To paraphrase Warren Buffett, it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming without a bathing suit

In related news, let me know if you or someone you know has any interesting work opportunities!

Should Democrats up their demands this time? And would it benefit Republicans to give them an off-ramp? Read more from @benjysarlin.bsky.social, @admcrlsn.bsky.social and Jim Geraghty: https://wapo.st/3IfewTE

My latest for @washingtonpost.com: An explainer on why A24’s prestige English-dubbed release of China’s NE ZHA 2, the most successful animated feature in history, didn’t hit with American audiences. The answer? Fundamentally different storytelling styles. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Donald Trump is making your coffee more expensive. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Seems less than ideal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

A good column on how the GOP uses work requirements as a ploy to deny Medicaid benefits to Americans who are eligible. Arkansas enacted a similar policy. “Although the policy dramatically reduced the share of adults with health insurance coverage, it did nothing to boost employment.”

New research from @splitticketvoter.bsky.social suggests Trump made massive gains with naturalized citizens in 2024. Scaring legal immigrants and blowing up the economy seems like a formula for undoing them. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Some pretty dangerous poll findings for Trump lately, especially on the economy www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Are the tariffs affecting you as a consumer, business owner, coffee drinker, etc? Reach out to the Post's letters page thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/tariff...

Don’t assume populism and tariffs are inherently joined. The original populists and progressives were anti-tariff for decades. It’s a big part of how we have that income tax Musk and Trump hate. It could happen again, @tonyannett.bsky.social writes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Sure seems like Elon was toxic in that Wisconsin race. New state polling here from Blueprint, see their op-ed. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The ghibli thing was terrible and everywhere but it appears to have passed quickly, like omicron

I dunno, I am at least somewhat skeptical that “MAGA talking points but in the tone of an aggrieved 2014 Vox writer” is the future of conservative politics

What's easier for Democrats: Getting New York City, California and Philadelphia to build housing and stop bleeding population? Or winning Texas? Cuz thems the choices. -- www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Democrats no longer have the luxury of losing Texas, writes Luke Warford www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The Waltz defense is basically that it has to be some elaborate, currently unarticulated, conspiracy against him because can you imagine someone as competent and smart and cool as Waltz doing something so stupid? Most people don’t even know who this guy is, let alone assume he’s infallible.

The conservative case for embracing “Abundance” via @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Rachel Janfanza on how the pandemic split Gen Z into two different generations, with opposing politics. (A good morning for Post oped.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Accepting the premise that Musk is a unique business and engineering genius who singlehandedly turned Tesla into the dominant EV company — they've been getting absolutely routed since he started his big X/AI/DOGE kick and I don't know how they recover www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Ah yes, making me nostalgic for the bad economy law school surge of my youth

The thing about antagonizing other countries for your nationalist base is that they have their own nationalists with their own base www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

How Trump is reshaping reality by disappearing public data W/ my fabulous colleague @ashendruk.com wapo.st/4iCmMtn

Can’t believe it was was just five years ago today that the Knicks were bad

Stock traders are just doing a historical re-enactment of March 2020 for the covid anniversary

“The insects don’t care what the current political environment is,” he said. “They’re just going to keep coming.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory

Loved every chance I got to work with him, the epitome of professionalism and class in one of the most scrutinized jobs in media

Excited to announce I'll be joining the @washingtonpost.com Opinion Desk as an assignment editor next month! Looking forward to building a better discourse as part of this storied team of editors, columnists, and producers.

PSA: This is the best packing snow I’ve ever seen

This entire last year feels like a super long Key and Peele sketch about a diss track that gets out of hand

Thank you Kuz for making Wizards games watchable in the dark times and also gifting me this amazing bobblehead

DeepSeek is the richest news story in forever. There are so many angles — tech, business, geopolitics, energy — with huge implications. Our entire near-term economic vision is upended. If you’ve read anything especially great, drop in the replies, I can’t get enough analysis this week.

Wow, can’t believe it turned out he used computer enhancements in his prestige movie

It works across every medium too. I’m in the middle of playing Alan Wake 2, which is as self-consciously Lynchian as it gets.

There's like a half-dozen sequences in Mulholland Drive alone that feel like they're competing for the best scene ever filmed www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8c...

“Oneshotting” is a great phrase, because it is indeed funny the first time you hear it and then not once ever again

I kind of liked the movie about cool women looking very disappointed in Bob Dylan all the time

Who knows if that would have resulted in anything better or worse than the reality we have today, but I guess we’ll never know if that moment was something that coulda been turned into a different direction for the country.

…have easily been a mirror image of trump 2024, front loading fury and desire for revenge, but towards liberal or left leaning ends.

…and the young voters furious that the life they were promised is maybe forever out of reach — was significantly more alarming at that point in 2008, so it absolutely wasn’t inevitable that the winning Dem campaign was gonna be about “hope.” The Dems were gonna clean up in 2008 and it could…

I think @benjysarlin.bsky.social made this point years ago but it is kinda remarkable (I’m not saying whether or not this was good for the Dems or the country in the long run) the way the Obama candidacy turned out in the sense that everything were choking on now — the rage, the economic collapse…

Two of the most quoted immigration reform advocates across decades both saying Democrats moved too far left — not your typical op-ed making this case t.co/oSJoVn1d4W

This is still one of the single coolest things that's ever happened.

Incredible stuff

After a great two years, I’ll be stepping down as @semafor.com’s Washington bureau chief at the end of the month. It’s been a joy leading our politics team, building the daily Principals newsletter from scratch, and editing @daveweigel.bsky.social in Americana every week!

Oh god is that what's happening

He can do whatever he wants, I’m still going to go up to Joe Manchin several times a day and ask him what he thinks about the reconciliation bill

Good piece on the economic populism debate around Harris in @jacobinmag.bsky.social — which ironically loves what the megadonor super PAC was doing on this issue jacobin.com/2024/11/harr...