T. Greg Doucette

Republicans every fucking day:

Cops are great

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Not that long ago, three major lower-court rulings against the executive branch on three unrelated topics would’ve been a busy *month,* and outlets would’ve rushed to write up such a run of adverse rulings. Now, it doesn’t feel unusual when we get three on the same *day.* It’s all … exhausting.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Yep. Internet gambling in particular, which kind of necessarily partakes of interstate commerce! (I assume the reason why that law was so oddly written was to grandfather in Vegas and Atlantic City)

the story of how sports betting became legal is odd. instead of directly banning sports betting, Congress passed a law requiring states to ban sports betting, which the Supreme Court held (doctrinally correctly) is unconstitutional. but Congress clearly had the power to directly ban sports betting

anyone ever notice how republicans don't run on half the evil shit that they do? ever notice how that works?

you can msg me on signal or email if you don’t want to hash it out here. but i need to know.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Cops are great

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Totally off topic: anyone gonna be at GitHub Universe this week?

You don't need to turn the audio on I just wanted to share what Jesse Ventura looks like now.

I will also note that there used to be a LOT of money being directed at purely civilian drone use cases and companies until a couple years ago. Trump 2.0 has had a hugely destructive impact here, especially in the U.S.

Drones and other robots do have a huge number of civilian and society-benefiting uses. We need ways for talented people to be able to work on those applications, without having to compromise their morals to build weapons for ICE (and similar malignant buyers).

It genuinely does suck and is *bad* that it feels like there’s almost nowhere to go for people who 1. Want to work on robotics (like drones) and 2. Don’t want to build weapons.

I somehow missed this at the time. jesus fucking CHRIST man www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

tfw twitter anons are the only people with the courage to just say shit like "Elon is deliberately tanking the GPU rental market with his dominant position to try to cull his competitors"

Cheesecake Factory Gate got no traction, so the hunt goes on.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

interesting

This was my closing statement. The GOP have held our general assembly for 15 years. People are pissed.

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

Just need it a *little* louder until NC ends up at D+8 with D majorities in both chambers