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Trump’s highest ROI nomination

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Putting a lawless sycophant in the right district court slot as a lame duck president is really the grift that keeps on giving: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon blocked the public release of former special counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation into whether President Donald...

Battleships!

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Yesterday afternoon I appeared on Midrats to talk battleships. Terrific discussion, lots of skepticism about whether and why these things will be built, along with some detailed noodling on some.

Kashing the Party

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Kash Patel's Amazing Italian Ice Adventure, a farce in two acts: Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only.

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The varieties of nepotistic experience

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After I made some fun of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for putting his two twentysomething sons in charge of financial behemoth Cantor Fitzgerald, Andrew Gelman and Mark Palko reminded me that they have been waging a lonely fight against the whole theoretical concept of "meritocracy" for...
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Music Notes

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I've seen quite a bit of music this month. Some I will talk about this week, some in the next couple of these posts. The biggest thing I did was go down to Athens, Georgia to see the Drive By Truckers annual homecoming shows. This was...
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