The Trump administration's rationale for not paying SNAP benefits is that, in this case, their hands are tied and they are constrained by law: maybe the Supreme court will use this "victory" to suggest that they be constrained by law in their other cases before the court?

And, if you'll be in Chicago, mark December 1 on your calendar: www.chicagofilmsociety.org/calendar/cur...

I'm not saying it would apply to the internet that we have, but that the internet would have been different and better if Clinton and Gore had chosen to regulate it via the FCC (and, as a general principle, if Reagan and Bush hadn't changed the FCC rules around political speech).

I mispoke -- I meant the FCC fairness doctrine, frequently colloquially (and incorrectly!) lumped together with the equal time rule. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairnes...

Imagine a world where the FCC had not rescinded the equal time rule in the 80s and the social media algorithms were forced for follow it!

I love your story, but I don't love that people are using FB as the infrastructure.

It is convenient that many CEOs handed us a beautiful list, by showing up at T's inauguration, sponsoring the parade, and showing up at T's dinner parties.

Hot take: AI is not getting smarter -- it's just that social media has so completely degraded human intelligence that people think AI is improving at the same rate as their brains are atrophying.

I fantasize about a library style set of shelves on rollers, so I can fit a dozen shelves into the space of three against the wall.

Marvy!

he was always kindofa creep: exiledonline.com/malcolm-glad...

With the real possibility that the red states will change electoral laws and stuff ballot boxes to give their team 90% ballot victories, suddenly, the electoral college is looking like a pretty smart idea!

I love that kids are being told that reducing crime is the best way to resist authority.

And they made money off the deal!

Including during Democratic administrations -- Clinton addicted the DNC to large-donor cash, hamstringing progressive politics for the following three decades and Obama imagined that writing checks to Elon and skipping anti-trust enforcement of big tech would secure Democratic hegemony.

Only plausible if Federal Reserve remains independent and the dollar remains sound.

My mind reels at the implication that the administration is greenlighting bribery and wanting to own the companies that corruptly undermine foreign governments.

Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Felony Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C.

Is it wishful history to hope that Weimar's abolition of jury trials after Word War One sped up the Nazi domination of Germany? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

At the very least, they should frame the daily Trump news as one continuing story of predictable autocratic consolidation rather than presenting each outrage as an isolated conundrum.

"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."

And that 1950 number includes african americans who were arrested for loitering in the South, and put to work in chain gangs.

Except tariffs on Switzerland -- poor folks can't afford most Swiss products in the first place.

I think their working assumption was that, if there were anything damaging in the files, then the Democrats would have released them - because that is what Maga would have done.

Perfect for a beach day!

They don't understand what scientists actually do and assume that Large Language Models and fantasy-flavors of AI will do it all faster and cheaper: they are shutting down the pipeline because they expect futuristic AI to be better than the scientists.

"The Tech Coup" by Marietje Schaake covers the legal mechanics and PR shenanigans that brought us to this place. "More Everything Forever" is a brilliant eye-opening romp; "The Tech Coup" is a clear and programmatic discussion of how we got here and what we can do about it.

I detect a whiff of humor in the note -- making me love independent bookstores all the more.

Most of those referred to by the MSM as "conservatives" are actually "regressives", and the people they call "progressives" are really "conservatives".

Eye-opening insight into the self-justificatory intellectual scaffolding and social context that lets people treat the 3M surplus mortality caused by the USAID shutdown as "rounding error". @adambecker.bsky.social

Send in the crowns