Sam Brunson

"Undocumented people can commit torts with impunity" is a very silly position to take

“A mountain of research proves that immigrants do not increase crime rates,” says Cato’s David Bier, testifying before a Senate Budget Committee hearing on sanctuary cities.

Congratulations!

Full disclosure: I met with the minority staffers and helped strategize and explained the history.

Ilan is taking his historical fiction on the road. It’s amazing what sloppy and methodless historical scholarship can do for one’s career.

Funny. I’m so sick of them serving me up singles; all I want is albums.

A lot of technological advancement is a double-edged sword.

Vaccines, on the other hand, are just an uncomplicated positive (and often free!). A literal medical miracle, and people are finding reasons to not take them.

The rules of professional conduct for attorneys are a backstop; they’re a floor. A lawyer has to say no if asked to do something that violates the rules. DOJ could seriously lose all its attorneys

Why...did CNN do this

A well-known thespian set out for what could have been a pleasant night at the theatre.

Hours later, his life had drastically changed as he was being hunted for shooting President Lincoln in the head.

You‘re making stuff up at this point. Which is your right—you have every right to lie on the internet.

But it suggests to me that you’re not worth talking to.

So what is a corporation?

But theoretically, if we were willing to give up consumption, technological advances would allow us to reduce work/increase leisure. 3/3

Now, this doesn't mean that everybody has *chosen* to do that; there are some systemic problems with me choosing to work more to fund consumption while you choose to work less and enjoy leisure (particularly that part-time work is less available and doesn't provide health insurance). 2/

Sorry I'm quote-skeeting you, Josh, but the OP turned off replies at some point.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social's most recent episode talks about this. In Europe, work hours have gone down. In the US, it looks like we've kept the same amount of work to fund more consumption. 1/

FUCK.

Herd immunity, so fucking important, and we're vaporizing it

I find it so offensive that MS Word's AI has started trying to correct me when I use (perfectly correct) "nonstandard syntax." There is no reason that we should be trying to enforce homogeneity of expression.

this is self-aggrandizement, not actual sacrifice or community. it's about making yourself feel important and trying to make others feel bad, not achieving anything.

Like, if you're working 12-hour days, you have less time to fight for the survival &c.

FWIW, time spent "fighting for the survival of our comrades and children," whatever that means, is almost definitely, by definition, use of leisure time.

I mean, what do you think a corporation is? (Hint: you're wrong.)

Looking at her blog, she's not actually a serious thinker.

I mean, how much leisure time do you think the median working-class individual had in 1926? How about 1826?

I mean, she went from a cabinet-level position with authority and the ability to do serious harm to a made-up position with no portfolio or direct power.

Kristi Noem’s $200 Million Mistake Podcast Episode · The Journal. · March 9 · 22m

Listened to a @wsj.com podcast in the firing of Noem. And for all the compelling reasons to fire her, Trump choose the most pathetic reason possible.

I mean, she deserves to be fired, but Trump doesn’t deserve any credit for doing it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Hers was, quite simply, a reign of terror. It exposed ppl who have been organizing and protesting for decades to levels of violence that they couldn't believe. There are dozens of people who are dead, countless others who are traumatized as a direct result of her decisionmaking. Never forget that.

Though whatever she said, I’m 100% sure it was a lie!

War disruptions may send oil to $150 to $200 a barrel. Here’s my advice for stock investors Published Sun, Mar 8 20263:27 PM EDT thumbnail Jim Cramer @jimcramer

nevermind it's all gonna be fine www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/j...

Trump take... basically everything

Here's the first-ever Linkedin message from this company, which seems to be a small company run by two millennials with some background in migrant shelters.

Four months ago they suggest they won a contract to run a "mass care site" in Lexington, KY, but this is their first-ever federal contract.

Diesel going to the moon *and* nuking commodities thru an asinine tariff regime -- the trump administration couldn’t fuck over farmers any harder if they tried