An unstated issue here is that donors read the NYT so Klein’s advice is privileged above 99% of operatives who actually work for elected officials and political organizations. www.axios.com/2025/11/16/e...

“White House Say HuffPost Journalist’s Mom Chose Trump-Putin Meeting Location” would have been a fine headline for a properly sourced article.

I am not surprised that the first MAGA types to break from Trump are lunatics with principles and not “traditional-value” conservatives, why are you?

Yes and the same thing happens on the left when it clusters on just one platform. Not saying we should go back to X but important to keep in mind. When everyone was on the same platform, the left was more united and dominated the discourse. With clustering, each camp eats itself.

This is a very vague and consequently stupid headline, and the copy is a little too coy for the subject matter, but guys, this is an article mainly about how Epstein was able to manipulate his media connections and Manhattan power broker buds to maintain his public image. It’s not a eulogy

“Do you really think she has an organic interest in the intricacies of Venezuelan oil leases? Give me a fucking break. Someone’s paying her.” “She’s a P.R. firm that the press likes to write about as if she’s the maga vanguard, like she’s there to police the movement. It’s horseshit.”

A must read by @winterjessica.bsky.social. Impeccable. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

By their own definition of victory, the democrats have lost. They chose to make the shutdown about the extension of ACA subsidies. They did not get it. They could have chosen to make it about something else. This deal shows either lack of foresight or follow-through.

Critics-say-ism

Pour les détails du plan, ici: www.france-terre-asile.org/images/stori... Et oui ça passe par régulariser 250 000 personnes afin qu’elles contribuent à l’économie formelle.

My point: S'il est nécessaire de dénoncer l'inégalitarisme économique de l'ED ; les mesures économiques radicales, c'est le côté facile pour la gauche. Ce n'est pas ce qui a manqué jusqu'ici (JLM, Benoit Hamon). Ce qui est difficile c'est de combiner cette radicalité et la défense des institutions.

Alors que tout le monde sait qu’il faut voter pour le loup, le renard et la belette, et surtout pas pour la jument et son poulain parce qu’ils vont bouffer tout le foin

Les noms de listes pour le test grandeur nature du nouveau portail de vote en ligne des français de l’étranger: une analyse politico-fabulatoire… 1/17

En France aussi, la peur du grand méchant Mamdani : assumant leur panique islamophobe et leur conservatisme social, les porte-voix d'une gauche prétendument « laïque et républicaine » reprennent tous les clichés d'extrême droite. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

I noticed the burgers are $20-60 in today’s money way too long before I noticed anything else is wrong in this picture. 🫠🤦‍♂️

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

A $4.5tn project (Germany’s GDP), of which $50bn already spent, that will never see the light of day while 1 in 7 Saudis lives in poverty. #nokings

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

U.S. election: we can finally breathe a little. And I am just a visitor here. What a fucking year. Three more to go.

🗳️ Les républicains du Kansas abandonnent leur plan de redécoupage électoral avant les midterms, et ceux de l'Ohio arrivent à une carte pas si favorable que ça. En parallèle, les victoires démocrates en Californie et en Virginie leur donnent l'opportunité de redécouper les districts dans ces Etats.

Thomas Piketty: ‘The left has been a victim of its own success’

When “flexible” turns into “employer-discretion” work schedules.

Hallucinant. C'est inacceptable. J'ai une ERC, que rétrospectivement j'ai eu la chance de rédiger à l'étranger avec un dispositif bien meilleur que ceux qui sont proposés en France et SURTOUT avec de quoi produire des résultats préliminaires que ce soit en terme de mentiring ou de moyens #esr

The AI bubble has reached its ‘fried chicken’ phase www.ft.com/content/b003...

It should be but won’t be the final word, and Platner will lose the primary. I seem to disagree with most of my Bluesky on this.

“Fuck tha police“ was a better political protest slogan than “ACAB“ because it was not an incomprehensible acronym and it implied that society’s problems (and solutions) with police violence mostly reside with the institution and not the individuals.

If criterion is song quality x match with the show’s content:

Trump’s new ballroom looks great

Pour beaucoup de français, il est difficile d’accepter avoir été gouverné 5 ans par deux individus prêts à conspirer avec des puissances étrangères pour accroître leur pouvoir et leur richesse.

“Better to ask for forgiveness than permission” is not good advice in most areas of life but when you work in a bureaucracy it is a useful insight.

Une majorité de français a raison

J'ai relu « The End of History » de Fukuyama (1989). Absoument rien ne s'est passé comme prédit ou ne peut être raisonnablement interprété comme en 1989. ->l'Histoire n'a pas de sens

as someone who engages in both growth theory and economic history i'm happy to see both fields celebrated by this year's Nobel, but because i also dabble in history of economic thought i think it should be noted that the decision to pool them together may not be as natural as it seems.

One like, one new hot take on economics and politics. I’ll start. France is responsible for Hitler’s rise to power not because of the Versailles Treaty, but because it pursued restrictive monetary policy from 1928 to 1932 which caused the Great Depression. 1/

Une bataille après l’autre, c’est oui.

Meanwhile, Macron is contemplating various PM choices

« Un espace qui, à partir de la république thermidorienne, en 1794, va structurer et, à mon avis, être tout aussi important que la droite et la gauche : l’extrême centre. »

Also in Nashville. (Fasc-ville?)

F/ Europeans and Americans ✅

This post remains relevant, and I’m looking forward to read what @economist.com has to say about Sarkozy’s prison sentence.

Wired: multilateralism, religious diversity, bike lanes. Tired: ethno-nationalism, guns, trucks with balls.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause (ungated: archive.is/gPRg9)

Wrong; for every culinary tradition imported in the U.S., the U.S. version is the worst one.

« Nous n’investissons pas assez dans l’éducation, et nous le faisons de manière injuste. »

Girard: We discharge our intolerable feelings of social stress through the collective murder of an innocent victim. Civilization is founded on this crime, over and over. Thiel: Yes exactly it’s an effective and scalable solution to a difficult problem.

Time to start a #notmycharlie trend.

Quand l’Extrême Droite clashe avec l’Ancien Régime, la République se frotte les mains.

Well, well, well, how about that: “Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show” www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...