deny harder magats.

and fuck you all to hell and back again.

In a nutshell. 😊

his post from a few days ago in which he first (?) referenced it struck me as an inescapably pejorative reference.

i fail to see what's pejorative about an extra $300 a week in UC, especially when so many states (like NY, where I live) offer basically nothing -- i.e., vis-à-vis the cost of living.

Recall the Supreme Court held there was a constitutional right to stand on a public sidewalk and scream homophobic rants at a soldier's funeral as long as you're a bunch of right-wing religious freaks, but apparently it's a crime to stand on a public sidewalk and smirk while Black.

my company is half european. that half doesn't want to travel to the u.s. so our last 2x offsites have been outside the united states -- in lisbon and montreal.

it's pretty much the only aspect of the ongoing horror that has any upside.

each time i travel i'm tempted not to come back.

people talk about consumer sentiment being out of whack vis-à-vis actual economic conditions: if voter sentiment were not disjunct af vis-à-vis actual conditions (to say nothing of causes + effects), the republican party would be the tiniest rump of a party possible in the american political system.

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

i dont understand, 2 days ago i was told there was a deal, i was told it was over and we got everything we wanted, i was told the strait would never be closed again, i was told all this just as markets were hitting their stride on friday afternoon

An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne

The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.

And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.

You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

is something like fpuc-level disbursement -- as a normal (non-emergency) thing -- so bad?

now as ever a good editor is a great writer's secret weapon.

this stuff matters more than ever ... to those with eyes to see it. (this includes machine intelligence, which needs rigorous, thoughtful, carefully reasoned content to train on.) spread the word.

Van Gogh's painting of cows in a field. The sky is a weird yellowy green colour, there is a crow in the distance and five cows in the field.

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Image unrelated, I just really like Van Gogh's painting of cows

Yea, sir. The rascal’s drunk

this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something

really does feel like we have a bunch of commentators who would like to just say “the bell curve was right”

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Really enjoying this new series "Where in the World is JD Vance Being Humiliated"

i remember the very day that this happened! i was a high school freshman in the philly burbs!

part of the reason people don’t believe this is a real problem is because every republican admin spends like a drunk sailor and every dem admin gets asked why they’re not paying for it, which is another reason to imprison every trump appointee

I used to work at an org like this (though it was an order of magnitude smaller than Block). Senior management did pretty much fuckall. Formal process didn't exist.

Doing work wasn't rewarded. Getting other people to do your work was. So strategy and sequencing was based purely on warlord strength.

SV tech bros have been jerking off about the idea of "flat" orgs for decades. But a flat org doesn't mean there are no hierarchies. It means the hierarchies are informal, hidden, inconsistent.

Do-nothing meeting attenders appoint themselves feudal lords.

Nuclear proliferation is inherently bad, but the way Iran is conducting itself in this war makes the prospect of them getting nukes seem less horrible than it did before. They're acting like rational actors, unlike Israel and the US.

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

A+ headline.

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Does anyone feel safer now

A version of Les Mis where they didn’t steal bread because they were shown a graph proving they’re not starving

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

Hundreds of protestors from a coalition of organizations were arrested while staging a sit in outside of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand’s office during an anti war demonstration demanding an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.

Now Oracle's AI play begins to make sense

By Natalie Allison The inyolvement of Vice President JD Vance had raised hopes around the world that the weekend negotiations in Pakistan would solidify the ceasefire with Iran and put an end to the war within reach.

In what universe did this take place

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