We are going to reach a point where every student is paid 50,000 dollars to take a rightwing class to turn them against the idea of government spending

Having kids make you realize that the corniest things you heard about sports - it's not winning or losing, it's how you play the game, be a good sport, be a good teammate, what really matters is effort - are all 100% true, valuable life lessons.

"DiD yOu kNoW hE dOeSn'T tAkE a SaLaRy?"

Generally people do not have coherent policy ideas because they are never induced to consider contradictions or feasibility or whatever. Philip Converse's work on this in the 1960s is seminal. Weirdly everyone in politics pretends like political scientists didn't figure this out 60+ years ago.

Rewatching Sopranos and can anyone explain to me how S1 E9 (Boca) ever saw the light of day? It is a horrible episode of TV amidst greatness.

At a certain point everyone needs to come to grips with the fact that the reason voters around the globe are electing the parties they are is because many of them are atavistic racist morons and not because [random policy you prefer] wasn’t enacted

I have a new post up at Nate Silver's site about UMich's sentiment survey. Please read it I think it's quite good. The upshot is that the survey is broken because it doesn't weight by party. If you're talking vibecession, get a different survey. www.natesilver.net/p/is-the-vib...

as soon as there's any left victories you start to get this kind of triumphalist and contemptuous language about the rest of the Democratic Party, followed by whining when the rest of the Democratic Party responds. it happened with Bernie in early 2020.

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

Trump Administration Announces Plans To Arrest Foreigners For Making Gas Prices Higher, Movies Not As Good, Kids Less Respectful

The claim that "Israel wants to kill its way out of every problem" is the sort of thing that tends to draw a DOJ investigation and the blocking of federal funds when made by campus actors.

World Cup brings about one of my favorite fan behaviors to witness in the wild, which is guys wearing their favorite unrelated European club soccer jerseys to watch World Cup in a bar to make sure everyone else there knows they are real sickos and not silly little casuals

This person is an advisor on how to grow companies, with a verified Xitter account to prove it. I'm not sure I'd trust her DCFs.

Mariska doing a matinee and a 7 pm performance of her one-woman Broadway show and then watching the greatest comeback in Finals history actually looks like the Jordan flu game

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

GREG IP: “.. Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50%. That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Harrowing. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Sean Trende’s piece on his son’s last day of school is full of joy and sadness and love and is well worth your time. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...

noted profile in cowardice wants his old colleagues to stand up to the guy he kowtowed to back when his choices actually mattered www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

Can you spot the point where he learned a Black woman was going to be in a movie

New from me @notus.com: Internally, FBI agents are now referring to a "payback squad" based in NY or DC. Its remit? Targeting former government officials. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

I remember once the thrill of landing an op-ed in the Post. Incredible newspaper and legacy, having friends in DC say they read you in the hard copy. Now it would be an embarrassment. This shit isn't the Post. Its even below Free Press levels. The performative dumbness is closer to NewsMax.

WHY SHOULD EUROPE FORGO THEIR PRIMARY SECURITY THREAT—THE WAR IN UKRAINE—TO DIVERT RESOURCES FOR AN UNCLEAR AND OPEN ENDED WAR OF CHOICE THE UNITED STATES LAUNCHED WITHOUT EVER ONCE CONSULTING EUROPE CAN A SINGLE ONE OF YOU PEOPLE ANSWER THAT

like I genuinely do not care about whether you support Medicare for all vs. a public option. all I care about is are you willing to get your hands dirty to crush the MAGA cult via every possible legal avenue from DC/PR statehood to Supreme Court reform to mass prosecutions/ignoring any trump pardons

Being a political analyst for a big bank is low key one of the easiest jobs there is. $200K a year to put out stuff like this or "either the Democrats or Republicans may control Congress after the midterms"

You know what would go a long way toward building credibility on this? Sit down for an interview with someone outside right wing media. Explain to Ezra Klein why Texas's map was being changed too close to the election but not Louisiana's.

"I am part of a marginalized group, therefore I have a get-out-of-jail-free card that permits me to be a bullying asshole online, as much as I want, and you're not allowed to protest" -- really one of the worst things about this site.

"I sense much fear in six. Fear of seven. Why? Because nine, seven ate."

We're headed toward a Congress where like 40 states send a single-party delegation, indistinguishable from just electing everyone at large and a population-based replica of the Senate. Thank you, John Roberts, for ushering in this nonsense era.

The lucky guys also just won a drone contract from the US government! What are the odds?

Article does not really resolve why Brin has become Trump aligned but long list of reasons: *Dems seen as too radical/anti-semitic *Objects to taxes *Equates any redistribution with socialism *Wants friendlier regulatory arrangement *MAGA social world, including gf, more welcoming

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

I mean they also said that in July 2024 and then elected him president

And low it came to pass that the Lord was disappointed in his children on the 7:03 Acela to Boston, and so he did decide to punish them with a plague of Bros going to a bachelor party, who boarded at Stamford, and proceeded to inflict their loudness and drinking upon the people, who were humbled

Stupid goo goo nonsense. The only way to get fair districting is to pinch republicans in the mouth enough until they agree to fairness. Doing this with Callais days away from ripping up the VRA is so stupid I don’t know where to begin.

President urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.

looks like GLP-1s likely have a pretty strong positive effect on alcohol use disorder jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

isgur’s argument rests on two obvious fictions: first, that trump’s assertions of executive authority are just a modest difference of degree (from the real villains, liberal democrats) and second, that SCOTUS has no particular ideological agenda of its own

Barreling toward a Homer Simpson doing his taxes situation here.

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

Started/going, Sohrab Ahmari edition

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

Unprecedented corruption

We should never forget this was a war of choice, over military objections, with a clear outcome (closing of Strait) forecast decades in advance and warned of in the moment, at great human cost, initiated by one man (pushed by another), who wanted to play the tough guy with a military now depleted.