Politics

Collapse does not mean you’re personally dying right now. It means y’all are dying right now. Death is sometimes close, sometimes far away, but always there. I used to judge those herds of gazelle when the lion eats one of them alive and everyone keeps going — but no, humans are just the same. That’s the real meaning of herd immunity. We’re fundamentally immune to giving a shit.

From someone who watched the collapse of Sri Lanka, ominous words of advice for Americans. Sometimes its really bizzare to read the news and head off on my day, but that’s just it. Get busy living, or start dying.

Thune, a fourth-term senator from South Dakota, is an awkward leader for Trump’s ruthless Republican Party, in part because even Democrats invariably describe him as amiable and honest.

Excellent tracing of the new Senate majority leader’s rise to power and what it means for the separation of powers when the current Executive Branch is pursuing rule by fiat.

_{Quote Citation: David D. Kirkpatrick, “The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance”, March 31, 2025, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/john-thune-profile-senate-majority-leader}