Kevin Troy

I want thoughtful, honest, conscientious people to run for office and work in the public sector. But it’s getting harder to recommend to early career folks that this is a viable medium-to-long run career path.

No extrajudicial killings? No sinking these vessels before verifying their cargo was indeed contraband? No AI slop memes crowing about these operations? What gives, Marine National?

Apropos ad placement in @jamellebouie.net’s column today: Clinton/Bush era Democrats’ arguments for avoiding impeachment inquiries followed immediately by a “dementia test”

EMERGENCY PROTEST IN NEW YORK TONIGHT 5:30PM FOLEY SQUARE. ICE shot a man with his 5 year old in the backseat. We cannot let this be normal. Be there.

A specter is hanging over all America — the specter of bullshit

ChatGPT for Teens started when a bright-eyed lad with a business degree got off the bus from Muncie, IN and got a job as a mailer daemon at OpenAI. His big break came when he showed Sam A. the paper he carried in his pocket, which had only: 🤮 “You know, for kids!” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/t...

This is applicable to a lot of MAHA & MAGA paranoia — they’re looking for someone to blame for their family’s situation, and Trump & Co. are all too willing to lie to them

One thing I noticed in this article: it says that 1) his pre-2022 articles were flagged by Pangram as 100% human and 2) the input to Pangram included all dates in the original text. So I wonder if Pangram’s model “knows” when ChatGPT debuted

For those watching the US Open

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

We will have CLASS OUTSIDE for the rest of the semester

Hegseth and whichever under/assistant secretaries have ordered these extrajudicial killings ought to be impeached. The admirals who gave orders to execute this “operation” should be court-martialed. I have called my representative and senators to tell them this, and you should too

The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list.

Waste, fraud, and abuse, all rolled into one program www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

The problem with Terry Pratchett’s oft-quoted “boots theory” is no boots will ever last a lifetime. There are, rather, boots that will last if you pay a cobbler to replace the soles, insoles, laces, etc. on a regular basis. Ignoring the lifetime maintenance costs is an economic fallacy

If you don’t have wheels, it’s a mile south of the Ballston metro, and well worth the walk!

New comic on space mirrors: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

None of these defense & aerospace startups ever name their tech after Fatty Bolger or Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

One of the reasons I love Nab so much is he was so unwilling to compromise and say nice, bland things like “ah yes, _Quiet Flows the Don_, what a beautiful book, it really shows the true Russian soul, the Nobel Prize committee sure knows how to pick them”

I gotta say, the last few weeks have made me question the value of the 17th Amendment

How long before they’re having dinner with Vance at Mar-a-Lago?

Will this Sweden vs France matchup undo the alliance established in 1631’s Treaty of Bärwalde? Or will it end with them dividing Germany between themselves, as at 1648’s Peace of Westphalia?

Disappointed because a sizable minority found contrary to the plain meaning of the 14th amendment, right? Right?

And *none* of this was even common right-wing belief just a decade ago. The radicalization has happened incredibly quickly, and they were very receptive to it. That’s key for understanding the enemy here.

We have 11 years to plan the 250th anniversary of the constitution

If I’m reading this right, Bolton may go to jail over the notes he refused to provide Congress when he was subpoenaed in 2019 in Trump’s first impeachment hearings. The lack of his eyewitness testimony provided the excuse 52 GOP senators needed to acquit www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

lol the two candidates in NY-12 who received the most attention from the national media (Schlossberg and Conway) pulled a total of 17% of the vote (87% of precincts reporting)

The lament of shipping agents everywhere: “Fees from a foe, or else fumes? Fie!”

The “nice game, pretty boy” incident between Keith Hernandez and Newman was 39 years ago today youtu.be/Gsxzmkm2vRc?...

i don’t want to see wemby suspended for his dirty play. what i want is for us as a society to confront the underlying question: are we going to keep letting frenchmen play basketball or are we going to take a stand

This, then is the Forest of Arden: the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit is set up in Travers Park

This really is a Twitter-era phenomenon, AFAICT — I don’t remember anyone treating Paul Tsongas or Dick Gephardt this way www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...

The “If Books Could Kill” podcast has greatly expanded my set of books that make me think “uh-oh” when someone recommends them @ifbookspod.bsky.social

Every state, every county, every town has something like this, where communities can come together and step up

Finally, the president will be free from petty distractions and able to focus on getting the ballroom built www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Nick Anderson, Raw Story

This is important. We can't rely on anyone/anything else. We the People have the power to save American democracy.

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Interesting choice, dressing the Virgin in pink

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.