what i think The New York Times, Brookings, and Harvard all have in common.

if you want to know an administration that was full of RINOs, according to the second Trump administration, it was the first Trump administration.

if depression is learned helplessness, we are as a polity collectively depressed, and making rash, dysfunctional choices as a consequence.

it’s disconcerting when you realize we are living in a country whose the state follows laws only as a matter of habit, whose leaders override those laws and act on whim whenever they choose to, until, over time, there is not much left of the old habits of law.

i don’t get why the humans tolerate the indignity of shitting, nearly every day.

if ai comes and takes our jobs we could just hire people to give a fuck about one another.

whining ineffectually about norm violations does not constitute enforcement of norms.

it was the dawning of the age of the sociopath.

So dumb. Either there’s a national security issue or there isn’t. If there is, 15% of revenues isn’t going to purchase any adequate defense. If there isn’t, why the vig?

“The Homeless have to move out” // kind of by definition, they already have… can’t wait to hear about those places to stay.

as countries deploy immigration as a weapon, adroitness at integration becomes a matter of national security, a capacity that can not only neutralize the weapon, but even turn attacks into opportunities.

Now Comes the Hard Part, by Charles Hugh Smith charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/08/now-...

were TED talks a net positive or net negative for our collective cognition and deliberation?

"When prevention works, the catastrophe doesn’t happen, making the prevention itself seem (retroactively) unnecessary." @jakescottmd.bsky.social quillette.com/2025/08/08/r...

I guess even with a constitutional amendment social security benefits cannot be reduced then? “I am promised…” “can’t be taken away” Article III, including life tenure, is not about personal entitlements of judges. Life tenure is granted to serve a purpose it evidently is now failing to serve.

a meeting of minds implies the existence of minds.

man yells at TV, most powerful military in the history of the world springs into action.

one of the many, many deficiencies of our current leadership is a complete incapacity to exercise any degree of magnanimity. apnews.com/article/air-... ht @kevincarson1.bsky.social

populism.