Proving Citizenship After ICE Detains You Can Be Impossible nymag.com/intelligencer/…

“Baby Got Back” is older than the first policy requiring women and minorities to be included in clinical trials and medical research.

i chatted w Palantir, its incoming meritocracy fellows (the anti-college internship for 18-year-olds), and people who skipped college entirely to start companies. my findings: tech’s newest recruits and founders are young, male, and hate higher ed. 1/

‘We don’t want to see people living on the streets, but we also really don’t want to know that the people serving our McChickens or cleaning our hospitals are homeless too. After all, that means they’re just like us.’ thenation.com/article/societ…

‘The impositions of British troops on colonial life helped spark the American Revolution, and several provisions of the Constitution reflect the framers’ unease with the risks a standing army posed to democratic self-government.’ wsj.com/us-news/law/tr…

“We’re talking about the president exercising his authority. And the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George.” washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06…

‘For the most part, the U.S. government is organized not to pursue transformative change but to create systems of accountability, and the growth of its expenditures is mostly tied to the sheer scale of what it is keeping tabs on.’ newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Wild five years