Amazing.

Get this AI bubble out of the way to make room for Gigachad Nation.

I’d like to see that table of parallels.

Gosh, why would the wealthy be more concerned about crime?

Love that orchestral sting to punctuate Spock’s final words.

Thanks for the gift link. I like the patrimonialism framing. I’m frustrated that voters ignored the corruption. I thought we’d condemn the corruption in his first term. I had read then that people won’t countenance it, yet here we are. I wonder how successors will try to rule.

I’m already missing the insightful posts about these themes:

“‘The view from nowhere’ and the ‘savvy style’ in political journalism both spread in this fashion, as did this mantra during the 2024 campaign: ‘Not the odds, but the stakes.’”

Meanwhile the chihuahuas are taking the lunch money from every Labrador Retriever at the dog park.

Bring on the roast goose and rickets

Otherwise Bethlehem might have had more housing; as it was, the Biblical billionaires had bought all the real estate.

The pulled “60 Minutes” episode on the CECOT prisoners is down on that YouTube link but up now here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

This passage reminds me how ICE is detaining people *despite* their proof of citizenship: “The path the justices are walking leads to Calhoun’s paradise…where people of color must carry identification papers if they don’t want to be harassed, detained, imprisoned.” Again, the cruelty is the point.

Thanks for the gift link. Destitution has killed my ability to subscribe to most publications, the worthy Atlantic among them.

Bari the lede.

This reminds me when, a decade or more ago, a woman found herself trapped somewhere and, instead of contacting the police, posted her predicament on Facebook.

More tragically, though, had John contacted the cops, Professor Loureiro may have been spared, no?