The arts have impact. Incredible impact everyday. And we rarely hear how because the path is almost never so direct.

I just took an outdoor shower. It is 75 and sunny with a light glorious breeze. My dad and I dug a bushel of littleneck clams this morning. And I am going to sit on the back deck for an hour with a can of Narragansett and read Moby Dick, which I found at the dump when I was dropping off trash.

So apparently liberty is modeled on a naked Mark Zuckerberg. Which really tells you something.

I don’t know I’ve ever seen a person’s genuine smile be quite so unsettling

I’ve a feeling we’re not in France anymore, Tôtô

Hello from France. It’s like this all the time here.

It seems overnight the White House has been replaced by a Monster Energy Drink branded UFC cage

This is what’s missing from post-humanity sci-fi

A follow-back to the first person who can correctly ID the person boarding the Acela NY-DC ahead of me tonight.

Now’s the time to hire a folksy field hockey coach from Oklahoma or a disgruntled but brilliant waterboy with a chip on his shoulder what are you waiting for

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

*Tomorrow (Thursday) at 9am* I'm talking to prolific & brilliant @stevevladeck.bsky.social , about the recent NYTimes' publication of the "shadow papers" from the Supreme Court, and the ever-growing long shadow of the shadow docket. Join us @lawfaremedia.org ! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Were there just too many children living to their fifth birthday

It’s 10pm on a Tuesday and there is some guy just standing in blue light on a balcony singing (badly and without finishing any songs) across the street. Is it a music video? Rehearsal? Lonely karaoke? We’ll never know. Only in New York, man.

Just the wurst

Apparently the audio track from the Charlie Kirk assassination is now an outfit transition video?! I can’t wtf hard enough.

“We need more royalty in the US” is a take.

Unreal. And somehow my colleague @johnqbarrett.bsky.social called it.

THIS DOESN’T EVEN MAKE SENSE. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is sponsored and organized by the press association! It would never and should never be held at the White House, because journalists should not be beholden to the subjects of their reporting.

Stanford AI Index Report: "The U.S.-China AI model performance gap has effectively closed." hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

I am pretty sure you could just generically re-label this graph "Trust in government regulation by country" and just leave out the whole AI part and it would be perfectly accurate. (Source: Top Takeaways, Stanford AI Index Report 2026 hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...)

Gee, I wonder what could be making people not want to move to the United States to work in the world's most lucrative and fastest growing industry. (Source: Top Takeaways, Stanford AI Index Report 2026 hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...)

I feel like I’m having a stroke reading this headline.

God Bless the person in this listserv for writing this

Happy2have new attorney general whose entire legal experience can be summed up in three sentences on Wikipedia.

If you were wondering how the class field trip went

Fun @lawfaremedia.org RatSec recording coming soon with me, @annabower.bsky.social, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social and of course, @sranderson.bsky.social !

Here’s a headline you’d never see in Europe

It took 20 years and the most corrupt administration in U.S. history but it seems like the much-feared future of normalizing social media as a giant propaganda machine is unequivocally here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so