Gallego ("moderate" Dem) is going with "ICE needs to be totally torn down" (not "reform and retrain"). This is a pivot point for the country on immigration. You have been seeing this in the data for a while, and now officials are snapping to the public opinion www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...

I am Facebook (and real life) friends with a conservative philosopher, who has long been anti-Trump despite his other beliefs, and he recently asked, on Facebook, if anyone could defend the Greenland stuff, and I made the mistake of reading the comments

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“ThE pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe” evaporates real quick when only one of the parties is threatening to shoot you the face

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elections have (immediate) consequences.

Masterful gambit, sir

I, for one, am shocked at the failure of the “university” that was “dedicated to the telos of truth” Shocked

For those who have been demanding action from leaders they assume aren’t doing anything because they do their jobs instead of posting on socmed — here is an example of the kinds of things being coordinated by people who know their jobs better than their armchair critics.

there is an almost perfect negative correlation between my willingness to belt out a song that is playing and my daughter‘s willingness to play that song and I’ve been using this to my advantage and that’s why I was singing Ariana Grande‘s Dangerous Woman at the top of my lungs this evening

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My working theory is that it's specifically because it makes other people get hurt and feel awful, and that genuinely is the main deliverable of Donald Trump. This is especially true if they can damage women's rights in the process, but terrorizing them is enough for appeal.

Like, I genuinely do not understand how a man this utterly risible has a cult following. The people obsessed with virile masculinity have latched onto this man, while he is visibly among the most gaudy insecure virtueless losers in the world. bsky.app/profile/rimi...

I get so tired of flying and traveling for work that I often try to block out the whole experience And this is one of the reasons that I love seeing young kids on planes because it reminds me to be amazed by the marvels of modern engineering and the beauty of this space rock we call home

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

how I felt explaining to the 10 year old the premise of going to a video rental store

The world notwithstanding, I got to celebrate 16 years of marriage to this cutie today Time has been kinder to me than her because my spouse has aged beautifully and hers has not

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I regret to inform you that my 10 year-old has recently discovered the etymology of Grand Teton National Park, and has handled it with the poise and grace that you would expect of a 10 year-old boy

I get the emotional desire for a more pugilistic response from Walz but there's no world a state governor stands at a podium shouting "Arise, arise, riders of Minneapolis! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!"

hesitant to step in on this but I think people pushing for armed resistance really need to think about the goals of armed resistance and the mechanisms by which it could possibly achieve those goals.

This is a perfect example of why @jamellebouie.net is both the GOAT of thoughtful, intellectual takes AND how to deal with the people on this website

for over 15 years, you've literally been able to type something like "2009 Kia optima tire size" into a search engine and get **exactly** what you need, but, I suppose, having an AI do that for you and complement you for your thoughtful question about tire sizes feeds the ego better

There were nearly 96,000 polling places in the United States in 2024 & there are entire states that are 100% vote by mail so no "occupation" is going to interfere with them (see also: overseas & military voters). More people volunteered as poll workers (770K) than there are National Guard (765K).

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

The number of “I enjoy being employed and not subject to federal investigation and therefore will not put this thought into writing” moments in my life has dramatically increased over the past couple of weeks

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I just... who is the Ludacris, Kid Rock, Jelly Roll, Shinedown concert goer?

Likely the same 8% that think they could take on a lion, unarmed, in 1v1 combat today.yougov.com/society/arti...

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Embrace the dialectic

Embrace the dialectic. Both can be true.

"average person has millions of microplastics in their body" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has zero microplastics in their body. Microplastics Georg, who drinks six pints of polyurethane and is made out of fibreglass, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Wrong on its terms, regardless of the negative externalities of big trucks. Although December 2025 numbers aren't in yet, every single full-size light-duty truck for sale in America (F-150 and its equivalents) is on track for fewer sales in 2025 than in 2024.

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figuring out the the SCIENCV bio sketch for NIH submissions feels distinctly like being told that I am rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic in the wrong way

Dude is also hosting a debate on his podcast this Thursday about whether or not God approves of interracial marriage

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It extends even further, though, because it also subsumes the notion that all of history must be explained by this thing I just thought up in the past few years and clearly everyone throughout all the historical times would know that I was correct and you are a heretic for disagreeing

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vegans will act all morally superior and then turn around and eat a baby carrot

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When one of your American colleagues announces they got a Canada research chair

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Dark Jennings is my favorite surprise of 2025-26

Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

This is, perhaps, too kind Economists like Oster seem especially prone to offer large scale advice for how we should react to the current administration (and everything else). I am at a loss for an example from my lifetime where following that advice would be helpful.

Andrew Gelman on Emily Oster's latest NYT Op-ed “Kennedy Is Telling Americans How to Eat. It’s Not Crazy Advice.” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/08/t...

People waking up to the truth* after a decade *that Jason Stanley is a hack