Wake me up when it affects the world’s average condom maker

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

it's cool that this is literally just 100% Trump's fault

DC statehood yesterday

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

White collar jobs in 2016: Free cold brew on tap! Conference rooms? Too old school! We’re yoga ball people. We have catered lunch on Wednesdays. If your benefits don’t cover something you need, tell us!

White collar jobs in 2026: Use Chat GPT or we’ll hit you

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

Book about how engagement metrics and the Internet killed journalism titled “Tragedy of the Comments”

The key phrase—“an establishment of religion”—was readily understandable to founding-era citizens. See District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 576–77 (2008) (relying on a phrase’s “[n]ormal meaning . . . known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation”). The reason is simple. At the time, establishments were “a familiar institution.” McConnell, Establishment, supra note 12, at 2107.13 Someone on the streets of 1789 Boston, reading that phrase, would have instantly thought of the Church of England, the colonial established churches, or the current state establishments—in other words, a polity’s official church or religion. Ibid.

Although the colonial establishments became more tolerant of dissenters as independence approached, their essence remained unchanged. The original state constitutions reflect as much. Far from rejecting establishments, many states preserved the core components of their establishments, such as public financial support for the official church, regulation of religious institutions, and religious qualifications for civic participation.36 Most explicit was South Carolina, whose 1778 Constitution declared that “the Christian Protestant religion” was “the established religion,” requiring religious societies to subscribe to enumerated articles of faith to receive legal recognition. S.C. Const. of 1778, art. XXXVIII, reprinted in Poore, State Constitutions, supra note 36, at 1626.

The Fifth Circuit flatly states that when the First Amendment says Congress may not create an "establishment of religion," it means the Church of England. They then argue the Founders intended states to have their own churches unaffected by the First Amendment (!!!).

The midterm gerrymandering war and the Iran war alike show Trump's inability to imagine that the people he's picking fights with have any agency, any ability to respond.

He loves his "you don't have the cards" metaphor but he's amazingly terrible at actually thinking about whether they do.

product image from amazon where one of the answers is "to be fully transparent as an AI"

Help I found this journal on amazon and the prompts in the image were clearly filled out by AI

Screenshot of Instagram search results for the word “Jews.” The top four video results on the “For you” tab include: a man in a camo hat with text reading “Jews are to blame for this generation not being able to afford homes / The Jewish money-hungry scheme has been true for thousands of years” (120K views); a graphic of a red inverted triangle dripping onto a Star of David with text “YES, ALL JEWS. All Jews must kill Zionism within Judaism”; a man in a hooded jacket next to a book titled “Jews Selling Blacks, New Updated Expanded Edition” (1M views); and a woman in front of a bookshelf with overlay text “On The J3ws & Their Lies” and a caption reading “even though I don’t agree with Martin Luther on everything” (146K views).​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I looked up the word “Jews” on Instagram search. Here were the top results.

Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters

Crosby, Whales, Nash & Young

He expects to die in... 2025.

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Warsh claimed that the Wall Street Journal had bad sources. Their source was Donald Trump himself. Either Trump lied to the Journal or Warsh just committed perjury.

The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline.

The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.

I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

the faster we wipe "look at this random jackass!" from our communities the healthier our communities are

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Boots on the Groundhog Day

Hi! Expert in Geopolitics here! Just wanted to let you know that this isn't cute – client states only do this when they are in a state of high distress!

Cool. My electric mixer stirs faster than my finger

This is a good piece.

also

Religion is not a synonym for Christianity

Sheldon, from Orson's Farm. He looks very young. YES FINE, U.S. ACRES

My generation used to watch Young Sheldon as well

Why do Democrats keep accusing other Democrats of using awkward language they don’t actually use

It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.