Steve Kline

Any chance the red-eyed bird poster returns? Thanks!

All for it.

Oweh a complete non-entity. This is not new.

This is insane. This team shouldn’t want to make the ‘yoffs. It should be trying to draft the best pass rusher in the draft behind new head coach Joe Brady.

There’s another adjective one could think of. Irrelevant.

No doubt. Breece Hall, too!

Increasingly the right is confusing their definition of freedom with anarchy. The constitution nowhere guarantees your ability to “do whatever you want.” That’s not freedom in a civil society. Any most basic reading of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau could clear this up.

Some people being mildly inconvenienced on their shitty vacations ain’t news, gang.

All of this can be summed up tidily by a phenomenon known as the “baseline assumption error.”

This is precisely the problem. We’ve long confused the idea of freedom as “I can do whatever I want.”

It is worth noting, the theoretical person described by Scalise is hard-wired into the right wing “manosphere,” doesn’t miss an episode of Rogan and packs Zyns molar to molar. He also voted for Trump. This ain’t your grandfather’s welfare queen, @atrupar.com!

as Republicans are poised to pass legislation stripping healthcare from more than 10 million Americans, all three major cable news networks are covering ... the Diddy trial

An exceptionally fine morning on the porch with @peterbakernyt.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social’s fine biography of JAB III.

Too bad you didn’t get to ask him about being swept by the Birds at home. Go O’s!

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

A century of global hegemony vaporized by people who can’t spell hegemony.

Got the Tanenhaus on order at my local independent for Tuesday pickup. Excited to read. Will wrap your own good “When The Clock Broke” this afternoon. Nice work.

Books

We’re all gonna die but some of us will die well-read.

Shamed into doing the very basics of one’s job.

People aren’t paying attention? Ye gods! You don’t say?

No. Gangrene does.

I mean, that does sound pretty great.

A very interesting thread by @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social about how reading used to play an enormous role in all levels of social strata. Before we declared collective war on our attention spans.

A century of global hegemony vaporized in 40 days by people who don’t know what hegemony is.

The problem here is the MAGA vision of government. Do whatever it takes to slash government and then count on a population obsessed with low-taxes and convinced the government does nothing to benefit them, to keep it that small. It’s a long game. No intention of replacing revenue.

in retrospect maybe it was a mistake to tell young people that reading, the arts, the humanities weren’t important and that “learning to code” was sufficient for a good life.

Excellent. Wrote my masters thesis as a comparative analysis of his and Richard Nixon’s environmental records. I was also the chief lobbyist of an organization named after him.

I’ve read all your stuff. Vanderbilt and Custer were 10/10. And I enjoyed the Jesse James work. Happy writing.

*Colombia.

What’s the ETA on TR? Excited to read it.