For the last few years, the rollout of the clock on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been a flop. This year was the worst. People on my Bluesky timeline didn’t know what it meant, or worse, mocked it. What does a change of 4...
During Trump - 1st Verse, a civic-minded IRS contractor accessed and leaked the tax returns of a number of wealthy people, including those of Trump and his sons. Trump -.
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, we know how Republican elites now feel about fighting infections [gift link]: In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump.
Alejandro Cartagena - Unsplash You might have heard that Donald of the Putrid Paws has threatened to add the latest NYT/Siena poll to his defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. That fits his pattern of suing when a poll's results hurt his feelings. He still has...
Sometimes it's the one you'd most suspect! A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has.
The NYT has a forum on the Big Questions surrounding the current and future AI revolution/explosion/hype/whatever. Some thoughts as a starting point for an LGM discussion of this whole topic:.
This is the grave of Samuel Ovenshine. Born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Ovenshine was a kid who wanted to be a lawyer. Then the Civil War happened. Ovenshine joined the military and was commissioned as a lieutenant. Now, for most soldiers, the Civil War meant what...
Since for obvious reasons most of the scheduled artists have decided they ain't gonna play the Beltway equivalent of Sun City, Trump is responding the only way he knows how,.
Stephen Miller is often compared with considerable reason to Joseph Paul Goebbels, but he actually reminds me even more of Stalin's most craven lickspittles (Most of these men were eventually.
The sub-frivolous complaint filed against Judge Boasberg for the crime if issuing unanswerable rulings against them has been dismissed: A high-ranking federal appeals judge dismissed an ethics complaint filed by the Justice Department against Judge James E. Boasberg, whose rulings repeatedly raised questions about the Trump...
A couple months back a student of mine wrote a paper about orchestral music and the national security state, which put me into a contemplative mood. My students are grad.
Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of writing out there on the Mamdani-governed New York. That's based on the centrality of New York to discourse always (annoying to everyone else in America),.