I wrote about how the Ohio GOP is going to gerrymander the state. They will not find it hard to do so because the rules incentivize a partisan GOP gerrymander open.substack.com/pub/baddatat...

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

incredibly funny that the NYT acted to protect this guy's name because he leaked a hacked college app that wasn't accepted from a guy who is not even mayor yet

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

Today is his day

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

oh SHIT

Risk of guacamole more like

If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

Not dunking here, but we gotta be better about Abundance criticism. If the tradeoff is San Fransisco level homelessness or (generally good) regs then we may have to accept that the regs must go. Attack Abundance over saying that medical science has stalled! Or their utopianism!

I support many of the particular abundance policies, but its more helpful as a way to push my conservative friends left than anything else

we need to defend the statistics

The next step is juking the stats. Pretty soon we're all celebrating another record grain harvest.

No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Had an AI training today that was basically encouraging this

Excel tried to crash on my but I saved my file. The company is spared

Trump white house poly drama wad not something I had on my bingo card

I need to start a company doing "brand health" where all I do is say if logos look like penises and butts

Part of the problem is that the framing around issue polls is that they give you an idea of what people think at a given moment. They are pretty weak at that. What they are pretty good at is telling us if trends are shifting or if ideas are changing. Just not totally how/why/to what

These come straight from the intellectual emptiness on the right. They have an extremely limited view of slavery that has zero historical context and think of it in Us v Them, zero sum terms. The idea that Africans enslaved Africans is novel to them because it feels like exoneration

Interesting how the weaselly phrase "race has some biological reality" has wormed its way into conservative ideology. You see it everywhere. It's perfect. You press them and they fall back to the ambiguity inherent to "some" while they build their entire platform around "biological reality"

Excel would never call the cops on you for the reports you make your entry level employees fake

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The Joe Rogan of the left discourse is very stupid but I am happy for @mikeduncan.bsky.social who seems poised to get a rich guy check through all this

one of the strangest phenomenons in political commentary over the last decade is people treating trump purely as an epiphenomenon of liberal discourse norms they don't like foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/p...

‘Sesame Street’ Saved, Inks New Streaming Deal With Netflix Episodes will also continue to air on PBS, debuting the same day as they launch on Netflix. (FU MAGA )🖕 www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

But MY zine is perfect and good and should govern the Democrats forever. It will usher in a new thousand year reign of glory

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

it's just incredible how corrupt this regime is and how profitable it has been for one Elon Musk

They're trying to kill your kids

OSINT ppl already on the ground

Shayan always works very hard to debubk things and does really great work. A must follow during fast moving events

THREAD: As India launches strikes against Pakistan tonight, misinformation is rapidly spreading online. I'll fact-check viral falsehoods in this thread. This video, viewed over 660,000 times, shows Israeli air strikes on Gaza in October 2023. It's unrelated to Indian strikes tonight.

oh my god

Few came out before 15 years after I Am Hollywood but I'm listening again and HO-LEE fuck. Starting off with Air Raid? My god. Also my all time favorite album art. Look at how beautiful this is.

jesus christ

Been watching Ghibli a good bit recently and what strikes me most is the scale. They are so small. Totoro is just about two young girls trying to navigate their emotions about their mom being in the hospital. We don't need to save the world today. Just see the beauty even when we are sad.

Bought some of these for our garden hoses and let me tell you they are fantastic.

I said this on the other site but this is the fundamental core of fascism. It's a pathetic ideology for pathetic people.

Reading this really has been a treat.

Nothing has given me more hope that I can become a billionaire than seeing how petty and stupid these people are. This is my college political science group chat. It's incredible

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

Gonna have to retire that Carlin clip i guess www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

What’s maddening about Matt is that he NEVER TALKS ABOUT OBVIOUS COUNTEREXAMPLES. E.g., withdrawing from Afghanistan was, in the abstract, extremely popular. But the actual withdrawal, and the panicked coverage it generated, literally permanently tanked Biden’s polls.

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

Love the sentiment but wtf is this data graphic