matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

I mean, it just depends on how you look at it -- you could say Trump is lying a million times more now than he was in his first presidency when he notoriously liked, like, a lot...

A fantastic way to ensure I never, ever again attend an event at the Kennedy Center.

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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

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"The clinic ... run by the Christian, Maryland-based humanitarian organization World Relief and funded by USAID, provided a key weapon in the fight: IV bags to stave off dehydration and death. The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people."

Dr Seuss 2025

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This presidential “pardon,” as it’s for a state crime, is the equivalent of digital toilet paper, only flimsier and serving a less useful purpose.

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Also this. make protest songs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...

Sorry, it's political scientists who are the problem? Or polisci adjacent entrepreneurs? Cuz I have a problem with some journalism adjacent entrepreneurs too.

Another Kavanaugh stop.

An author I work with, Joyce Kaufman (Concise History of US Foreign Policy) has a letter to the editor in the NYT on their recent article covering Trump's new national security strategy document: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

The future of conflict in Africa is being built on three pillars: mercenaries, drones and false information, according to analyst Alessandro Arduino adf-magazine.com/2025/09/merc...

ICYMI: Listen to Alex Arduino--author of Money for Mayhem: Mercenaries, PMCs, Drones, and the Future of War--on BBC's Focus on Africa, talk about mercenaries across Africa. www.bbc.com/audio/play/p... -- tune in at 18:01 @bloomsburypol.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/money-for...

Sure, sounds great but can we do so without a civil war? Otherwise, the people needed to enact said reconstruction benefit the most from the status quo and I’m very doubtful they’ll voluntarily relinquish power.

Another bizarre Cabinet "meeting" where agency heads compete to be maximally sycophantic on camera. But elaborately praising the 79-year-old president as he nods off really takes it to another level.

I mean, I don't want Donald Trump in this country and I think he's garbage, but we don't have the right to throw him out.

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Peter Hotez: For all practical purposes measles is back, now whooping cough on the rise, next domino to fall. What’s next? Hib meningitis? Polio? All to benefit a corrupt wellness influencer industry and phony MAHA ideologies. Congress, the White House asleep. Americans should be outraged.

A freaking great record

My husband @captmarkkelly.bsky.social is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity. The President called him a traitor and demanded he be executed. It is dangerous and wrong. Americans need to stand up and say so.

Jeez. Trump reposted a call to execute six Democratic members of Congress, and it’s not on the front page of the NY Times, and this is the headline—no mention of hanging lawmakers.

The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:

In a two-party system, all you have to do to win in a landslide during a disastrous presidential administration is to be the only other alternative in town. Just ask the Democrats of 1930, who didn't particularly stand for much other than that they weren't Hoover. They gained 52 seats in the House.

In a stunning admission, prosecutors in the James Comey case conceded that the two-count indictment against the former FBI director was never presented to or voted on by a grand jury. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/due-to-...

i know “quiet, piggy” is just one raindrop in the flood of vile, shocking statements from trump, but it’s SO cruel, so threatening, such a violation of our most basic interpersonal norms. i would really like to see it get some actual coverage.

The absolute worst people are in this administration, just carrying on with the most blatant corruption, so voluminous it’s impossible to even keep tabs on

"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly." Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace? people.com/donald-trump...

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Sunday night y’all. Let’s go Birds!

9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.

ICYMI: Jan Eliasson, former Swedish & UN diplomat, and John Shaw, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Inst, discuss how diplomacy can help tackle vexing problems like climate change, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, UN reform, & the global refugee crisis, on the eve of Trump's 2nd inauguration.

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Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.

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Everyone focused on Zohran Mamdani's win. But Sherrill and Spanberger did better than Mamdani with nonwhites, whites without degrees, independents, white college grads and low-income people. centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

Friends and colleagues in the London area, I will be talking to Piro Rexhepi at the LSE about "Girlhood At War". 📆 12 November ⏰ 17.00-18.30 Info & registration www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

Such an engaging book!

Tim Kaine talking over Katie Turr and saying she’s being overly dramatic is a real bad look.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Role model, power broker, partisan warrior, coalition builder--Pelosi has left an indelible mark on the Democratic party and American politics writ large. As she announces her retirement, Michele Swers writes about her legacy below.

The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control. A partial list: Ansonia Bethany Branford Bristol Brooklyn East Granby Ellington Enfield Farmington Milford New Britain New Fairfield Norwich Plymouth Rocky Hill

Blackface that exists without any actual human behind the makeup is a special kind of dystopian phenomenon