Nick DeVito

I do think there is some like...morale boosting in doing a thing like No Kings. It shows you aren't along in feeling like this is all a huge terrible mess, and maybe gets you meeting people to try and change that. I just hope that's happening and it's not just kind of a circle jerk.

Like what was the core, simple, direct policy ask of "No Kings"? Does it have one? If it's just "we don't really like Donald Trump and the current admin" well we have like a year before anything can even BEGIN to happen about that. Can we do anything in the meantime?

Look, I'm glad people are organising these protests, but something more, and coherent, needs to come from it other than "look at all the people!" and social media posts of the most creative signs for it to amount to anything.

When a huge amount of congressional seats in the US are just safe fiefdoms it's really hard to hold anyone's feet to the fire via peaceful, nebulous protest.

President Trump today announced a debt jubilee for sports gamblers, whose losses are to be transferred to graduate students

This is my constant response to this type of talk and inevitably the subject gets changes real quick.

Submission: I did a thing.

Reviewer: Too bad it’s not the thing I imagined while half-reading your abstract.

Revision: What a coincidence, it is now.

Love and admiration for all the #NoKings protesters.

Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Great moments in redaction history.

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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Wild that “accidentally fired a large portion of the CDC” is going to be a minor footnote in the history of this administration

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This has been fundamental to Republican ideology literally my entire life as a politically aware entity.

Oh yes the MAGA folks certainly don’t want that.

This is why we don’t truncate Y-axes.

Unironically this is how I feel most of the time and I don’t even live there anymore.

Never has an article been more written by AI.

I’d argue that’s exactly what free speech is.

Ezra Klein Is Worried — but Not About a Radicalized Left ‘They’re failing and rethinking nothing.’

But I hold to the view I did describe, which is that there was an almost delight in engagement, a sense that disagreement could be the start of something — even if it was only to disagree for the people on your own side. I think the left did not adopt that particular attitude. The left was more likely for quite some time to try to keep someone like Kirk or Ben Shapiro from speaking on campus than to happily debate with them and do the reverse — which is like, “Can you do a speaking tour of evangelical churches?” Can you actually go into the places you feel are most hostile to you and treat that as an interesting place to begin a conversation, even if only to sharpen your own arguments? Douthat: I wanted to ask you on exactly that point, do you think that there’s anyone on the left who does that kind of thing? It’s almost the bunker that progressivism has built for itself, that it’s hard to imagine someone doing that.

Does Klein earnestly believe the reason you don't see progressives tour conservative evangelical churches to defend abortion or some such is that progressives are dispositionally less interested in debate and civil discourse than the right? Genuinely? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

In addition to being truly a giant in the field, Drummond also is the source for one of my favorite 2 slide transitions I've ever put in a talk. It shows the rapid change in sentiment on clinical trial registration in the early 2000s (in the wake of the Paroxetine scandal).

Insane this garbage still gets published.

He is, without a doubt, one of the dumbest and most consistently wrong people I ever have the displeasure of seeing regularly pop up in my feeds.

I'd also like to add, in addition to those things Steve over here mentioned, Mr. Kirk was also armed with literally millions of dollars of backing for his organisation since he was like 17.

Can’t make up their mind as to if social media censorship is good or not.

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An interesting thing indeed considering I just got back from a conference they run on research integrity and peer review.

So @maclomaclee.bsky.social had a slide here saying that only 2 plenaries at this conference ID’d an issue, proposed intervention, randomized and preregistered.

Funny enough I am an author on both. Gotta walk the walk.

Not a lawyer but I don’t think that’s a legal authority…