Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

@machete.gay Cantor-Stancil People's Haters Party (Left Faction)

is the short circuit cinematic universe the great or greatest cinematic universe?

establishing a PMC PMC professional-managerial class-led private military company

It's weird to explain this to non-wrestling fans, but: Right now in the US, there are two national pro wrestling companies, and the publicly traded one is bear-hugging Trump, while the one that is independently owned by a single billionaire nepo baby is frequently gayer than 8 guys blowing 9 guys.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

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computer. tell bedtime story. 13th century pikemen. no romance

nothing crushed the taliban better than a thinkpad, spreadsheets, and office chai

gremlins 2

If you are ever near Wamego, Kansas, stop by their Wizard of Oz Museum.

“i take summers off, 'cause I love winter beef” said a legion of LLM backed bots

noticing more "oh so you hate waffles?" style randomly aggro replies these days. winter is coming

We’d need to clear airspace through Pakistan again or go through the caucus to Uzbekistan, both of whom we’ll need to pay off to use. Then we’ll need to move stuff into the region from somewhere, so we’ll need to rotate to fill those gaps or build/buy more, plus logistics tail once they’re there

might expand the sina drives you to a library and the archives and helps w basic research to the political class - will throw in coffee and lunch too the spirit of this is what leads to reconstruction being restrained and the rehabilitation of the slave power/confederacy

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

retaking bagram is … a thought nothing like getting the talibs out of the office doldrums and back into the field •______________•

HELL YEAH FUCK IT WE BALL FUCK IT WE BALL

Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

back to monster hunter world and not having to keep a google sheets page to track lore

my political insights have largely been informed by abolitionist politics, reconstruction era radical republicans, and the wine moms at the paint and sip also hip-hop and a little rudy ray moore

ezra has the political insights and instincts of a potato :(

Talking about the abstract need to reassure heartland swing voters by reviving the anti-abortion wing of the Democratic Party is also just one more case of how the Sensible Liberal bloc is organized around pretending the last ten years didn't happen—it's a fantasy about doing pre-Dobbs politics

implementing the thoughts of that legendary deep well of insight on the labor market eigenbot what’s next? taking advice from roon? maybe aella? TPOT and it’s consequences have been disastrous for modernity •____•

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

To recap, conservatives built an entire category of legal theory dedicated to the grammar-derived reading of precise text, only to take power and abandon written law altogether.

you know the actual gilded age’s immigration policy was a product of nativist groups - not just about banning people of color but also banning/limiting those who didn’t fit a certain definition of whiteness suitable to be american surely there isn’t a parallel here or developing •____•

The onus is always on Democrats to run more moderate, centrist candidates. I never hear the pundit class demanding the Republican run pro abortion or anti gun or pro LGBTQ candidates.

this is an over emphasis on the Trash Heap’s™️ current influence and ability to influence it’s quickly approaching a heaven banning type of sandbox for the conservative movement and its enablers when is the last time anything broke containment from the Trash Heap™️?

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

ezra has the political instincts of a potato •_____•

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why tho? what is the fascination with bagram?

[extremism research & @jamellebouie.net book pitch] tracing the idea of states’ rights from before the civil war and through reconstruction - something like 1815 to 1880 - or from dred to plessy a historical look at states’ rights @jmberger.com @machete.gay #HistorySky

Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

you could make this idea a campaign centerpiece and premise it as responsible gun ownership would love to see the insurance companies face off against the civilian fire arms industry - a potential godzilla vs king kong let them fight moment

It occurs to me that the only way the US would ever be able to legislate gun control would be to mandate at a federal level that anyone who owned a gun carried liability insurance of a certain level for anything that happened with the gun and then let capitalism take its course

might watch skinamarink

ezra klein? more like ezra de klein! c h a c h a c h a

New Trump EO increases fee from $1,000 to $100,000 per year for H1B visas?? Aimed at tech companies hiring cheaper trained people. However, this is going to be extremely disruptive to residency training programs and hospitals. Hope someone clues him in.

it’s monster hunting time

shout out to the brilliant men of infosec who were dead convinced that I worked for the CIA because I “came out of nowhere” with skills so I must have been trained by an elite unit, which was obviously a much more logical explanation than those people paying no attention to devops or the Midwest

my only contribution to … <sigh> … opsec discourse … is a james mickens line: “the mossad doing mossad things with your email account … [solution] … you’re still gonna be mossad’ed upon”

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