the modern republican coalition is made up of people who are sure that any supposed connection between fuck around and find out is a fabrication of libs and pointy headed elites and the deep state.

for a certain kind of elf at least it seems they canceled christmas.

from @dhnexon.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

one thing about wind and solar is they may be less susceptible to accident or sabotage than fossil fuel infrastructure. (but what about large-scale batteries?)

now which article of the Constitution was it that mentioned the Power to declare War? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

hancox-li is great. and kind.

if the president lacks the power to do a thing but he gets away with doing it anyway, what does it even mean to say he lacks the power to do the thing?

my AI company will be called Monkey’s Paw.

i sure agree! but dems demand has not been restrain ICE, follow the law, save democracy. it’s extend the expanded ACA subsidy.

do a lot of brinkmanship and controversializing and speechifying during a high-stakes government shutdown crisis.

gender equality is something this administration on the surface disclaims, but isn’t Mike Johnson, like, a Stepford Husband?

am i wrong that the best outcome *politically* (not ethically) for dems is they blink, cave, but only after loudly, persistently, demanding the ACA premium subsidy extension, so that when premia skyrocket it’s salient even to low-ish information voters what happened and who the villain was?

wow.

listening to a person of such experience, at that age, there's something charming just in the fact and the manner of it.

they took something beautiful, something amazing, and they destroyed it. those of us who know it could rebuild it, but we are only around for so long. via @tylercowen.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

from @xntl.bsky.social, on "the Coase theorem" mchugh-russell.ca/2018/06/07/o...

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i must be some kind of latte-sipping elite because it is my inclination to be disdainful of any form of appliance politics.

lying about this gives them room to concede with a claim they are not conceding, because they’ve insured that not one penny will go to “illegals”. they can pretend it is they who negotiated a concession from “far-left Democrats” and their Great Replacement army.

“I want people to understand, agree or disagree with the decisions that the court reaches, that we are engaged in a legal enterprise,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett www.courthousenews.com/barrett-spur...