You don't need to rebuild trust in science because trust in science is *quite high*. Supermajorities of Republican voters trust science! This is (partly) the right diagnosis, but for the wrong (nonexistent) problem. www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

Things are dark. I expect they will get far darker still. The light may remain obscured for a decade—or more. But, for the first time in months, I can feel the lingering presence of genuine optimism.

"Looper" (2012)

Really great video of how real Americans treat masked secret police. The sound of whistles in the background is especially heartening.

Trump gets a tacky ballroom -- we all get screwed

this is a great point and also the fact that the main driver of his unpopularity in both terms is that he broke his promise to govern like the moderate businessman people somehow convince themselves he is every four years—and not that he's fucking psychotic—has a similar effect imo

Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.

Ah yes, America is now great again

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

I keep repeating this, but AI is fundamentally insecure. This big push for companies to integrate AI workflows with wanton abandon has been the largest security failure in my lifetime. It flies in the face of everything we know about cybersecurity!

"The House committee can have whatever it is legally entitled to..." They intend to withhold any documents they want to based on an "active investigation."

For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.

Dr. Oz is clearly a moron who, incredibly, doesn't understand anything about how the insurance system works. But also: Conservatives genuinely believe that people want to spend endless hours "choosing the insurance that's best for them." They don't. They want good, secure health care. It's simple.

seems like in design, too, there’s no grounding any more, or sense of what came before and why — everything’s superficial, take it as it comes, even at, say, apple apple who’s trying to retread “transparent material” for the THIRD TIME and failing at basic UI conventions and losing functionality

This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob

drip drop

Overall, younger generations are much more liberal in their racial policy attitudes than older generations. If at least a significant portion of this is a cohort and not an age effect, the public overall may continue to liberalize on these matters.

Tacit admission that tariffs raise prices, for anyone who somehow still argues it doesn’t.

Big news: Indiana Republicans signal they still do not have the votes to re-gerrymander the state, and that the Senate won't convene the Senate after all in December. Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

People like to throw around the word “quisling” on here, but if there’s anyone who deserves the term, it has to be people who lie about Pete Buttigieg

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

Lmao

👀 Trump lame duck watch

I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.

this is the single biggest reason the Democratic Tea Party has to be real and immediate, because the party as currently constituted will not do this

If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.

This all reads like a coen brothers movie

This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.

surprised i haven't seen anyone post this yet

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀

We are now all conditioned to believe the damn is never going to break, but it feels like it is very close to breaking right now.

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

Two things: (1) students who take transcripts don't usually wind up *thinking* during class; they're trying to get every word down. If they actually listen carefully, then can jot down a phrase or two, and that will be enough to remind them of more of what was being said. And ...

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

man, if softbank - the world's dumbest money! - is getting out of nvidia, we really are at the top (and, no I don't think they're gonna plow the money into openai despite what the earnings call said) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

fuck this is depressing

I dunno y'all seems bad www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Analysis: King County executive transition team inflation 2009-2025. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Quick snapshot of the @runforsomething.net candidate sign-ups -- we're building a party of fighters, not folders.

NYT - Kash Patel's inexperience, his dismissals of top FBI officials and his shift of resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wo...

you’d have to rebuild so much financial, political, and legal infrastructure, and that’s a lot of capital to expend when you can just directly choose your nominees for the democratic party in a primary. this is pretty straightforward imo

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson: