Alec Rogers ⚾⚖️🍸

Not for bricklayers alone. H/T: @alancornett

Israel brought international journalists into Gaza to view the large stockpiles of aid that the UN failed to distribute, while screaming about famine. Now they have been exposed, UN have resumed distribution, with 270+ truckloads of aid delivered yesterday and today.

Is the Supreme Court "extremist?" The Court took a position favored by a majority of voters in EVERY major case this term. Criticize the Court all you want for its constitutional fidelity, but it's not out of step with the public. H/T @WakeUp2Politics substack.com/home/post/p-16…

I’ll make the NEA a deal: when public schools provide the majority of students with a comprehensive education experience that results in 85% of non-special education students performing at or above grade level, we can have this conversation about homeschooling.

I'm seeing this clip all over as if this were every home in America mid 19th century. The answer is that it was a 3.5-hour movie. Then we went home.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

For some perspective, this is 0.168% of what the US Government will spend in FY2025.

BBC Gaza documentary breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose child narrator was son of Hamas official, review finds bbc.in/4lTx0Y9

A handy list of economists we shouldn't bother to listen to ever again. theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

Indeed, and what we're living in more and more. We don't trust each other to play by traditional norms, so we excuse our own deviations (the other side will break them as soon as possible, don't be a sucker).

I'm about a quarter of the way through and enjoying it very much so far. I had been worried after reading the WSJ review.

I'm not certain what the conceptual difference is between an endowment tax and a wealth tax. The former taxes income that may never have been taxed but is this a distinction without a difference?

Substack charges too much and Twitter charges too little.

On this day, 250 years ago, this guy started a new job and it was game on for the United States of America.

Politics is an art, and not a science. -Henry Morganthau

. @WilliamBaude "Over the weekend I felt like I was reading two different conversations about universal injunctions and the Court’s decision. One was a conversation about technical legal issues — The second one was doesn’t the Court realize that The Republic Is At Risk, etc."

The people running @utulsa have no idea what they're doing. Huge step back for what could have been a world class institution.