I've seen Zohran talk about this before, but this answer is so so so good and makes me so hopeful about his mayoralty taking socialism seriously means taking government efficiency seriously we can't be negatively polarized into opposing efficiency www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

Nominal leftists functionally arguing to leave USAID dead is just depressing. US global leadership in science and health, both domestically and foreign, are deeply important to revive and buttress.

I don't understand why we need to steelman Ezra Klein explicitly saying "pro-life candidates" is an example of something we should compromise on, particularly if, like this person, you can't even point to what the other things we should compromise on that are more valid.

America is meant to be a bastion of free speech. Everybody across the political spectrum should be speaking out to stop what’s happening to Jimmy Kimmel. This is about protecting democracy. This must go to court.

In cases like the fired professors at Clemson et al, is there any reason to think that they would delay suing their former employers until a more friendly legal regime is in place or is there strong incentive to move as fast as possible? (do not know anything about legal stuff)

As it always was, these people (Noah, Bari, TCW, etc.) hate free speech, hate criticism, and will find any frame they can to say that speech they don't like is a cause/bigger problem/more important than the ongoing government and private purges of people who don't toe the line in deference to Trump

If it's too early to say whether he's a groyper or not, surely it's also too early to say he *wasn't* a groyper?

Honest question, how many individual accounts are getting 20k+ RTs dunking on conservatives. 20? 200? I doubt it's more than that, and if so, you are talking at a very enumerable group of people as if they are a general class

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i know facts dont matter and this is about creating a permission structure, but still: custom feeds like the Catchup Feed, which shows the most liked posts of the last 24h on the entire network, make it very easy to see what the actual zeitgeist of bsky is bsky.app/profile/did:...

this is another good reason why the debate era is over. splitting hairs over tax revenue numbers at this point goes nowhere. the real reason is that the extremely rich require a practical limit on the impunity and power that money can purchase

Eventually he would have. By appointing FedSoc judges until they became a junta Different kind of dictatorship than we got, and establishment GOP is mad we blocked their path to a calm, committee dictatorship

"Abundance" did these things: 1 - Raised money for the "abundance" leaders, speakers... 2 - Associated YIMBY with fascism, poisoning the brand 3 - Created a factional divide within YIMBY between those prioritizing 1 vs. those worried about 2 @moskov.goodventures.org, etc. what have we gained?

This is a good metric-driven blog version of my usual argument against supposed AI-coding speedups, namely, where's all the excess code? substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Looking back, my fascination with psychedelics in my mid-20s was probably due to reading "A Wrinkle In Time" books too much in elementary school

If your goal is to "change minds", talk to reasonable opponents (semi)-privately. If your goal is to "make them look bad", talk to unreasonable opponents publicly. There is extremely limited upside to advertising discussions with "reasonable" opponents in public and our addiction to it is bad.

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right

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As we see Christians sort ever further into the Republican party while Democrats are finally breaking into being a non-religious-majoritarian party due to said sortition, it's stunning to hear people argue that it is the *non-religiosity on the right* that is causing this mass death and destruction

If a 65% majority group organizes to deny political power to any minority members in both parties, and in one party is trying to implement a fascist version of rule-by-said-majority, I think it's ok for members of the minority to be annoyed, even if they aren't doing politically optimal messaging

If it is impossible to restrain a country from committing genocide it is good and proper to work to make it a pariah state, particularly when the population has a large interest in not being one and does still have some political ability to change the government. This doesn't justify the "bear hug".

Amen break whenever Mario vibrates extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites

I feel like a lot of people on here are calling trump-epstien ties "glonzo", aka an entirely made up conspiracy, for no good reason? Some monsters are real! Trump is clearly one of them!

Does anyone have experience working with the DeportationData dataset or know anyone who does? I'm trying to start a project to match records across CPB/ICE/EOIR. Really tired of seeing "X% deported are criminals" when said crime is almost entirely immigration or traffic violations, and want to help

The Mosaic browser was developed at a research unit in a state research university, and received an NSF grant. Andreessen then went off and created Netscape based on what he learned from that process. Now he cheers the destruction of that entire infrastructure www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

J.D. Vance's latest speech spits on the Union dead. www.unpopularfront.news/p/jd-vances-...

New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy. How Musk and Trump killed USAID. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

New, from me: The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission. They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

Motte: Price stability is important for socdem parties to maintain popularity (true!) Bailey: The only thing voters care about is price stability and they won't reward or punish anything else (???)

Evangelical groups always claim that their excuse for advocating for this is it should be done by the church and then their church doesn't do it

I'm now third-order annoyed at people who don't understand neural networks ("moderate stance") acting superior to people who don't understand neural networks ("anti stance") acting superior to people who don't understand neural networks ("pro stance"). This thread is a turducken of misconceptions.

I'm old enough to remember when any random person posting on social media that a university employee should be fired over anything related to their views was a national crisis, the end of free speech, an American version of China's Cultural Revolution (which killed hundreds of thousands of people).

Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit. Research suggests that free transit: a—increases ridership b—doesn't get people out of cars c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl d—doesn't add employment e—maybe ups operational efficiency

2) A provision that would have done away with gender-affirming care under Medicaid. These are some good wins in an otherwise terrible bill. My staff and I will be fighting to remove the worst provisions from this bill up until the very end. I'll continue to update you as we get more rulings.

this is basically why i really don't like the WelcomePac/Barro types who've tried to pick up Abundance, because they mostly see as a cudgel to attack democrats instead of actually fix problems. like its a tool for clique beef not a programme to those people

What remains of USAID after DOGE's budget cuts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Iranian regime change people talking about restoring the Shah is crazy because Iran is more democratic now than it was under the Shah (low bar). If you legitimize and thereby strengthen the elected institutions (JCPOA!) the rising secularization of the Iranian populace will take care of the rest.

This game exploring how to evacuate civilians in Okinawa and the Sakashima Islands definitely has my attention. I cannot wait for its release.

Walking past the Iran War memorial at Trump International Airport

"States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world."

Yo, Path of Abyss looks juicy for dungeon-crawling sickos! It's an indie Japanese DRPG, heavily inspired by Wizardry, but with an interesting real-time combat that mix a Grandia-like action timer with comboing skills. Cool presentation & ideas! Also, cheap! store.steampowered.com/app/1768650/...

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