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What good is seeing-eye chocolate? What good is a computerized nose? What good’s Sanskrit read to a pony? Not much, I guess, not much at all.
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To be clear, the extent and severity of that black eye is consistent with the physical abilities of a five-year-old child, so Stephen Miller remains a plausible suspect.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

“Than previously known” is doing a lot of work here, since the ability of the NYT to publish this on the day Musk retreats from DC suggests they at least had the broad outlines of this ready to go for a while now.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Sure glad we’re providing legal protections to crypto, it seems like a totally above-board business.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Wow. Town hall audience on Republicans’ Medicaid and SNAP cuts: “People are going to die.” Republican senator smirks: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 98 comments

“Musk desperately hoping he can put a couple of crash test dummies into space in time for the next Earth to Mars Hohmann orbit window” isn’t really an “aim,” it’s more like a rancid cocktail of flop sweat and fear.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

(Sighing leadenly) Leonard Leo, welcome to the Resistance.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Virtually everyone doing this are good people who mean well and want to help. Many of the people receiving funds are innocents trapped in a brutal warzone and desperately trying to survive. None of that matters, because this is a very very stupid thing to do for both legal and safety reasons.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The “stable bundle of policy preferences” thesis has never worked and can’t work, despite the political folk stories about Clintonian triangulation Third Way is pushing. Working to cement the rights of immigrants, transgender folk, Black Americans, etc. may be pushing uphill, but that’s not because/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Having slaughtered the golden goose of US higher ed, the Trump administration is now attempting to strong-arm foreign tax code changes by, uh, holding Wall Street hostage.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

One should as a matter of course not deliberately make food that trips the “toxic mold spores” part of the brain’s visual stream.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I don’t like being all sociotechnically reductionist, but prior to FB/TWTR/etc. aggressively antisocial people had less direct influence, simply because being aggressively antisocial tends to disadvantage you in real-life relationships, and elite gatekeeping selects for peer-group sociability.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trump's...bill...reminds me of a blighted historical example: the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890. It led to disaster. It was a classic case of an overconfident party overextending national finances to buy off a constituency without giving a thought to the consequences. Just like That Bill. 🧵/1

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Little Marco busy Making America Great, relinquishing America’s preeminent status in science and technology by deliberately denuding us of global intellectual talent.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Very exciting to watch the anti-vaccine crystal-healing woo-woo FDA leadership volunteer to import new and exciting HPAI variants to the US in defiance of APHIS regulations.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The elite commentariat are united in being so intellectually and emotionally inbred they’re completely unable to live outside of a very small hothouse bubble of Beltway insiders and Ivy League legacies. This is a rainbow novelty Post-It note, for god’s sake!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I really do appreciate that, every time I'm tempted to give Booker the benefit of the doubt, he promptly goes out of his way to remind me why I shouldn't.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Great choice Vance and Grenell made to lean hard on Romania to release these thugs to the US. The most dangerous immigrants in the US are the ones Trump is protecting.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We’re importing Andrew Tate and deporting degreed petroleum engineers who fled Columbia after being “threatened by paramilitary groups for participating in community charities that worked with youth and people struggling with drug addiction.”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NEJM literally went out of their way to publish woo-adjacent soft anti-vax propaganda from the FDA’s new guard, there really is no value in trying to compromise with these lunatics.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Even if Biden were totally non compos mentis, which I'm not willing to stipulate to, the proper equivalent isn't Nixon (unless Biden was raving about bombing the Brookings Institute), but Wilson, who was completely incapacitated for the last two years of his Presidency.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Speedrunning the Nixon administration here, 10/10, no notes (seriously, no notes and certainly no Oval Office tapes).

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

These people were just straight-up running bank fraud and tax evasion to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. Under Trump, there is no law binding the rich, the famous, the well-connected or the politically-useful.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments