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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Amazing how many of my toddler inspired parenting still works as my kids get older. Kids used to get a limited amount of time to put on their whiny pants and then they had to get it together. Just set a timer for teenager to be whiny and angsty about homework. Cut down on complaints by a lot

Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social

We went a couple of weeks where the government was de facto, but totally unconstitutionally, run by a triumvirate of the VP, speaker of the House, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and we all just shrugged and muddled through and then pretended it hadn't happened.

Fresh from their six-week paid vacation, Speaker Johnson finally swore in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva. A majority of the House has signed the discharge petition for full release of the Epstein File. Let’s vote.

We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash

🚨 Hiring scientists to help give away money 🚨 At Open Philanthropy, we have given away $600M in biomedical research since 2016. Now, we're expanding the team to do more. We're hiring: * Up to 3 Senior Program Associates * Program Officer in strep A Remote OK, salaries in links! (Thread below)

Christianity Today is an influential magazine in Evangelical circles, and it's a noteworthy signpost that they're doing stories like this because it's the kind of story that pops bubbles.

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Syracuse being Syracuse.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

This is why I teach Skowronek's "The Politics Presidents Make." It gets at this motivation presidents have to "be great" and then helps explain whether they achieve that (rarely) or not.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Sign of a huge D year: Doug Jones is probably running for governor. Now we just need John Bell Edwards and Jon Tester back. www.al.com/politics/202...

While I'm on one, it would be easier to depose Schumer (though still hard) as minority. But the Congressional Black Caucus would raise holy hell if a bunch of white progressives and moderates tried to depose the potential first Black Speaker of the House. The CBC is the nerve center in the House.

First Trump is trying to expropriate $230M from DOJ for himself, now this

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Two of the most counterproductive political system choices you can make, which increase corruption but sound good, are: 1) low salaries for elected office holders and bureaucrats 2) term limits for legislators

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

Here's Bergen County. Clearly -- at the very, very least in New Jersey -- there is substantial evidence that the Republican Party failed to maintain partisan shifts among Latinos

Pro Tip: If you're traveling the next few weeks on the Northeast Corridor, book whatever seats Amtrak has left at this point ASAP before prices go way up and availability disappears.

That's what you get for bringing a bologna case.

Ground-level results in the swing state places where the “Real Folkz” live where Democrats did just fine tonight. I guess they figured out how not to Talk Funny, Do Politics The Right Way, & offer voters an Abundance of Popularism. Or maybe that’s not really how it all works after all.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

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...

Now Republicans have an extremely motivated opposition and cracks in their own coalition, especially among the groups that would really help them in the future (Latinos, young people). Now they also have to deal with a president who will actively undercut any potential successor. 3/4

You’re seeing the limits of an entire political movement based around one guy. Trump won in 24 with a unique coalition of Latinos and young people in addition to the traditional R voters, and Trump just completely abandoned these new supporters as president to the detriment of the entire party 1/4

So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways. econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

Just put it on a tshirt for the next 3 years. Turn the volume up.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

More people voted in New York City’s election this year than they have in 50 years. That’s a win for democracy, and a testament to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring campaign. Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world. 🗽

Update: this has happened. Dems on track to win at least 64 (!) VA House of Delegates seats, w/ two races still outstanding. Massive Dem night.

Between Sliwa and Brad Lander probably the best thing you can do as a public figure right now (even if you’re odious! like Curtis!) is lose gracefully being exactly who you are. People are desperate for dignity to make a comeback and they’ll reward you later.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Ambition finally counteracting ambition

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

JUST IN: Courts ordered SNAP payments to restart, and the Trump administration said Monday the food benefits would be half the normal payment. About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person on SNAP.

Trump's average disapproval rating has hit 56% in our tracker at fiftyplusone.news. He is now just a point off his (then historically low) net approval rating at this point in 2017, and nearly meeting the high point of Joe Biden's disapproval rating in 2022/late 2024 (57.3%).

Conservatives: “Private industry will come to help SNAP recipients.” Private Industry: “Here is a plan to help—temporary discounts to SNAP recipients for groceries since they are getting NOTHING right now.” Conservatives: “No, no, no. Not like that.”

Piercing analysis from @tompepinsky.com on the US in the Asia Pacific: "They must prepare for a future in which the United States cannot lead, regardless of who is in power." In a forthcoming @iojournal.bsky.social piece, @sdhyde.bsky.social & I conclude the same for US global leadership generally.

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

Anonymous billionaires funding the army and the police should be a leading story in the US. It seems less than alarmist to say these are signs of oligarchy.