I just sneezed so loudly that I set off the loud environment warning on my apple watch.

I won’t believe it’s not butter. I shouldn’t believe it’s not butter. I have reluctantly accepted the truth about this butter.

woke up and immediately had to write this down

BIGBY TAKE THE WHEEL

I missed sitting outside in pleasant weather and reading so much.

NEW: Harlan Crow paid Thomas for property. The law explicitly requires disclosure of property sales. Thomas didn't disclose anything. Here's Thomas' signature on the undisclosed deal. propublica.org/article/claren… By Justin Elliott Josh Kaplan & Alex Mierjeski

If you want an example of how one side plays to win and the other does not, look at how Durbin refuses to get rid of blue slips - handing Republicans a unilateral veto of Biden’s judicial picks - while Republicans won’t so much as let an ailing Feinstein be replaced temporarily

Nine days after Gorsuch was appointed to the Supreme Court, the head of Greenberg Traurig—a major law firm that’s before the Court all the time—bought land he’d been trying to sell for two years. Gorsuch did not report the identity of the purchaser. politico.com/news/2023/04/2…

I suggested to Kellen Browning the tendency for leaders of struggling organizations like Lyft to insist that employees work in the office dovetails with the classic "threat-ridigity" hypothesis. Here's his article. I'll unpack the research in this thread. nytimes.com/2023/04/28/bus…

If this was my players coming to me with their D&D party, I would tell them to take the game seriously and make new characters.

I can't make this up. Rep. George Santos R-NY is charged with unemployment benefits fraud. The House is slated to vote this week on a bill to help states recover fraudulent COVID unemployment payments. **Santos is a co-sponsor of that bill.**

Good work by Molly White to expose chart crime in new a16z report. She shows same chart if you don't monkey with x-axis newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-h…

I'm at mngwinn.bsky.social and am no longer here

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal. And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist. Here's how that happened. 1/🧵