There's a fair volume of outright bullshit being spread by self-proclaimed "experts" about supposed evidence of fraud in the 2024 election. It's tailored to tell you what you want to believe, but utterly without merit or substance. There's a fine line between productively refuting bullshit and amplifying it. I'm trying to walk this tightrope. Anyway, if someone's telling you what you want to hear, take a beat and be a bit extra skeptical.

Apropos of nothing: There's plenty to question about Trump's candidacy and conduct in the 2024 election, no doubt about that. But that doesn't mean you can just take the SAME BS "VOTING PATTERNS" ANALYSIS that Trump and his supporters peddled in 2020, switch the names around, and claim you have proof Trump stole the 2024 election. That was bogus in 2020, and it's still bogus today. Even/especially if you call yourself a "truth alliance"

I loathe Curtis Sliwa, but I really want him to come in second ahead of Cuomo because that will be maximally humiliating for Cuomo. I am petty this way.

Had someone walk up to me earlier and inform me that it was illegal to use a tripod where I was (it was not). When I realized it was just some ill-informed busybody and not anyone with any actual authority, it felt just like being on social media, except in person.

I'm worried that when it's done, we'll find out that it's actually a "ballroom" of the kind found at Ikea or Chuck E Cheese.

The federal government wasn't short of cash to pay members of the military. Taxes are being collected, the treasury has money. They don't need private donations to meet payroll. What they need is congress to pass a budget so they can spend the money to operate the government. Like the constitution says.

On train, listening to a woman having an extended speakerphone call where she's berating an underling. Trying to figure out if anyone will report her missing if I gently shove her off the train.

Just got another "why are you posting photos when <bad thing> is happening". While posting photos may not be the most socially productive activity, it beats scolding strangers on the Internet by miles.

If someone had said “if Trump gets elected, he’ll literally bulldoze the White House” just a year ago, everyone - right, left, and center - would have told them to shut up and stop exaggerating.

Every time I walk past the White House, I'm struck not by the palatial grandeur one might expect, but rather by its relatively modest scale. It's not a palace, it's just a nice house. It takes you by surprise. The symbolism of that has always felt to me as expressing a fundamentally democratic ideal. And in the blink of an eye, we're getting a ballroom worthy of Versailles instead.