Susan Collins ladies & gentlemen.

Both the Wash Post and The NY Times have pieces on the Tucker-Fuentes-Roberts fallout, but the WaPo dive into Heritage is good, and the Times piece on Fuentes is not. Choose wisely!

Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.

Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

They always reveal who we thought they were.

> @ernietedeschi.bsky.social

GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.” @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Influential groups like the League of Conservation Voters are still doing the questionnaires and creating problems. www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups...

Hunter Biden: Wait, this was an option?

The thing about Kirk is, it is perfectly possible to advocate for conservative ideas without teaming up with Kari Lake, Matt Gaetz, Jack Prosobiec and that whole crew. That’s a choice that makes it hard for me to take you seriously. (As I wrote here: open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli... )

D3 Councilor John Fitzgerald with a rebuke of recent Boston City Council hearing cancellations and delays. Writes, “the serious issues facing this city should not be manipulated to advance political outcomes.” Full statement bemow @NBC10Boston #mapoli

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The day the Access Hollywood tape was released.

Underrated tweet.

“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.” www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has deleted all three of his tweets from his personal account that mocked and fanned conspiracies about the assassination of Minnesota Democrat state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband.

Kendrick Perkins and Stephen A make this NBA panel so bad. Just empty bluster you can predict before they say it

“The Trump Organization has consistently made use of temporary visa programs to hire foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago, four golf clubs and his Virginia winery—filing to bring in at least 1,880 seasonal workers since 2008.” www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Calling Justice Scalia

Second graders trying to save African Meeting House in Boston after federal funding cuts

Apropos of nothing, Los Angeles has had fewer murders so far this year through May than any year since 1966

I've spent years following a right-wing influencer who's made a career out of outrage. I wanted to understand why he does it. What does his career look like, his income? Here's what I found. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

I'm old enough to remember . . .

It's long been clear there's a common denominator to a lot of the institutions Trump picks as enemies: Journalists, Universities, Courts, the Intelligence Community. All independent sources of facts & information that might conflict with his fabricated reality. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The "No Kings" argument seems pretty superficial...but it's not. Trump has a childlike idea of the power of the president. He views the job as being the most powerful (and famous) man in the world and he hates anything about it that suggests his power (or fame) is limited.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

The king hath done no wrong. His counselors hast mocked the publik with lies and false calculations.

This man is a mendacious clown. Let’s be clear he has always been one.

An all-time classic. 🤡

They told me if I voted for Kamala the market would crash, and then we’d probably have a recession. They were right.

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

Why would Elon Musk call Mark Kelly a traitor for supporting Ukraine? Because he sees where Trump is taking us. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future." - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020 www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...

do you know how bad you have to be as president to make the Luka to Lakers thing the 2nd dumbest trade related news of the last 24hrs

Not great! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

Check out this brutal indictment of Biden’s border policy—which arguably cost Democrats the election—by Biden’s own ICE director. Great work by my colleague Julia Ainsley. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

Weiss says Pres. Biden’s claim his son was selectively prosecuted was not only false but corrosive: “Politicians who attack the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome of a case undermine the public's confidence in our criminal justice system.“

I wrote this week about how crime data is both consistently flawed and the best it has ever been for understanding trends as they develop. Check it out! jasher.substack.com/p/on-crime-t...

Elon Musk and JD Vance publicly supporting the neo-Nazis of Germany's AfD, just as an AfD supporter/Elon Musk fan kills 5 and injures 100+ in a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany. Vance's pro-AfD statement came *after* the attack. It's bad. Not sure what else to say. Dark times ahead.

We really have to stop calling anything that uses math 'AI'

I have covered both Musk and Alex a lot, and only one of them is a useful idiot for Putin and also a heinous person. The other is a patriot who did his job with distinction and is a very good man. Guess which is which: thehill.com/policy/techn...