Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"
Say it with your whole chest.
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Thomas’ mask comes all the way off. By the end it sounds like he’s sidling up to the notion of taking up arms against progressives abcnews.com/Politics/sup...
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
"losing the decades-old tax breaks could hinder its ability to maintain its headquarters in Richmond and carry out its operations." ah well, isn't that kind of the tradition? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
For me, a big “aha” moment in law school was when I realized that every year, the handful of normal, median-ish guys (they were all guys) who would land huge clerkships seemingly out of nowhere were all officers in the student FedSoc chapter
"In an email to Semafor, Hall told Semafor that while he uses AI in a 'limited way,' all 'written ideas, angles, summaries, takes, and editorial judgments are mine.' He said the mistakes were the result of problems with his production process."
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Don’t miss the latest from @lizdye.bsky.social on Trump’s frivolous litigation strategy for Public Notice @atrupar.com, which will have you… rooting for Rupert Murdoch??
What's so crazy about the way @emilysweeney22.bsky.social has blown up (for all the right reasons) is that she was using social media to promote her work at the @bostonglobe.com back when most of her colleagues didn't even know what it was. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...
Less than 5% of indictments ever go to trial.
Plea bargains ARE our criminal justice system
And all those nice sounding constitutional rights disappear the second you sign a plea bargain - no matter what heinous evil police or prosecutors committed to pressure you to sign away those rights.
I come away from this thinking Adam Back is a thoroughly reasonable suspect as Satoshi Nakamoto, and that the article has not really even got close to convincing me it's him
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This order is untenable and must be stayed in that the building is under construction, with deep Top Secret excavations, foundations, and structures, already built, and ready to receive heavily fortified, for security reasons, steel, bullet, ballistic, and blast proof glass, and drone proof roofing materials, which must be finished quickly, and not allowed to be exposed to the conditions and elements of an open construction site. Time is of the essence! In granting this shocking, unprecedented, and improper injunction, one that could have been sought long ago, prior to the start of construction (in that there was full knowledge, through large scale media attention and publicity, that the White House ballroom was planned to be built, and there would have been a great deal of time for them to object, long before the start of construction, even though their objection would likewise have been baseless and frivolous), the district court took the erroneous, sweeping view that Congress did not authorize the ballroom
Lawgeeks, here is the administration's emergency motion to resume construction of Trump's vanity ballroom.
Unusually for appellate work, it includes three exclamation points in the first four pages.
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Let’s talk about how this works and why we have older devices. When I started doing cabin integration back in 2017, we actually had a 2020 launch date. We bought the tablets the crew used for Artemis II back then. To not spend as much, we limited our choice to devices that were in the ISS catalog.
LMAO at Duke radio calling for a celebration tech on UConn
Editors’ Note: March 30, 2026: A reader recently alerted The Times that this review included language and details similar to those in a review of the same book published in The Guardian. We spoke to the author of this piece, a freelancer reviewer, who told us he used an A.I. tool that incorporated material from the Guardian review into his draft, which he failed to identify and remove. His reliance on A.I. and his use of unattributed work by another writer are a clear violation of The Times’s standards. The reviewer said he had not used A.I. in his previous reviews for The Times, and we have found no issues in those pieces. The Guardian review of “Watching Over Her” can be read here.
Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
The elite attack on universities has already substantially eroded academic freedom and free speech. People should be hired based on merit. We should avoid any procedure that punishes applicants or faculty based on political views. And no ideological quotas or monitoring of faculty.
Every tech person I know that’s gone deep in AI comes away realizing that Claude can already do a surprising chunk of their job and this is the worst the tech will ever be.
How far behind tech is the rest of the world? Optimistically 3-5 years, but big tech's pace since November has surprised me.
I'll take "More Stupid Plans That Won't Do What He Thinks" for $1000, Alex.
Mohommad Paktyawal worked with US forces in Afghanistan & sought asylum here in 2021. He died shortly after ICE detained him on Friday. “It is highly unusual for an otherwise healthy 41-year-old man to die less than a day after being taken into government custody.” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Why would anyone ever help this country again?
The lawyers are likely correct that Carr would lose this in court. They were also likely correct that Trump would lose his lawsuits against ABC and CBS -- but their corporate owners (with much deeper pockets to fight than a local station) folded instead. That’s the real threat.
Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.
"We're built different from those Americans. Unlike them, we Europeans would never vote in maniacal oligarchs who use nationalism to pander to the downwardly mobile."
Always funny to see Europeans try to distance themselves from the global fascism that has evolved directly from their centuries of desire for other people’s land & belongings.
But distance from USA is imperative right now. So if the classic European approach oof acting high & mighty achieves that…
graph showing wealth concentration
Vast concentrations of wealth have sometimes - but not always - generated political pushback. In some cases, the very wealthy tolerated higher taxes or committed to philanthropy to offset populist dissent.
Now they pretend to be the populists, and keep the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
“The goal of this project is nothing less than the erasure of the scholarly and institutional gains made by Black studies over the last 60 years.”
Doesn’t really work to demand intensely data-driven decision-making from the news side while maintaining the opinion side as a vanity project that alienates your audience.
A screenshot from a NY Times article about Bezos’ management of the Washington Post It reads: The fallout from the announcement was immediate. Subscribers again canceled in droves, and some Post Opinion employees resigned. (A Post spokeswoman said the opinion section had recently seen an increase in reader engagement.) Mr. Shipley resigned. He now works as an editor at The Times.
amazing to watch execs continue to fall into the engagement trap
why might there be an “increase in reader engagement” for the opinion section?
certainly not because it keeps pumping out pieces that are widely mocked, right? that’s definitely sustainable, right?
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A screenshot that reads: At another point, he expressed enthusiasm about the commentary published by The Free Press, a news and opinion site founded by the journalists Bari Weiss, Nellie Bowles and Suzy Weiss, and that month had dinner with Bari Weiss and Ms. Bowles in New York at the upscale Indian restaurant Bungalow.
how predictable
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