Prior to modern medicine, disease killed more soldiers than combat. I’m guessing that weakened our war-fighting capabilities.

Thank you for what you are doing to cultivate a free, open collection of information vital to the functioning of our democracy!

Really happy to have done a very small thing to help make the Supreme Court's historical records and briefs freely available. Thank you to the @archive.org for doing the hard part. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

I knew he had it in him and would like to see this Tim Kaine be the Tim Kaine we see all the time.

Super proud of myself (and my kids) for clocking that something was amiss with the Geese hype last December.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

And yet at the same time they chastise the Pope, they also want to do away with the Johnson Amendment and let churches endorse political candidates from the pulpit.

IRS says churches can now endorse political candidates Since 1954, an IRS rule had barred houses of worship from explicitly endorsing political candidates.

Also hilarious because doesn't the Trump administration want to do away with the Johnson amendment and allow churches to fully endorse political candidates from the pulpit without adverse tax consequences? www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

Good for her, but I have written her off ever since she went all in on the crypto industry and its faux "regulation." She makes crooks like the Trump family wealthier, and I really don't care about anything she has to say anymore.

"Goddamn it, Leo! You haven't made an arrest in months! I've had enough. Put your staff and mitre on my desk and get the hell out of here."

The more I think about it, the more I am pretty confident that "The Pope is weak on crime," is going to go down in history as one of the most batshit things any President has ever written. There is just so much stupidity wrapped into six words.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

The civilization that would die if such threats were carried out is our own.

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

“AI, like mathematical rationality more generally, has a sweet spot: problems that are complicated enough that they can’t be solved by other computationally cheaper approaches, but that have enough regularities to be workable.”

Stills from the Tonight, Tonight music video by The Smashing Pumpkins

Told my kids these are the pictures from when NASA went to the moon in the 1900s…

The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.

I love this and think the same is true for legal research. You build your legal analysis skills by doing the boring grunt work of research. It is how you try out ideas to build arguments. Using AI to shortchange the struggle with research is going to harm lawyers' abilities to formulate arguments.

Hey, I know her! And she is right. We still have to teach students how to be ethical and competent legal researchers even with AI, because just telling them that AI will do it for them puts them at the mercy of a tool and erodes their analytical and reasoning skills that good research builds.

This, on page 1, tells you all you need to know:

"Congress cannot preserve presidential records merely for the sake of posterity."

Reminder: the administration previously attempted to install the now-acting Attorney General as the acting Librarian of Congress (currently in litigation limbo before SCOTUS)

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Donald Trump's assessment of the situation around the Strait of Hormuz is one of the most deluded things a US president has ever said about a matter of foreign policy. And historically, that's quite a high bar to clear.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

also don’t let spencer cox’s PR team fool you into thinking that he is anything other than a reactionary