oh for sure dawg. that’s definitely how it worked when schools were way more leftwing in the mid 2010s. what a clown. clown’s hiring clowns to do clown work. we live at the circus

oh, you’re just figuring this out? just now? in the year of our lord, 2025?

never gonna happen. this is a problem that is always someone else’s fault. the median voter will never choose to be inconvenienced by measures addressing it until it’s far too late. best shot we have is a technological breakthrough.

(extremely I'm-trying-to-delete-it voice) DeBloppelgänger

NYC jewish communities are buying into the mamdani conspiracy theories. sad!

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Good thing there’s not a power hungry sector of the economy that has single handedly revived demand growth in electric markets and revived interest in fossil fuel plants or we’d really be in trouble

this might be worse than watergate. huge implications for the election

this is cool because it puts together into a single narrative a bunch of more superficial thoughts i’ve had about populism

being a cross-pressured voter either means you’re a weird libertarian or you have some sort of intellectually disability and there’s basically no in-between

incredible that “free healthcare but only for undocumented immigrants” polls just as poorly as “lower the voting age to 16,” like i genuinely cannot wrap my head around that

Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy

people don’t realize it but this is like a microcosm of “real america” (midwest/rust belt). these are the people the pundits tell us to respect

Today's Twitter conspiracy theory is that SNAP beneficiaries are either 1) unemployed or 2) illegal immigrants or 3) both. They also think 40 million in an outrageous number, when it's only ~12% of the US population and only about 1% more than the US poverty rate.

NEW: The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later. "What a sick world." I asked Justice Brett Kavanaugh about his September 8 concurrence and the reality that has followed. Because he should be asked. He, unsurprisingly, did not respond. Today, at Law Dork:

i get everyone wants the stove to be touched, but this feels like wishcasting. labor market looks like it's softening, wage growth isn't great, homes are expensive, but nothing here is screaming "catastrophic recession"

Climate disasters now consume 35% of all US GDP growth. If the car industry gets its way, and we keep mandating carsprawl into climate disaster zones, I bet we can make the former U.S. one giant disaster fund. Who wants to bet Confederate states get more funds? www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

"Why I Left the Democratic Party in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024"

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

if you look at trump’s approval and then his issue polling, it’s clear that this is what’s keeping him afloat. a substantial part of the united states approves of his immigration policy

Odysseus made hard choices in a war zone. We need to focus on lethality, not PC garbage like “not dashing children on rocks”

Chris Cillizza is one of the dumbest, most dishonest people on the planet

“its this simple folks” permanently stuck in phase 1

this looks like some nice work, basically understandable by anyone familiar with very rudimentary real analysis and linear algebra arxiv.org/abs/2508.18475

it seems likely that substantial bulk of trump’s enduring popularity this term comes exclusively from his immigration policy, which is disturbing

A nationwide search for "Observe And Report-type dudes." A whole new parallel armed force made up of guys who have described themselves as "a pretty serious DUI guy" in conversation. A qualification exam where the only task is getting upset and driving your truck into another truck. A new age.

I mean this is just fucking beyond parody that we've gone from sob stories about the price of milk to wellness posting about why unemployment is good for your mental health

i need you all to understand this doesn’t end when (if?) trump is pushed out of the white house. the sickness lies deeper—it lies in the body politic itself. trump is just the embodiment of that greater evil. even if he leaves that sickness still remains.

I think it’s sick how the President is both physically and symbolically destroying every single icon of America. This is great. I like how things are going. I love living through national decline.

I do think there’s kinda a bite bigger than bite thing going on though. I think the median voter likes racism (theoretical) but is put off by racism (actual).

Harvard is the 'best case scenario' for US research pedagogy (at least, financially). They have a $57bn endowment. I think the takeaway here is that the days of most PhD programs in the US are numbered

i never would have guessed RETVRN TO TRADITION (the 1950s?) would include two $20 billion bailouts to uh argentina and destruction of the historic east wing of the white house for trump’s personal ballroom all on the taxpayer’s dime

DOJ WHISTLEBLOWER: “I wouldn’t be abiding by my oath if I stayed silent right now.” He says Trumps DOJ wanted him to lie (about Kilmar being a gang member & a terrorist…)— and then fired him when he wouldn’t.

these are a different set of republican racist texts than the previous set of republican racist and nazi texts

it’s a pretty good newsletter so far, even if i do need eye bleach after reading it

turns out protest is for old people and young people are regime loyalists

i cannot imagine participating in the BLM protests in 2020 but not participating now

currently losing it over Altkath being a real thing which is somehow not chud-coded

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse. We have obtained these photos:

arguably americans today are more evil than germans in 1932. moreover, plenty of germans didn’t even know the holocaust was happening, but every american alive today has access, in the exquisite detail, to everything ICE is doing.

why do you all still subscribe to this? send it the way the WaPo is going.

pretty sure that ignominious distinction still belongs to GWB around the 2008 elections. donald trump is merely an unpopular president by that standard

This aged well

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

@streetsforall.org both of my B(ikes/uses)DSM shirts get SO MANY positive comments. people love these

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.