it’s like elite Republicans believe their “Biden Crime Family” propaganda, but what they experience is not faux outrage over corruption, but a challenge to outdo their rivals in competition.

the symbolism that it will be Air Force One is really something. all those patriotically coded films, the President under threat or making hard calls from Air Force One. brought to you by the Emir of Qatar adds a new spin.

i refused the cookies. i should have asked for a plane. www.interfluidity.com/posts/125740...

“the White House and DOJ concluded that because the gift is not conditioned on any official act, it does not constitute bribery” thank Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts for making this new day possible.

we should refer to it as the nnylf effect.

modern witchcraft, in a pejorative sense, is detaching words in public speech profoundly from any defensible meaning, for personal or political gain. it can work! but it pollutes the epistemological commons, our collective ability to make sense of the world and to act fruitfully within and upon it.

by "no one is above the law", they mean "no one is above the donald". they believe no law or even constitution binds the donald, or binds them when they act with what they claim to be his writ.

94% was what FDR brought marginal rates on then very high incomes to. Seems like a good number to me.

if the answer to bad speech is more speech… drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...

i have no idea who does or doesn’t deserve credit for helping to negotiate it, but i’m incredibly grateful there’s a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

i would really appreciate it if India and Pakistan would just not do this. please.

sometimes my enjoyment of the present is overwhelmed by premonitions of future nostalgia.

"Biden rejected Reaganite trickle-down economics but settled on another kind of trickle down: fixing things in the far reaches of supply chains in hopes the benefits will eventually reach ordinary people." @isabellamweber.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/a...

what they used to call a “rap session” is now described as a “trade deal”.

i never understood why people so distrustful someone might be trying to profit from a vaccine so trust people who are ostentatiously hawking supplements for money. ht @edgeofsports.bsky.social

the way you make america great again is you make the world great again. the “agains” in both places are arguable.

it’s the educational equivalent of the shareholder value revolution.

1. destroy everything. 2. fresh start! 3. paradise! seems to be MAGA’s operative theory. i think there are problems with it.

i hope Romanians will give some thought to Transylvania as they decide which side of the revanchist divide they will vote for May 18.

so much talk of generative AI replacing workers, meaning reports. any organizations (or reports themselves) replacing managers with generative AI, in terms of directing and motivating the work of (human) reports?