Make sure to wear red and white socks. 😂

He’s playing tonight. I want to see the test scores!

Love this. The Onionati clearly do deep research on their subjects.

That’s an awesome idea

That nightmare has been there but less visible for a long time. It’s just fully overt now. My (perhaps generational) goal now that it’s out there for all to see is to address that nightmare fully and shift back to the pursuit of the dream.

Kid #3 calls them birbs too!!!!

Black dog with a red collar lying on the couch

Enjoying watching the World Series with my boy.

We are Red Sox fans but it’s nice seeing the AL East being well represented! Go Blue Jays!

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Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again — FORTUNE At our Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute forum, over 100 business leaders said what they really think. They're worried Trump is eroding America’s future.

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“CEOs told us they still believe in the promise of the U.S. and its capitalist system, but it’s hard to ignore the Trump administration’s drift toward a quasi-socialist statism,..”

Black dog on a trail in the woods

I went for a hike in a nearby state forest today with my boy. We both had a great time.

One more plug, subscribe to The Onion.

And then donate to PBS!

Also add the positive moves: donate to your local PBS station and get the PBS Passport benefits!

Vote with our dollars. That appears to be the only vote that matters anymore.
Cancel any subscriptions to streaming services like HBO Max, Disney+… anything that pulls money from media companies willing to allow the government to suppress speech.

scorching and eloquent response from Boston Mayor to Bondi threat to make trouble for them if they don't help carry out federal policy of mass deportations.

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

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Crochet was awesome tonight.

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit CUPERTINO, CA—Amidst the strain of tariffs, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Thursday the launch of a new 7,083-piece iPhone kit. “Apple customers will have a blast soldering, polishing, and drilling as t...

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit

So do you think Da Pope kicked Jake’s and Elwood’s butts for swearing when they were young?

Paul Pierce Promised to Walk 15 Miles to Work Barefoot in His Robe if the Celtics Lost Game 2 — Sports Illustrated Pierce made a bold claim. Will he follow through? When the Boston Celtics allowed the New York Knicks to mount a furious rally and steal Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinals series, there was...

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I want to see this. Celtics… step it up.

We are coming world

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism.

It’s disgusting and dangerous.

If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign.

Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.

To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

The Onion is in fact my preferred news source these days.

I really did not need supply chains to get even worse than 2020…

Sign: BOSTON INVENTED AMERICA ONCE WE WILL DOIT AGAIN IF WE HAVE TO

Sign “who next?” With outlines of tufts student in white being grabbed by two ice agents in black

Sign: BOSTON MAKING TYRANTS NERVOUS SINCE 1775

Sign: (crossed out: YANKEES) NAZIS SUCK

The sign game is strong on the Common today

So many great signs, bsky lets me show you 4

#Boston
#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #50501 #Mass50501 #FiftyFiftyOne #BostonTok #Indivisible #SwingBlue

Happy to see my representative calling this out. Next step: real legal action…

Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.”

This is how it’s done.

Having a great week in Amsterdam. Started with the Heineken Roeivierkamp Regatta, followed by some sightseeing with @xan-the.bsky.social and visiting with great friends.

First up, lining up for the 250m sprint.
Next, the view along the Lijnbaansgracht after dinner with friends.