“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Not a particularly satisfying result against a last-place team but that was a hell of a free kick to tie it up. Worse ways to concede. And #UpTheHearts still clinch!!

I think if we’d gotten the first in retrospect mostly normal Trump term again there genuinely would have been a durable vibe shift to the right, and democrats would have looked hysterical. The uhhh “good” news is that, well…

ooh well done

Hey. They were called the “Young Republicans” because they were trying to influence your teenage son. These guys are like 30.

MAGA folks don’t understand that the culture of Bluesky involves everyone just blocking people they don’t like without any engagement. They think they’re “shadowbanned” by some unseen force from above.

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

I did not know this

At no point in this sentence was it possible to predict what the next word would be

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

"And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for someone like Miss Major."

If you can't be a content creator without ai, I don't think you should be a content creator.

lol. LMAO, even.

I just don’t think people realise what LLM brain is gonna end up being in the long run. I mean, we have to chuckle at the car situation, but using grok as a therapist? The agreement machine, as a therapist? Unforgivable from the tech industry, yet again.

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

mmhmm

I too don't want anyone taking medical advice from RFK, but guess who voted to confirm him as the person people should take medical advice from.

I'll never get mad seeing libs actually do something. All I ask is you remember this next time student protestors are getting packed up by nazis and cops.

Good observation for the “pivot to health care” people to consider.

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

I'm absolutely not a Swiftie but I have enjoyed her music. But to me basically every album after Red sounds the same, with few exceptions. I have assumed it's her producer

Also to my knowledge the original No Kings protest took place all over the country, in towns and cities of all sizes, "blue" or not. There's not only a tendency to write off blue cities but to write off anything that includes them in any form

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

It’s almost like GamerGate was openly a push to transform young republicans into the openly hitler loving groypers and Steve Bannon specifically did all that shit to me to make it happen

I think two things are true: 1. young republicans were always terrible and racist 2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

don’t make the tap the sign

I tend to object to "Hegseth is the real DEI hire" because it accepts the argument against DEI as fact, when it's anything but, but I think this states it well. Not that hypocrisy has been a vulnerability for Republicans in my lifetime.

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

It seems to me that 20 years ago, *most people* in public contexts could agree that racism was bad in a way that they just don't now. But what that meant was not that there were fewer racists, just that you'd encounter fewer people who were open about their racism.

If you want to see the TikToks of a student documenting the horrifying fact that her professor used AI to "write" the textbook she subsequently published and forces her students to use/buy; but also some truly unprofessional behavior from the prof on being caught: www.tiktok.com/@liaaa.bia/v...

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills joined the 2026 Senate race Tuesday, facing a crowded Democratic field. This includes oyster farmer Graham Platner, who outperformed her in recent polling among Trump voters, younger voters, and rural northern and western counties. Click below to read the full story.

IDF is still shooting people in Gaza

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust. From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad." I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

Correcting this: it is $28 billon in funds cancelled in blue states, not $18 billion. So 1.5 Milei bailouts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

hellll yeah

Talking a lot these days about test sharding, which when spoken aloud makes me giggle every time

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one. Fascism. 📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

a skull full of soup.

wat[er] in the world

This post is doing big numbers but it’s worth noting this is *print* subscribers, which puts a totally different context on this. (Last year during their cancellation kerfuffle they had about 2.5 million total subscriptions. The NYTimes has ~11 million total)

Lmao four separate texts all at the same time fundraising for Mills. Nah. @grahamformaine.bsky.social all the way.

Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.

oh wow they are who we knew they were

"You would think the press would want to provide propaganda rather than investigate White House policies" is something I do believe he actually thinks, which is only more wild.