Andrew Pendleton

Sure, but this is a moment of opportunity, and at least he's rising to the occasion. Would I prefer someone with a spine all the time? Of course. But I'll take someone with a spine occasionally over never (like most of Dem leadership), given those choices.

I initially read that as "moral deflection" and thought "wow, the rare candid jab from NYT opinion," but no, turns out they're about as mealy-mouthed as usual.

These were never rational arguments made in good faith, advocating for a general right to be broadly exercised. They were always about a right for a certain kind of person, to protect themselves against a different kind of person. This victim was the wrong kind of person, so he doesn't count.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Doubly so because Ukraine used to have nukes but gave them up under the Budapest memorandum of 1994 in return for our commitment to protect their sovereignty if attacked, which we of course failed to uphold. Again, in hindsight, denuclearization was a clear blunder

I think this was already the case due to Ukraine. Compare the tepid international response to Russia's invasion to, say, the response to Iraq invading Kuwait, and the obvious conclusion is that nuclear states can do whatever they want to non-nuclear ones and everybody else just sits on their hands.

I don't think this was the moment of ambiguity; I think at this moment they definitely lived, and the perception that they had been shot was part of the illusion (along with agent orange etc.) to motivate the breaking of the tank. The maybe-death was later.

Oh for sure, they've been around for almost 30 years without really producing anything or earning real revenue, so everyone under the sun has invested in them. Seems like a scam. I'm just not sure I see a sanctions angle in particular -- there's nothing they'd need to import.

The main Russian involvement in nuclear energy relates to production of fuel for fission reactors, which a fusion reactor doesn't require.

Perhaps there are transmitters embedded in the speed limit signs or other street furniture that tell the car what the local speed limit is, and it honors the locally broadcast limit if present or isn't limited otherwise.

If we're imagining a universe where the political will exists to modify every car in the country to have a speed governor in it, we can imagine that the will similarly exists to implement a solution that doesn't have this requirement.

Totally. I assume these were rental priorities because it would be stupid to do otherwise.

And it places where it *is* legal, it occurs. In DC, a large portion of the house flipping is converting existing single-family to multi-family (often bumping up and/or back and then splitting into individual units).

(unless you mean they bought 17 properties just to let them sit empty -- that *is* worth penalizing, and many jurisdictions do, by charging much higher property taxes for vacant properties)

Every property available for rent is owned by somebody, and renters are generally the most affected by high housing costs and the most acutely in need of new supply. Buying up to rent increases purchase demand but rental supply, which might be net good depending on the market.

YouTube video by Welsch John Green Writing Policygenius Ads

It's John Green who did the Policy Genius ads. Agreed that they're great, though. I think they started on the Anthropocene Reviewed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MOe...

ChatGPT could likely even write this program for you (retrieving actual Bible verses)

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

Yes, but most national-security information is FOIA-exempt.

Anything this overtly liturgical felt weird, but if they absolutely had to, they could have used a different setting that didn't already have so much associated cultural baggage, and also wasn't so fire-and-brimstone. Maybe the Faure Requiem instead? The Pie Jesu and Agnus Dei are both really nice.

I don't think the point was "everybody should get their news from PBS" so much as "everybody should get their news from actual professional journalists, not social media randos, and an example of that that's free is PBS." There are lots of other options too.