The Night Island's Doctor

Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...

If you believe that a chant is genocidal, but an actual genocide is not genocidal.. If you believe that a book is anti-Semitic, but bombing every library in the land is just fine.. If you believe in a right of return after 3000 years, but not after 77 years.. ..please tell me so I can block you.

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!

So Meta wants nuclear power for its' data centres...? Maybe time to update the "Move fast and break things" motto then...? Just sayin'

Ha! Meta. @hankgreen.bsky.social check this out.

Great piece from @wajali.bsky.social on all the "hypocritical outrage" from the GOP over the Hunter Biden pardon. He brings receipts:

I've resisted leaving The Bad Place because my favourite people were still there: now I've tried The Good Place nothing could make me go back! Here to stay - massive shout out to the @marcelias.bsky.social starter pack and others!