Duney Dancing

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

what if we all threw our phones away

Finally got around to actually watching some of the "conversation" between Thiel and Douthat (previously only read the transcript). The main thing that stood out to me is that Ross Douthat is one of the worst interviewers I've ever seen. Can't shut up, talks over Thiel repeatedly, rambles on and on.

Justin Herbert is the craziest QB in the NFL… hot take

personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys

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I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.

"Why is everyone SO OBSESSED with the Epstein Files," whined the guy who is in the Epstein Files. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My response to anything over the next two weeks

One thing you can be very sure this report doesn't say is "it's all the left's fault." Because if it said that, the entire party establishment would be screaming it in every venue available. So if "the left" isn't to blame...who is? Makes you wonder.

Old enough to remember when Ken Martin was a reformer who was going to fix what people hated about the DNC lol I'm not counting on the party to save us, but it sure would be nice if it would stop kneecapping itself and the rest of us with it.

You don't have to give your email or anything to vote. #TeslaTakedown

Thank you!

Omg this is peak dumb. The actual point of a retrospective is to help us win in the future so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past. Release the files!! newrepublic.com/article/2045...

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Absolute bullshit to have to deal with Trump's babbling in the middle of a critical season finale!!! #survivor49 www.thedailybeast.com/survivor-fan...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

“The old system, whatever its merits, is clearly and unequivocally broken and something new has to be built in its place. Something stronger, something more ready to use and comfortable using political power.” Fantastic essay and wild alignment with Terrance Woodbury’s talk at #Persuasion2025

New from me: Watching wealthy powerful interests capitulate to Trump or embrace him outright this year has radicalized me in ways I never thought possible. open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...

"Voters don’t actually apply defined ideological frames when they evaluate candidates and choose whom to vote for. Their decisions are more complex and filtered through their social, family, and work lives—a conclusion supported by much political science research." newrepublic.com/article/2042...

So proud to have you as a board member @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social!!

Great piece.

This piece matters to me because I literally have spent all my time, the better part of the past 20 years, speaking with Americans and listening to how they understand politics and how it intersects with their lives. I cannot tell you how true this is. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

There's a way to measure this, by ad spending. You can find it here: americaforward.us/tvcongress/. It shows 1 ad by Democrats in the presidential campaign, and 197 by Republicans.

Democrats don't need to moderate to win. Not if you know anything about how actual voters make decisions. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

No one has done more to counterbalance the corrupting influence of the "we can't have nice things" dweebs (Yggy, Silver, etc.) than Way to Win. This new report is well worth your time to read and incorporate into your work if we really want to win.

Our capstone report on our post-2024 research blitz is out. TLDR: Dems need to move towards strength, not moderation. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

I don’t want to overreact, but I’m *pretty sure* this woman can be the frontrunner for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination starting tomorrow if she wants.

Some quick thoughts about the functioning of the bullshit media cycle and #TN7. Clearly the mod group chat got together earlier this week and decided when @aftynbehn.bsky.social lost, they had a chance to run their standard play. The story writes itself:

you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" Donald Trump

Turns out when you spend a bunch of time with David's Sack and the Crypto Bros, you end up absorbing a whole lot more than their dirty money www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-senato...

he's fighting for his life in this meeting

Wife and I started watching Finding Mr. Christmas on the Hallmark Channel. Ten handsome men with chiseled jaws and abs attempting to do arts and crafts and crying every episode as one of the bros is kicked out of the Hallmark house. Exquisite television

Too real lol. Happy Thanksgiving football fans! 🦃🏈🥧

before it's too late mute the following words rfk nuzzi olivia ryan lizza felching poem canyon

All of Bluesky this morning:

Dead 💀 Whoever made this please step forward for your award #teslatakedown

Zohran Mamdani cucked Trump hard lol

No one calls bullshit on the broligarchs better than @gilduran.com and his response to yesterday's "we had to go fascist because Democrats suggested minor regulation of tech" op-ed is right on the money. www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

The most predictable outcome of all time. But the good news is that they whipped the rank and file into a lather over this and a whole lot of normal people aren't settling for the spin

Billie Eilish calls out Elon Musk for not using his wealth to aid humanity and resolve global issues: “f***ing pathetic p***y b**** coward”

Turns out cops can be useful for something after all! We had an equipment malfunction at this action, and the camera didn't record any audio. But my teenager asked if the cops would have bodycam footage, and after some jumping through hoops, we got it to show to you. #teslatakedown

They honed their systems and juiced their profits targeting Palestinians. Now, Palantir and similar tech firms are bringing the tech they’ve honed overseas home to the United States where the Trump administration is using it to target its “enemies.” inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

I think this is definitely the correct reading.

"The latest repackaging of that instinct is called “heterodoxy”—the notion that if Democrats sound less progressive and a little more centrist, voters will reward them... It sounds clever, but it misreads both the politics we live in and the map we run on." www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-hetero...

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon