The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus. A lot of things are wrong in 🇺🇸, but MIT is not one of them.

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance | Weiss, and the Free Press, started out as defenders of free speech against the illiberal woke left, but ricocheted into enemy-of-my-enemy Trump apologetics, notes Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇹🇼🇲🇩 thebulwark.com/p/bari-weiss-c…

Obama on James Talarico, the Texas state rep running for Senate: a “terrific, a really talented young man,” whose podcast appearances show “a certain confidence in your actual convictions to debate and have a conversation w/somebody who disagrees w/you.” cnn.com/2025/10/13/pol…

macron chimes in with the most french thing said in human history: "this is impossible"

Spot on from Jonah Goldberg via Matt Lewis substack

What an amazing admission. Republicans sued Biden—and went to the Supreme Court—for pressuring social media companies to censor content. This is...exactly that. So many people only care about the First Amendment when they aren't in power.

Actually, Trump is more the beneficiary of a friendly legal process than the victim of an unfair one theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Democrats' chance of taking the House in 2026 have plummeted, while GOP chances have skyrocketed over the last 6 months... Why? 1. Dems aren't keeping up with the pace they set in 2017 on the generic ballot. 2. GOP may be looking at big gains from mid-decade redistricting.

At the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Helen Lewis saw what stand-up looks like in theocracy. The greatest irony was that, given its “newfound interest in comedy, Saudi Arabia is becoming more American—just as America is becoming more Saudi.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Still a bit hard to believe, but the evidence that the US is about to start military operations against Venezuela--including, potentially, direct strikes on the leadership--has become undeniable. It could start this weekend. It may start tonight.

“The MAGA right is fed not by conservative ideas but by chthonic forces in human nature that at different points in history gather like a hurricane and can level any decent political order.” —Mark Lilla go.nybooks.com/49aKqf9

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

This proves they aren’t terrorists.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Emil Bove told him, "those planes need to take off no matter what, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court 'fuck you'." Reuveni: "It is the highest, most egregious violation of the

What fresh hell is this?

Knock-off designer bags?? On New York City's Canal Street?!?!?!

True nytimes.com/2025/10/20/opi…

Maybe time to stop repeating the canard that Trump had a ‘sudden pivot’ on Ukraine… Great scoop by @ft shows he’s still the same guy who admired Putin’s ‘genius’ in launching the war and welcomed Putin on a red carpet three years into it ft.com/content/7960c6…

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--…