Ethan Miller

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

i can’t believe this app is free

[Patrick Wyman @Patrick_Wyman]

If you’re so brain-poisoned by internet contrarianism that you want to celebrate massacres, then you’ve gone from “lost the plot” to “embracing genuine evil.”

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

I wonder how many Americans who consider themselves politically aware could pass a civics test about how our government is supposed to function. I wonder how many Americans who ostensibly talk about politics as part of how they make a living could. Our anti-education/anti-knowledge culture has come for our constitutional society. And people who consider themselves "patriotic" celebrate dismantling the very aspects of our Framer's work that those exquisite-minded guys were most proud of. Co-equal branches of govt and checks and balances. Not bugs...but this system's greatest features. We are a politically hypocritical society and this will cost us. Can you imagine if the Biden/Harris/Hillary Clinton crowd were doing and saying the sort of things Trump is saying now? How many of you Trump fans would be ready to take to the streets? "That's what the 2d Amendment is for Dan"...how many times have I been told that by the "defenders of our Constitution"? For 40 years you've been saying it to me! So...it's only a problem if THEY'RE doing it? One side gets a pass at assaulting the constitutional wall that protects us all, and the other doesn't? How many of you would say "they're only joking" or "don't worry, it's a negotiation position" if Kamala Harris said these things? Serious question. You'd be just fine with it? No big deal? And I'm sure the right-wing talker's ecosystem would be too? All of this is going to come back to bite us. All of it. We are shortsighted, propagandized, political hypocrites. And we simply refuse to apply the same standards to both sides.
And while I'm ranting: half of this problem is the fault of the Democratic Party. I've never seen such a toothless, feckless, directionless, passion-free group of poor political candidates in my life (and I was of voting age in the Mondale/Dukakis years). Only their most radical wing shows any passion or life at all...and that's the group that absolutely, positively can't win a general election.
When the great historian in the sky writes about this era the "other party" in a two-party system deserves a ton of the blame too. Everyone over 70 years old in that party should resign right now. What Trump is trying to do in our system now is exactly what the Founders designed safeguards to prevent. And that's why Trump is targeting the safeguards.

[Rodney @rodneyote]

Do NOT do this with civil engineering

[Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell]

What a huge play Brown dropping that bomb from Hurts was. Eagles would have had first-and-goal inside the five-yard line with three timeouts and a minute left. Instead, they come away with no points.

[Quantіan @quantian1]

Obviously Chamath knows this, but US tax rates already fit on one page of simple English. The other 6999 pages enumerate every edge case of what counts as income and what doesn’t and what the deductions are, which you still need to define for a flat tax!

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

we’re at severe risk of taking the wrong lesson away from this whole inflation debacle

[Alex Byers @byersalex]

“And which great efficiency expert will lead this important new effort to streamline?”

“Actually there will be two people in charge”

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Some historical trivia: the 60% requirement for referendums in Florida was itself passed by a referendum that received less than 60% of the vote.

[Kyle Neubeck @KyleNeubeck]

I wrote about Joel Embiid, the person and the player

https://t.co/ey0GQbJbDa

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American" - Reagan, 1988

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

"America is for Americans and Americans only."
— Stephen Miller, 2024

"Germany is for Germans and Germans only."
— Adolf Hitler, 1934

[Tony Gerdeman @TonyGerdeman]

Penn State fans tonight 🤝Ohio State fans today

[James Murray @James_BG]

Your periodic reminder that 15 years ago the entire global financial system nearly collapsed cos of a relatively small number of mortgage defaults in the US. This is what people mean when they talk about climate change being a systemic risk.

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

8th anniversary of this tweet: (2016)

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

I’m sorry, this is the funniest single photo of the entire election cycle.

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning:

"For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles."

Well worth your time: https://t.co/eHalcNkiBX

[Ben Jones @BW_Jones]

This will be the first Presidential election since 1976 to not have a Biden, Bush, or Clinton on the ticket.