Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2025, despite making $5.7 billion.
This Tax Day, remember that you have paid more in taxes than a multi-billion dollar company—all thanks to corporate tax breaks from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Great video.
All mayors want to show that the city is able to “do something.” Often this means performative policing, which means a lot of stop-and-frisk but no change in crime.
Mamadani is taking a different path, placing emphasis on the public goods the city can should deliver.
My Spring to do list
by JD Vance
1. Prevent Iran war
2. Negotiate end to Iran war
3. Reelect Viktor Orbán
Delighted to be part of this symposium on Cedric’s wonderful book.
I’m looking for someone to pay my mortgage. Any takers?
Regrettably that “miraculous protection” did not extend to the 13 dead, over 300 wounded, and estimated $2.1-$3.6 billion in damage to equipment. If god deserves all the glory, does he also deserve all the blame? Or does that lie with his faithful adherents on earth, I wonder?
An epitaph for our times
There. Were. No. Books.
You know what, you [signal drops]
Winners of the war so far:
- Putin
- The arms industry*
I think that’s about it.
*The arms industry generally wins.
A depressing but interesting conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social @newrepublic.com on the miscalculation (noncalculcation?) the Trump administration made over the Strait of Hormuz. There’s gonna be a Trump premium on oil for a while.
Dire Straits more like.
Epic stupidity
It’s a pity that neither the public nor its representatives in Congress got to weigh in on the decision to spend billions more dollars on weapons.
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As anyone who actually read Orwell would know, he would never have written such a thing.
Fortunately for Noem, she’ll now have plenty of time for reading.
File under “political scientists who would make terrible politicians.” It’s quite a big file.
Congrats!! Let’s celebrate in Chicago!!
One is a murderous pariah state, the other is Iran.
Prof. Robert Pape:
"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".
Demanding Idi Amin-level sychophany will destroy our military and bureaucratic capacity for generations to come.
What’s a faculty lounge?
The irony
1970s futurism. Love it. It’s all very Star Wars.
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He’s just a regular guy, aside from his elite background and education at Vanderbilt, UVA, and Magdalen College, Oxford.
It is particularly gratifying that Judge Leon quotes Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues in his ruling.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Hegseth from Punishing Kelly for Video www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
The humbling of Big Cheese.
Olympian levels of stupidity.
Accusation as admission, as usual.
