Nothing is as instantly deadly to accurate reporting as putting "access" first. CC: @jfallows.bsky.social

Once you put that first, they've got you.

Attributed to Gen. Sherman, and this is close to a quote.

I'm a better tactician than Grant. I'm better at supply and training. But I'll tell you where he beats me and beats the world.

He doesn't give a damn what the enemy's doing on the other side of the hill, while it scares the hell out of me.

Add tariffs. Then add unpredictable tariffs.

I can’t help but notice: there is an important difference between “fascist” and “fascist aspiring.” Without downplay the danger, use of the term admits were not there yet.

When you're famous they let you do it.

Every day, I’m thankful for modern medicine. As a history nerd I sometimes wonder what it would be like to live in the past, and then I remember when modern medicine saved my own young daughter.

A quality shared by virtually every good politician I’ve ever met is being extremely quick to bury a grudge if it stops mattering

The way to make your AI popular is to tell people what they want to hear. Bears a strong family resemblance to politics these days.

To be totally frank, I think a lot of progressive activists are not particularly interested in thinking about beating Trump as an ends unto itself, and mostly interested in the energy he produces only insofar as they can transmute it into energy for policy change, and it's often been our downfall.

One of the mistakes the progressive activist class keeps making is conflating anti-Trump fury with left-wing political ideology, so that a huge anti-Trump movement is seen as a mandate for populism, and populist policy is seen as a way of advancing anti-Trumpism. They're very separate things