The AAO published this alert *yesterday.* The Twin Cities area is a lot like the Boston area; you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a medical researcher or practitioner.

I remind everyone to NOT bring milk to a protest and do NOT pour milk over someone’s eyes Only pour sterilized water, eye wash solutions, or saline solutions into eyes. Do NOT do milk! This is one of the worst advice that for some reason keeps stating commonly suggested. Don’t do it

Its very telling here is that his "do your own research" examples are consumer goods, like cars or baby carriages. The MAHA movement is a consumption movement, one that prefers yelp reviews rather than science evaluating their products.

let's say the president wants to suppress the vote in detroit. assuming a conventional 20 soldiers for every 1000 civilians ration, he would need more than 12,000 ICE agents — more than double the current number of field officers — to occupy detroit and only detroit, a city of 630,000 people

oh hai @trevorproject.bsky.social lmk when you do a survey RFP.

The great mexican revolutionary law and the freedom of slaves https://www.wikiart.org/en/jose-clemente-orozco/the-great-mexican-revolutionary-law-and-the-freedom-of-slaves-1949

. 📭 voting update for #ncpol through 1/14 - 86 ballots cast/85 accepted - 50 Dems, 8 Reps, 28 Una - 25/28 UNA chose the Dem primary - location of NC voter I'd most like to visit today: Marseille, France More tomorrow w/ comparison 📈 🛑 don't use this to forecast anything, unless you like being wrong

The US government is funding an unethical Hepatitis B study on babies in West Africa that will put thousands of lives at risk—randomizing vax at birth, with no placebo control. But we already have solid evidence that the vaccine is effective.

The news: ICE is going to Maine Me: [aghast] off-season? 🧐🧐🧐

A Republican Governor of Virginia has basically four jobs: 1. Cut taxes 2. Fill bureaucracy with right wing nerds who can be fast tracked to DC jobs 3. Giant development projects 4. Red meat for the bible thumpers

Trump’s net job approval is actually up in this poll, chilling at 40%.

Once again, Democrats are playing "Pollingism" & taking the temperature. MAGA (& successful Dems) understand that if you want people to come to your cause, you must draw them in & be fine repelling your opposition. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Goldman has a *tough* primary.

Keep your eyes on Golden, who is not running for re-election in a district Trump won by 10 points

Once again, Tricia is wrong. www.pbump.net/o/where-ice-...

one other thing that will have to happen after The Regime falls is for the 'wellness' industry to be legislatively regulated out of existence

The high schooler at the heart of the current case knows that the battle at the court is about much more than whether she can play track and field with her friends. “It’s just one part of a plan to push transgender people like me out of the public life entirely.”

I am late on this but Eddie Slipek died last month. RIP to a legend.

Today the Supreme Court hears oral argument on state bans on transgender athletes. In our recent paper, Fiona Rodger and I find that the public distinguishes between different kinds of trans policies, but only about a quarter of Americans oppose those bans. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

I'm a cube root guy; I want 692 seats, baby!

Quick notes from a YouGov user: 1. This only polls citizens, not all American adults as the one-day YouGov poll out yesterday did. 2. Since 2025, YouGov polls have been more positive for Trump relative to other national pollsters than they were from 2015-2024, when they were probably less positive.

Now this is how you raise cost of living. You connect it to to the authoritarianism, not treat it as a pivot *from* the authoritarianism. No disrespect to @aoc.bsky.social (a generational talent political communicator), but this shouldn't be that hard to understand.

Downsides to being an occupying force, I guess.

I think some people will be tempted to read this as 'even murdering a woman can't break his hold' versus 'a net 25 point shift moved Abolish ICE from fringe demand to the verge of popularist mandate'

Absorption of mission. Bureaucratic re-orientation. Operational pauses. Local redundancy elimination. Investigation of patterns and practices. Subpeonas of abusive officials. Hold everyone to high standards. Inspectors general. Cooperation with local investigations. Enhanced training.

The split attack that feels soft: “deportations were higher under Obama” and “ICE needs training” portray an incompetent agency that can’t do its job. Ripe for operational pauses, strategic reorientations, re-purposing of personnel and funding, and mission absorption.

This stalking horse idea is key and the left has trouble with it because it treats polyvalence as evidence of capture as a foregone conclusion rather than a (potentially favorable) terrain to fight on

Another pre-registered experiment showing no effect of moral reframing, this one on COVID pro-vaccination messaging: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

again, it is not stupid to try to make your less popular policies popular. some of politics is taking opportunities, but most of politics is trying to *create* opportunities. most Americans don't pay close attention to agency workings. that's how we have a Space Force.

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

I would sooner get a root canal than talk about this Senate race online. Over on Insta people are losing their damn minds.

The difference between the protest movements of the 1950s-1970s and those of right now is that right now the President, the agencies he oversees, and the policies they implement are unpopular.

In 1970, 58% of respondents in a Gallup poll said the Kent State protestors were to blame for their own deaths.

total unity between everyone who invests on Reddit on this one: meme stock bros, dividend enthusiasts, and boglememers

Lol my man cannot handle the Disney world parking lot for 3 months.

David Carr mentored a lot of great people, but also some people who suck

JPOW literally said

I mean, look at we do to pickpockets when we go overseas.

Auchincloss is a canary in the coal mine. He represents the billionaire wing of the Democratic Party, and the parts that don’t poll well: crypto, AI, data centers, Israel, and app-based gambling. If you’re to the right of Crypto Jake on something, you have fucked up.

The “her friend” shit is some just gals being pals final insult.

EJAE / Ashley St Clair 2028

tired: r/andor lit af rn wired: r/Bogleheads lit af rn

I am speaking generally and hypothetically, but the chief executive going to war with the central bank is the sort of thing that results in breadlines, coups, and worse.

Trump had a chance to basically lay back in the cut, credit claim for appointing Powell, ride a growth curve, make house democrats bend the knee after 2026, and chill, but no.

Why am I crying? This is amazing to me. And what it really shows is that a lot of people who called themselves critics don’t actually have the range to talk about this show at all. #RenewTheAcolyte

The Daughter & her BF are coming next weekend for our Christmas & I'm going to be spending a lot of this week cooking & freezing food for them to take home. I'm so very happy about that 🩷

This isn’t soccer practice; it’s democracy.

I believe in America.