Ethics R Us. Cambridge MA
Interesting.
Dante AtkinsVery important piece by @davidoatkins.bsky.social at Washington Monthly: the DNC is actually doing just fine and raising record money, and the hit pieces are a product of a tier of useless DC consultants who don't want their media buy gravy train to end. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/31/t...
Srsly? Reviews are supposed to help us understand a movie, or at least whether or not to go and see it. They are not supposed to be evidence that the author is a really nice person, and should not be evaluated as if the author was running for Miss Congeniality.
Joseph RezekDying. It continues. SUSAN ORLEAN
Gift link. The only silver lining is that some of the money for the icebreakers we don’t need comes from border protection. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...
Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (Gift Article)The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.www.nytimes.comThread.
Will WilkinsonI’ve been thinking a lot about the thoughtlessness of AI writing. One of the many things that makes Melville’s prose so dazzling is the EXTEME rigor of the way he surprises, deepens and extends his metaphors and cultural touchstones. AI simply can’t, and not for the same reason that most of us can’t
Conditional on their wanting statehood, of course.
Mark Copelovitch6 new states, 12 new Senators (DC, PR, Guam, USVI, Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands). A bare minimum reform.
Pirro's actual motion to dismiss. Completely minor annoyance: Pirro needs to look up the meaning of 'fulsome.' "DOI provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case" means that DOI's information was less than unctuous or overdone. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
DOJ admits Reflecting Pool case doesn't hold waterwww.documentcloud.orgSurely someone somewhere in the legal system can ask her, under oath, about this statement.
Sarah Posnerat a press conference earlier this month, announcing the indictment against Hearn, Pirro "claimed to have witnesses who saw 'a violent effort to rip up the sealant from the bottom of the pool,' which she believed was with 'his bare hands, both hands.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Hoarders: The Gilt Accents Edition.* * Also with model planes inexplicably surrounding the busts of bemused historical figures.
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)Imagine the tax payer dollars that will go to removing all this tacky shit when this man is finally out of office.
Cosign.
Lindsay BeyersteinI can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
“A witness said Bader collided with the rear of a San Francisco Fire Department truck, causing the scooter wheel to roll over his foot.” How is that possible, even if you’re — dumb? Impaired? — enough to run a scooter into a fire truck, which is not exactly inconspicuous.
ReutersReports: Giants' Harrison Bader crashed scooter into fire truck reut.rs/4bYcLpB
