Matthew Buckley

Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace.

So are we doing the Hunter Biden thing again?

Gift link.

The immigration “judge” allegedly sua sponte — meaning without any request by a party, which is obviously a lie given the circumstances — “corrected” the 2019 order to fix a “scrivener’s error” and order Mr Abrego Garcia deported.

Not surprisingly, Judge Xinis blocked that. What a corrupt act.

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

Trump's AI executive order is out, purporting to preempt state law. Legally, only Congress can do that, or at least that's the law until Calvinball federal judges and justices say Trump is the Most Special Boy who can. 🤷‍♂️
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Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

This company specifically definitely feels like the thickest piece of connective tissue between the modern centre-right post-climate energytech space and the nuttier far-right Trump-aligned pro-fossil space

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

Really, go read the “datacenters in space” whitepaper where you’ll be told that launching things into space is cheap and cooling in space is easy. Then read this. taranis.ie/datacenters-...

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…

ClearPotential: Revealing Local Dark Matter in Three Dimensions We present ClearPotential, a data-driven, three-dimensional measurement of the gravitational potential of the local Milky Way using unsupervised machine learning, without the symmetry assumptions, spe...

Read our paper on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2512.09989
and if you're looking for a new postdoc who can apply machine learning to particle physics problems, my student Eric is on the job market.

Paper Explainer: ClearPotential: Revealing Local Dark Matter in Three Dimensions — physicsmatt This is a paper explainer for my recent work with my gr aduate student Eric Putney, previous Rutgers postdoc (now at Institute of Basic Science in Korea), and my Rutgers colleague David Shih. This is...

Very excited to have our measurement of the dark matter within the Milky Way out on arXiv. Using machine learning applied to Gaia data, we create differentiable, continuous maps of the gravitational potential, acceleration, and mass density within 4 kpc of the Sun www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2025/12...

the most important people in this administration — including trump — do not give a single shit about the republican party, and some republicans are starting to notice

this paranthesis alone means @tedlieu.bsky.social shld be president

This annoyed me so much I had to write a thing. www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2025/12...

They want to withhold federal money for a state’s infrastructure if the state has a law that protects its residents from the downsides of AI.

Does objective reality exist? Do words mean things? At this local diner, we asked six members of the local Republican committee.

If the bill had passed the line would have gone back to “extending the subsidies is giving republicans a political gift.” There was no outcome here that wouldn’t have led to “if I were in charge I’d have done it perfectly.”

This is strictly a personal observation from living in LA, but RFK scares me so much because otherwise orthodox liberals with a woo food and chemicals streak are being converted into lunatic conservatives.

Good thing those never break

Once again, can't stress enough how rare it is for a GJ to refuse to indict. The probable cause standard is low and the vote need not be unanimous.

In a normal DOJ this would be a screaming sign to drop the case - no way you will convince a unanimous jury at trial beyond a reasonable doubt.

also known as “letting voters experience the consequences of their choices”

"Democrats want ACA subsidies to tank so they can campaign on that" is right up there with "Democrats want to lose their elections so they can send you more fundraising emails" in the hall of fame of dipshit political hobbyist theories on the internet

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal

Eight months ago vs today. 🤡

@atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

Any time parliamentary procedure becomes relevant, people get Real Mad.

Giant fucking radiator fins.

Once again we see the Trump ethos that says simply being rich makes you “the best.”

You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.

A New York Times headline that reads: "Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy."

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.