Bullet Joe Rogan topped out at 58 runs scored

U.S. Population Growth Slows Sharply as Immigration Numbers Plunge

The central failure of US immigration policy over my entire adult life is that it has always put xenophobia over facts. This is the result. And if we were talking about facts, this one would be setting off all our alarms. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Trump Slump

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: ICE has detained hundreds of U.S. citizens by “mistake.”

And now they want 100,000 beds and more planes to scale up?

They’re not deporting “illegals”—they’re running a kidnapping ring with government contracts.

Again to the point. Inside federal law enforcement ICE has always had a terrible rep. Place for people who can't get jobs at the more legit/disciplined federal policing agencies. High zeal to beat people up, low competence. Will get vastly worse hiring vast numbers under time pressure.

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

The president of the United States just pressured a major corporation to fork over $16 million to his personal library project as company executives feared that a lucrative merger would otherwise be blocked by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

It’s a difficult proposition for undergrads to work through, but choosing a major isn’t really about what kind of jobs you want to do so much as what sorts of questions you want to think about or *how* you want to think about questions throughout your life.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Pretty wild to make your entire case about how immigrants are lawless freeloaders, but having to go to their workplaces and court hearings to arrest them.

Great photo caption!

The Constitution forbids bribery *3 separate times*.

So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

The old white men who run Augusta National demand that you refer to it as “the second nine,” not the back nine

How it started (Obama)

How it’s going (Trump)

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt.
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

North Carolina judge finds racial bias in landmark death penalty case • NC Newsline North Carolina judge rules race played a key role in the trial of defendant who challenged his death sentence under the Racial Justice Act.

North Carolina judge finds racial bias in landmark death penalty case ncnewsline.com/2025/02/07/n...

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s

Jealous Trump Throws Own State Funeral To Upstage Carter’s
theonion.com/jealous...

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

I didn’t think I would leave Twitter right up until I couldn’t stand Twitter anymore