Max Kennerly

Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens? I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

Glass is half-empty: more open corruption. Glass is half-full: they possess material non-public information about Trump, such as his health, that may have prompted this maneuver.

well if that's the case then I'm updating my priors to reflect a 100% chance of human extinction

There's been additional breakdown, but we shouldn't overstate it: conservatives and their media allies have been full of shit on "policy" my whole life, and the question is how much they get away with it. This Laffer curve bullshit is from 2007, and yes that's the same Kevin Hassett.

Lots of people saying this is corrupt; I say let the first stone be cast by those among us who have not had a Russian oligarch attend and pay for our destination wedding. 🙏

In the middle of losing a trade war with Canada and a real war with Iran, the Trump admin has set their sights on an enemy they believe they can defeat: Aaron, who has committed the crime of posting in his 40s. (They will lose to him too.)

The one and only AI "slowdown" or "pause" is companies realizing that frontier-capability + massive compute = a need to truly prioritize guardrails and instruction-following before their models walk them into liability that bankrupts them. Everything else is cynical and fake.

25 Fields Medalists sign statement begging AI companies to stop pissing in the well of mathematics.

Yeah, and, like with COVID, 9/11 broke brains. A lot of people who previously appeared to be rational were absolutely convinced, just as Osama bin Laden said he wanted, that we were in a civilizational war, and a billion Muslims would rise up to attack "the West." ... which, y'know, didn't happen.

If transphobes cared about women's sports they wouldn't ally with people trying to wreck the WNBA and dismantle Title IX. In any given year, there are more Oscar winners than trans women in the NCAA. Nobody genuinely thinks they're a threat, the whole purpose is to erase trans people everywhere.

I love how @nytimes.com gets real scoops then trashes their credibility with lies. JD Vance has not "opposed the war from the outset" and he does not oppose it now; he has consistently supported it in public. Rather, sources have said he was "skeptical" and "tepid" in private meetings.