So what I'm gathering from this is that after a year of telling ppl they'll give them gobs of money to sign up they still are well below their recruitment goals

Fascinated by retweet numbers for @yearprogress.bsky.social

This guy? www.thecrimson.com/article/1991...

It passed unanimously. Override the veto.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton making $100,000 in cattle futures 14 years before she became First Lady or Donald Trump making $1.7 billion from his DJT meme stock while serving as president, both sides have made money in controversial ways.

24 seconds of the late Isiah Whitlock Jr saying shit on The Wire youtu.be/5mgCoesUZwI

Ezra Yglesaidt

No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

How the Washington Post began the year. How Democracy Docket is ending it. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

One of the best to ever do it

In 1961, the National Review, that bastion of "reasonable conservatism" published a pamphlet by L. Brent Bozell (WFBuckley's bro-in-law) making the menacing argument that Chief Justice Earl Warren deserved a punishment greater than censure or impeachment because he'd "made war against public order."

It definitely won’t be this Democratic Party that is allergic to supporting popular policies.

It makes perfect sense that the idea of the Crusades appeals today to the exact kind of loud, adolescent-brained, self-aggrandizing, just-rich-enough-to-cause-problems idiot that the actual Crusades were designed to siphon out of the body politic like the snake venom they were, and are.

"If something was going on, it'd have been leaked already" I'm sorry, do you understand how the beltway press works? The entire DC press corps will hold an open secret for years, they're all shopping their book deals and we'll get to hear about all the juicy stuff "everyone knew" in March 2029.

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Another example of how the U.S. political right appropriates digital tools, platforms, and data to create, (re)frame, and remix data visualizations to spread anti-immigrant propaganda. If you're interested in learning more, here's a paper from my research team: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Given how aggressively "the left" is trying to use the media & the educational system to brainwash American youth into Communism, the leader of the America First Party and the Christian Nationalist Crusade is creating Christian Youth for America. The year is 1943. The only problem is...antisemitism

This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.

Exclusive images of Mamdani’s luxury mansion

Guys no billionaire is "leaving California," they're at best gonna leave California for exactly 185 days a year and domicile at some mansion resort in Utah or Montana or USVI but still be in California a lot (but also this will be too big of a hassle for many and they'll just pay the tax)

They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them

Elders requiring care voted +10 in 2024 for the mass deportations of their caretakers.

In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS. I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

Universities embracing generative AI be like:

Heritage American isn’t even a coherent description. Most of these white folks came after the Black and Brown folks. They need to find something to do. 😂

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Kids are literally being ran over by cars and killed over this N=8 regression. It's RFK and "More Guns, Less Crime" combined for Democratic governed cities.

It’s going to be some bullshit respectability from the center and some bullshit bleating about identity politics from the left and some bullshit religious forgiveness from the right. I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.

There are many genealogical paths that connect our present moment to the American past. If you have 30 minutes to waste, I think you'll find that this 1970 campaign ad by Asa Carter resonates, to an alarming degree, with the worldview and rhetoric of the MAGA right. archive.org/details/asa-...

Make a Bond movie academic “On Her Majesty’s Department Service”

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

stop making us know what mark Cuban is saying! knock that off right now!!

Mandatory:

For anyone that thought disinformation was a social media problem, it’s great to see all of the legacy media organizations giving best book of the year to a Princeton University press published book full of Covid disinformation.

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

still my favorite christmas post

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

Yes, in fact @lastweektonight.com did a great segment on it:

Show me how your 2025 went

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

It is 2010 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2019 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2025 and Thomas Chatterton Williams is releasing an awful anti-woke memoir. It is 2032 and