Matt Randall

Gov Shapiro needs to make sure the local police chief (who instigated this conflict it looks like) knows that if these students aren't released to their parents tonight they will be receiving a full pardon immediately.

case of Gresham's law, "good money driving out bad."

When idiots think they understand economics. The 'market clearing price' only makes sense when you're talking about substitutable goods. In this case, not all NCOs are equally valuable to the military, and those who are more valuable will have more valuable alternatives. Outcome would be classic...

I lived in France and my wife has a law degree from there, and aside from not liking Marine Le Pen I don't have any firm opinions either

YouTube video by CBC Docs RIVALS: The 4 Nations Face-Off | Trailer

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I was watching TSN for Olympic hockey, and the preview for the US-Canada game had McDavid talking about how the emotions are so intense for this game, then had a clip of Trump calling Canada the 51st state

Is there any evidence for why this holds? Is it that these schools are much more stressful or that they have newer teachers

So lifetime speaking gigs and sinecures for all involved...

Really enjoyed this video and hoping to apply some of the lessons from it at my own place. Would love to see a video about renewable alternative to a stand by generator for when the power goes out for almost a week in the dead of winter. Is it installed solar and batteries? Or more grid reliant alt?

This is an interesting article but I think some of the changes in human physiology you note are the result of behavioral rather than genetic changes over the last 600 year. Eg. it is known that the drastic decrease in chewing (due to processed foods) is a primary contributor to smaller jaw size.

Sometimes I feel like a git when I can't find something and have to call my wife at work. But at least I haven't done this

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

They make the protein powder with colostrum? That's screwed up

Academic article "Acting "As If": Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria" describes army officers being forced to describe fantastical tales that are obviously not true to show fealty to the Hafez al-Assad regime.

An obviously not true story is relayed by MAGA acolyte Nick Adams where he describes fictional young women gushing over the documentary about First Lady Melania Trump with such believable phases from 2025 as "Slay queen." He establishes that he is a real man and was not working out with them by emphasizing he was going out for a "hot black coffee." This fantastically tale is said to show his fealty to Trump.

How it started. How it's going.

Noem has found a new way to incentivize a bureaucracy, "keep working or you have to watch me shoot my fucking dog to death."
www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...

Good job to Chief O'Hara from Minneapolis. Local and state police need to be the guardians of rights when the federal government undermines them

www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Since at least 1939, Americans, from the President down to Privates, have earned the presumption of truthfulness and honesty. Trump has destroyed this in only a year. We are going to need to do a lot of work to re-earn that trust

In the case of the Federal Reserve, Supreme Court appears to carve out a murky exception The Supreme Court for the past year has repeatedly allowed President Donald Trump to fire heads of independent agencies, but it appears to be drawing a line with the Federal Reserve.

The Supreme Court has given up even the pretense of calling balls and strikes on the law. They are trying to function as an unaccountable policy making institution based on their preferred outcomes, which invariably end up being those of big business
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Danish veterans of US wars feel betrayed by Trump's threats against Greenland Danish veterans feel betrayed as the U.S. escalates threats to seize Greenland, a territory of Denmark.

These Danes have spent more time fighting to protect America than Trump ever has: apnews.com/article/denm...

The minor electrical issue is with his brain. But seriously, his brain isn't working and he is not fit to be president

ICE has already been caught lying that a person they shot was trying to run them over when the car was stopped or was moving in the other direction. It was in Brighton Park, Chicago. ICE tried to sell the lie by charging the driver with a crime, but it was such a lie it didn't even make it to court.

Minnesota State Patrol needs to identify, arrest, and preserve evidence of this horrendous killing. This is essential in a country governed by laws

YouTube video by BBC Studios Good Luck Everyone - Blackadder - BBC

Best ending ever is Blackadder, from the last series Blackadder Goes Forth
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Nvm, Ambiguities of Domination by Weeden

Long time since grad school. What is the book where they talk about the cult of personality around Assad, and the soldiers go on about their crazy dreams about the great leader? Should probably reread that

Corrupt, unpopular kleptocrats need each other. Trump is the best gift the unpopular Venezuelan regime could ever ask for.

Salesforce is a major revenue source for Ellison. Cut your subscription and tell them it's because of him. Same for Netsuite. And Ellison is getting control of Tiktok in the US. If you use the platform, make sure your consuming/producing content that says how dangerous he is for American democracy.

The response to this needs to be as strong as Disney taking Kimmel off the air. I'm cancelling my Paramount subscription (my 3 year old will survive without paw patrol, but I'm not sure the US will survive a powerful Larry Ellison). Don't use OpenAI, which is a major Ellison partner. 1/2

We try to talk to people and some of them can be reached. The only valid question about the paper is about whether there are heterogenous treatment effects, where the population subject to backlash is also more likely to be contacted.

Exactly right. Criticizing a study for using intent to treat (ITT) analysis is both statistically wrong, and ignores that that's how campaigns work. We can't mandate that some people talk to us (and we can't make canvassers say that what we want verbatim). 1/2