Adam Weinstein

never violate the Pythagorean maxim

Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.

Many of my students only knew Henry Ford for his cars, and did not know until I taught them how influential he was in circulating the Protocols, which makes me wonder if students a century from now will look at Elon Musk as nothing more than an eccentric car and rocket builder.

i like that this is the nicest thing that vance could bring himself to say about jackson

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"

and i was like.
oh!

All my takes are better the second day straight outta the fridge

My hot take is there is space for creative nonfiction and speculative narratives in solidly reported journalistic works, if you're *extremely* transparent and forthcoming about what you're doing and why. But the thing you're all talking about... was not that

Getting slammed with spam calls, patiently waiting for the news story revealing which of the big companies was the latest to suffer a data breach. Technology rocks

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Basically every military and veterans group I've seen on social media, even the conservative-leaning ones, is melting down about this right now.

Will you look at that, the English arrested a disgraced ex-prince and the Koreans sentenced a seditious ex-president to life in prison. Huh. Wow

YouTube video by MS NOW 'Desperate': Soboroff sounds alarm on Trump’s scramble to tilt midterm math

Jacob Soboroff: “Donald Trump, the aspiring authoritarian in the White House, is desperately looking for ways to turn the math in his party’s favor. One way to do that is to add voters to his coalition. The other is to subtract voters from the equation entirely.”

Recall the majority opinion in Plyler the justices pointedly said they wanted to avoid creating and underclass of people who wouldn't have a public education due to a legal status beyond their control. And now HF wants to go back to that. Fog horning racism.

Palantir, Which Is Powering ICE, Says Immigration Crackdown May Hurt Hiring Regulation of immigration or work visa means "it could be more difficult to staff our personnel on customer engagements and could increase our costs," Palantir wrote.

New from 404 Media: Palantir says the immigration crackdown may hurt its ability to hire talent. This is while Palantir, at the same time, provides the technological infrastructure powering the Trump administration's mass deportation effort, including tools for ICE www.404media.co/palantir-whi...

Communities nationwide push back against proposed ICE facility sites A proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Merrimack is continuing to spark strong reactions from residents and local officials.

25 years ago, a bunch of libertarians moved to NH to take over state government. Jason Osborne, one of those "Free Staters," has since risen to be majority leader in the state house.

How is he fighting for "liberty?" By helping Stephen Miller build a 324,000-foot prison for migrants and refugees.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

NEW: Yet another reason why Social Security numbers should no longer be used for verifying your identity. @lhn.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/a-mega...

Man. Remember when Sarah Palin said Obamacare would empower "death panels"

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.**

“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Also: *red herring* not "false herring," what in the world is that

Far be it from me to defend our long national tradition of TV cop procedurals, but these guys seem unaware how many regular folks have seen enough Law & Order episodes to know this "we have a(n administrative) warrant" stuff is bullshit

Monobob? That's not a sports word. Robert Kritzer, my 10th grade English teacher with the nasal sleep-inducing voice? That's a monobob

Jerry Smith did it well too

Incredible to me that the current US administration has looked at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that the real problem with the US military is that its officers weren't good enough at killing stuff but knew too much history, anthropology, theology and international relations.

Every one of these whines about “warriors” having to endure education and interaction with civilian agencies boils down to this: When you factor in politics, strategy, philosophy, ethics, outcomes, etc. there’s no way to conclude that indulging my impulses is always right and that makes me feel bad.

Ok i think that's enough curling