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Does it hurt to get shot with a gun? The HHS has issued new guidance that it actually hurts more not getting shot with a gun. Health watchdogs warn that promoting getting shot with a gun will make more people get hurt from bullets, though the actual science is disputed by some researchers
December 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Does it hurt to get shot with a gun? The HHS has issued new guidance that it actually hurts more not getting shot with a gun. Health watchdogs warn that promoting getting shot with a gun will make more people get hurt from bullets, though the actual science is disputed by some researchers
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At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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Landscapes of scarcity incentivize charisma over competence in knowledge professions and it enrages me
I think the people wondering how the Nuzzis & the Lizzas of the world get so famous are maybe making more discriminating choices. But fact is, more people prefer such ego bombs than the many, many excellent journalists w/out white mustangs or tell-all bamboo metaphors.
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Landscapes of scarcity incentivize charisma over competence in knowledge professions and it enrages me
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That’s why it’s important to have the public existing in social and informational spaces that are dominated by honesty, truth, and accuracy, instead of urban legend and lurid rumor. Unfortunately we have mostly destroyed the former and mostly built the latter!
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
That’s why it’s important to have the public existing in social and informational spaces that are dominated by honesty, truth, and accuracy, instead of urban legend and lurid rumor. Unfortunately we have mostly destroyed the former and mostly built the latter!
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.
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getting a bit sick of always being right
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
getting a bit sick of always being right
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Like, this is the mainstream GOP response to an off-year election drubbing: invite nazis to the capital. There's no reforming this, there's no bringing these people back to moderation & reason. They have to be resisted tirelessly at every turn and ultimately crushed or they'll destroy everything
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Like, this is the mainstream GOP response to an off-year election drubbing: invite nazis to the capital. There's no reforming this, there's no bringing these people back to moderation & reason. They have to be resisted tirelessly at every turn and ultimately crushed or they'll destroy everything
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NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
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I think the banal answer is: he’s very rich and powerful and good at networking and this how people act around very rich and powerful people.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I think the banal answer is: he’s very rich and powerful and good at networking and this how people act around very rich and powerful people.
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This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
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And what makes this claim especially grating is that Democrats have devoted truly staggering amounts of time and energy into trying to discover the median policy view so they can move closer to it - it's the primary focus of the party elite - but the other stuff has gone almost totally unexamined.
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
And what makes this claim especially grating is that Democrats have devoted truly staggering amounts of time and energy into trying to discover the median policy view so they can move closer to it - it's the primary focus of the party elite - but the other stuff has gone almost totally unexamined.
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He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?
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Fight for god’s sake! Fight or resign and let actual patriots lead
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Fight for god’s sake! Fight or resign and let actual patriots lead
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I did not cancel my New York Times subscription because of anything in the newspaper, though perhaps I should have.
I canceled it because their reporters and editors are arrogant pricks to their customers despite being ignorant to the point of being unqualified to cover their beats.
I canceled it because their reporters and editors are arrogant pricks to their customers despite being ignorant to the point of being unqualified to cover their beats.
October 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I did not cancel my New York Times subscription because of anything in the newspaper, though perhaps I should have.
I canceled it because their reporters and editors are arrogant pricks to their customers despite being ignorant to the point of being unqualified to cover their beats.
I canceled it because their reporters and editors are arrogant pricks to their customers despite being ignorant to the point of being unqualified to cover their beats.
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union:
“Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
“Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
Marshall calls Vought a degenerate criminal for his threats to maul the people’s government, and he’s right — but the truth is even more galling.
Assent to our crimes against the Constitution, Vought now demands — or else he will commit further such crimes. He _revels_ in flouting his oath.
Assent to our crimes against the Constitution, Vought now demands — or else he will commit further such crimes. He _revels_ in flouting his oath.
This seems to be their angle. If there’s a shutdown they won’t furlough employees they’ll fire them permanently. The fact that this is illegal kind of isn’t the point these days. I don’t see why this is much of a threat. They don’t have to do this. It’s a choice. They run the govt. when things …
September 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union:
“Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
“Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
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"Chuck Schumer, why are you doing this? Hakeem Jeffries, why are you doing this?...It's the donors...They're not up to the moment...sternly worded letter? ARGHH."
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September 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Chuck Schumer, why are you doing this? Hakeem Jeffries, why are you doing this?...It's the donors...They're not up to the moment...sternly worded letter? ARGHH."
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Medievalist here, for once not to urge people to stop scapegoating the past but to learn from it. If we were reading about this in a history of medieval London, we’d recognize exactly what this is and the violence it represents. Calling it free speech is as grotesque as calling a pogrom a sacrament.
This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...
September 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Medievalist here, for once not to urge people to stop scapegoating the past but to learn from it. If we were reading about this in a history of medieval London, we’d recognize exactly what this is and the violence it represents. Calling it free speech is as grotesque as calling a pogrom a sacrament.