Threads to read

Here are some short thoughts that add up to longer thoughts today:

• John Scalzi muses about the car that Elon Musk caught.
• Brynn Tannehill draws parallels between the GOP's acceptance of anti-democratic anti-Democratic violence and the end of the Ba'ath regime in Iraq.
• Julia Ioffe interviews her old friend Robert Draper about the latter's new book Weapons of Mass Delusion, which explains how the Republican Party got from Liz Cheney to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Finally, from 2021, the Calgary Real Estate Board (no kidding) extols the virtues of the conversation pit.