Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Perfect time to be flying to Seattle through Detroit for a conference, I'm learning.

Cuomo's entire tenure as governor faced credible accusations of being a quiet Republican and enabling Republican governance under himself. The close of his career is Cuomo-world not beating the charges at all.

Thank you @teenvogue.com politics section for letting me explain to teens why the Great Recession is the key to understanding why politics sucks now

I wrote in the New York Times about how I think companies saying women are leaving because of "return to office" is a cop out. Nursing, a fundamentally in person job, is almost 90% female. So what do women really want? Boundaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

Republicans are literally starving millions of Americans while covering for a president engaged in the most corrupt monetization of presidential authority we've seen in generations.

Type of guy who spends $20,000 to invite a spy device into his home.

We really are under attack, huh?

I hope there's a paper trail for the next administration.

The sense that I get from this is that, in a sense, common sense has failed to set off his sense of how to construct a sentence that makes sense while evoking the sensations that trigger our various senses through the act of description with sensible words choice. Does that make sense?

What an awesome opening night game for the NBA tonight.

Assistant Professor to Full Professor ass facial expressions here.

Worth noting that the Right has won not because they tacked to the center but that they spent decades explicitly not doing that and searching out means of minoritarian obstinance and institutional capture sufficient to enact their beliefs the moment they had power again.

Finally catching up on Strange New Worlds and got to season 3 episode 2 and I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT DR. KORBY.

We've reached the "brave, kind strangers hiding children from masked federal agents" part of all this.

New working paper on contemporary child labor in the U.S. and its impacts on school attendance ⬇️ edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1302 With absolute dream team @mimiarnoldlyon.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social & PhD student Ji Hyun Byeon

We have a transit system that works for some people some of the time—thank you to CBS19 for amplifying voices highlighting some local non-drivers during Cville WeekWithoutDriving

Hi everyone. Some exciting news. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Public Policy here at Rockefeller College. We are pretty flexible on topic areas. We have a great team here and Albany is a great place to live. #econsky #academicsky Posting: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

This is going to sound like a copout answer, but my take is that any city of a sufficient size is going to have *something* cool and interesting going on, even if it's hidden away somewhere. The truly bleak cities are the affluent suburbs that are just McMansions, cars, and nothing else.

I am begging editors to log off the internet. We do not need to still be doing this. People not terminally online or involved in culture war issues with colleges - which is most people - barely knew who Charlie Kirk was. Who is all this coverage for?

Used the one window I had to see a movie to see One Battle After Another. I cannot recommend it enough. See it in theaters - it's so worth it. The movie is an homage to the American revolutionary spirit fit into a cat and mouse film. And from beginning to end, this movie just *goes*.

Unreasonably cruel that our political economy produced a severe housing shortage in most cities, driving additional margins of people into homelessness, and the wannabe dictator regime is now using visible homelessness as a pretext for sending soldiers into the streets and not building housing.

This is true. In part, people have no sense of the scale of building needed, so it needs to be constantly put in front of them. In Albany, there was a short stretch of building 1,000 units or so a year, and there are Council members who point to it as "letting building happen failed to reduce rent."

I look forward to the horror movie some thoughtful director makes based on Kurt Weiss Greenhouses or the J-1 visa program generally. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/n...

Good God, I didn't realize he got this wrecked in the interview.

Honestly, being left behind after the Rapture might be pretty good. A labor shortage to work through, which might lead to some supply chain issues in many industries. But might actually be able to return a variety of rights back to people. Likely some wage growth.

I am also 40 and so cheer for Joe Flacco in solidarity. I have become that kind of old guy.

Chotiner: You say here that you're a board game enthusiast. Me: Yes, I love playing all board games Chotiner: But there are several games here still in their cellophane. Me: Well, you see... Chotiner: And you say here that you care about waste and the environment. Me: Now, hold on...

The way you know social media has cooked so many brains in the media and political establishment is that the NYTimes *hard news* section has had wall to wall coverage of Kirk's murder, Democrats are worried about the campaign messaging, and if you ask any normie not online, they're like, "Who?"

It feels to me like cinemas *want* to go out of business. I want to see Caught Stealing. It's been out for like two and a half weeks. I finally have an evening to go see a movie. The run for Caught Stealing is ALREADY down to single matinee showings at all the theaters near me.

I’m in the new issue of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social with a piece about what Albany can learn from Sacramento when it comes to housing policy: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/cal...

Frum, Rove, and Carlson all showing more courage in their convictions about the 1st amendment and honest assessments of the Kirk murder than many Democratic electeds and liberal pundits is not something I expected, if I'm being honest.

So much theory about institutional design to generate a robust, sustainable democracy and sets of democratic institutions has gone up in smoke in 8 months of this regime. Legal theory too.

"Dear Dr. Holt, Welcome to the manuscript central system for..." No. Nonononono, dear God, no "Dear Dr. Holt, I would like to invite you to review..."

I want to see some enterprising journalist out there do a deep dive into the convenience fees that are being tacked onto online payments of civil fines and fees (like paying parking tickets or property taxes online). It strikes me that the implication is the default is inconvenience in compliance.

Turning Point USA was the precursor to Chris Rufo. It was the playbook for right wing censorship of college professors through the use of monitoring as a means to encourage threats of violence. The conservative state governments cracking down on campus speech? Turning Point laid that ground work.

I don't think a lot of people realize or know people who were on the receiving end of death threats for over a decade because of Turning Point USA. They made a watch list of professors that made them targets for not only hate mail but death threats. That's Charlie Kirk's legacy.

I do find it troubling that political violence is escalating. I find it abhorrent that the shooting occurred on a university campus, a place that should be safe.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Congestion pricing reduces traffic, deaths & delays while boosting transit ridership & funding. ODOT ignored global best practices and let politics derail good policy: instead of a tight pilot, they designed it fund highway expansions. Oregon looks idiotic. www.masstransitmag.com/management/n...

I honestly find Kyrsten Sinema one of the more contemptible people in politics. She had, in some ways, more power to affect change in the world than most people will ever experience and used that unique opportunity to secure some niche tax carve outs for the finance industry and little else.

Some folks may know that my day job is in federal grant funding for public health research at UMN. I am so proud that my colleagues and I launched our union campaign with SEIU 284 today because university worker stability is public health stability too!

I think this research is especially important right now as myths about contraceptives are running rampant IN THE US. Hormonal contraceptives have no long-term negative impacts on fertility. When we told women in Zambia that, they used them more! Fears of side effects are real AND we can dispel them!

"What's your job? Trauma warrior?" Great line. Love you, DC.

Half-baked notion, so caveats. But if LLMs are basically trained on our collective work without permission or consent and then used to routinize much of that work, a large share of the capital gains should go to a national fund dividend, analogous to the Alaska Fund, that pays us all.

Hopefully this becomes all blue state governors' tactic in countering the federal mess.

Good God, what did I just read? If you ever wonder about how we ended up in this state of the world, it's that we have somehow produced a generation of elites who are largely self-absorbed sociopaths stewing in their own echo social media echo chambers with no one willing to tell them no.

First thing that popped into my head was these little guys.

Bears fans have arrived on Bluesky.