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Many of us want to stay in good physical and cognitive health in our later years. Winning the genetic lottery can help in that quest.
But even if you don’t have the genes linked to longevity, you can increase your chances of aging well with certain lifestyle choices. https://wapo.st/3YhuPE6
But even if you don’t have the genes linked to longevity, you can increase your chances of aging well with certain lifestyle choices. https://wapo.st/3YhuPE6
December 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Many of us want to stay in good physical and cognitive health in our later years. Winning the genetic lottery can help in that quest.
But even if you don’t have the genes linked to longevity, you can increase your chances of aging well with certain lifestyle choices. https://wapo.st/3YhuPE6
But even if you don’t have the genes linked to longevity, you can increase your chances of aging well with certain lifestyle choices. https://wapo.st/3YhuPE6
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This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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In cities across China, there’s a special kind of consultant you can hire if you find out your spouse is cheating. They’re called “mistress dispellers.” On “Modern Love,” the filmmaker Elizabeth Lo explains some of the secrets to a mistress dispeller’s success. nyti.ms/4qp5rci
October 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In cities across China, there’s a special kind of consultant you can hire if you find out your spouse is cheating. They’re called “mistress dispellers.” On “Modern Love,” the filmmaker Elizabeth Lo explains some of the secrets to a mistress dispeller’s success. nyti.ms/4qp5rci
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Vance spent years being fellated and fawned over as this intellectual titan of the New Right with piercing insights into the American psyche that you just HAD to pay attention to, and he really is just the most vilely demagogic bottom-feeder we've seen in national politics in a long, long time.
WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?
VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control
W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland
V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly
VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control
W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland
V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Vance spent years being fellated and fawned over as this intellectual titan of the New Right with piercing insights into the American psyche that you just HAD to pay attention to, and he really is just the most vilely demagogic bottom-feeder we've seen in national politics in a long, long time.
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ICYMI: Democratic candidate Rebecca Cooke, running to unseat Derrick Van Orden in light red WI-03, comes out against further weapons assistance to Israel, saying, "I do not think US taxpayer dollars should fund the killing of children."
October 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
ICYMI: Democratic candidate Rebecca Cooke, running to unseat Derrick Van Orden in light red WI-03, comes out against further weapons assistance to Israel, saying, "I do not think US taxpayer dollars should fund the killing of children."
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Why I believe there are a lot of misleading papers about LLM reasoning.
October 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Why I believe there are a lot of misleading papers about LLM reasoning.
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You know the Tekkadan ship is poor or at least European since they seem to not have dryers for their laundry
October 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You know the Tekkadan ship is poor or at least European since they seem to not have dryers for their laundry
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“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?”
Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:
Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:
180. The Roberts Court Turns 20
The Supreme Court is much less popular and much more divisive today than it was when John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice on September 29, 2005. And at least much of that is his fault.
www.stevevladeck.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?”
Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:
Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:
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A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.
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I will never forget watching *hours* of news coverage with my dad that night, *all* of which took it for granted that he would drop out of the race that night, and both of just being baffled by the assumption.
I'm not always right, but man, I think I called it that time.
I'm not always right, but man, I think I called it that time.
September 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I will never forget watching *hours* of news coverage with my dad that night, *all* of which took it for granted that he would drop out of the race that night, and both of just being baffled by the assumption.
I'm not always right, but man, I think I called it that time.
I'm not always right, but man, I think I called it that time.
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1. OK, so this is the ninth book in this very pulpy space opera, right? But it actually mostly takes place in an office building, and is about the protagonist having a midlife crisis and nervous breakdown. I am in absolute fucking awe of how good it is, and can't describe it without sounding insane.
January 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
1. OK, so this is the ninth book in this very pulpy space opera, right? But it actually mostly takes place in an office building, and is about the protagonist having a midlife crisis and nervous breakdown. I am in absolute fucking awe of how good it is, and can't describe it without sounding insane.
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these are The Cal Raleigh Years
Many thanks to Cal Raleigh for making @mikeduncan.bsky.social and I's effusive praise on the podcast yesterday quite topical. Mike rules and this episode was extremely fun!
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The Blight Bat Ep. 7: You Gotta Like These Guys (w/ Mike Duncan)
The Blight Bat · Episode
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August 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
these are The Cal Raleigh Years
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Part of the problem for Thomas Chatterton Williams is that he styles himself as an American cultural critic despite having lived in France since Obama's first term.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
![Williams’s book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue:
For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database) — and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement — the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama’s second administration.
Huh? In addition to such passages, “Summer of Our Discontent” includes many distended excerpts — some spanning three pages — from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times.
Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding “an excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.” Regrettably, I know the feeling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfposmpmhegtyvhbs75s3pw/bafkreif2e52q5ncyrgmcxrrhpwuuclwcfp2vefdlmqxka6z5p2brfiarsa@jpeg)
August 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Part of the problem for Thomas Chatterton Williams is that he styles himself as an American cultural critic despite having lived in France since Obama's first term.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
He has no connection to contemporary American culture outside of Online. He is simply Ian Miles Cheong with better PR.
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It means things are much worse than we thought, and that Trump is going to fire another BLS head in a month.
August 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It means things are much worse than we thought, and that Trump is going to fire another BLS head in a month.
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Goldman: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will publish a preliminary estimate of the benchmark revision to March 2025 nonfarm payrolls on September 9th. We estimate a downward revision on the order of 550-950k”
August 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Goldman: “The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will publish a preliminary estimate of the benchmark revision to March 2025 nonfarm payrolls on September 9th. We estimate a downward revision on the order of 550-950k”
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trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
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* TRUMP HAS DRAFTED LETTER TO FIRE FED CHAIR: NYT
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
* TRUMP HAS DRAFTED LETTER TO FIRE FED CHAIR: NYT
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This is part of the reason why the lawyerly explanations of why this decision isn't so bad miss the forest for the trees
July 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is part of the reason why the lawyerly explanations of why this decision isn't so bad miss the forest for the trees
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Damn—the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that a LOT of the reconciliation bill requires 60 votes to pass, including a massive assault on federal regulations and several heinous attacks on civil service protections. This effectively guts a big chunk of the bill. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
June 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Damn—the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that a LOT of the reconciliation bill requires 60 votes to pass, including a massive assault on federal regulations and several heinous attacks on civil service protections. This effectively guts a big chunk of the bill. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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William G. Young, the judge behind the impassioned takedown of Trump’s anti-DEI philosophy on Monday, has several other big cases against the administration on his docket this summer.
We took a deeper look at his background and evolution as a jurist:
We took a deeper look at his background and evolution as a jurist:
The Reagan-Appointed Judge Fast-Tracking Trump to Trial
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
William G. Young, the judge behind the impassioned takedown of Trump’s anti-DEI philosophy on Monday, has several other big cases against the administration on his docket this summer.
We took a deeper look at his background and evolution as a jurist:
We took a deeper look at his background and evolution as a jurist:
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Most editors will go their whole careers without ever getting to write a headline this good www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
May 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Most editors will go their whole careers without ever getting to write a headline this good www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
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Grateful that the new Pope seems to share Pope Francis’ views on the current wave of nativist immigration policy.
The new pope's brother: “I know he’s not happy with what’s going on with immigration. I know that for a fact. How far he’ll go with it is only one’s guess, but he won’t just sit back. I don’t think he’ll be the silent one.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...
‘I Was Stunned’: Watching From Illinois, Pope’s Brother Reflects on History
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Grateful that the new Pope seems to share Pope Francis’ views on the current wave of nativist immigration policy.
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Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.
New: Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that the US will strike a trade deal with the UK, according to a person familiar with the matter, the first agreement for the administration since it imposed sweeping tariffs against its trading partners last month @theguardian.com story TK
May 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.