is there a list of domains where Congress has imposed mandates the Trump Administration would characterize as DEI, so we can monitor the degree to which it is “tak[ing] Care that the laws be faithfully executed”, at least until it can persuade Congress to change the laws, as is its right to try?

“it turns out that most Americans are uninterested in acting like a belligerent asshole on the global stage.” @dandrezner.bsky.social danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-pretty...

i think it’s not the loudness of influencer culture but its intimacy that renders it effective. which is not inconsistent with temperance and quiet confidence! influencers (very sadly) substitute for friends, and the people they talk to are part of your friend group, and gain the trust that implies.

we have to learn to appreciate the small pleasures.

because the energy industry is in their coalition. you don’t want people to be efficient about the product you sell.

i always used to wonder what it would feel like to live in a golden age.

i feel that way every day.

it might not be right to say the Trump Administration's garish chaos-monkeying contributed to the crash. maybe. but we don't really know that. nevertheless, it's a whole lot less ridiculous a claim than any attribution of blame to "DEI". ferchrissakes.

i'm not dissimulating i'm dissembling.

it was just a bunch of kids who liked to twirl around.

NOT GOOD!!!

Open, legal court proceedings in which each person's rights are vigorously protected.

what kind of due process would apply to Guantanamo detainees?

his humiliations are like potato chips, once you take one you'll find perhaps despite yourself it is far from your last. ht @jedgarnaut.bsky.social

turn left, the vaguely female disembodied voices says. i find myself twirling the wheel madly until all questions are answered in sharp communion with a tree.

maybe since by "the left" people sometimes mean social democrats and other times foreign policy "tankies" and other times identity politics radicals, and the Venn diagram of those tendencies is very far from a circle, maybe you could use more descriptive language?

"the…Court ruled…NLRB needs 3 members to have a quorum…until Trump appoints a 3rd NLRB member…NLRB will not be able to issue decisions. Trump cld opt not to fill any…vacancies + prevent the agency from issuing decisions for his entire term." @mattbruenig.bsky.social www.nlrbedge.com/p/trump-fire...

i used to have a higher opinion of drug addled degenerates.

(You have good taste in software!)

No. You always pay people to do the boring stuff. It’s a job like any other. You’ve got to keep even people working for love fed. But there’s no special sauce in that. You don’t need blitzscaling. The UK already pays people to maintain their firms’ accounting software. That’s not what they’re after.