Watching the US and Britain is so often like encountering a young adult you can't believe is such a toxic asshole and then you meet their parents and suddenly it all makes sense.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

It is also a bit sad that we now have to congratulate people at the Times for describing reality correctly.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

Weird that they would fire the navy secretary who’s been overseeing a war we’ve won at least five times.

The Trump admin is so unskilled they are not only losing militarily, economically, and politically, but they have improved the likability of a genuinly murderous regime.

There is not a clap slow enough.

Normal people: the courts are very serious interpreters of the law

The courts: go ahead, impersonate the feds

Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.

The DOJ position in this case would be that if you, a citizen or resident of the US, want to investigate whether or not a public official is treating his girlfriend to a Kardashian lifestyle on the taxpayer's dime, you are stalking him.

a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red

A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes

Right: How Mississippi actually votes

You would think con men would be less successful in an age when people can find the receipts with a device in their hands. But alas, this country could't even remember an attempted coup 3 years later.

That ahit is terrifying. Can't fool me. I saw The Birds.

The national GOP tomorrow could easily pass a bill that bans gerrymandering and mandates competitive maps, but they won't. Instead they'll just lean into grievance and self-victimhood.

This admin is not the first faithless American admin. But it sure racks up the number of betrayals at an unprecedented rate.

Yes.

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North Carolina ICE arrests continue at fast pace after Border Patrol surge In the months after the Border Patrol’s surge on Charlotte, ICE arrested thousands of immigrants statewide.

North Carolina ICE arrests continue at fast pace after Border Patrol surge in Charlotte. ICE arrested about 2,300 people over 3 months, hitting monthly records higher than before surge. ICE credits HB318 with making arrests easier. (Via Caitlin McGlade) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

it really speaks to the double standard pervasive throughout all of politics that even when Democrats play dirty they put it up to a public referendum and still get harsher media coverage

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Anyway, what a whirlwind trip. I know that things have been so difficult and traumatic and the future is uncertain, but it felt nice to do something good for someone and to see a family reunited after so much suffering. On the drive home, he said he’d gotten taken in winter and now it was summer.

You woke up and chose violence.

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

70 Minnesota children.

Delta Air Lines, who likely flew nearly all of these kiddos out of MSP, could publicly condemn this and end the practice tomorrow, as the airlines did in 2018 with family separation, but it’s easier to stay silent.

Is there even a single person under 35 on Bluesky?

How exhausting to be an American man. 24/7 MAGA marketing that your natural state is sociopathy, & life is a jealous, insecure, anxious slog with a wife you don't respect and kids you can't hug, all so you can do push-ups and blow up schools to impress other men who would stomp on you for a dollar.

And for $20 million you can buy the naming rights to "wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Balmer"

We need to stop worrying about mainstream Dem commitment to progressive values and worry more about their lack of political skill and discernment. They blame losses on those to their left and then double down on alienating them. And they lack the creativity to find a different approach.

I've heard this in nonprofit spaces, and I think esoteric language is an actual problem in nonprofit circles.

But the political question I have is what these pols think they gain from punching left. It doesn't convert anyone MAGA and it alienates part of their potential base. What's the strategy?

An American company really out here pushing an explicitly white supremacist agenda on taxpayer dime.

These parasitic companies pull in a good chunk of their funding from a government whose tax dollars are generated by a culturally diverse tax base. As ever with white supremacists, Thiel gobbles up the resources of a pluralistic society ($10b gov contract in 2025) while denying its benefits.

One reason to never allow high-minded sophisticates to dictate what publications, activities, and networks matter for society is that resistance to autocratic rule often pops up in the least obvious places and spaces.