Bailey Richards

Why am I writing this? More to the point, why are you reading this?

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump on the Medal of Honor: "Now, as I see my two beautiful sons sitting there. I think I'm going to give one to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome."

[Kevin Rudd @MrKRudd]

Never die wondering. Work out what you believe in, and do it.

My commencement address to the University of Southern California's Sol Price School of Public Policy graduating class of 2026.

[Bailey Richards @NWTrinity]

@avidseries @MeatyPriest At least 80%. Raised very liberal, but found the center as I've grown older. I'm always open to good arguments backed by real data.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

Western values are not about oppression.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The autism epidemic is a myth: The increase is only in expansive overdiagnosis of kids "on the spectrum," e.g. "Would rather be alone than with others,” “Has difficulty making friends,” and “Is regarded by other children as odd or weird.” Severe cases (no language, socially unresponsive, etc.) have decreased. By my former grad student @AdamOmaryPhD https://t.co/mS6miGWM86

[Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc @JasonKPargin]

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

[Arthur Juliani @awjuliani]

I'm trying to figure out where to live next, and one big consideration is the climate. So naturally I made a tool that represents monthly average temperatures for cities as 3D rings so they can be compared more easily. Check it out: https://t.co/MqPb0ufLYY

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

iran has killed more of its own citizens in the last week than died in the 12 day war with israel and the united states.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

Are there any notable campus protests in solidarity with the Iranian people going on right now?

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

"It’s only through history that we know that human progress has taken place. We might think that humanity came into existence with grocery stores full of food, and smartphones, and airline travel—and, for that matter, democratic government as opposed to despotic tyrants. But it’s good to appreciate that each one of these had to be clawed out of a world that didn’t have them. There are fantastic problems; there’s enormous suffering still, but there used to be even more. We need to know that many things have gotten better as the result of human agency and human valuation of other humans’ lives, and that those are the ideals that we need to embrace if we want to solve the problems—the very real problems—that are facing us now."

Meet The Leader | What most people get wrong about progress https://t.co/9y4yFV0SAG via @YouTube

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Paddy O'Connell:
What is the tab that the Democrats need to pick up? I mean, what are they going to do? Do you have an answer? Have they gone through the five stages of grief sufficiently yet?

Me:
No, no, they have not. They should get over it. They should be cool-headed and sharp in figuring out what will it take to get elected. Because I consider it rather important they get elected, if only to stop the slide toward authoritarianism that we've seen under Trump. One of the things they've got to do is shed the positions that are wildly unpopular, that have been pushed on them by some of their activists, some of their donors, that are just electoral boat anchors, like defunding the police, opening the border, letting trans women compete in women's sports, aggressive racial preferences. No one likes those, or at least not enough people to elect a president.

@BBCNewsnight @bbcpaddy

[NSW Police Force @nswpolice]

***IMPORTANT INFORMATION***

Police can confirm 16 people have died and 40 people remain in hospital following yesterday's shooting at Bondi.

More information will be made available soon.

[NSW Police Force @nswpolice]

Police are now appealing for anyone in the Bondi Beach area with mobile phone or dashcam vision relevant to this incident to upload at this link:
https://t.co/WtSGP0dpE9

It can also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers, https://t.co/v8ZR5cnb4j
Information is managed on a confidential basis.

The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

Twenty five people shot, at least ten dead.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

.@TheDemocrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the party's future, but unfortunately, it's the Republican Party.

[Conversations with Coleman @ConvoswColeman]

Historian @VDHanson on Tucker Carlson’s softball interviews with controversial right-wing figures like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes:

“If you give them a platform and their views are out of the mainstream, you have an obligation as a journalist to cross-examine them, especially when you bring on your former close friend and colleague in the conservative movement, Ted Cruz, and you just eviscerate him.”

@Coldxman: “It’s clear he’s using one set of tactics on people that are pretty well within the American mainstream…and putting on kid gloves, essentially, for conspiracy theorists.”

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

The American Revolution is one of the most important events in human history. We went from being subjects to citizens, and set in motion democratic revolutions around the globe. It’s a great story – and hugely relevant to today. I hope you can watch. #AmericanRevolutionPBS

[The Free Press @TheFP]

An announcement from @BariWeiss: The Free Press is joining Paramount.

Read more: https://t.co/tFH1mA3t4F

[Bailey Richards @NWTrinity]

@avidseries We can't stop it, but an inability to meet energy demands will slow it down