The guy who got in trouble for saying Vance marrying an Indian was based now backtracking and saying that he doesn’t support this, adding that people who think he did say it support Indians or a guy who posts interracial porn. Imagine explaining this to a conservative in 2015.

Isn’t it normal to never talk to your parents because it’s boring? I think a lot of people don’t want to talk to their parents on that basis, but they’re either ashamed of it or pretend they suffered trauma. In truth, old people are boring, especially if you’re smart.

Incredible journalism. 60 Minutes has a convicted felon go undercover to talk to “pardon brokers,” people who will try to get you a pardon from Trump if you pay them. This administration’s corruption has created entire new job categories.

Arday was possible because academics don't take their own profession seriously enough. They want the prestige of being intellectuals without the responsibility.

In a poll of 25 different countries, Americans are the most anti-AI. The most pro-AI countries are South Korea, India, Israel, and Nigeria. What happened to us? We used to believe in ourselves and the future. Now we're a nation of pessimists and cowards.

Did Flock cameras collapse the crime rate? There are now about 120,000 Flock cameras across the US. In the last few years, we have reached record low violent crime rates, and automobile theft is down 50%. This probably isn't a coincidence. Surveys of police departments indicate that Flock is helping to solve hundreds of thousands of crimes a year. Some crimes, like automobile theft and kidnapping, should get to approximately zero if Flock cameras and other kinds of crime-fighting technology continue to proliferate. But every type of crime will get harder to pull off. Think about how much more difficult murder becomes without being able to use a getaway vehicle. The abuses that have been found are regrettable but rare. We're talking dozens of cases. Even if it's a large underestimate, there is no reason to suspect that safeguards against abuse aren't working extremely well. The public safety benefits of Flock are massive, and the costs are manageable. This is one of the easiest public policy questions you're going to find.

Really funny how Hunter Biden is known for literally nothing but being a failure and loser in life, and so of course he’s found a home in the right wing podcast space. Nothing about him codes as right wing and he was a target of Republicans for years. Doesn’t matter. If you’re human garbage, Tucker’s show is your home. You don’t need any other qualifications.

Another critique one should make here is that even using “GDP per hours worked,” which is not the right measure, the only European countries clearly better than the US are Denmark and Norway, and one of them is sitting on a sea of oil wealth.

NYT: Jason Arday "claims to have had to relearn the contents of his dissertation weeks before defending it after losing his memory following the removal of a benign brain tumor." Wait, what?

Ana Kasparian believes that if your country is small, the World Cup lets you team up with another country for games, which is why they US played Bosnia and Herzegovina together. These influencers are incredible.