It's God, Dana. You're on the wrong side of God.

W/ alt text. Democracy as genetic inheritance: so that’s what we’re doing now, hm? Then why does Wurman bother to teach law, since its “habits of thought” are only innate?

"Override our courts and the Constitution": ah, now I see. In Rubio et al.'s minds, the sole people with the exalted privilege of overriding the courts and Constitution are Trump and his lackeys.

It's a problem reminiscent of Josh Marshall's rumination about the problem of the over-mighty subject — except here, the ones poised to use colonial lucre to overawe the metropole are the actual stewards of the Constitution, not the nouveau riche. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-...

Yep, I’ve had enough of the eternity of discourse on settled matters that give right wingers refuse to accept. More of this energy stat, please.

_Pace_ the NYT editorial board, it seems okay for Dems to focus on heading off a competitive authoritarian, white Christian nationalist patriarchal autocracy first?

What in the AI nonsense … ? (For one, the jersey of the 'DEI' player appears to be sponsored by Kroger?)

Wild that a running theme among Republicans in 2026 is how they've taken this meme and made it borderline-literal, in at least two senses.

Eating onigiri and watching rubber ducks race down the Venice canals for the Fourth. The U.S. at its best.

It’s high-key giving “race mixing is communism.”

When my neighborhood Chicano grocery store displays more genuine patriotism, alas, than four-ninths of the Supreme Court:

You know what never had trouble drawing throngs to the Mall? A showcase of energy-efficient, 100% solar-powered homes.

"For decades, Los Angeles has been told that giving developers more incentives will eventually solve the housing crisis": ah, a logical leap:

Just _be normal_, Prof. Feldm— (*spies glamour-shot photo*) … you know what, I'm out, forget it.

The time for small ball needs to end, quickly.

Another Waymo behind it was ready to execute the same maneuver, albeit after the pedestrians had reached the double-yellow line in the street. The first one though, seemed pretty brazen.

In Santa Monica yesterday morning, as I waited for a couple of people to fully clear the crosswalk, a Waymo decided it had had quite enough of that:

Those prices went up too 😭 (* pic is before/after)

The good people in the country have to get real at this point: people like this board, like Tom Emmer saying *hell, I'll be racist*, or like the think-tanker in this picture are the core of the Republican Party. We may not like it, but this is what post-MAGA right-wing performance looks like.

every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

The Huang-to-Bass pipeline seems like an overdetermined development, frankly — the NIMBY leanings of the people who ended up voting for Huang just plainly _align_ better with what Bass offers. But Huang's voters were not numerous. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...

Looking at the address given as the crash site by the NYT, the home sat at a bend where a one-block residential street turned at a right angle to proceed to its end, a short distance away. No autonomous car in that context has reason to travel at a high rate of speed. (CW: vehicular violence)

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn’t look right:

_This_ looks right. (Look, ma — no algae!)

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn’t look ri—

Mm-hm — and notice how Cassidy doesn't even offer a both-sides parenthetical like, say, the withdrawal from Afghanistan. "The worst foreign policy blunder in decades," laid at Trump's feet by a Republican senator from a deep-red state.

Trump might as well pull the battleship Missouri out of dry dock and sail it over to Kharg Island for the signing.

Say the line, @mtsw.bsky.social.