A lot of people responding very angrily to this article by raising points which are, it turns out, raised in the article

The really sinister part is that JD must understand this, and understand the implications of pursuing his stated policy objective for kids in the exact position he came from

The Hegseth purges present the next Dem president with an impossible dilemma. If you don’t remove the people he put in place, you’re ratifying his purges. If you do remove them, you’re validating the act of purging.

You’re under absolutely no obligation to listen to what someone who calls themselves a realist has to say

It’s perfect in every possible way The song The clothes The absolute predictability of the result The collateral damage The lack of any discernible purpose other than content creation Ending with showing the world your ass

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

30 years from now most members of congress will think Iran is still led by the same guy from the revolution

I guess we missed our chance for accountability for the caribbean boat bombings

Have the people who use this for actual research found a way around the hallucination issue or are they just accepting the risk of random error? I’m continuously surprised by how common the problem is in my experience vs how little everyone else seems to acknowledge it.

It sounds insane to point out that there is no legal distinction between “narcoterrorists” (a made-up term used to justify the drug boat executions) and “domestic terrorists” (what they use to refer generically to their domestic opposition)

Every time I see someone like Abbott choose self-inflicted decline, I think of this quote from Pedro Sanchez: "Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country. It’s as simple as that." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Because it would make his daily experience in the senate cafeteria socially uncomfortable

I’ve come to accept this is my biggest blindspot as an analyst of politics, I just don’t relate at a psychological/emotional level to the aversion to immigration and multiculturalism which seems pretty fundamental to understanding voter behavior

Ha, he thinks there are affordability voters on this app, not exclusively elite news aficionados mainlining fascism content

Lmao, he can’t even bring himself to say Trump is trying to end the independence of the Fed. It’s those horrible advisers misleading the great and wise ruler! Incredible stuff

Seeing a lot of comments that this will end up backfiring via Streisand effect. I really don’t think it will. It will get a lot of attention from the politically hyper-aware. The value of an outlet like 60 minutes is that it reaches people outside of these circles. Censorship probably works here.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

His most consistent foreign policy stance is liking right wing authoritarians, everything else is subordinate to that

in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States

Not my goat 😭😭😭

The CJCS who was purged in the first month is out on podcasts now talking about his vision for a defense industrial enterprise and refusing to discuss the purge. Coming to think our military leadership might not be prepared for the current moment. warontherocks.com/2025/11/a-co...

I’m very tired of admin officials resigning quietly. If you’re not going to be a vocal critic of the admin then resigning is not just ineffective, it’s actively helping them. They get to replace you with a loyalist and avoid any political cost. You’re just relieving yourself of a moral burden.

I’m losing my fucking mind here

The disincentive against politicizing the DOJ was always political, not legal. Trump v US had all sorts of terrible ramifications but this isn’t one of them

Breaking: Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will resign after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course.

I've posted my PhD level Quant I slides, in case they're useful for anyone else: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ysvgl... The material follows texts by Aronow & Miller, Hansen, and @mattblackwell.bsky.social, covering basic probability through OLS, with a brief intro to causal inference #polisky

New working paper! with @calvin-thrall.bsky.social and David Lindsey, we collect the largest existing dataset on diplomatic personnel, and use it to analyze gender disparities in U.S. Foreign Service assignments draft here: mattmalis.github.io/files/pdf/LM... 🧵 below

bluesky is a funny name for the most depressing fucking place on the internet

so proud to live in a country where no one serves more than two months in prison for an op-ed 🥲

It’s hilarious and sort of endearing watching this grown man, whose full time job is just thinking and talking ideas, come to a profound realization about rights and civil liberties that most of us arrived at sometime in high school

Glad to see that the what Gorka said in the clip is not quite as bad as @meidastouch.com describes. Exaggerating the danger people face for just speaking out about these issues is good social media fodder but it is counterproductive to mounting an effective opposition.

Has anyone collected and published data from the president’s daily diaries? Seems like something a lot of Americanists would be interested in but I can’t find anything on it… #polisky

If “doesn’t” means “doesn’t and never will again”, then sure, I guess, but it seems like any meaningful concept of a “norm” has to entail expectations that survive despite short-term deviations

Polisky: I’m thinking about using one week (total 3hr class time) at the end of my undergrad econometrics class as an intro to ML/AI, with the intended takeaway being “ML/AI is accessible and not scary given what you learned this semester”. What specific methods/applications would you include?

Q for American Politics polisky Where can I find a dataset with US state-level presidential votes, along with gdp, population, and other basic indicators, that students can click and download as a single csv file for a class exercise?(Suggestions of your own replication material more than welcome!)