My favorite speech about America was Reagan's last speech as president. He talks about what makes America great - immigrants. I tear up watching it, especially the last bit. highly recommend spending 4 mins to watch 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The Big Not-So-Beautiful Bill has officially passed both chambers. Despite a few conservative provisions, it explodes the deficit in the near term. This is Washington's MO: short-term politicking over long-term sustainability.

Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ America is owned by no one. It belongs to all citizens. And at this moment in

The rebound from “woke” has been extremely and extraordinarily heavy and rapid and somewhere along the lines we’ve just begun to normalize and accept things that would have gotten you kicked out of an event in polite society for most of the 21st century.

What's remarkable is that health care spending as a share of the economy has indeed stabilized since the Affordable Care Act, coming in far below projections & after decades of rapid growth. All while the uninsured rate dropped by nearly half.

"We updated Grok to make it less woke." "Did you make it 'less woke' or did you make it seethingly hate Jews?" "It's a good model, sir." (They made it seethingly hate Jews.)

It took months of strenuous effort, but Elon finally built a robot capable of hating Jews. Condolences to all the Nazis who will now be replaced

each AI company's models are special in their own way: - OpenAI has the most attention to product - Anthropic has the best coding assistant - Gemini has really long context, and is very smart - Grok admires Hitler - DeepSeek is open weights and inexpensive

Grok is now calling itself ‘MechaHitler’

This is like an episode of Silicon Valley that got tossed out because it was too insane.

There’s no good reason for ICE agents to conceal their identity—it’s creating unsafe situations and making it impossible for communities to tell if they’re interacting with law enforcement or impersonators. I’m glad Jan Schakowsky is sponsoring this bill. I’d do the same.

As Daniel Hemel and I explained in the last round, Treasury does not have the authority to do this. The Bush administration came to that conclusion in 1992 and doctrinal developments since further strengthened that position--it'd be contrary to law. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Grok 4 may be doing well on some metrics but after an hour or so of testing my conclusion is that is overfitting. Grok4 is behind o3 and Gemini 2.5 in reasoning & well behind either of those models or o4 in writing quality. But great to see competition!

Daniel Hemel Again, on direct effects, it's wildly regressive, with almost all the benefits going to the very top. x.com/Brendan_Duke/s…

Professor David Gamage publishes article on e-commerce tax communication law.missouri.edu/professor-davi…

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

The law very specifically allows members of Congress to conduct inspections without notice. I think you should follow the law.

BREAKING: Donald Trump just said he's considering stripping US born citizen Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship. This is what leaders like Hitler would try to do. Imagine if Biden said he was going to strip Trump of his citizenship. Imagine the outrage by MAGA. This is

Lest anyone had missed the plot line, he is claiming the powers of a full-blown dictator for himself with this nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/…

How to tell people you’re on the list without saying you’re on the list.