Dan Magaha

Either there’s rule of law or there’s not. Either we are defined by a system of justice that holds the guilty accountable or we aren’t. Either we have a democracy that limits abuse to define our public life and the rights of citizens or we have a country collapsing into strongman authoritarianism.

I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.

The fact Donald Trump told his supporters last night to "Cheat like hell" in 2026 election BUT that isn't the headline nationwide shows you again how corporate media is complicit.

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

NEWS: New York City just recorded the safest summer in its history. From June through August, NYC saw its fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders on record. Major crime fell 6.2% year-to-date, murders plunged 24.1%, and the subway had zero murders, shootings, or rapes in August.

(pausing as I nail up the Ten Commandments in a classroom) "They shouldn't be forcing their religion on schoolchildren!"

I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.

SCHWAB: “.. The labor force participation rate has given up all gains since February 2021.” #LFPR

If you exclude one specific scene, Mrs. Lincoln actually enjoyed the Ford's Theatre production of "Our American Cousin"

via @scottlincicome.bsky.social

The thing to understand about Todd Blanche is he has no values other than the next job. This man will do ANYTHING to get confirmed as Trump’s attorney general. Settle the mifepristone cases? Enforce Comstock as an abortion ban? Yes, sure, whatever it takes.

Great anti-doomscrolling thread. Reminder of (lots of) things not to take for granted that have materially improved in this Gen-Xer's lifetime.

Appalling, but unsurprising. The downward slide continues.

Cornyn, every single day of his life:

I'm old enough to remember when this was just how Americans did business! Doubling down, denials, cover-ups, flip-flopping -- all IMMEDIATELY called out and people/orgs felt the instant burn of shame and the consequences. Bring back giving a shit about making things right. 👍

The Secretary of Education has been spotted at Summerslam

How appropriate that, in the year when we celebrate the 250th anniversary of a revolution fought beneath the banner of "No Taxation Without Representation!", the party in power is taxing states shut out of political power to fund programs in states that do have power.

Since the World Cup is fresh on everyone's mind - this is a TRUMP OWN GOAL. Doing this by *accident* should have been sufficient to immediately send GOP numbers into the toilet en masse and the whole admin into turmoil. What a sad statement on our electorate that it's still business as usual.

Look what happens when weak politicians are asked fair questions by members of the press! Mans has a podium with bullet points about Talarico on the front of it, but runs away when the press asks him to respond. Leaving a bunch of dazed, behatted gentlemen just standing there. 10/10, no notes.

*IRAN WAR HAS COST US $37.5B, DEFENSE SECRETARY HEGSETH SAYS

seems like a real hallmark of our era is the total inability to be normal about anything. it is just a movie! watch it or not but this shit is weird.

Visualized.

I wish the Tate brothers a very

Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.

Yet another Kalshi offering that serves no legitimate economic purpose. It's not possible to make a rational bet on this without material non-public information. It's a market solely for fraud by both regulators and corporate insiders, and everyone connected to it in any way should go to prison.

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

The first few days of working out after a prolonged bout of sedentarism are so incredibly humbling. Invest in your body when you're young. It's so, so much harder when you're 50+ and realize you need to change something 🫠

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

If there’s one thing a Christian nation cannot tolerate, it’s a pregnant woman on the road.

I'm totally shocked. 🙄

Strip Out AI and Energy, and the S&P 500 Is Down www.apollo.com/wealth/the-d...

This is how it is done. Bravo @bencollins.bsky.social

10/10, no notes.

This thread makes me sad. I'm in a tech field but writing has always been my superpower and even today, when I'm strongly advised to "feed my draft to the LLM" before submitting, I recoil. Maybe AI has a value in written comms, but if so, it should be limited to transactional/ bureaucratic stuff.

Having worked at one of the early startups that allowed "nontechnical" people to create their own videogames - everyone assumed that removing the coding barrier would unleash creativity. This was incorrect, to put it mildly. Creativity is/was the rarest ingredient. And AI isn't helping that now.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Today I learned that one in three children doesn't go on holiday in France. That's completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that this guy, according to estimates, caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest people by withdrawing humanitarian aid through the DOGE.

Props to CNN’s chyron writer: