I feel like everyone is missing the point. The capital to build tons of carbon free power is flowing freely right now. Without the electricity price increases, greening the power grid requires massive subsidies. Folks should take advantage of this

Except, of course, it’s *not* all he can say. Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.

the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.

Great discussion that has been going on for serval days now up and down this thread and in the quotes (up and down). Metrics matter, and some of our main metrics in the housing discourse simply aren't responsive to the issues: Standard affordability metrics suffer from massive collider bias.

Nobody likes the annoying centrist contrarians who give cover to right-wing talk points and ignore the larger problem of creeping fascism and blah blah blah but things keep going off the rails if nobody every looks inside at what’s actually happening in the blue zones.

This is why people get so mad at those who suggest some Dem pols might need to run as moderates. If 60% of the electorate holds a particular set of beliefs, you either have to accept losing, find a way to change the beliefs of people or moderate/compromise your beliefs to make it palatable to…

The entirety of every urban area, including its suburbs, should be governed by one central local government with one school district. No more exclusive enclaves with snob zoning and pseudo-private schools.

why would someone spend millions on building a factory in the US under the presumption that US-made products will be protected if the protection comes and goes on a whim?

>he was still meeting with Epstein while he was president

Fireside this week, laying out a brief historiography (the 'history of the history') of the Roman strategy debate - the argument that has swirled since 1976 on the degree if Romans engaged in state-level strategic policy or if they were even able to do so. (yes) acoup.blog/2025/11/07/f...

I want a Star Wars movie in vein The Longest Day that’s just one epic battle from multiple perspectives. All Star cast. Jakku. Like the end of Jedi but the whole damn movie and no Skywalkers.

Across the developed world, big city conservative mayors and council majorities are quite common—except in the US. Why are Republicans are so much less relevant in cities than their peers in every other developed country? My latest: mnolangray.substack.com/p/why-are-re...

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.

the one thing that I will say in defense of Eric Adams is that it's sort of absurd how poorly elected officials are treated in terms of creature comforts and salary and it does create lots of incentives for corruption. it's fine, actually for the public to spring for first class and stuff like that.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

Reminder the issue is not lack of funds in the treasury (as with debt ceiling crises), but Congress did not legally authorize using those funds funds to disburse paychecks after 10/1 Admin now asserts they can both refuse to spend as Congress said in law, and, can spend without legal appropriations

In that, dreadful, terrible moment, every black bloc protestor in the world is useless, but a line of concerned senior citizens, office workers and house-spouses is actually a 'harder' target. And 'the soldiers stood aside' is the sentence in the history book that goes before 'and the regime fell.'

Fundamentally, there is no on-the-page institutional structure that can protect you from an absence of virtue among the citizenry. That's just where we are - voters have learned a lot of bad habits. A lot of people thought they could vote MAGA again and it wouldn't matter; bad habits.

I know this might be cringe but if you know any cops in your life, (family, friends, neighbors, or acquaintances) you should be talking to them about what’s going on now. as we skirt ever closer to the precipice, ensuring domestic law enforcement sides with us over the fascists will be important

Who's telling you to "wait?" My argument is: act using the tools of democracy because *you still have them* Constantly saying that "it's over, fascism is now here" is incorrect, defeatist, and a dead-end. When did we become such a rigid and blinkered people that everything is either fine or fatal?

One of the things that doesn't come out in the soundbites but does in the full speech is Hegseth's repeated, explicit emphasis on viewing problems from the perspective of an E-6 or O-3, wholly unaware (as a bad O-4) that the job of the 0-7s to O-10s in front of him is quite different.

"no more superficial individual expression"

You're mistaking for "we can get 55% of the public to vote on this issue" for "the same 55% of the public is willing to vote for all of the issues."

People mistake red states voting for left single issue ballot measures as a sign of actual appetite for left politics and the simple reality is that they may be fine with a $15 minimum wage but they hate everything else on the platform.

I think this is fundamentally right: dem electeds and thought leaders seem to me to be afraid to lay out the 'grand vision' of the kind of society they want. Afraid that it will be rejected by The People and also by members of their own big tent coalition. They need to get over it and Do Anyway.

To put it another way, you don't walk 3,000 miles through deadly jungle and cartel-infested territory to get here if you don't think this country is worth coming to.

Oh my

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

because Americans generally like America and you should wave the symbol associated with America in protests in America where your primary goal is to convince and win over Americans to your side, not some shit that only the people in your book club recognize.

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

you see without DEI meritocracy will prevail once again

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.