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His beef is that polls reach about 1% of the population? Like, 3m people total? Looks like the polls are indeed way off due to oversampling fascists.

Not even sure why this would be controversial.

I’m just shocked that Bezos hasn’t intervened in the DC bike lane issue. Where will all the Amazon delivery trucks park now?

Since there isn’t really a way of measuring what good economics is, I’d think a good part of the explanation is that a lot of awards are appeals to authority. In this case the ‘top’ institutions who’ve always won the awards.

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social You busy? Because my man looks like a closet Republican who got away with diddling kids despite not really feeling it.

In excusable, nostalgia drenched coverage in lieu of exacting account of mentally unstable rants. This is truly reprehensible non-journalism. See: www.contrariannews.org/p/you-can-he...

In which case you don’t need to do anything on margin.

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Made a few small changes to the AI Crisis Flowchart

Same for his banks.

Good to see that some people can have nice things. This should be the law and practice everywhere.

The most important achievements came from neither. The wheel, fire, agriculture or animal husbandry just emerged. In more recent times, achievements came from both since most private achievements are underpinned by public research while few public achievements are possible without private suppliers.

Oh, Argentina is up 12:10 players. Let’s see if they can suck less.

Looking forward @peterbakernyt.bsky.social’s rending of garments when Stevie Miller’s goons knock on the NYT’s door to sterilize their minority employees.

Musiala is football’s Wenvy. Gets hacked 10 times without a foul call, decides to take matters in his own hands - yellow. Fuck! These! Refs!

Fuck FIFA. Fuck them to hell.

It’s amazing how the establishment is circling the wagons. The same people who say they can’t fight obvious treason somehow manage to have a coordinated assault on a few people trying to stand up what in most countries would pass for a center-left movement.

Side note but props to @syracuse.com (my hometown-ish outlet) for not only kicking off this DHS agent / First Amendment news cycle, but for going full throttle and digging up even more

Oh... Messi got his ass carried to scoring again. Abandon Bluesky.

Looks like the rule of law isn't really the important bit. You can have a perfectly well established rule of law that is entirely capricious and profoundly unjust. The entire legal system needs rebuilding from the ground up.

This is brilliant. Thomas Zimmer is maybe the clearest-eyed observer of the current state of Trumpism in government.

@lawandchaospod.bsky.social can we have a deep dive?

Wait? Holding smol bean managers to some semblance of standard is _not_ hostile? Better work from home to avoid being harmed by exploding heads.

The way the media keeps calling E Jean Carroll an “accuser” like she didn’t already win her day in court is shameful.

I think this is a you problem. I’ve repeatedly cancelled my Twitter accounts because there was always vitriol and very, very rarely any actual conversation. And that was before Elon. Here are plenty of people I disagree with but mostly respectful conversations.

Or, you know, I may just want to get information from the better class of independent journalists, academics, and lawyers without having a bunch of brainless goons regurgitating the same shit at me. Because what you consider diverse views can be achieved with 3 lines of code randomizing bullshit.

"I don't pay taxes on my billions and billions of income, peons" is a weird flex.

Whoa, hold up there Jeff—who said anything about "double"? You pay an effective tax rate of 0.98%. We want to centuple your taxes. Then again, you'd still be a billionaire, so maybe more than centuple.

Putting the end of the civil rights era in historical perspective. I wrote about the Rise and Fall of the Second Reconstruction, 1964/65 – 2025/26: An attempt to really grasp what a profoundly important - and disturbing - moment in U.S. history we are currently witnessing. My new piece:

I get why many people don’t want to admit the US is no longer a rule of law democracy and has backslid into competitive authoritarianism. It’s a big change for the worse and unsettling to think about. But that won’t change the fact that it has. And the pro-democracy opposition needs to act like it.

The further you live from a transit stop, the more valid your political opinions are. That's just science. Duh.

Preach brother. Let’s all take a moment to remember what happened to the Confederates last time.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

@lawandchaospod.bsky.social Can we get an uncensored NSFW reaction to this in the subscriber section?

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Unlike you, the sum total of our ambitions isn’t access to the meritless elite, so, nah. When this is over, you all need to tie a steak around your neck to have your dog give you any attention.

Have to respect the hustle. When the family makes billions in bribes, it's people like Eric, who show up for the small amounts, who make you feel they deeply care. Well, that or it's just that Eric is the failest of fail sons.

key thing we learned from Virginia campaign Republicans are freaked the fuck out about accountability Not just Trump, all of them - including their billionaires, like Thiel They fear what's coming when Dems win - and Dems need to be ruthless about it

I think it’s the best democracy money can buy.

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