Mike Wolfinbarger

Remember what I repeated over and over and over again for years like it was a goddamn assignment, the biggest lesson my life so far has taught me: borders also keep you in.

If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

I thought aligned until I actually looked at it. Now I think between.

Timeline cleanse

District and appellate courts, I think fairly, keep asking the Supreme Court to clarify what they actually mean—i.e. "If the new rule is that the Trump admin can never lose then you have to say that" and the Supreme Court keeps being like "No, you're supposed to just do it without us having to say."

Every year, the Heritage Foundation puts out an "economic freedom" index, ranking every country in the world by (more or less) how lightly they're regulated.

There are four Nordic countries in the top 15.

Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now

YouTube video by Robert Reich Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks

Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.

The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.

That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?

Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.

For us, we’re either with folks who know and just want to find moments of joy by not talking about it, or they’re in various stages of denial or supportive of it all and look at us like we’re speaking gibberish.

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks

average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything

If you're explaining that you're not dead, you're losing.

There's the authoritarianism, and then there's the just shitting on humanity parts - eg, the vaccine and renewable energy cancellations - which are a new nihilist twist on historical authoritarianism, death for its own sake. (Calling RFK eugenicist is giving him too much credit for reasoning.)

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict

Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments.

Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

@tweber.bsky.social Picked up a copy of Cloud Warriors at B&N. Looking forward to reading it.

Thanks for kind words about RadarScope. The team got a kick out of seeing those.

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

Our greatest ethical question as we eat cows and let children starve is whether a for loop in Python feels pain.

Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

This is one of the rare times I’ll disagree. They definitely imagined Trump. Half the Federalist Papers are about Trump.

Photo caption: Man who was released via cashless bail after many felony indictments.

Few charts show our current American weakness like this one.

The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.