More housing supply = lower housing costs! This is encouraging news in our fight to lower the cost of housing and get more neighbors off the streets. I’ll keep pushing for federal investments to build more housing and create sustainable communities. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/17/s...

Example #792736 of authoritarians and their enablers successfully weaponizing the credulity of well-meaning watchers. Jenkins is maybe the best sports reporter in the country, but still can’t help giving the benefit of the doubt to someone who clearly doesn’t deserve it

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking. We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.

The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter Max Ernst, by Max Ernst, 1926

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

It is important to understand that these are all lies. Deans don't tell applicants why they don't get a job that they applied for. The job market doesn't react to PhD defenses with phone calls for interviews. This is all false. These people are liars, and they are lying to you to start a race panic.

Excited that "Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition" is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social. W/ survey of white, Hispanic, and Black American respondents, we show primary gap in nascent political ambition is not between men and women but between white men and the majority of the polity.

Not fun fact: landscapers are more likely to die on the job than cops in the US. (And it’s likely that cops sucking at their job has more than a bit to do with this)

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In case you have never seen this.

The Republican Party and conservative establishment continue to embrace open racism as their organizing principle

This was predictable. 1) college sports is a business 2) the workers must be paid fairly 3) [see #1] expenditures must not exceed outlays 4) education is social welfare enhancing; the entertainment business is not

One of Trump’s most consistent traits—right up there with racism and greed—is his admiration for dictators. He “fell in love” with Kim, defends MBS for murder, and praises Orbán and Putin at every turn. Yet when he claims to oppose Maduro on humanitarian grounds, the press politely plays along.

Impeachment is a tool for political accountability, not a “sacred” constitutional ritual. If it were truly about evidence, the Senate would’ve convicted Trump unanimously after his coup attempt—the same way every jury has unanimously found him liable or guilty when the facts actually matter.

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The GOP is turning the US into Russia. (This is very bad. Russia sucks)

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

I'm so sad to know that Jon Bendor passed away. He's an intellectual giant: www.gsb.stanford.edu/newsroom/sch...

Too easy?

This is hilarious because basically all cities are “blue.” I’m fairly certain the only Republican city with a stadium large enough for a World Cup game is Jacksonville, so… good luck with that

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

In Donald Trump’s America, you can be a lying, corrupt politician or corporate goon and count on a pardon. But if you’re a hardworking immigrant who’s done nothing wrong, you can expect to be harassed and beaten by masked thugs enforcing this administration’s vile immigration policies. Shameful.

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MTG resigning literally the day after she vests her Congressional pension is a little too on the nose.

Every time I watch an NBA or NFL game I’m astounded that I’m not getting pounded with ads informing me that the Trumps are taking money from the people that financed 9/11. Free ad idea for the @housedemocrats.bsky.social You don’t have to poll-test this one.

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...

Holy shit

The plague of white on white violence from the pro-crime GOP continues

As a reminder, two of the biggest supporters of moving to gold open access were the US defence department and pharmaceutical sector, both of whom only read and seldom publish. I never understood how academics were duped into the perverse incentives that are now serving AI companies free content.

We’ve built two justice systems in the US—one that bends over backward to shield the wealthy and powerful, and another that comes down hard and fast on the poor and marginalized. Trump and Epstein show that it’s easier to squeeze a rich man through the eye of a needle than to see one sent to prison.

Unreal. Many of us have had elderly relatives be misled by Fox, but none of them have the power to deploy the military inside our own country.

Epstein had kompromat on Trump and was prepared to take advantage of it

Really looking forward to the first annual Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago (OPEC!) this coming Saturday. @luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.

Trump’s new tick of saying “are you ready?” right before telling a clear, ridiculous lie could be an amazing time save for fact checkers

What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump. @nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Three questions: 1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy? 2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas? 3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

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An administration that for months claimed unilateral & absolute authority to shutter entire executive agencies suddenly finds without any agency to move money from one internal pot of money to another

Impossible to repost or discuss this chart too many times. A tale of two crises & two policy responses. One of them we still inexplicably talk about as a success, & one we still inexplicably talk about as a failure. 1.5 years of modestly high inflation did a number on us.

100% agree and it’s not at all impossible to build popular support for this doi.org/10.1017/spq....