I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

So Isabella Weber was right, and all the serious economists who lost their minds over her were wrong? Got it.

It’s all so brazen.

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Some very smart observations from the very smart Michael Kinnucan in this week’s New York City primaries. (thread, all quotes from him)

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

With the rent freeze achieved, this excellent @jwmason.bsky.social piece is more urgent and illuminating than ever. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

As we all know, getting a degree means you’re no longer black. The only way to count as black is if you don’t take jobs white people think only white people should be able to get bsky.app/profile/edro...

If only there were any prominent Republicans producing social media posts that say anything as inflammatory as “all deportations are wrong.”

Despite bad-faith accusations of antisemitism, Mamdani and Lander’s joint campaign is one of the most prominent examples of Jewish-Muslim solidarity in the US in recent memory.

But I was told it was inevitable.

Went to the Rent Guidelines Board hearing on the Upper West Side yesterday evening and stayed for the first hour. The support for “Freeze the Rent” was tepid. The calls for “Rent Rollback” were thunderous.

This is a thread that ed policy people should read, and sit with.

And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly. newrepublic.com/article/2115...

HELL YEA

Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...

There is too much focus on Musk and too little focus on how British politics and media have created the conditions for the pogroms in Belfast. Yes, Musk and X should face consequences but it‘s too easy the externalize the reasons for an empowered far right.

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @iliasalami.bsky.social and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

I had the great pleasure of reviewing @dygottlieb.bsky.social’s excellent new book YUPPIES for @newrepublic.com, AND I also had the great pleasure of meeting Dylan at the American Political History Conference last weekend. Congrats again, Dylan! 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/2112...

Ah but you see strangers on the internet told me no landlord would do this gothamist.com/news/57000-r...

This produces losses that Bezos uses to offset his income and lower his federal income tax bill. In other words, you and I are subsidizing this.

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

We do have an “incredible history,” Jeff Bezos. But a long tradition of historical scholarship challenges the idea that “free markets” was a “founding pillar” of the United States. I trace some of this history and historiography in my book, FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY.

New: “The evidence is now clear: History departments are shrinking.” bit.ly/3RhjGCY

I wrote about billionaires whining about Mamdani and the teeny tiny tax he wants them to pay on their multimillion dollar pied-a-terres. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Re: the never ending self pity of Ken Griffin

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Public ownership + renewables create affordable power. We can have nice things, actually.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

One of the worst things about this model is no one EVER invests in stuff that is already there because it isn't as good a CV line.

Even after its editorial board called the decision "a mind-boggling piece of judicial overreach," with this headline, the #BrokenTimes news desk insists on covering modern Jim Crow from the perspective of the racist right.

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

UK HE, everyone. Will Labour ever acknowledge this crisis?

Thinking again about how Ro Khanna and a handful of goo-goo types said liberals should give DOGE a chance on government reform, and then DOGE pushed through illegal aid cuts that might literally kill more people than the Holocaust.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

The idea that universities ”tend to exclude conservative intellectual traditions” is off base on two fronts: 1) how are “conservative intellectual traditions” relevant to the most of the popular majors and faculty research areas, such as computer science, engineering, the natural sciences?/1

It's time to read the Church Committee Report! Published by a major press for the first time for it's 50th anniversary, we abridged it to its most jaw-dropping findings chronicling the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s. Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Meanwhile Third Way™️ is probably writing a plan for a Democratic president to fill half the cabinet with former Republicans.