Trump is intellectually less competent, tactically less savvy, and politically weaker than he was even a year ago. And he's blatantly, flagrantly ill. The costs of standing by him are going up, and the costs of defying him are plummeting.

I once said that my growth as a person in adulthood has basically consisted of me intellectualizing my way back to what Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers taught me as a child.

Dunkin’ Donuts taking over a spot that was previously run by Starbucks is so Boston.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

This entire weekend

Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.

I don’t think people realize the significance of this “tail” risk

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

how to move to the delta quadrant

How will you cope with your right-wing relatives over the holidays? Here's my advice. https://youtu.be/ByhKM8NBK2E?si=IYoaPqn6gAydGPNV

Jesus this was so prophetic

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to: Weird Al Yankovic (first concert ever) Unwritten Law (Blink 182 opened… had hot wings with UL before) Dave Brubeck playing Take Five in my classroom Hello Kitty performing In a laser light show in Puroland, Japan One of Aretha‘s last shows

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

It cannot be broken, only realigned. First-past-the-post will always redound to 2 parties, every time, no matter what

Why are we trying to understand MTG? She’s crazy. So she does crazy things. not worth trying to apply logic. Or warp your brain into crazy town logic land and try to understand. No benefit to doing that.

Remember that the ghost of Roy Cohn runs this administration. What would Roy do? Suck up to the mayor of NYC.

I understand the attacks on DEI as sheer racism, misogyny, transphobia, and especially misogynoir But also DEI was a really wack framework and I'm not gonna be like "it was so good and we need it" Historically, DEI was a stepping stone on the journey to the current civil rights framework collapse

Whoever picked "Pocket Veto" won the pool.

I’d like to see a lot more (methodologically sound) research funded around pedagogy, curriculum, learning modalities, special ed of all varieties, etc. You basically make it a distribution house for information coupled with funding & operational support to help schools implement findings.

FWIW - I can't shake the feeling that this has the high likelihood of becoming a classic "middle finger" bar chart...

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Boring reminder, the unemployment rate (and various household survey ratios) are currently much more informative about labor market health than NFP. If you still have NFP brain, I recommend some reprogramming

Slavery is about economics

Your regular reminder that the ghost of Howard Jarvis laughs heartily at all of us from his place in the depths of hell. Prop 13 absolutely fucked California and Californians, both present and future.

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A reminder: inflation burns but it is the level of prices relative to income that most consumers are struggling with. Too many don’t have the income to make ends meet. That is the result of compounding price increases without broad enough gains in wages …

Jack is great. Thoughtful commentary on policy reform vs "oooh, look hypocrisy" dopamine bait that is 90% of the dialogue here. @jackbwuzhere.bsky.social should be on your follow list, if you want bsky to be more than a barroom venting echo chamber.

Well, this is a stress test of America and we are failing. Someone mentioned today that before the Civil War, abolitionists were incredibly demoralized. Before the Civil Rights wins, there was blood and death and strange fruit. We keep fighting. We keep pushing. We'll get there.

A Fair Districting Amendment and supporting Act. At this point, it has to be SB1 and HB1 of the first session. An Amendment, so the Supreme Court can't just wash their hands of it. An Act to codify it and specify how we are going to do it, and the strict penalties if you play games.

Priorities.

Great (albeit long) interview from the other Ben I love to read, at Stratechery, with the CEO of Unity (game dev platform): stratechery.com/2025/an-inte...

It’s not radical to believe that people shouldn’t have to sell plasma to make ends meet.

In web design, if it feels icky, it's just icky. It's entirely possible to make an innocent bad design choice. In which case, @support.bsky.team can put in a ticket to update the Text from "Advanced" to "More Settings." Intent is reflected in how fast you fix it.

I don’t think Trump had anything to do with this. I think the FAA has been hearing from the controllers’ union & the airline pilots association & more & the flight safety concerns are real. Controllers are working mandatory overtime, exhausted & stressed & this situation can’t continue.

and this is just a random fucking Thursday in November! I’m so tired of exciting government! Make government boring again!

the sandwich guy walking away from the court house and suddenly, his limp disappears

I’d rather have BayMax to diagnose me

She needed to tell her husband investor, Paul, to cut it out. At best it looked like corruption. At worst, it was. It completely undermined any progressive agenda. That said, she was an absolute wizard at wielding power for good when she wanted. Like a Gandalf fueled by chocolate and hutzpah.

#Hero 🥪

HIRE ALICE

Imagine that...

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Yep, today's celebration absolutely calls for a B5 quote.

Oh my god, they were roommates….

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

I'm not sure there's anyone on the planet who deserved to celebrate the defeat of Andrew Cuomo more than Lindsey, who had unimaginable amounts of courage in coming forward and continuing to push until he suffered actual consequences for sexual harassment thrilled for her