“More housing at any income level lowers nearby rents. We progressives should therefore be fighting for new housing with every bone in our bodies.” Oped via James Lloyd of NYSAFAH: bit.ly/3VhpGIA

The odds of an American dying by gun are about 1 in 315. If those were the odds of winning a lottery, we'd all be rich. Instead, Americans must live with a preventable fear suffered nowhere else in the developed world. businessinsider.com/us-gun-death-m…

True longtermists know we need: — Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines — A human-worm hybrid god-emperor to guide the galaxy for centuries and inspire a Great Scattering

Was it like two weeks ago that people were claiming to believe that Twitter was immediately going to become irreparably broken?

Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's Drew Harwell. Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

the dental hygienist to you during a cleaning when you’re completely unable to speak

We never had to deal with this much chaos when George Santos was Speaker.

The rules package has a change Republicans boasted about that bill text will be made available to members at least 72 hours before it is voted on. That rules package text was itself just unveiled a few minutes ago and Republicans now say we're going to vote on it in a few hours.

Legit wild stuff.

Elon is firing engineers for explaining to him why his tweets are getting less likes platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fi…

Socrates was a classic poster. He just walked up to people and asked them what they believed in, then he’d say it was stupid and yell at them. He argued with everybody until he was legally compelled to kill himself. Not one of us has that commitment

Lawrence H. Summers Do you ever talk about moral hazard except when it's to block programs for the poor and working class?

"You look so young, you could be one of Michael Jackson's playmates." WTF. This has to be one of the creepiest things an older man could ever say in the workplace. Dude's lucky that Juan Gonzalez didn't beat his ass.

Unlocking new levels of time-wasting. (Also, not bad, ChatGPT. No bad.)

Russia splashes our drone and then suddenly #Reddit is down. Coincidence? No way.

I love how these MAGA people are freaked out by drag queens even as they worship a man who wears more make-up and hair spray than RuPaul.

Noted virologist Nate Silver is going to be so upset: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

The leading Republican candidate is expected to be indicted next week. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

Masterful retrospective on the criminal Iraq War and the laundering of GW Bush's reputation since he left office.

Biden is a DougJBalloon stan