Eight hours later, there are still people outside the Reagan building cheering for USAID workers who’ve come back to retrieve their belongings. Hugs, roses. Rush hour traffic on Penn. Ave is honking in support.

This sort of comic book corruption is quite literally illegal in every single country in the world that has written laws. I don't even know what else you say about this, it's amazing

it's really remarkable how badly every major stakeholder has fucked up discourse about free speech: media outlets spent a decade handwringing about college campuses, while the Supreme Court has been busy making sure that billionaires have access to unfettered political ad spending