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The Ethics of Not Being Offended Discomfort isn't harm. Treating it as harm burns the finite moral attention we need for the suffering that actually exists.

I've been thinking about why I've never felt the specific kind of offense that powers plenty of moral panics—the sense that a distant creative act has desecrated something sacred. And why the people who do feel it are making a category error with real ethical stakes.

I also feel this way about All Elite Pro Wrestling (AEW)

Tomorrow, I'll have breaking news on confirmed FBI #surveillance and investigative targeting of a prominent domestic civil society organization that is not SPLC. Stay tuned.

FBI Finally Admits It Investigated Cato—Is It Still? Cato will be flagging for the relevant congressional committees this baseless Bureau surveillance and investigative activity targeting the Institute and its employees as yet another example of why Exe...

FBI confirms it spied on, investigated @cato.org . Piece live now: www.cato.org/blog/fbi-fin...

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Science matters. Vaccine development really matters. Just two more reasons why the current regime needs to be in the rear view mirror ASAP.

To me, physical media signals friendship. Something I can actively lend to someone I like. Often not possible with digital these days.

Three things were always completely obvious in 2024: More tariffs, mass deportation, and taking revenge against political enemies.

Everyone who was paying attention and speaking in good faith said it at the time. So did Trump. If anyone is surprised, they weren’t paying attention.

An underrated sense in which power corrupts: It’s not just that the power in itself tempts people to act badly, but that the social consequences of power mean you get less & less honest feedback about the wisdom & morality of your actions from the people around you.

I am really for this post

lol this sounds great. Only movie I'm more excited for is the Monopoly movie being produced by Margot Robbie, which I assume will be a grand dramatization of radical Georgism.

Google Search to classify ‘back button hijacking’ as spam Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.

Good. 9to5google.com/2026/04/13/g...

You know who else was soft on criminals?

The line looks relatively stable until, oh, around 2016.

Vanilla ice cream with cookie dough is the best though I suppose that involves minimal chocolate

People are mad at this, but it's true. Chocolate is overrated and overused, and sweet things that don't have chocolate are typically more tasty than sweet things that do.

Yeah, that’s good to know. and by the looks of it the episode was fine. I just don’t understand how that title got through? As if Orban’s record is up for debate?

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Am I the only one who sees this as weird framing from the… Cato Institute?

Iranians are feeling sheer terror today. Americans are feeling sheer helplessness that their mad ruler is terrorizing them and they are powerless to stop him. Those who voted for him despite being warned that he would generate crisis after crisis and bring the world to a brink, are you happy now?

I know people are desperate for some kind of Trump presidency off-ramp but I'm afraid we're in "Downfall"/Fürhrer bunker territory at this point. The people around him have tied their fate to his. The notion that any of his people will move against him re: 25th amendment is magical thinking.

Sitcoms: A Defense Liberalism is in crisis. How about some television?

“High” political theory needs “low” pop culture if it’s to work as intended.

Trump: "Davy Crockett, obviously a distant relative of Jasmine Crockett, and a very High IQ Frontiersman, would be proud of the legacy that he began long ago, and especially Jasmine’s Great Success as a Politician from the Great State of Texas! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

@danielhall.bsky.social is a wonderful person and a good friend

Void is a total lover boy and velcro cat. So happy to have him.

This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats to Get Immigration Right As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

RFK Jr. believes Wi-Fi causes cancer and that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. Disastrous to have him as the federal government's top health official.

I just made my wife an espresso, a beautifully pulled shot, into which she poured flavored non-dairy creamer, then decided it made it too cold, so she put the whole thing in the microwave. And I still love her, but marriage brings its share of challenges.

Not a world where speaking Spanish is forbidden. Just a world where you surrender your dignity to speak it.

Congress Jets Off as D.H.S. Shuts Down

DHS is one bloated, Bill of Rights-violating constitutional obscenity that should be abolished in its entirety. Send the Coast Guard back to Transportation, the Secret Service back to Treasury, and just trash the rest.