i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

It decreased inequality by squeezing the middle. It does not show any increase in low wage earning, just in low wage labor employment.

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Honestly this feels like a constitutional crisis. *Powell needs to issue a quick statement pushing back. *Will Trump try to use force to bar Cook from working? *Assuming we get to litigation, will SCOTUS fold and go along with Trump's for "cause" rationale? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

Another read is not that SCOTUS is shy about confronting Trump but that they're basically on board with his project but would be embarrassed about the legal arguments they'd have to make if they upheld his actions on the merits, so they find procedural means to let him get his way.

Jfc, campus shooter was a fucking hoax. Some people are not ok

"There is no grade inflation. The average grade is just under a B+"...UATX is the best dunning-Krueger ever

The aristocrats joke, but make it punditry. We call it "the argument"

The way to separate correlation from causation is to use modern research designs like RDD or diff-in-diff. When you can compare how progressives and moderates do in elections *all else equal*, you see no effect of ideology. This is the Trump era. Ideology is not driving voting.

I remember when people treated him like this wasnt who he obviously was.

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Hear me out of politics: Colbert is going to have a lot of time on his hands in about a year. *note, I don't know his views that well

The moral panic over students using their free speech to express opinions conservatives disagreed with was never a genuine threat to free speech, though. It was always about suppressing student speech because richer and more powerful people didn't like what they had to say.

One of the most infuriating interviews by Klein I've listened to. Just zero pancakes to farcical claims.

Last second reminder before ASA: I'll be there and happy to talk about our job opening, philly, villanova, or just buy people on the market coffee if they're willing to travel a little to go to a local cafe!

Shit, so students didn't think I was cool because I used Times New Roman for my syllabus? And no one told me?!?!

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They used AI to write this and it's such a phenomenal example of two forms of absolute enshittification of our lives. I hate it here.

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

It’s so annoying how cancel culture discourse eliminates context. I checked, four authors other than Díaz were dropped from the Contemporary World Literature section: Machado De Assis, José López Portillo Y Rojas, Higuchi Ichiyō and Isabelle Allende. No one is writing about their “canceling”.

using the term 'disappeared' for non-inclusion in an anthology is 10x more hysterical than anything I've ever heard from a campus SJW

Seeing Booker and now Van Hollen each drive the national discourse single handedly for a week, it makes you really question what the point of Schumer, Durbin, and the rest of the Dem Senate leadership is.

Reminder that one of the three great consistent rules of Trump is that he will always back down if directly confronted (the others are that he never keeps a promise and that he will always betray anyone who helps him)

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures

Anonymous centrist coward need to be identified and primaried

I love that the sentence before mandating hiring based on ideological litmus tests says that Harvard must ban hiring based on ideological litmus tests.

I gauge the relative horror of each passing day with a scientific measurement I call the WASF meter--which is a count of how many times each day I catch myself quietly muttering "We Are So Fucked." The WASF levels today are pretty high.

El Salvador is a contractor providing the United States with a paid service. The idea that we couldn’t get anyone they’re holding back with the snap of a finger just by asking is so ludicrous on its face, it seems less like a real excuse and more like a test of how much shit the courts will eat.

"They are treating Kilmar Abrego Garcia less fairly than the people accused of witchcraft in Salem were" is objectively true and helps drive home how outrageous the situation is bsky.app/profile/keiy...

Intolerable and tyrannical. No free people should stand for this, and we should recognize that those who do are a threat to our freedom just as much as Trump is.

The pattern is clear: on a popular level there is strong resistance to Trump, among the elite near total capitulation. In education we see grade school staff (principals, teachers) refusing to co-operate with Ice while Ivy League universities are silent. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

If I were a Congressional Democrat, I would be raising absolute hell right now. This is a "stay on the floor and do not leave the floor ever until this is fixed" I would also be introducing legislation that amends the INA that forecloses the "but they're in another country now" loophole

Absolutely not an exaggeration. High crimes and misdemeanors committed and endorsed in the Oval Office on live television.

This is the the only case anywhere in the country that determines if the country falls into fascism. Either it stops here, or we fall into the abyss. There is no coming back from this. Anybody anywhere can be plucked off the street, denied all due process, and disappeared.

This was a great effort by Eisgruber to explain the situation and I wonder who is today's guest on the daily after....oh fuck you, nyt. It's fucking Rufo

My alma mater doesn't produce many conservative politicians, but Cass and Needham are evidence of a type that we have to own up to. Smarter than thou dumbassery

A mid tech if ever there was one, amirite @tressiemcphd.bsky.social?

And dems could maybe constantly remind people of that

They know they can't logistically pull off "mass deportations" they promises their base so doing high-profile, intentionally-controversial actions (which they turn into content) creates the illusion of mass deportations while enraging people their base hates

Drake has to be one of them

Listening to Ezra Klein talk about rural broadband with Jon Stewart and lack of interest in why the process was so long is telling. Yes, the process is unnecessarily long, but no consideration of why the steps were put in. You can tell each step is to protect from abuse that has happened before 1/2

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one. This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay. AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.

Least surprising result ever. Stop doing anything close to complying. It will not help, it will only bring the worst end result faster. It's the coward's form of accelerationism.

This is where I am and they used all my stuff too