Wrote today about the presidential nomination process. My big point: Think of it more as a collective choice to define and redefine the party than a contest between different candidates. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-democr...

Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory of American Politics

Some words of mine are featured in Thomas Edsall's new opinion essay on how Trump is undermining his multi-racial coalition www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

The Supreme Court has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Renaming AI teams to Inhuman Resources

Jesus Christ these people are monsters.

First part of this is Fetterman defending the filibuster, meanwhile he still has eliminating the filibuster on his website. Incredible heel turn. johnfetterman.com/issue/safegu... "Last year, I became one of the first candidates in the country to call for abolishing the filibuster..."

It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"

But if we could only honor one president, it would obviously be Lincoln. His intelligence, morality, courage, and temperament never cease to amaze. I could read Lincoln all day. And he is just flawed enough to be recognizably human, which has the effect of drawing you toward him even more.

No one could've seen this coming... 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

I think we should ban even-numbered years. Should improve the discourse around here.

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

Scrutinizing the statements of elected officials is good; I wish the paper of record (and the media more broadly) would apply the same standards to all politicians

Cool thread:

Every one of these whines about “warriors” having to endure education and interaction with civilian agencies boils down to this: When you factor in politics, strategy, philosophy, ethics, outcomes, etc. there’s no way to conclude that indulging my impulses is always right and that makes me feel bad.

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

what

Designed in a lab to be a Vice President, maybe

oh, for mediocrity. anyway - happy presidents days!

Got some originalism for you on the old man’s birthday founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

Happy Presidents' Day to all who celebrate. 1. American racial history is American history. 2. Grant was a better president than you learned in high school. 3. Wilson was worse.

This is your annual reminder that as a matter of federal law, today is Washington's Birthday, not President's Day. See 5 U.S.C. §6103(a). uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

I remain only-mostly-jokingly-convinced that the Pokemon Go craze of mid-2016 was one of the things that weakened the barriers between the timelines and sent us to Earth-3.

My gosh www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

this is a pretty great ad.

Free speech in the classroom is back: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...

The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

Bullshit.

I’m sure this dude is fine. He does have a Nazi tattoo. And says women whine about sexual assault in the military. And that black people are stupid. But gosh darn it he says he’s a progressive, and since he’s white and male, who can really say what’s in a person’s heart.

Oh for god's sake. This is click-bait garbage. Tell that to Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, JFK--who all took risks to change hearts and minds at key moments in their careers. The list goes on and on.

As usual

True story: in college my friend nicknamed me "Wild Bill" rather than call me William, and it stuck... for years.

bsky.app/profile/mike... this would be monstrous stuff to do to adults but it’s staggeringly cruel to do it to children. It shows us again, I think, how these agencies are being staffed by sadists who relish hurting others.

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Multiple analyses have shown that the USAID cuts have already cost literally hundreds of thousands of lives. The WH is using those funds for the security of one of the more noxious members of a presidential administration that includes Stephen Miller. But hey, pro life.

I hate it here www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

On our first date, my spouse and I spent like an hour talking about footnotes.

Roses are red Violets are blue Get your fave academic the Chicago Manual of Style So their footnotes are perfect too

Roses are red Poorly formatted references are vile…

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

What better way to say "I love you" than with the Chicago Manual of Style

The antisemitism on the right that JD Vance, friend and promoter of antisemites, says doesn't exist.

This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”

“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”

Losing loser loses again. And score Curtis as a public member of the "I can live with almost everything, but not quite everything" caucus.

TFW somebody cites your work (yay) but completely and totally misunderstands the point you were trying to make (boo)

Wanna watch a man drown and root for it?