You can’t wrestle manatees anymore because of woke

60% disapprove of how ICE is handling deportations, 62% say Good shooting was unjustified, Republicans more trusted on immigration, Democrats more trusted on health care. open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...

Yes exactly instead of this stuff she should have taken more moderate positions on policy issues! Progressives keep treating the failure of the “try anything other than being moderate on policy” strategy as evidence against moderating on policy.

Consultants find that the best-polling message is one where Democrats promise to stop listening to pollsters and consultants.

I believe Sullivan has always self-identified as conservative, even during the 2007-2012 period when he was vociferously anti-Bush and the marriage equality issue was high profile. His groundbreaking 1989 essay was titled "Here Comes The Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage."

Gallego getting Bessent to just say that taxpayers will pay Trump $10 billion if he wins is why most Trump officials who testify just berate the senators instead.

I wrote about the rise and fall of American whaling, the industry’s revival in Norway, and its eventual peak as the Soviet Union sent out large whaling fleets for basically no reason. www.slowboring.com/p/who-really...

You wouldn’t ban the construction of new cars or tools or appliances to help increase people’s “refrigerator wealth” or boost used car values. Artificial scarcity is not a wealth-building strategy. www.slowboring.com/p/a-country-...

Because Miller is a sick puppy he is fanatical about manufacturing new groups of illegal inmigrants to deport so that he can argue we need even more resources dedicated to deportations.

Normie libs are correct!

I don’t think this is factually accurate about BLM organizers

Basically, Morris (and everyone else participating in this "debate") agree that moderates do better and just don't want to acknowledge that this is true.

When you count manufactured homes, the “housing boom” of the early aughts looks unimpressive in historical terms and the subsequent bust is striking.

Parallel lives www.slowboring.com/p/gavin-news...

Make Hittites Great Again 👇👇

Are there social or professional circles where these kind of rhetorical strategies (“mansplaining,” etc) are still effective or persuasive?

I would love to see what kind of decisions Manhattan Institute staff make with their actual families about this

I know this is unpopular and @mattyglesias.bsky.social gets shit for it all the time, but there is only one way out—a democratic supermajority in both houses. I would really love for you people to think about the tolerance required for that outcome. Please?

Furio is responsible for the wave of ADU laws that have passed over the past ten years

Getting closer and closer to the point where solar will be able to meet almost all our summer residential electricity needs. Lack of daylight in winter continues to be a thorny problem.

Trump, flailing, is repeating failed affordability gambits from the Biden White House www.slowboring.com/p/trump-embr...

Most unrealistic part of the Shield is Vic wearing a suit and tie to report for work for ICE

We’re being governed by belligerently ignorant people

With not just the killing but the lying about the killing the tyrannical core of Trumpism is now front and center in politics. www.slowboring.com/p/a-turning-...

Largely agree with this from @jonathanbchait.bsky.social and Marc Novicoff — Gavin Newsom just replicates all Kamala Harris’ main weaknesses as a candidate. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I wrote about the likely unfixable harms of the Trump administration’s war on vaccination. www.slowboring.com/p/the-shocki...

Abolish ICE (and all other federal law enforcement agencies in favor of massive consolidation)? www.slowboring.com/p/blame-trum...

Purity cycle

I was for abolishing ICE before it was cool. archive.is/bn16s#select...

Why aren’t conservatives out in the streets protesting in favor of Iranian freedom? What hypocrisy, it’s almost like they just hate America.

This is great — but also underscores that Democrats should try to go on his show!

An interesting little fight — should regulatory authority over energy efficiency standards for mobile homes be in HUD or at the Energy Department www.slowboring.com/p/housing-ab...

This is horrible and also a powerful reminder that actual direction from the top — the malign agenda of Trump, Miller, etc — is really important, not just structural questions about agency design.

Some odd discourse on here. My take is that this whole subject needs more boring think tank PDF work in terms of exactly what we want to do, and then we can think about what to call it.

US emissions in 2025 were not meaningfully impacted by the federal policy changes in 2025, but we project that those policy changes could have increasing effects in the years to come. Read more in our new note: rhg.com/research/us-...

A nation of haters

Benefits for the elderly have gotten more generous in a bunch of different ways even as the population has aged. This seems to be what voters want but also nobody seems very happy about it. www.slowboring.com/p/where-has-...

There’s a weirdo sect that hates Democratic Party donors but is endlessly credulous about MAGA Republicans

Two of the eight wars Trump claims to have ended didn’t actually happen, and two of the six real wars are still ongoing. www.slowboring.com/p/the-wars-t...

I am not the biggest fan of the green groups but uh … this doesn’t seem like a great idea

I don’t want to tell people to give up hope or despair, but I think a lot of my disagreements stem from being fundamentally less optimistic than this about the current trajectory which probably features the GOP holding the senate and courts getting increasingly MAGAfied ahead of 2028.

Trump keeps acting like Maduro is his model for making policy www.slowboring.com/p/theft-is-n...

It’s a scandal that they haven’t given us a The Shield legacy sequel about his adventures as an ICE agent riding the MAGA wave back into the higher echelons of violence and corruption.

“Staff at several hospitals in Iran have told the BBC their facilities are overwhelmed with dead or injured patients, as major anti-government protests continue.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The only thing that can halt the ongoing MAGAfication of the judiciary is a Democratic senate win in November. If you’re not thinking about how to win in Texas, Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, and Florida you’re asking the wrong question.

Howard University is lowkey one of the best infill real estate developers in America. dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blo...

My sources with knowledge of Iran (guy at kebab shop) tell me the regime has never looked this weak in the face of protests.

One of my most important takes of all time — if you find it uncomfortable to wear a tie, that’s because your shirt doesn’t fit. This is a solvable problem if you read my advice. www.slowboring.com/p/the-actual...

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Strategic redeployment for the immigration enforcement apparatus www.slowboring.com/p/an-immigra...