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“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

submitted 29 days ago • 967 comments

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

submitted 32 days ago • 168 comments

I have this fight with folks about FORTRAN all the time. If something is running in an oldass programming language there is probably a really good reason.

submitted 34 days ago • 24 comments

Feel like this piece, which I wrote a year ago, is holding up pretty well. Which is unfortunate for my 401(k). www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 28 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 42 days ago • 1166 comments

I recorded a special episode of my Bulwark podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social this morning to discuss Paul, Weiss’s appalling capitulation to the First Extortionist of the United States. I didn’t mince words. Link below. @thebulwark.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 316 comments

These are the principles, set out by the great Judge Simon Rifkind, that once governed Paul Weiss. They should take his name out of the firm’s name out of respect for his memory.

submitted 44 days ago • 235 comments

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

submitted 52 days ago • 34 comments

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.

submitted 54 days ago • 114 comments

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 162 comments

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Some context for the un-emBloomberged masses of Bluesky: today's GDPNow estimate is literally the worst number excepting COVID that has happened since the indicator existed

submitted 61 days ago • 133 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 65 days ago • 431 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 67 days ago • 119 comments

Extortion.

submitted 70 days ago • 16 comments

“I will venture only the most general prediction: that the withdrawal of the American security umbrella will be a really, really bad thing. It will have effects both immediate and long-lasting that will be exceptionally difficult to undo.”

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of the funniest and most original short stories I’ve ever read. Weird and wonderful. By George Saunders, of course: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... (Also… George Saunders in The Atlantic!)

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Purging the woke social justice warriors who... *checks notes*... make sure we have working nuclear weapons.

submitted 78 days ago • 16 comments

New from me at @cato.org: I explore the disturbing implications of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation of San Francisco radio station KCBS over its coverage of a Jan. 26 federal immigration raid. /1

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

My piece on Patel is up. (Gifted here. Thanks, Bluesky folks.) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 153 days ago • 543 comments