The United States is in a constitutional free fall, and it’s not clear whether anyone thought to bring a parachute.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4bwzn4ayvrvtiukfuwnz2i65/post/3lhp7iqyedc2j

I do all my posting on Bluesky now, but that account can be followed on Mastodon here:

@avielroshwald.bsky.social

I do all my posting on Bluesky now, but that account can be followed on Mastodon here:

@avielroshwald.bsky.social

In commemoration of his late uncle’s presidency, the administration in which RFK Jr. will serve is to be known as Spamalot.

Most of RFK Jr.’s claims aren’t controversial at all. There are no serious controversies about them because they are patently moronic.

Recess appointments are the perfect out for “establishment” Republican senators: they can keep their records clean of ever having voted for any of these degenerates, without antagonizing Trump as he happily surrounds himself with groveling enablers.

My friend is taking down their pride flag out of fear of what will happen on election day

Another friend made sure their passport is ready depending on what the election results are

My mom's coworker desperately wants to start a family, but she has forced herself to wait until after the election, terrified to get pregnant if Trump becomes president again

I am voting to protect them, myself, and all Americans, with the hope that we never have to feel this kind of fear during an election again

Trump accuses Jews of being antitrumpites.

The snow-global turn in historiography will highlight diachronic cyclicalities and continuities from the perspective of household tchotchkes.

Trump’s conditioned responses are more reliable than those of a rat in a Skinner box.

Big Tent GOP embraces a diversity of racist blood libels.

Please join me in my Project 2025 BCE initiative, which includes banning all publications not inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform.

Today’s Kathleen Parker attack on Walz starts out with some reasonable-sounding quibbles and somehow ends up, just a few paragraphs later, firmly ensconced in the Gulag Archipelago. I’ve come across my share of slippery rhetorical slopes, but this is a case of discursive free fall.

@kims Bitcoin as extortion racket makes perfect sense.

This seems healthy and totes normal

Playing the state’s energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin

"On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price soars, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin."

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/08/27/why-texas-republicans-are-souring-on-crypto

I wonder whether Trump is going to find an excuse to back out of the debate, now that he’s had a glimpse of whom he’d be up against.

Talk of “imminently approaching fall semester” is a blatant example of Kremlin-propagated fake news.

#academicchatter

I took the Red Eye from the West Coast just so I could say “I took the Red Eye from the West Coast.”

The dinosaurs didn't "rule the Earth" they were just alive. Stop giving them credit for administrative skills they almost certainly did not have.

Global warming reaches Fahrenheit 451 in Florida.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/