If you want a better understanding of Israel, Episode 422 of Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast with Haviv Rettig Gur provides a nuanced perspective that changed my thinking.
If you know me, DM me and I’ll share the full length episode.
I just watched Eulogy (Black Mirror season 7, episode 5). The most moving episode of all for me.
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...
Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.
New: I think Schumer and Jeffries probably DO mean to condition Dem votes for budget legislation on a return to the rule of law. But strategic ambiguity and paeans to bipartisanship highlight just how unfit a party guided by lawyers, pollsters, and strategists is to handle an existential crisis.
Red states! This is the way. (It shouldn’t be the way, but Trump made the new rules.)
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
There is impotent anger and there’s quiet effectiveness, but they aren’t binary. If Schumer and Jeffries went to the mics to explain the crisis and said “no democratic votes for budget items until the lawlessness ends” it would be cathartic and cause an earthquake.
In my mind, it is perfectly possible to a) understand why people fall for the appeal of authoritarian demagogues, and still b) think it's bad to do so.
In short, I understand the assholes fine. I still think they're assholes.
this is, I guess, my first cartoon of the new era
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