The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards.
Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.
Salute to an all-time tweet
To be fair, Thiel also has an unhealthy fixation on the antichrist and the Vice President of the United States he bought continues to escalate an embarrassing spat with the Pope. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...
Remember when Stanford asked Peter Thiel to teach a class where he encouraged students to drop out of Stanford and then he helped crash a bank with his group chat and now his company is doing Mein Kampf while scoring government contract after contract
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
Looking across history, in fairness these are core characteristics of rulers in “the West”
Paging @kanarinka.bsky.social
Totally fine that large parts of the British government are jumping into bed with a company whose public statements are "we are, at a fundamental level, absolutely batshit crazy neofascists".
Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square
But the hundreds of columns over the past 15 years from Jonathan Chatterton Friedersdorf were so insistent that leftist undergraduates were the real threat to free speech in America.
Death Cab for Cutie Academia isn't nearly as much fun as people think it is, but it's nice being on the other side of the tenure process. You joined a rowing crew but your shoulder is all fucked up so you had to stop, for now anyway. Clearly, your fandom for The Bachelor can no longer be considered to be ironic. As you sit in the Adirondack chair in the backyard, an hour after sunset, you fire up a joint and a dissociative disorder.
mcsweenys doesn’t miss
Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.
Congressional Democrats in 2027-2031: “we need to look forward, not backward”
it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
I cannot even begin to tell you.
How fast you will move to the top of my ballot.
If you publicly antagonize AI.
Easy policy win that the Biden administration steadfastly opposed because… we’re ruled by septuagenarians who came of age under the Nixon administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
Graphic showing global temperature and carbon dioxide from 1850 to 2025 from Climate Central.
Graphic showing carbon dioxide levels from 1958 to 2026 for the Keeling Curve in an interactive graphic from Climate Central
We have a new monthly series at @climatecentral.org highlighting the latest state of the climate, including guest speakers, attribution, and current extremes. Also includes a report summary and interactive graphics to explore/download the data.
Learn more at www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... 🧪
Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.
Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic
Please read @charmainechua.bsky.social on the warehouse as not so much a space of storage as it is a switch (turning off and on movement of capital and goods) and a trap (for low wage workers) and, now, a space of literal DHS incarceration. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
Project upgrade: explore a partisan breakdown of top words used in American online news headlines each week. Using Media Cloud data. dataculture.northeastern.edu/our-own-terms/
Some initial things I noticed 🧵
Characterising Global Platforms: Centralised, Decentralised, Federated, and Grassroots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03286
i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content
How do schisms tend to play in the midterms?
How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26899
Visiting Scientist @brianckeegan.com co-authored this thought-provoking piece that ties the influential book from 1968 to today's anti-immigration efforts.
That bump in late 2024/early 2025 is a whole vibe.
