impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

considering how the film ends, i find it a bit disconcerting we seem to be living out Dr. Strangelove. but then a piece by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor suggests maybe they have learned to love the bomb. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... ht @hannahstoryb.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social

kit cars! maybe the best way to buy a $24,000 Chinese EV will be to have ten parcels sent by DHL each with $2,400 of the value. (You can't use the US postal service though, then you'll get tariffed.)

you see, the tariffs really are reciprocal. those Canadians try to block the flow of our goods!

Amazon is misnamed. It suggests courageous women rather than craven men.

it’s weird how you can’t see the back of the chyron.

it’s not just him! this is the lesson of the @semaforben.bsky.social piece, or of just interacting with MAGA-ists. they believe their memes! the “sophisticated” ones, if you call them on it, either challenge you or fall back JD-Vance-like on how creative license can call attention to a deeper truth.

maybe the answer is your faction should always loudly accuse the press as being and enemy and out to get you. it seems to work. they go every extra mile to prove they are evenhanded and unfairly maligned.

don’t the officers participating in this risk criminal or civil liability for breaking black-letter law? sure, the President is your boss, but you have a duty not to follow illegal orders.

Wot?

never mind. keep munching.

our phones are trying to make themselves our spouses, completing our sentences for us when we are half way through them.

maybe the faces are finally having enough of the leopards.

Goodhart's Law strikes again.

“The one thing that u should not be able to say about my work is that I am not telling u what I really think. That is the price of entry to the worthwhile part of the Ideas industry. We may be bastards, but we are not bullshitting u.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that...

this is predictable. it is structural. the marginal voter has concerns orthogonal to the dimensions of contestation btw the parties. it's much more frequent just to care abt other things than to deeply care abt yet be perfectly balanced btw the candidates' issues. www.interfluidity.com/v2/7687.html

this is horrifying.

one strange characteristic of our moment is we’ve developed new forms of a “republic of letters” whose participants view themselves as an intellectual elite, while the actual content of that elite discourse is memes or, at best, several hundred character interjections.

a bit of irony is it’s the “progressives” or “squad” or whatever who want meritocracy rather than seniority to govern Congress, in opposition to the “centrists” or “moderates”. in ed reform, a different seniority vs meritocracy conflict has the sides reversed.