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"Connection -
I just can't make no
Connection -
And all I want to do
is to get back to you"
- Jagger/Richards
I just can't make no
Connection -
And all I want to do
is to get back to you"
- Jagger/Richards
"Khalil’s arrest is seemingly at odds with Trump’s recent boasts that he’s “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” But it’s perfectly consistent with his administration’s stance on pro-Palestine protests on college campuses."
March 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"Khalil’s arrest is seemingly at odds with Trump’s recent boasts that he’s “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” But it’s perfectly consistent with his administration’s stance on pro-Palestine protests on college campuses."
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Cartoon by Sandra Boynton (another Jersey girl. Of course.) sandraboynton.com/sboynton/ind...
March 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Cartoon by Sandra Boynton (another Jersey girl. Of course.) sandraboynton.com/sboynton/ind...
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“The scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the private sector and I’m here to maximize efficiency.’”
March 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“The scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the private sector and I’m here to maximize efficiency.’”
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The entire Axios bullet points conceit was a long setup to this moment wasn’t it www.axios.com/2025/03/07/t...
March 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The entire Axios bullet points conceit was a long setup to this moment wasn’t it www.axios.com/2025/03/07/t...
I am not proud that I have spent a lot of time thinking about their place in our culture, but I have. This is brimming with insights on that topic. With a show review as a nice bonus.
I watched the Meghan Markle show and I WAS bored but I DID want to eat all the crudités www.vox.com/culture/4029...
The impossibility of being Meghan Markle
She’s not an expert like Martha Stewart. She’s not an icon like Princess Diana. Where does she go from here?
www.vox.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I am not proud that I have spent a lot of time thinking about their place in our culture, but I have. This is brimming with insights on that topic. With a show review as a nice bonus.
Seems bad.
The current nuclear nonproliferation regime requires a US government that isn’t acting in a chaotic and unpredictable fashion. There are a number of countries that have the capacity to build a nuclear deterrent on a 3-18 months timeline who haven’t because they have relied on steady US leadership.
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Seems bad.
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February 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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New, from me: Unpacking the Friday night news:
*The military purges have begun - why do they also include lawyers?
*A Judge is allowing the dismantling of USAID to proceed. This reflects a pattern where Judges are ignoring the broader democratic risks.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
*The military purges have begun - why do they also include lawyers?
*A Judge is allowing the dismantling of USAID to proceed. This reflects a pattern where Judges are ignoring the broader democratic risks.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Military Purges and Complacent Judges
Plus: What I wrote in The Atlantic about the assault on public employees
open.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New, from me: Unpacking the Friday night news:
*The military purges have begun - why do they also include lawyers?
*A Judge is allowing the dismantling of USAID to proceed. This reflects a pattern where Judges are ignoring the broader democratic risks.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
*The military purges have begun - why do they also include lawyers?
*A Judge is allowing the dismantling of USAID to proceed. This reflects a pattern where Judges are ignoring the broader democratic risks.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Originalism achieves its final argument: the Constitution is not a living document but rather a dying old man
Jack Posobiec told CPAC that Trump is not violating the Constitution because "Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution."
February 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Originalism achieves its final argument: the Constitution is not a living document but rather a dying old man
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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?
Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.
Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.
Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
February 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?
Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.
Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.
Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
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This sort of gives away the "liberal deep state" nonsense.
*There has never been a Director of the FBI who was a Democrat.
*The Republican Directors were not targeting conservatives, if the word "conservative" has any meaning.
*There has never been a Director of the FBI who was a Democrat.
*The Republican Directors were not targeting conservatives, if the word "conservative" has any meaning.
Republicans welcomed Kash Patel's confirmation, seeing him as someone who can fix the FBI's alleged targeting of conservatives in recent years.
Senate confirms Kash Patel, fierce critic of FBI, to head the bureau
Republicans welcomed Kash Patel's confirmation, seeing him as someone who can fix the FBI's alleged targeting of conservatives in recent years.
www.npr.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This sort of gives away the "liberal deep state" nonsense.
*There has never been a Director of the FBI who was a Democrat.
*The Republican Directors were not targeting conservatives, if the word "conservative" has any meaning.
*There has never been a Director of the FBI who was a Democrat.
*The Republican Directors were not targeting conservatives, if the word "conservative" has any meaning.
People see Musk fighting with angry libs with obscure ideals, $ that ends in "illions" going to far away lands, and musing about sending 5k checks. It sounds good.
Better speeches from D Senators ain't gunna cut through the noise.
Good news: we don't need D's for an anti-king attention war
Better speeches from D Senators ain't gunna cut through the noise.
Good news: we don't need D's for an anti-king attention war
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
People see Musk fighting with angry libs with obscure ideals, $ that ends in "illions" going to far away lands, and musing about sending 5k checks. It sounds good.
Better speeches from D Senators ain't gunna cut through the noise.
Good news: we don't need D's for an anti-king attention war
Better speeches from D Senators ain't gunna cut through the noise.
Good news: we don't need D's for an anti-king attention war
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i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish
February 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish
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This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.
Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal.
X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers.
That’s extortion.
X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers.
That’s extortion.
February 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.
Damn it. I'm probably going to get dementia too.
Awful: Numerous scientists and researchers were just fired at NIH's center for treating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They fear Trump-Musk cuts could dramatically set back our ability to treat dementias.
New reporting from me here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
New reporting from me here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will those Republicans say now?
newrepublic.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Damn it. I'm probably going to get dementia too.
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the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished
February 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished
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Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network – WashU Medicine medicine.washu.edu/news/mushroo...
Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network | WashU Medicine
Study advances efforts to harness psilocybin’s mind-altering power to treat mental illness
medicine.washu.edu
February 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network – WashU Medicine medicine.washu.edu/news/mushroo...
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
I am genuinely curious if Musk still thinks of himself as a free speech absolutist or if his thinking has "evolved"
X is blocking links to Signal
X is blocking links to Signal
User handles can still be posted as a workaround.
buff.ly
February 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I am genuinely curious if Musk still thinks of himself as a free speech absolutist or if his thinking has "evolved"
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Every Democrat should be saying this every day. Several times each day.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The question is can you work with Republicans in the middle of a constitutional crisis when democracy is on the line? And right now, I think that this crisis is serious and deepening in its seriousness, that our job #1, #2, and #3 is to save our democracy."
February 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Every Democrat should be saying this every day. Several times each day.
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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
February 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
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New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations.
They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...
They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...
DOGE Mismanagement Principles
Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations.
They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...
They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...