I keep saying: we need a constitutional amendment prohibiting bribery and allowing Congress and an independent DOJ to absolutely wreck people over breaches of public trust.

Let pregnant folks take Tylenol and let people be autistic. For fuck’s sake. This is America.

More than the alarmism and the bullshit over vaccines and everything else is the idea that an autism diagnosis is a Bad Thing. Order my fellow Tar Heel’s @ericmgarcia.bsky.social book from your local.

when the government does it, it is not criminal misbranding.

@gelliottmorris.com pulls back the curtain on how lawyers & PR hacks at Disney interfered with 538's efforts to do serious journalism. A good reminder that independent media is the most trustworthy media. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

A reminder: the in-state public institution that you or your loved one is admitted to will most likely offer you a quality education at an affordable price.

guys, danish administrative data is some of the best there is.

Autistic traits are genetic and exist across every single human population, which means they had already evolved before Homo Sapiens migrated out of Africa. Autistic traits exist because they conferred our ancestors an evolutionary advantage due to its association with systematic thinking. 1/x

these guys are all such babies

Not to be too Freudian about it but when you learn about how Ethel mothered a lot of things start making sense

You’re really going to start a culture war over GWAR when early voting is open in Virginia? Spanberger by 30 points.

Boy, so glad they warned us.

Alex O’Keefe is a genius. He made Green New Dealmaker. youtu.be/DDg5glIt_0A?...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Komrade Kristol and Rebel Rubin

State capacity that is being gutted now will need to be rebuilt in the future. Alex Hertel-Fernandez looks back at his time in the Biden administration to identify ways that governments could better use social scientists to improve public services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...

One thing now-MAHA influencer Vani Hari taught us is that big mega companies consumer companies are actually very sensitive to grassroots lobbying.

Becky has really made Wason Center polls stand out in VA - a place that’s tough to poll well. Wason is also the only recent poll that carries a hallowed NYTimes black diamond for quality.

In what state, seriously, are you running a pro life Democrat post-Dobbs? Your plan on polarization is to…surrender on one of your 70/30 issues? Why not come out against taxing the rich and social security?

Dolan put in his retirement papers months ago. He hoped that Leo would spare him, and he has so far. But Leo is going to put someone in New York who makes St Oscar Romero look like Charlie Kirk.

Elon Musk shared one of the worst charts I've ever seen, so I decided to write about it. www.pbump.net/o/elon-musk-...

the things no one is saying about this book are that it will also make millions of dollars and elizabeth gilbert is already quite rich, and i think that fundamentally changes the claims it is making about "recovery" and being a person "in recovery"

good god. 21% of the student body at [insert your favorite stereotypical left-wing college here, I like Oberlin bc it's a classic, but Evergreen State is always a sleeper] isn't transgender.

Brad Lander is so obviously Schumer’s Wario

Another thing to flag: whether it’s the sample or the weights, since 2025, YouGov polls appear more Republican-leaning than the other national pollsters. That’s not to say they’re wrong, they’re just in the pro-Trump edge of the average.

Removing the MMRV recommendation also means *more* total injections on the schedule

power of the badge a big hit with the under 25 set.

PETRI: “.. If we are quiet enough, they are sure to forget we are here. .. Let’s all just sit here motionless for the next four years and hope things work out! Then the merger can go through; then the shareholders can breathe a sigh of relief.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Hepatitis B vaccine, given at birth, is done so for a very clear medical reason: to protect babies from exposure to a virus that can cause devastating chronic liver disease. Screening first was tried years ago and didn’t work - it’s why we vaccinate, so we don’t miss anyone.

I was not even INTERVIEWED to be the polling director at ABC News, obviously because of my political beliefs and not because when the application asked why I wanted the job I did in fact check the box that said “discounts on park tickets.” That and I am probably dangerously underqualified.

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

It's only 3.6 roentgen.

This is my entire thesis w/re to research on democracy and my work as a local party chair. People are losing trust in parties because parties aren't parties anymore. When was the last time you saw a local party branch or activity that wasn't a campaign rally?

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

this is why the "you gotta understand the times" stuff is largely bs.

people come out to their families over kitchen tables. people talk about how they will protect friends and family over kitchen tables. people pitch new names and new pronouns over kitchen tables. people register for youth sports over kitchen tables.

If the worst doomers on this website actually meant what they said then they would know that showing up to a protest in black bloc and cell phones in a faraday bag is the exact opposite of a useful approach. Find the crowd of local clergy, grandparents and folks with young kids. They'll be there.

Imagine learning that Concentration Camps in Germany were ordered to remove signs and other exhibits documenting the suffering and hardships of Jewish prisoners. That's what we are talking about when it comes to the tory of slavery at Harpers Ferry. #NationalParks www.wlbt.com/video/2025/0...

Poll of college students after Kirk's killing reveals a different picture of what is happening. The vast majority don't like him and only a tiny minority would indicate that his shooting was in anyway "justified" puck.news/wp-content/u...

the inflation reduction act is a triumph of Getting Joe Manchin To Accept As Much Lefty Shit as You Can, which is to say, politics.

Pelosi's real innovation was not responding to the press bullying the Dems to offer their own plan. When would it come? "Never". And did Dems learn from this great victory not to concede your opponents are correct? haha no it was a one time thing

Markey is probably an above-replacement Democratic Senator but the question is, will he be at nearly 85?

my man knows exactly what the fuck he's running for.

Newsom is the greasy Gen X dad who explains why Gen Z men are Like This.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Don’t put *yourself* on a list, people, because you have no idea what list you are on.

Ok everyone, favorite Spike Lee Joint of the 21st Century, go. Mine is Da 5 Bloods.

Barbecue: the great American equalizer.