the admissions standards for the college he de facto runs as an affirmative action program for male jocks reason.com/2023/08/16/n...
when the history of this time is written it will seem as if the pandemic tipped inevitably into fascism … in reality catalyst feels closer to some combination of boredom, prosperity, nihilism
I know I’ve said a thousand times, but platform economics made customer satisfaction irrelevant to business performance. That made everyday life coarser and meaner. Degraded a lot of our civic life.
In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.
This story names something that had been really bothering me: public opinion, shaped by irrefutable, horrific, daily reporting by people in Gaza, turned against Israeli government years ago. Polls have shown this consistently. Why do Dems ignore their voters on this? nymag.com/intelligence...
Spare change? Sorry. The sign says I gotta give it to an organization with 30% administrative overhead.
A small, secretive group of lizards that still exist today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision that led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
school day still starts with pledge of allegiance so let’s start there …
This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Fantastic reported essay about what a public acclimated into fascism looks like on the ground. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
gotta go pimsleur
This is a fantastic answer www.reddit.com/r/Micromobil...
interesting
This article on the Secretary of Defense in New York Magazine is a banger ...
Again and again, the Free Press spent years complaining about illiberalism and when confronted with the first truly authoritarian government of our lifetimes went from being soft apologists to full throated endorsers
My big story about Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon: nymag.com/intelligence...
it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"
Me, crying and pleading: You can't just say everything is a prison...please.... Michel Foucault: *pointing at a pixel on my phone* prison
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
i’m sorry that you’ve been brain poisoned by strunk and white. many such cases
actually written to avoid landing the clause on an unstressed syllable; i prefer to land on something hard and substantial. grammar is arbitrary but rhythm is real
clicked knowing exactly who the author would be
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Any @kerryhowley.bsky.social article is a treat, but a Kerry Howley profile of Pete Hegseth? Just delicious. To be sipped & savored.
We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history
solidarity
So many of the central identity markers of these groups, like categorical opposition to abortion, have no real scriptural basis, requiring ludicrous hermeneutical gymnastics to rationalize the later doctrine, while clear & explicit commands about treatment of aliens seem easily sloughed off.
Suzy Hansen stares into the abyss. The reckoning we need. nymag.com/intelligence...
thanks david !
Could not have written the Hegseth piece without @tarapalmeri.bsky.social’s incredible, deft Laura Loomer interview, which I highly recommend listening to in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrdd...
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
thank you !
oh my god
This is *such* a good read. I was unable to pick a pull-quote - every graf is better than the last. My eyebrows got a workout. Also, I laughed out loud several times. Also, it's terrifying that these people are in charge now.
thank you Will
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ideal reader !
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thanks sam !
This is probably the best feature I've read all year—an incredible feat of reporting, impeccably structured, and absolutely ecstatic and hilarious on a line level.
no you are !!
This would just be pure comedy if it weren't about the people ostensibly in control of our military. @kerryhowley.bsky.social reports inside the DoD workplace drama. nymag.com/intelligence...
what a fabulous paragraph
this is a masterpiece @kerryhowley.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
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My big story about Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon: nymag.com/intelligence...
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CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies
American is worse off if all the smartest people from around the globe go to study in China or Europe. Fact that we're sacrificing our golden goose, science/tech/research, so we can pretend to bring back tube-sock manufacturing is insane
People are getting kidnapped by the secret police for arguing the position of the Financial Times opinion page.
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
Do it, Trump. Reopen Action Park.
A truly depressing account of the enormous time, effort, & resources that go into building *anything* in blue cities. Can not be exaggerated how much this phenomenon is crippling blue politics in the US. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable
if I’d known that’s what IHS was all about i would have gotten involved
“Location data is some of the most sensitive, revealing information that is generated by our devices,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @wired.com. “You can paint a very clear picture of someone's life with just a list of all the places they've been in their car.”
Eight year old: Who is the pope? Me: Begins to explain… Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”
people are like “don’t play the victim” but it turns out if you’re determined to cast yourself as the victim in every conceivable situation you may end up vice president of the United States
the take that kills me is that JD is the “smart” one; Trump is a generational political talent and there are 6 JD’s in every freshman comp class in america. just utterly replaceable
ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague
This is realistically the last year California Democrats could pass pro-housing legislation in time to turn around what is shaping up to be a bruising Electoral College reapportionment in 2030. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mnolangr...
exactly
John Hawkinson 