kind of surprised “the enemy within” hasn’t become a t-shirt tagline, like “nevertheless she persisted”.

“he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.” @jamellebouie.net on Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/o... ht @ryanlcooper.com

the way you find out who will win an election is you hold one.

people who style themselves “truthtellers” are usually (at best) better characterized as oversimplifiers.

the etymology of “peer” is that everybody pees it’s a sacred bond that binds us all on fundamentally egalitarian terms.

Maybe it’d be good if, in places like Texas, there were lists of lawyers willing to accompany pregnant patients. It’s horrible Texas has made lifesaving care a legal risk for providers. We should fix that yesterday. In the meantime we could make clear there are risks in both directions.

who’s the kid?

It's, well, Scott Alexander has a particular voice, and has nurtured a particular community around his blog. Sometimes it's best taken anthropologically, like visiting an off-the-grid tribe and trying to make sense of its ways.

“Part of Trump’s genius is being bad in so many ways that no particular way stands out and it seems like he must not be that bad.” ~Scott Alexander www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-endors...

ouch.

[new draft post] Private firms, public industries drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/01/p...

they say success is hard work, but i contend that failure is more exhausting.

I see it!

doing bad things may not be the best strategy to restore our innocence.

Denaturalization should simply not be a thing, for Elon or for anybody. The state get its opportunity for due diligence up front. Once a person is an American they are an American.

i don’t even know how you would pin any of those people to a gar.

we encounter ghosts constantly. the ghosts we encounter most often are ghosts of our former selves. boo! it says. look what you have done with us, you shithead.

a taste of the conditions Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in mind for the working man. ht @sethcotlar.bsky.social @rednecklefty.bsky.social

deregulation + financialization = lobotomization + predation no one’s been working on the railroad edition, by Phillip Longman ht @volts.wtf washingtonmonthly.com/2024/10/29/t...