I suppose you could call this a market-oriented energy policy, except that the market involved is the bidding to enter Trump's crony circle washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The formal requirement to get a professional's letter approving use of an emotional support animal 'combines an insistence on gatekeepers with a total lack of interest over whether they actually gatekeep.' astralcodexten.com/p/the-emotiona…

'We all know, intuitively, that Mike Johnson has a freezer full of human heads in his basement. But it's not been something that's easily provable.'

Norman Parkinson

I got sued 3 years ago because my website wasn't properly blind-enabled. It was at the time, but they used the Wayback machine to see that for 12 hours; 1 year earlier, it wasn't. We fixed it in 10 minutes. Still had to settle for 15K. The plaintiff had sued hundreds of other…

Don't blame me, I voted for a bottle of tequila

The reason the encampments never criticize Hamas is that they're not allowed to criticize Hamas, because the organizers support Hamas nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The principles of liberty are not consistent with demagogic populism. It’s a lesson people learn in many ways.

Yo, dude... this has in fact been studied extensively. You may 'know' it intuitively, but you're intuition sucks. You may want to do a little light reading: cato.org/commentary/rig…

The best available evidence contradicts Johnson’s intuition, as I argued last month. cato.org/commentary/rig…

Intuitively!!

Women dying in childbirth dropping from a rate of one in 200 in 1936 to one in 3333 twenty years later in the US must be one of the most undercelebrated miracles of the 20th century.

“… unveiled a bill to ban noncitizens from voting in federal elections, which is already illegal and rarely occurs.”

...and to pave the way for undermining confidence in the election if Trump loses again.

There is NO evidence that illegal immigrants are voting beyond a handful of cases -- often because the immigrant was confused by the law.

I'm quoted: 'This, like many other agitations about election security and integrity, proceeds from Trump's need to keep up the illusion that he somehow won, and was wrongfully deprived of, the election four years ago.' reuters.com/world/us/us-re…

Many interesting topics treated here, including the value of a cross-ideological movement in fighting demagogic authoritarianism, the role of lawyers, norms and guardrails, political violence, and the power-expanding track record of presidents not named Trump. Protect Democracy

I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...

For Futurism // futurism.com/advon-ai-conte…

Oh no, not moderates! '[Idaho GOP Chair Dorothy Moon] said the changes [in the Alaska-style 'Top Four' primary reform ballot initiative] reduce the influence of political parties and could lead to more moderates or Democrats being elected.' idahocapitalsun.com/2024/05/01/hav…

I’m pretty grossed out by this. Sentence reduction I can understand but must, no. There’s plenty if examples of black people in this city ignored or worse by Mosby. She doesn’t deserve this support.

Raise your hand if you knew he was never going.