Kyle Ferriter

A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.

New, at Can We Still Govern?: I talked to Annie Lowrey about her new book, "The Time Tax" on the administrative burdens that people encounter when they interact with the safety net. On HR1: "People are going to die. Health clinics are going to shut down." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/annie-lowr...

The Danish military says military personnel didn’t accidentally shoot at a civilian plane after mistaking it for being a drone during the height of the 2025 “mystery drone” mass hysteria. But they can’t even get the facts right about when the shots were and where nearby planes were at that time.

Dealing with Trump and his administration in 2026 is NOT like engaging in diplomacy with another global power: it is a LOT like figuring out how to protect your country from frequent attacks by hordes of wild pigs, because wild pigs are both highly destructive and cannot be reasoned with.

DRONES OVER DENMARK? Experts warn Danish troops may have put a passenger plane at a small but real risk if they fired at what they believed was a drone over a military training area. My latest: nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2026-0...

Stocks soar on 2-week postponement of Armageddon.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

“Satellite imagery can be manipulated just like other images. AI has made that all tremendously easier and [it] poses a significant threat to people trying to get information online.” www.ft.com/content/0bad...

Busy days ahead for our new Fraud Czar, JD Vance.

Saw this in Discord and it’s amazing

i think its very important for any would-be participants in prediction markets to understand that the people who originally conceived of them ADVOCATED insider trading on the theory (correct, i think) that it would make prediction markets more accurate.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

the fuckin gall, man

I feel like not enough attention was given to the shift among many very popular conservative influencers over the last 18 or so months to being explicit defenders of Adolf Hitler.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

Schumer and Jeffries are unfit for the current moment and need to be kicked out of leadership as soon as possible. The era of doing nothing really needs to end.

Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.

I think it’s bad that the Speaker of the House has been in a sensory deprivation tank since roughly 2015 and only emerges to get yelled at in the hallway outside of the tank.

…shall not be abridge free speech UNLESS a right-wing judge finds it distasteful.

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?

hold on now, let him cook

Since Elon Musk is an open white nationalist now, posting pro-apartheid fascist content and retweeting nazis, I have deactivated my X profile and won't be going back until he is no longer in charge.

Checked in on X.

in 1939 the fascists of the world threw down a single massive bet: that the free people of the world were as weak as they imagined us to be. that we were nations of shopkeepers, who would fold at one touch of the armored gauntlet from truly hard, deadly, motivated, manly men. pic unrelated.

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

This is an interesting art problem. If you portrayed these characters accurately, it would feel to modern audiences like you were signaling that they are particularly monstrous and not just run of the mill monstrous. Tricky problem for portraying the past with any accuracy.

Olivia Nuzzi did more than violate journalistic ethics to help RFK Jr's campaign. She assisted an apostle of pestilence. In humanity's struggle against disease, fought since the beginning of history, she sided with the enemy. She betrayed the species. She betrayed us for her own gratification.

BTW, I would really like @consumerreports.org to watch this video and perhaps start breathing down the necks of those big companies for forcing everyone into using pre-dosed products. That's the opposite of pro-consumer, imo. youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8

We were only supposed to post pictures of the sky on this app. I just pulled up the original design doc. This is a disaster. Please take down the other posts.

“Trump haunted by visions of hell” is my favorite Trump, although I’m not totally sure what’s going on with the dude

*Me in front of every high-ranking officer in the U.S. military, all of whom I've summoned to an emergency meeting in D.C.* In some ways, you could say that Steely Dan are a proto-cyberpunk band. Not so much because of any literally science fictional lyrics but in the thematic content of, for examp

It's been hours since this, and days since the Copenhagen and Oslo airport incidents on Monday when airport airspaces were closed due to reports of airspace violations by drones. But there's no evidence for any drones actually being in any of those locations though. Just "reports".

Somebody got the memo that every single rural hospital was going to have to shut down

How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month? She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.

Just watched a guy walk out of a residential building with a handful of smoke detectors that were going off, and smash them on the ground so they'd stop going off.

This is genuinely hilarious, I can’t believe it’s real. This guy’s brain is made of sludge and he couldn’t give less of a shit about his own supporters.

The Nazi contingent that runs Twitter, especially Captive Dreamer, the open Nazi that is followed by VP of the United States, are currently trying to get prominent liberals murdered (myself included). They are posting our full addresses and saying "Hope nothing bad happens to them!"