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Turns out that totally insane behavior from the leaders of personality cults can evoke radically different reactions from those outside the cult compared to those in its thrall.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Ironically, this is Big Pharma's wet dream. Rather than a preventative vaccine that costs a few dollars a dose twice a lifetime, they can sell expensive new in-patent drugs for hundreds a dose that you need to keep taking.

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

This is true in the same way that everybody with an iPhone got a shit U2 album

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Art.

submitted 17 days ago • 146 comments

This is the #mapoli Kraft/Trump policy on city streets: give it all away to out of town drivers & safety for residents be damned.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

omfg

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

imagine if we had the chutzpah to (legally) reshape govt. this quickly and radically? Punish/reward for a green economy, walkable affordable cities, livable minimum wage, maternity leave, single payer healthcare, kill corporate lobbying, adopt a 1970s tax scheme, public funds for elections, etc.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Reason number 223.06 on why not to privatize social security.

submitted 34 days ago • 91 comments

This is the predictable result of Trump's threats against Greenland, Canada, Gaza, and Panama: Dictators elsewhere feel licensed to do the same. Eroding the foundational principle of the international legal order has consequences--and everyone will pay the price. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/w...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 35 days ago • 564 comments

Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.

submitted 35 days ago • 1638 comments

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.

submitted 35 days ago • 1526 comments

Paul Weiss: "Fight for you? Oh, honey, we don't even fight for ourselves!"

submitted 48 days ago • 138 comments

So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.

submitted 52 days ago • 215 comments

Trump (idiotically) objects to maps w "artificial lines drawn through them." Bad news for 49 US states plus DC. All except Hawaii (plus other islands) have straight-lines as some part of their border. And spare a thought for Colorado and Wyoming! Bonus: would you hire someone who said this?

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