Shelter dogs Merry Christmas! 🥰🎅🎄🐶🐾❤️

My tip to rationalists is that you can just cross your fingers for the parts of the Nicene Creed you object to and be totally ok!

first Substack essay is NOW substack.com/@binkwrites/...

Mfw when straight men show up to canvass for Dems and just get flirted with by other men

…knowing that something needs to happen and we are also still not 25% of the way through this term

Sun Prairie always delivers for democracy! No kings. No tyrants. No demagogues. People love our country more than anyone individual.

Saw two MAGA crash-outs today in my WI suburb - the first was a guy climbing out of his car and screaming at us for crossing the street, the second stumbled out of a bar at quarter past 2 on a Saturday... we are gonna win🙂‍↕️

Candy Neumeier said she's attending to "stand up for our rights,” which are “being trampled on by this wannabe dictator and his crew." She wore a trash bag with Jeffrey Epstein's face and President Donald Trump's hand drawn on it. “I really believe that we need to release the Epstein files."

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector. Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

It really is disheartening how both AI evangelists and doomers charm people into obsessing over outcomes 1 & 2 to the point that the super-wealthy getting ~all the profit will go unnoticed when 3 happens

Xi Jinping going to take a star turn in sequels to Tim Allen’s Santa Claus movies

I literally just started putting money in the stock market *this week*… God’s least favorite homosexual

Might feel like an inversion of the Civil War, but less than you might think. The federal government was thoroughly in the hands of the Slave Power in the 1850s. States resisted the Fugitive Slave Act; Dred Scott was SCOTUS. Secession happened b/c they wouldn't accept losing that control in 1860.

Van Hollen👁️

who will the chimpanzees use to launder their propaganda now that Jane Goodall is dead?

and also, we have let our arbiters of recessions become downwardly mobile middle class college grads more than NBER

The GOAT Elaine Pagels notes an additional (and probably inclusive) possibility in the earliest days that rather than *accurately* hold Romans responsible for killing Jesus and face comparable charges of insurrection, blaming fellow Jews presented a compelling, if false, narrative

waiting for @sharonk.bsky.social take on Pope Leo interview

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after reading Very Important People I feel like I need to clarify a few things I've said about "there is no class war, only culture war" and I know someone's gonna QT dunk "ohh, someone discovered class, lollll" and whatever, go ahead but like, the conflations that led to this are worth exploring

Trump needs to stay away from my comfort character

realizing Hunter Biden is blue Trump

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem. All charts free to use:

New Deal coalition resurrection almost complete… ✅ Unions ✅ Big city machines ✅ Jewish ✅ Catholic ✅ Black ✅ Intellectuals ❌ Blue-collar workers ❌ White Southerners

Need to write up the bonobo-chimp theory of politics

Going to try this with the interest on my student loans

This is the Foley scandal on steroids

Which Andrew Lloyd Webber do we think Trump is listening to right now?

Rupert Murdoch is like the Lorax but for the bond market

is nothing sacred…

This is how we get the Obama third term

Why is everyone saying Trump has Swiss Francs

few know that having a family that loves you is the wokest thing in existence

oh William Blake, wake it tf up…

Need it to be Warnock or something because Newsom is gonna take up all the air from the sicko lane pretty fast

In isolation, I think this is guaranteed to scare normies. But I do wonder if packaging it in a suite of other political reforms under the banner of ‘Saving Democracy’ could make it more palatable than having it stick out like a sore thumb.

Feels like we’re gonna get President Vance before this term is over, if not within the year

Must be nice

This trend has negatively polarized me into sympathy towards organized religion for allowing people to explore a sense of mystery that, in its healthiest expressions, has guardrails that prevent complete and total lunacy

ICYMI: From Greek cities in Bactria and the Indus Valley, to Indian Buddhists in Egypt, to Roman gold coins in Southern Vietnam and trade goods near Zanzibar, and Chinese diplomats in Persia, the ancient world was always far more tightly connected than we realize today. Let's talk about that.

Rewatching Planet of the Apes (1968) and it’s mesmerizing how the gorilla/orangutan/chimp characterizations can be overlayed onto politics today lol

If they can’t make us see the light, make us feel the heat🫳♨️

Doug Ford waking up to turn the entire northeast’s power off tomorrow morning:

Can be easy to doom that the only way to generate backlash to Trump is a bad economy, but the 2018 blue wave happened under good economic conditions — thermostatic backlash is still happening!

Only Zohran test score I care about is his Kinsey Scale