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Democrats Go Full Thelma and Louise
About That Wapo Story on the Coast Guard's New Swastika and Nooses Policy [UPDATED]
"Disinformation," Our Clearest Leading Indicator
Needier People in Colder Spaces (and a few notes about random stuff in academia and politics)
Spot the Pattern in These Wonderfully Progressive Policy Circles, Where Everyone is Warm and Kind
The Obamacare that Democrats Are Fighting for Isn't the Obamacare that Democrats Created
We'll See Him In Cour– wait, hold on a second
"When Jews Fight, They Survive"
Sausage Factory Offers Accidental Tour
Juristocracy Dissolves Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Family
This Spiritual Illness Has to be Contested
Very Brief Addition to the Last Post
A Federal Judge Just Opened the Strangest Door
See the False Framing in the Shutdown Fight
Brain in a Jar: The Cultural Performance Class Escapes from the World
Addressing LA's Child Prostitution Crisis
Watching a Horrifying Crisis in Los Angeles, the New York Times...Almost Kind Of Sees It
Tell Me What This Warning Looks Like to You
There Are Serious Problems With the NYT Story about Trump Demanding that DOJ Pay Him $230 Million
Politics Break: Books and Travel Open Thread
Our Foremost Contrary Indicator Nails It Again
Man, We Gotta Get Us Some of Those Fence Things Like That Chesterton Loser
The Long March Through the Institutions is Ending in Nothing Much (Updated)
Get Your 12 Year-Olds Ready, America, Because Here Comes Real California-style Progress
True Christians Try to Always Lose, Because Christianity is Weakness and Submission to Evil
Judge on Trump RIFs: I Forbid This Because I Find It Icky and Hurtful
Epistemic Closure Becomes a Worldview
Missing: One Satan Figure, Heavily Overused – Reward Offered, No Questions Asked
El Crappo the Amazing, Now Available for Birthday Parties and Nursing Homes
Who Can Explain and Predict: The Cracker Barrel Debacle Teaches Us a Few Things
Veruca Salt for Attorney General
It's SO Bizarre, I Don't Understand It!
"They Simply Don't Care About That Criticism"
The Hegseth Speech: A Brief and Possibly Unnecessary Reminder
Feelz Leadership, Gold Medal Edition
Congressional Republicans Have the Opportunity of a Century to Brutally "Agree" With Democrats
The Culture War Needs a Powell Doctrine
A Quick Warning for Residents of the People's Republic of California
The Debate Over the Uses of Public Land Is an Environmentalist Monologue
Dark time, but not a dark life
What We Need from Politics, Right Now
You People Need to Watch Your Tone When We Shoot You
"We've Tolerated and Normalized Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler"
Fighting Nazis, a Zesty Form of Community Theater
"I don't know how to communicate with you except through violence."
The Weatherman: Some Brief Thoughts
The Cultural Suicide of the Institutional Left Has Entered Its Final Stages
Briefly: Always Just Look at the Thing Itself (Wise Latina Edition)
Information Slop Is Cultural Decline
The Dismal Condition of the Democratic Party Isn't Inevitable
The Blue Model, the Bowser Pivot, and the Trump Inflection
Odd Signs and Portents in a Troubled State
The New York Times: What's All This Fuss I Keep Hearing About Saving Soviet Jewelry?
ICE is Developing a Political Rainshadow
The Plainest Reality of the Blue Zones
Last Japanese Soldier on Island Warns Against Extremist Claims That War is Over
The Doom Loop of the Commissariat
People Who Can't Understand a Biscuit
Union Station, Meet Union Station: What the Blue Zones Know But Won't Say About Trump's D.C. Effort
NYT and NPR: "There Is a Stampede of Voters Away from the Democratic Party"
The Chair Never Even Gets Warm
Gavin Opens His Freak Show to the Public
Soldiers Find Violence Very Upsetting
The Eternal Stupidity of the Make-Believe Unprecedented Act
Eyes Versus Ears, the Root Crisis
I Have a New Hole In My Priors
A Curious Silence After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Drops a Bomb on the Corporate-State's Castle
Gatekeeper Journalism Goes Full Brain Dead Stasi Enforcer
Proposed Democrat Cure: Play Better Games With Language
Los Angeles Boldly Expresses Its Most Sacred Progressive Values
The Great Mystery in American Politics
Trans Servicemembers: Finally, a Number
Trump Keeps Shooting at an Empty Net
Lisa Murkowski Is Very Brave and Wise, Explains Lisa Murkowski
This Is Not "Politics," and it Perfectly Encapsulates the Entire National Crisis
Photo Essay: Los Angeles City Government is a Sanctimonious Death Cult Led by a Dimwitted Sociopath
Let's Play "Compare the Headlines"
Cultural Vertigo and Political Exhaustion
What Is Conservative Principle on Federal Land Ownership?
This Here Court is Clappin' Back, Y'all
The Pattern in the Trump Administration
Beyond Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Replicant Caught By Blade Runner After Attempt to Simulate Human Cuisine
Sad Little Test Bill Wheezes Into View Soon
California Is Demonstrating the Other Path
A Weird Policy Split Between the Federal Land Agencies
The Psychic War is Tedious and Pathetic
Deranged Dimwitted Demon Declares Decrepitude, Dishonesty, Darkness
Always Go Look at the Thing Itself
A Variety of Hopeful Signs and Portents
Big Trump Action Goes Mostly Unnoticed
Called It: Count of Trans Troops Was a Lie
Can a Whole Country Be In a Bad Marriage?
But Whaddya Want for a Trillion Bucks
Miss Information Blocks Reality
The Victory of the Empress Dowager
The Warning Is Its Own Punchline
Budget Hysteria: Blah Blah Blah
Come Visit Late-Weimar California For a Virtual Hour, and Leave Feeling Ashamed and Disgusted
The President is a Hole, and Money Falls Through Him
Democrats Sound an Urgent Warning: Trump Is Behaving Responsibly
The Death of American Politics
Digging Into the Federal Wildfire FUD
Harvard's Cultural Suicide Leaves a Much Younger Corpse Than People Are Choosing to Notice
The Dumbest and Most Dangerous Political Stunt of My Lifetime?
When Government Is Endlessly Intrusive and Omnipresent, and Also Not There At All
The Structural Trap of Libertarian Sentiment and Dependent Populations
Competing Values, Illustrated So Clearly It's Painful to Watch
I Agree With Rand Paul Completely, and He's Entirely Wrong
Eisgruber Pretends (But Arguments Work Better When They're True)
NOW YOU SEE HOW DONALD TRUMP RUINS EVERYTHING AND PLUNGES US ALL INTO TOTAL DEVASTATING HORROR
A Hundred-Year Moment of Decision
Suffocating Under Seal: Closed Cultures That Gradually Close Culture
I Don't Know What You're Talking About
Documents: The National Park Service Really Doesn't Seem to Have Minded the Point Reyes Settlement
The Fine Line Between Political News and Actual Paranoid Schizophrenia
Feelz Jurisprudence Marries Hugs Fascism
About That Reckoning You Wanted....
As Usual, the Mahmoud Khalil Story is More Complicated Than the Reporting Says
The Longhouse Will Not Tolerate the Cruelty of Laughter and Pleasure
Squinting Through the Fog at the Future of Point Reyes National Seashore
"Left," "Right," Zeleneskyy, and the Signals Inherent to Restoration Hardware Politics
Generals Give Themselves Tenure, and Other Acts of Madness
The Resistance is the Fuel: Criticism as Empty Noise
Writhing in Agony and Despair as Everything is UTTERLY RUINED, or Something
0.03158% of Literally Adolf Hitler
A Shameless, Aggressive, and Dangerous Descent Into Obvious Evil
Obituary for a Cluster of Status Groups
Queen of LOL wut, Goddess of Nomenklatura, High Matriarch of All Banality
JD Vance Makes "Our Democracy" Real
Killed in a Footnote: Important New DOJ Order Lost in the Flood of Big Moves
Your Job Is to Push the Yes Button
My Name Is Greg, and I Eat Paste
In Which Chris Bray Fails to Hit a Great Big Hanging Slow Pitch, Like He Wasn't Even Holding the Bat
New York Times Discovers Two Hundred Year-Old Man, Announces His Sudden Birth
Replacing Private Cows With Government-Sourced Contract Cows, to Fix the Harm Caused by Cows
Congress Is the Entire Illness
Some thoughts on my walk tonight....
Cattle-Free by '93, Alive and Extended
A Brief and Urgent Call to Action (MULTIPLE UPDATES)
Your Agony and Ruin Are a Wonderful Foundation For Our Warm Togetherness
NYT: Los Angeles Needs a Strongman
Los Angeles, a Place and a Story
It's Just Nature, There's Nothing Anyone Could Have Done About It
Culture of Failure, Geography of Reality
California Bluefight, and Other Fire News (Updated)
Obvious Blue Model Failure: "It’s unclear when the reservoir first went offline"
A Very Brief Update on the California Fires
Anarchotyranny Runs Out of Water
Clerical Newsletter Warns Against Heresy on High Holy Insurrection Day
The Russian Threat and the Apparently Endless Words Vs. Deeds Problem