A rare good moment. I hope he remains free.

Milo would like you to know that it should be a crime for the great apes to do things in the kitchen without providing 1 (one) snacky to all cats in the house. Thank you for your attention.

My dad is like the most stereotypical clearly autistic but not diagnosed because nobody said that in the 50s dude in the world. He’s older than Tylenol. It ain’t the Tylenol.

I know the FIRST problem is a lack of science education, but SO much of what's wrong with RFK Jr's worldview is a lack of historical knowledge too. If you know history well you won't be bamboozled into thinking something invented in the 50s created autism. History is full of autistic people.

There is a reason that a tactic (organizing method? Service?) as old as unions themselves is someone on the job site reading out the news (political or not) for those with busy hands (and perhaps no literacy or none in the local language)

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

China is going to be absolutely swimming in cheap solar in a few years...is there a good way to export that? I don't even know how the Eurasian grid works. Can they even do transfer to...Russia? India? Or are we looking at needing a battery breakthrough?

I study labor unions, authoritarian regimes, protest politics, labor-party relations, the reaction of workers to free trade deals and sometimes rhetoric in religion and education. Just checking myself so you know if is start pontificating about shit I have no academic expertise in not to listen.

I have very few people blocked and several of them are political scientists.

He believes this because he watched Scarface in the 1980s. I’m convinced.

My version of this is every CLC that has a newsletter (most) just hires 2 22 year olds. One to do local sports one to do city council.

I am a comic book fan. There’s a certain type of comic fan and even sometimes comic book author who always want the defining battles/relationships/line ups from when they were 14 and fell in love with comics. Some pundits are the same.

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

It’s 2025 and Curtis Sliwa is the reasonable opposition.

I like this because weighted vests are more performative than functional and don’t replace doing real work.

Harris's book seems to be not so much relitigating 2024 as trying to shape 2028. Buttigieg yes, Shapiro no. (honestly, after what's come out about my alma mater, that seems 100% correct)

I mean on the one hand this is absolutely true. On the other hand it didn’t need a thousand years to kill every relative on one side of my family who hadn’t hightailed it for the east coast a generation earlier either.

Would it be weird if I just took a little nap on the floor of the gym? That’s just me moving into my eccentric professor era right?

As I told a colleague in many states “former smoker” is one and pretty much every academic I know at least tried to look cool smoking cloves in grad school. And lots of us are old enough to have hung out in smoky bars.

Instagram reels believed earnestly that I live in Rancho Cordova CA a town I’ve been to once that’s 2.5 hours away.

In all of these D still has the levant, all of Indian, and a good swath of Southeast Asia and southern China and that’s an unfathomable amount of good food (including most the world’s good vegetarian cuisines)

Elite fracture comes not at all and then all at once. Folks who only read beltway media are going to be really shocked. Elite preference falsification and self censorship that’s pretty rare for the US outside times of war.

In an actual city with a Jewish population (not just online Christian Zionists) an absolutely no holds barred embrace of Netanyahu and the most extreme elements of the Israeli far right is pretty dumb politics.

This is def the staffers. You can tell. Only he’s got the nickname juice.

This guy renamed his company after the last round of failed tech.

I try not to do “algo conspiracy” but Instagram has been pushing me the most unhinged stuff. I’m rural, I shoot skeet and trap, I get gun stuff, I get prepper stuff but I’ve been getting full on Christian nationalist stuff for days (I’m not Christian or a nationalist)

Next three are super solid too no worries.

To be honest things DO seem quieter.

Spouse is back from Canada. Eating Maynard’s candy. Yum.

Such a weird quote. Like she told a staffer “find a difference with no political relevance” and the opposites they came up with were “mom” and “33” (which seem totally unrelated)

I am no expert in Korea but I teach a unit on it in my CPE class. It’s hard to understate how much “sending workers abroad” is a key part of state narratives about “the miracle on the Han” it’s absolutely vital and part of how participants in the Korean economy see themselves.

My occasional reminder that by far the most racist and sexist organization I’ve ever spent time in is the Boy Scouts of America. It made Greek Life at a liberal arts college look like a feminist reading group.

The MENA version of this is “Asma Al-Assad is very stylish…”

Huh. I can do strict push ups for the first time at 40. 🤷🏻‍♂️ things you learn when you’re stressed out in your office on a Saturday.

It’s sad to watch an academic descend into punditry.

A great win. Thanks to our labor allies @nvaflcio.bsky.social !

This is KIND OF a joke but also not: pamphlets used to get shit *fucked up*

My wife is at a conference. It’s time for weird comic book posting. Versions of Lois Lane where she’s basically Betty Ross (Banner) are weird.

I gotta take my title and affiliation off my personal email. I just had someone try to look up my address to mail me something (we can’t get personal mail at work). Wtf.

Trump looking like Bouteflika in new pics.

Erdogan invoking an Article 5 motion against Israel would have been a day….

My likes are a quiet whisper just for the poster. 🤩

Lujan Grisham is one of the best governors Dems have.

We keep a list of things where our department is “first one to ever ask” the deans. There’s like a dozen. This is systems thinking that political science and legal studies folks love.

Finally, Zotero has 'Dark Mode.' Now I can do Evil Citations.

That shuffling sound is me immediately stealing this from Andrew and using it in class today. Is it great we need worksheets? No. Do I think this is going to help? Absolutely. Will report back.

I hope this vaccine I just got personally offends RFK Jr, that horrific ghoul. Thanks to the Great State of California.

They are correct too.

Probably the most catastrophic of these economically is ultimately the slow takeover of the Fed, and it's probably the one that has the least political juice. (and yes, I think ending Fed independence causes more damage than dumb tariffs)

I will never forget the people in the labor movement who stood up and supported this guy based on the flimsiest rationale that he would be good for their particular union (he's not) to the detriment of the rest of us. It's worth remembering though that it was a miniscule group.