“Constitutionally, Congress is a superior branch of government to the presidency, and it is explicitly designed to check the president.” @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o... // yes.

this is a good interview of a remarkable leader. i find it jarring that some of the photographs are captioned by credits of what she is wearing. would that ever be done with a male politician? it’s strange to me.

you know how they say every accusation is a confession?

cynicism and wisdom are not synonyms.

Excellent.

all i care about Katie is she does not revert to her maiden name. it's bad enough what her husband has done to the once sleek and breezy name Steve Miller.

free-floating nostalgia can be painful.

far from anti-elitest, MAGA is a conspiracy to make even the most predatory elements of the erstwhile elite look good by comparison.

they take every warning as an instruction manual.

never actually throw your scapegoat off the cliff. you will find all of a sudden you have no one but yourself left to blame.

“the crisis of expertise is less about doubting expert knowledge than about rejecting the social hierarchy that ‘trust the experts’ implies.”

Puppet shows! Puppeteer General should be a cabinet position!

i unironically think the job of the future might be politician. we'd have a better world if we had a lot more of them, if every thousand, rather than every almost 800,000 of us, had a paid professional representative enfranchised in our political system. see e.g. www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html

Your call is very important to us.

Huh! IRS Direct File is implemented in part in #Scala, both JVM and JS.

“when you’re in this kind of situation it’s hard not to become preoccupied obsessing over how stupid you’ve been.” #relatable i think i want it on my tombstone from a great piece by Moe Tkacik. revenue-based repayment in theory makes some sense for small business loans, but price is everything.

everything they pretended to complain about on principle they were really only jealous of. this is their diversity statements.

i had no idea there was a credible challenge in the courts until last night they announced its success. and i’m a pretty obsessive news reader.

will it be the Supreme Court that ignores Humphrey’s, or the Supreme Court that exempts the Fed?

“The perversity at the center of American Jewish liberalism is the fact that American liberalism’s towering achievement, the end of Jim Crow, is precisely what Israel violates.”