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

not to get all conservative but I do believe that contracting psychosis from an LLM is an irrefutable sign of a weak mind and poor character

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

Gulp

WOKE MARXIST POPE

If Cabaret is one’s historical benchmark, they are starting to sing ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’

GOP is going to be beyond broke if Elon siphons off all the dumbass SV money

My parents’ white trash neighbors (pretty sure they run a puppy mill) are still going and it’s past 11😵‍💫

2025 is a whole different animal. The response has been strong and immediate. We had *preemptive* mass mobilization. By millions of people who *aren't* being targeted by raids, jailing, and deportation. (Yet. 🙃) That's never happened in US history before. This is different.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

May I introduce you to the GOP mega-donor known as Diane Hendricks, who’s husband definitely did not fall from a roof

Give her a Glock and an omniwarrant

Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran

Everyday the parallels between Constitutional textualism and Biblical literalism strike me like a cobra

I think Zohran is going to win the Democratic primary.

Stanford's Joel Cabrita, professor of history, writes about the long history of #USA support for #SouthAfrica, or at least white, Afrikaner South Africans. time.com/7287684/hist...

This is why we need Marianne Williamson to be the standard bearer for the Dems to offer her infallible metaphysical wisdom on What This Means