Trump doesn't understand that this guy he admires, this person Trump wants desperately to pretend is his friend, hopes with a burning passion to see the country Trump leads (and therefore Trump himself) in crisis and humiliated. Putin, very much like Trump, takes an interest in vengeance.

you don’t have representation in a world where you don’t meet with your representative. (most of us don’t have meaningful representation. this doesn’t help.)

i’m detecting a bit of blueskyism on this website.

( this link worked better for me arstechnica.com/science/2025... )

excerpting quotes invites curation bias. but i’ll read the piece!

i did not follow Charlie Kirk while he was alive, and the videos and excerpts i see are provided tendentiously to encourage me to take one polarized view or another about him. has anyone written a fair precis or profile (ideally before his murder rendered that a very difficult exercise)?

saturate the world with weapons. train thousands of kids to be snipers. some tiny fraction of those kids will predictably be deranged, murder public figures. ignore murders of public figures you dislike. when someone “on your side” is killed, it’s proof of “their” violence, why they must be crushed.

like subsidizing creative work with very long copyright terms.

if you advocate incivility civilly, do you get points for civility?

hi!

they’re just going to will him despite all evidence into the pretext they’ve been itching for.

i do have websites that exist and i give google approximately zero thought as i publish them.

pretty convenient how quickly The Left has forgotten sandwich guy.

“The politics of insurance, Rebecca Elliot has argued, is ultimately about ‘what is fair and valuable, what needs protecting and what should be let go, who deserves assistance and on what terms, and whose expectations of future losses are used to govern the present.’”

it is troubling, on a day like this, to have not so much faith in the competence, honesty, or intentions of the current FBI.

This is a good @mattyglesias.bsky.social piece. www.slowboring.com/p/national-c...

“you will hate us, but you will pay us anyway.” the new capitalism.

the automobile can be a great servant, but has proven itself (especially in the United States) a terrible master.

the consequence of tolerating misgovernance is you are misgoverned. which can be a pretty big motherfucking consequence!