Lawrence Whitney

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

It’s 7am and already one of these days:

If only the unforseen were more infrequent.

If only the unforseen were more infrequent.

Timeline cleanse:

Timeline cleanse:

This is the way:

This is the way: brookline.news/community-ca...

“I hate driving on Tufts because of those narrow things,” said Michael Pauls, a 28-year-old software engineer...“I can see the rationale behind it...to keep people from gunning it, but from a driver’s perspective, I don’t like it.” Yes, this is the point! Let's bring these ideas to Brookline.

I refuse to believe that the most egregious case yet of academic AI-slop involves a guy whose last name is "No slop" spelled backwards. Simply cannot be true.

For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.

Some benchmark results imply that the likelihood of (5) has increased. Maybe that's good, but it doesn't mean we're no longer dealing with Stochastic Parrots. The same software product that can code (extremely inefficiently) can also generate more persuasive-sounding astrological charts

One could respond by pointing out that we do not appreciate their motonormativity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

In case you need something else to worry about when deciding how to vote in the November election, whoever is elected to the Senate this time around will have a say in whether and how to fix Social Security: www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...

This could be a very interesting RLUIPA case before SCOTUS, though I'm not sure how helpful it will ultimately be to petitioners given cert was only granted as to the first of their questions presented. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

We have certainly gotten a lot of wind and rain from this storm, but if Dedham now has a shore then we truly are in biblical territory. 😳🧐😂

Today is a good day to remember that really smart people are perfectly capable of saying, believing, and acting in accordance with their belief in really dumb things.

Today is one of those days where all I can do is repost the whole darn thread:

At 3:30pm ET, US District Judge Tim Kelly will hold a hearing on whether to grant a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Trump's 9/18 directive to bar @cnn.com, @msnownews.bsky.social, & @politico.com from the White House grounds. I’ll try to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org /1

He’s so mad he can’t control the Smithsonian he decided to coopt the initials!

“Concord is not just wealthy; that’s what Weston is for.” 😂😂😂 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/17/m...

Today is a good day to remember that really smart people are perfectly capable of saying, believing, and acting in accordance with their belief in really dumb things.

The @thewaroncars.bsky.social is iconoclastic!

No. Again? Lord have mercy. We learn nothing. I presided at Anita Kurmann’s #Ghostbike on the Boston side. We practice human sacrifice to the idolatry of cars.

It’s interesting because icons are not painted, they are “written,” so these are written in plants! 🌱

This is a long, difficult read, but it is beautiful and—especially from a national security outlet—theologically astute.

Three of my favorite accounts, who as far as I can tell are not connected with one another, have posted in the last 24 hrs about a resurgence of reading, so I’m starting a thread on this most excellent theme 🧵: