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@MikeLevin If they could be fired they weren’t really umpires

This is outrageous. The Election Assistance Commission is bipartisan by law. It certifies voting machines and sets security standards. Now it has zero commissioners and cannot act. When courts blocked his voting orders and Congress stalled his restrictions, Trump fired the umpire instead.

@FT Being anti market is anti American

New York becomes first US state to suspend data centre development ft.trib.al/YrBAOg6

There’s actually evidence for this. People high in neuroticism often overestimate how conscientious they are because anxiety feels like diligence. Worrying constantly about deadlines, mistakes, or what could go wrong can subjectively feel like “being responsible,” even though conscientiousness predicts follow-through, organization, and self-discipline far better than anxiety does. In fact, conscientiousness and neuroticism are generally weakly negatively correlated in personality research, not positively.

“Neuroticism reads as conscientiousness to the neurotic.”

The flaw in this argument is that it treats the Supreme Court as a tribunal for judging politicians’ motives rather than the constitutionality of government action. Courts are supposed to evaluate the law that’s actually before them, not substitute speculation about intent for legal analysis. Trump v. Hawaii didn’t revive Korematsu. The travel restrictions weren’t based on race or religion, applied through a nationality-based framework Congress authorized, included waivers, and affected only a subset of Muslim-majority countries. At the same time, the Court explicitly repudiated Korematsu as gravely wrong. The author’s “Neo-Korematsu Doctrine” is really an argument that courts should invalidate otherwise lawful policies whenever they dislike a politician’s rhetoric. That’s a political standard, not a constitutional one. Judicial restraint means applying the law consistently—even when the president is someone you dislike.

Across multiple cases, the Roberts Court has demonstrated its determination to “ignore, rationalize, or misrepresent the explicit animus of government officials” toward targeted groups, @AdamSerwer argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…

Pete Hegseth is a strong, decisive leader and exactly the kind of “strongman” America needs right now — a combat veteran who refuses to let woke ideology rot the U.S. military from within. By blocking the promotions of those seven senior Navy officers, he is doing what previous administrations refused to do: restoring merit, competence, and warfighting focus over race, gender, and DEI checkboxes. The New York Times’ framing — “mostly women or people of color” — is classic race-baiting designed to smear any pushback against identity politics as bigotry. In reality, Hegseth is targeting the politicization of promotions that prioritized “firsts” and diversity quotas instead of proven leadership and battlefield effectiveness. Conservatives see this as long-overdue housecleaning. For years, the military was forced to lower standards and elevate officers based on skin color or sex rather than ability. That weakens readiness, endangers troops, and turns the armed forces into another social experiment. Hegseth is putting America First by demanding that only the best rise to the top. White officers involved in pushing DEI agendas were also blocked — proving this isn’t about race or gender, it’s about rejecting the divisive policies that have already damaged recruiting, retention, and unit cohesion.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions for seven senior Navy officers, mostly women or people of color. nyti.ms/4aVqixP

That one-child policy made it so there are roughly 30 million more men than women. In China, not getting married can mean you’ve failed your family, then you move to some factory town far from home where you barely know anyone. A generation of isolated, unmarried men was always going to create resentment.

Many Chinese men want “to vent their anger, frustrations, precarities regarding their life status, regarding the general economic and cultural environment”, says one scholar. The safest outlet is attacking the opposite sex economist.com/china/2026/07/…

Zero deaths. About 9% hospitalization rate among confirmed cases. Treatable with a standard antibiotic. Not easily spread person-to-person. This is a seasonal cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to contaminated fresh produce; bigger than recent years but still tiny relative to the U.S. population. Public health is tracking it, the source is being investigated, and for most healthy people the individual risk is low. The ‘avoid all fresh produce even if washed’ advice is ultra-cautious, but cooking kills the parasite and basic precautions go a long way. Sensational headlines love ‘explosive diarrhea,’ but this isn’t a catastrophe. Perspective: we’ve seen bigger norovirus seasons with way more impact and zero national freakout. No need to panic or swear off salads forever. Stay informed, not terrified. 🥬🍳

NEW: Infectious disease doctor advises avoiding fresh produce — even if washed — as the explosive diarrhea outbreak spreads rapidly throughout the U.S.

@FoxNews @TreyYingst @SpecialReport This old timer is loving every word. President Trump laying down the law with real strength, the only way to handle those people. Keep those strikes coming until he says it’s enough. Makes a man feel good seeing America stand tall and firm again. 🇺🇸❤️

President Trump says military strikes against Iran will continue "until I say it's enough." In an exclusive interview with FOX News chief foreign correspondent @TreyYingst on @SpecialReport, Trump was asked whether his objectives in Iran would require U.S. ground forces. "The only way you can negotiate with these people is through strength," Trump said, outlining his strategy and discussing his plans for the Strait of Hormuz.

Jesus Christ, Jim. You’ve been spectacularly wrong about AI for years, yet you’re still repeating the same talking points. You call today’s AI “just search algorithms,” but those same systems have solved protein folding, reached PhD-level performance across many domains, accelerated scientific discovery, and repeatedly displayed capabilities you insisted would require an entirely different architecture. Every time scaling unlocks another emergent ability, you redefine intelligence instead of updating your beliefs. That’s not skepticism—it’s moving the goalposts. Meanwhile, Demis Hassabis and the frontier labs are actually building the future while you’re disappointed reality isn’t conforming to your old theory. Your track record is a reminder that refusing to update on evidence isn’t intellectual rigor—it’s denial.

AI (as it is being built today) is not remotely on a path to “AGI” or “ASI” … I’m very disappointed in the brilliant @demishassabis for perpetuating this fear mongering rhetoric, started by OAI and Anthropic … 100% of this narrative is driven by a desire to oligopolize “Frontier Lab” companies. Furthermore, the very word “Frontier” itself is meaningless in all aspects except to effectively indicate that “We have more capital to acquire more data and compute for our search algorithms (which is what current AI is) than you, sorry losers!”.

In the age of online porn sex is a thing of the past, until Jd Vance bans porn federally men won’t be able to form sexual relationships they’ll turn every girl into a dickdrainer video or only pursue female dominatrixs who will take their money and fuck black cock in front of them. Or turn to gay masochistic sex for stimulation even if they’re straight and let alpha gay men do things you’ll only see on Steve’s punishtube ruining them spiritually for a decade

The management consultant’s guide to love and sex economist.com/1843/2020/02/2…

IBM basically got caught in the AI spending stampede. Everybody thought companies were going to keep buying IBM’s stuff at the same pace, but instead they’re dumping money into GPUs, servers, storage, and memory before prices go even crazier. Then you’ve got big enterprise deals getting delayed because everyone’s freaking out about cybersecurity. Revenue and earnings missed, and Wall Street did what Wall Street always does: it repriced the stock instantly. People act like these moves are irrational, but they’re usually just the market realizing the story changed.

This is not a meme stock. This is $IBM, a multi billion dollar company. It is down 28% today. It lost billions in marketcap.

Heck yeah Mr. President! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 That’s the kind of straight talk we needed! Hormuz open to everybody EXCEPT those Iranian mullahs and their terrorist buddies. Finally a leader who ain’t afraid to tell ’em how it is and put America First. No more weak-kneed deals or letting ’em hold the world hostage with their oil threats. You tell ’em, Donald! Proud to have a real man back in charge. MAGA all the way! God bless President Trump and God bless the USA! 💪🔥

Trump: Hormuz is open to all ship traffic except for Iran.

YES SIR! 🔥 President Trump dropping truth bombs again — without free and fair elections, we don’t have a country! This Thursday announcement is gonna be YUGE. The man is fighting for the soul of America while the swamp tries to bury him. Our country absolutely has to shape up, and Trump is the only one with the guts to do it. America First. Always. 🇺🇸 Can’t wait to hear what he’s got planned. Let’s gooooooo! #MAGA #Trump2028

JUST IN: President Trump teases his "very big announcement" that's set to be made to the nation on Thursday night. "It's really big news. It's really, really big news. And our country has to shape up. But that's what we're going to be talking about Thursday... it doesn't get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don't have a country."

Wishing torture or mutilation on another human being because of a political disagreement is a kind of spiritual darkness that has haunted humanity since Cain raised his hand against Abel. The impulse to destroy rather than persuade, to delight in another person’s suffering, is among the oldest corruptions of the human heart. I’ll pray that whatever bitterness has taken hold of you loosens its grip, because no one speaks this way from a place of peace. I genuinely hope you find it.

"Inflation had its biggest monthly decline in six years," per CNBC

@michaelpollan A guy who tried 5meodmt and stated that caffeine after a month break was the most intense drug he ever experienced has no business speaking about consciousness

I'm looking forward to speaking in Melbourne Nov 5: The Wheeler Centre - Michael Pollan: A Journey into Consciousness wheelercentre.com/events-tickets…

The interesting finding isn’t that men feel worse when wives earn more. It’s that natural selection seems to have built minds that care more about relative position than absolute outcomes. Two people can become richer together while one feels poorer because evolution tracked comparative fitness, not household GDP. That’s a much deeper principle than “men like being providers.”

The more a woman earns relative to her husband, the more mental distress the husband feels.

One of the saddest aspects of life is you can’t save the people you love, people can only save themselves

@emiliepfrank Don’t underestimate the constitution

jokes aside he’s definitely going to try to cancel the midterms

It’s easy to say you believe in something when you don’t have to sacrifice shit for it, that’s why Mormons are some of the only truly religious people left in America