Some honestly hilarious excerpts from a recent Bill Ackman Twitter thread. Dear Bill, this is your lawyer speaking, I’m begging you to keep posting this stuff.

As someone who thinks affirmative action as practiced in 2023 was a massive bust that deserved to be demolished, lol come on nobody voted on that or ever will regardless of actual position

The Nazi takes are easy to make fun of but kinda blend together after a while, so here’s a delusional take from left field as a palate cleanser

For what it’s worth I agree that Project Hail Mary and The Martian contain as little social commentary as possible for sci fi And yet the former ends with the marooned protagonist happily teaching physics to aliens with a shared mindset and humor to our own

alright it’s a Friday afternoon, let’s do Speculative 2028 Candidates as Super Smash Bros Fighters

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this is the current consensus frontrunner for the generic middle-aged man lane in the invisible primary, and I will continue to fade him for the duration

he's still going to lose his entire popularity after spending a few years accomplishing nothing in the generically ungovernable mess that is NYC, but damn, he really has the juice

"Is Gaza a genocide", expressed solely through the medium of loyalty oaths to or against Platner and Wil Stancil simultaneously, is the dumbest discourse ever posted on this website

The “progressive” challenger to Mark Warner said to vote No on Virginia redistricting because “instead, the Dems should have better policies” and we wonder why no one thinks we’re serious political operators

he's going to win GA Sen by a bigger margin than anyone thinks having fundraised the best of everyone in the lineup, he's on the AIPAC shit list while Jewish, and he's the guy who came up with "Epstein class" as a tag if he runs he has *enormous* equity

followup on this: in 2028, there are a bunch of doomsday scenarios where the vote is mid-count - especially in mail-in states, which take a long time to count - when Rs find a way to stop the count and throw shade on the results this verdict forestalls this in advance. worth it for that alone

unlike the SAVE Act, whose adoption would be emphatically pro-Dem, I have no idea (and I suspect nobody else does either) whom banning late mail would benefit. However, if SCOTUS invalidates it, I'd expect more motivated voters to know and react at higher rates. Guess who's more motivated in 2026?

congratulations to any OSINT websites previously not busy enough for some reason

oh I see

Anybody unfortunate enough to have seen a lot of Ukraine war vid footage (FPS drone edition) knows that Kharg is going to be taken with virtually no resistance in three hours, morons like Hegseth will gloat, and then 99% of the losses will happen in the next three weeks.

this is a weird spot where the calculus goes that the guy is obviously markwayne tier bad but with enough charisma he'll win anyway, so why not endorse early? note, however, that liz' political instincts are...not great

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

one for Milhouse, two for Milhouse

lol this is going to cause...problems

One of the reasons I think this is something it’s bad to dogmatic about as a faculty: If you got your doctorate prior to like ~2020 and you tell me you’re certain your graduate students aren’t using LLMs, lmao no. They are. They just aren’t telling you about it.

The Miami Herald reports that an inmate told the FBI he heard prison guards discussing the fact that they killed Epstein and were going to cover it up the morning he died. The female guard below received thousands of dollars of payments in the months before Epstein died.

I continue to think the evidence so far is lightly shaded towards Platner being a dumbass instead of genuinely a Nazi; this should be disqualifying anyway, but because progressives love to get suckered by gruff blue collar guy coding / the other candidate is a decorum golem, it probably won't matter

Cornyn-Paxton is not something I can intuit like with Dem dynamics, but my gut feel is that Trump won’t endorse Paxton but might get pushed into endorsing Cornyn. That plus massive Cornyn $ means he has a small edge in spite of Paxton starting with more voters. Some smart people disagree w me though

Crockett easily wins this race from prehistory through to roughly 2018 because mailing in an idpol campaign used to be enough for a lot of Dems - even whites! - but now you need to attract the suburbs and college grads, and the new coalition is repelled by this type of stuff

old enough to remember when "special military operation" was a dumbfuck thing that other countries did

it was at this exact moment I started buying "scotus retirement this year" shares

the tourette's slur discourse thing is a third rail because it's an involuntary condition that nevertheless justifiably pisses off everyone who hears it and is sometimes unmanageable. the solution, not allowing the guy to attend, is Not Discussable On Here

I do not think Platner is up 64-26 against a sitting governor, and also do not think she can win unless he fucks up badly

given what's happening with votes I would *much* rather be Talarico here. too much uncertainty to call it, but does anybody think insane turnout is good for Crockett in roughly 90% of the state?

The Texas primary represents the new Dem coalition vs the old. But Crockett is aggressively bad as a candidate, while Talarico is aggressively good, so it’s not gonna be as close as advertised

retweeted by every AI skeptic on the site. anyway here's the proposed workflow: -AI factdump -reporters do reporting -AI first drafts the story -human fact checker -human review if you're objecting to this in 2026 then yeah welcome to funemployment

I continue to think AI *investment* is a massive bubble, and also become more convinced every day that anyone still unwilling to work with AI and dying on the environmental hill or the plagiarism hill is soon to be permanently unemployed

Everyone always fights the last war, which is why Stephen Smith is gonna be taken seriously for years even though he’s both the last war’s candidate and the opposite of the white hot ball of rage the base wants

another week, another shutdown market where you can make some four figure compounded ROI by betting the government will not reopen during the time the Senate physically cannot come back into session

1. Trump does something offensive 2. Toadies deny it happened or the offensive nature of it. 3. Rumblings of discontent get bigger. 4. Toadies say it's an accident (you are here) 5. Trump doubles down

this is a cool R internal poll made by Cornyn supporters to try to derail Paxton, so it's not that useful for raw numbers the usefulness is that you get a sense of what "best vs worst possible candidate" looks like in a midterm, and yes, it's probably in that +10 point range vs its opposite

Early 2026 update: Will add Gallego as almost a second Ossoff; both look like extremely solid and high equity options Still very bearish on Newsom and AOC; I don’t think either have the juice Shapiro/Beshear definitely do not have the juice

these are senator james talarico numbers

You never want to base a forecast of a midterm on a state senate seat in Texas, but oh man if those Hispanic neighborhood numbers hold up

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

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