Notes from the Circus
Mike BrockStanding somewhere. A circus, perhaps. From here, this is what I see.
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The Great Gaslighting of America
I endorsed Graham Platner. My reasons for endorsing him stand. I believe we need more people who speak like him in our politics, and none who act like this. He needs to drop out of the race for the United States Senate, and he needs to do i...
A More Powerful President Over a Weaker Presidency
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On June 30, 2026, on the Advisory Opinions podcast, the day after the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Slaughter, Sarah Isgur said this, on tape, in her own voice:
Cong...
The Counterfeiters at the Seam
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A follow-up to The Longest Relay, and a preface to what is to come.
On Tuesday afternoon in Colorado, at a marquee panel of the Aspen Ideas Festival, one of the most powerful venture capitalis...
The Room at Aspen
On Tuesday afternoon in Colorado, one of the most powerful venture capitalists in America stood on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival and told the room that the first American pope is working for the Chinese Communists.
The room laughed....
The Eternal Now is a Laboratory Result
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A team led by Giovanni Barontini at the University of Birmingham cooled twenty-four thousand rubidium atoms to within a few hundred nanokelvin of absolute zero. They divided the cloud with two laser frequen...
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