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Not one story this week has made ANY mention of Madmartigan, and I simply will abide it no longer #RIPValKilmer #Willow
April 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Canada is potentially about to elect a Prime Minister with a PhD in economics from Oxford, Mexico elected someone with a degree in physics and a PhD in energy engineering…

Meanwhile, America elected a barely sentient orange turnip.

Any Questions?!
March 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.
“The MTA as a whole is averaging 448K more public transit riders per day this year…The MTA ridership growth since congestion pricing went into effect is almost 50% larger than the total ridership of America’s next-largest subway system.” bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion...
Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle
Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it
bettercities.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Social media has fried our brains
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s

What should we make of this?

www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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March 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.
February 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Quotes from the confirmation hearings of

Alito: “Roe..is an important precedent”

Gorsuch: “[Roe] is the law of the land. I accept [that]”

Kavanaugh: “The Supreme Court has recognized the right to abortion since [Roe]”

Why even bother with these questions when you know they’re just going to lie
Under questioning by Klobuchar, Bondi vows that "politics will not play a part" in her work if she's confirmed

(bookmark this one)
January 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM