Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025

Great news! Because of a recent court order, November SNAP benefits for Wisconsin recipients were made available overnight. Members should feel free to use the funds as they normally would.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Modeling liberty on the prerogatives of ownership is a moral and intellectual error of the very most fundamental order.

Always love to see Brouillette and Sinykin on syllabi!

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

Happy Friday, Milwaukee!

Look, I did a whole dissertation on this because I thought it was esoteric and not totally ordinary, but: This is how Shakespeare’s comedy works.

Put it on a flag

For all the needless suffering they have caused domestically in the US, nothing will likely ever surpass this singular evil

“We have exited normal politics. We are no longer here to have a debate about the importance of the top marginal tax rate. We are here to save our republic.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...

@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social called this “Plessy-grade gaslighting,” which is right and which IMMEDIATELY reminded me of Saidiya Hartman on the matter

So many great people in here. I’m reading and loving Rebecca Lemov’s “The Instability of Truth” as we speak, and it’s great to see her on this list of fellows.

Uh oh here comes the state

Stein's Law remains undefeated, but sometimes it take a bit longer than expected before it emerges victorious

This whole thread is bracing in a bad way, but on PURELY STYLISTIC grounds I must note: what a sentence.

Who could have guessed

Is it… in the room with us right now?

Avner Baz’s *When Sandwiches Are Called For*

This couldn’t have landed at a better time; literally adding it to next week’s module in my intro to ed research methods course.

Are you in the market for a political party whose EVERY wing is a “Hitler sucks” wing?

Eventually western governments are gonna have to grapple with the choice between X and democracy. You can have one or you can have the other.

The obsession in some quarters with masculine spaces presages a bathhouse revival

Our national resistance to learning from our own past is truly unmatched. “Parent satisfaction is not sufficient.” —est. 1647

And you look at the map on these votes: It’s not like deep blue areas overwhelmed everything else. Very red areas of the state did, too. Feeding kids is popular.

US Government as 100 Project 2025 authors in a trenchcoat

Hey so this is just $2400 from its next goal, can we push it over the top?

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

Jesus christ

Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul has joined a multi-state lawsuit that contends the federal government's new FEMA funding conditions. civicmedia.us/news/2025/11...

Wait a minute, I was told that colleges of education were churning out battalions of Che Guevaras by the semester

The psychic wage of hierarchy is, imo, the #1 obstacle to democracy worldwide

When the Democrats lose an election, they debate endlessly how they can appeal to more voters. When Republicans lose an election, they think of ways to keep more people from voting.

Not good. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

In law school I went on exchange to Copenhagen. Living in the capital of a democratic socialist nation was like living in a futuristic society. Incredible public transport, cycling network, access to education. It was clean and safe. And people still had luxury cars, designer clothing stores, etc.

I loved this episode because I'm basically an unreconstructed Smithian on these points, and I also just do bite the cultural relativism bullet they discuss for pretty much the reasons they outline!

Absolutely, fully agree. Please plow right ahead with gerrymandering plans, all those seats are super safe.

They specifically want to prevent voters from having a choice to fund libraries, yeesh

Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.

DOUGLAS COUNTY?!?

It is WILD to see Mira Nair and Prof. Mahmood Mamdani up there with their son the MAYOR-ELECT of New York City

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Deeply moving to see this first family.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

👇🎯 The signal amidst the noise. The Democrats winning is a sign that there are more (small d) democrats than authoritarians, & we (the small d democrats) are going to win, no matter how long it takes.

I thought this night couldn’t get better, but I was wrong.

Andrew Cuomo, looking up at Zohran Mamdani, shattered backboard raining down all around him.

Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social from us in Milwaukee!