I’m not a pollster or a statistician, but as a reasonably educated consumer of statistical information it feels like there is a lot of misleading spin in the anti-Trump polling world. Trump’s net approval is not “plummeting” but has been very stable for awhile now.

US highway spending is a mess. Yale prof @zliscow.bsky.social & colleagues found that South Carolina’s DOT spends $375,500 repaving a mile of highway – more than twice as much as North Carolina. In @bloomberg.com, I spoke with Liscow about the wild inefficiencies of state DOTs.

Republicans in North Carolina today adopted a new congressional map, favored by President Trump, that is expected to shift one seat toward the GOP. www.newsobserver.com...

As the saying goes, “just one more lane will fix it.”

A report by an environmental group says millions of tons of discarded U.S. electronics are being shipped overseas each month — much of it to Southeast Asian countries not prepared to safely handle hazardous waste.

Nor is it a good reflection on local dem leadership, who cannot manage to express unhappiness, much less contempt, over Cuomo's contemptuous candidacy.

My day on RIPTA thanks to @govdanmckee.bsky.social -finding the 71's frequency has been cut almost in half -waiting 19 min for the R-line at 9:30am -packing onto an extremely overcrowded 22 because its frequency is slashed -barely missing the 75, so I took the 72 which is 3x farther from home.

Luxembourg touts free transit in an FT ad. And they’re not even socialist!

Throughout my entire experience in Israeli detention, I saw countless cracks beneath the surface. For every ostensible manifestation of strength and vitality, there was a corollary sign of weakness, stupidity, decline, or all three. www.currentaffairs.org/news/my-time...

a reminder that ICE received an astonishing influx of money with the megabill this summer: boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...

A fascinating election to watch in two weeks — the CW is that policing has receded as an issue, but here’s a data point otherwise:

THIS is who the White House nominated to lead the Office of Special Counsel: “MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell.” “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it.” GIFT: www.wsj.com/opinion/paul...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A higher percentage of New York City Jews are voting for Zohran Mamdani than Jews nationwide who voted for Donald Trump, and yet the latter are treated as a substantial voice in American Jewish culture, while the former are almost totally ignored by mainstream American Jewish organizations.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

The ghost of William Whyte hates this trend. You should, too.

Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK @thecity.nyc

National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p... They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people

Thread: There are so many problems with this NYTimes piece, starting with the assumption that being a "centrist"—whatever that is right now—is somehow "non-partisan" and a virtue unto itself. Being a "centrist" is just as ideological or "partisan" as anything else. Also, voters “prefer capitalism to

I found this @currentaffairs.bsky.social piece by @lilysanca.bsky.social really helpful in understanding debates about the police and about the “defund” movement in particular: www.currentaffairs.org/news/now-is-...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

What Trump has to say to American farmers is that they have to understand it is more important to save his friend Milei who has a big election coming up. Peasants. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Ho boy. Happy Monday. Would love to hear someone like @lukewsavage.bsky.social tear into this one: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Why are these three politicians at the top of this article? I know what Mamdani’s message is, and to some extent AOC’s, but what is Hakeem Jeffries’ “message”? Is there a single regular person who can articulate it?

I understand what this sign is trying to convey, but am not crazy about it because 1938 in America was actually the New Deal era, the strongest social-democratic aspects of which we would do well to return to in robust form if we ever get past Trumpism and neoliberal austerity.

At some point the Democratic Party will have to learn that its failing communication strategies are a reflection of the fact that it is an institution with almost no real infrastructure. jacobin.com/2025/08/demo...

Hey @demgovs.org — you promised you weren’t asking for money but then asked for money, so basically lied to bait me into this survey. This is a bad thing to do because it sends the message that you don’t care what people actually think. No wonder the Democratic Party is historically unpopular.

Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?

BTW, Life After Cars is one of three(!) new books arguing that society and the planet would be better off if we had fewer automobiles. I wrote this essay about them a week ago.

“In awarding the prize to Machado, the Nobel Committee has provided an open invitation for Trump to continue, and even escalate, military intervention and gunboat diplomacy in Latin America.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The people go wild for blue state governors showing the slightest bit of spine. So on climate, why aren't they doing it? thanks for insight and good info from @nyrenews.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/2017...

Of course Zohran is a Libra 🥰

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

“Surviving this descent into fascism will require, ugh, unity, and that will require all of us to accept bizarre new allies, with grace. Or with some measure of grace. Our derision must be leavened with grace, at least.” From @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

Climate change isn’t a distant threat to Vienna: temperatures, heat wave frequency, and heat stress are already increasing. Dense built-up areas, heat islands and impermeable surfaces exacerbate the problem. Modelling suggests re-greening can reduce the number of very hot days (>30°C) by around 10%.

Bayard Rustin was one of the most influential organizers of the civil rights movement, leading key protests like the 1963 March on Washington for racial justice. Bayard dedicated his life to fighting for equal rights for the Black community, LGBTQ people, and economic justice.

I think the better argument here is just that’s it’s wrong and bad to have racist institutions. We don’t need to prove that cleansing non-whites from media jobs “weakens our collective understanding of an increasingly complex and fractured world.”

In Washington, D.C., annual vehicle registrations cost 7x more for the heaviest cars than for the lightest ones.

Cardiff, Wales is taking a stand against car bloat. The city is poised to become the first in the UK to increase parking fees for vehicles >2400 kg (5291 lb). A city report claims big cars are “more polluting, more expensive and more dangerous,” and “should pay more for permits."

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID? And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina. Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

Great teaming up with @tomflood.bsky.social on another billboard! Nothing can protect us from streets that are dangerous by design. Let's demand change together.

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

"Paris is also doing more “pre-emption deals” in which it blocks a planned real estate transaction to instead buy the building itself to convert into social housing. Under its new land use plan, the city has labelled some 800 buildings, one-third offices, as candidates." on.ft.com/4nvu0BT

"The numbers suggest rather that the housing crisis is less about shortage than the unequal distribution of homes around the population." Excellent long read in the FT from John Plender on the true causes of the UK housing crisis: policy drivennn financialisation and inequality. on.ft.com/4p7SiUk

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

Platner has a huge lack of name recognition, but still has a higher net-favorable (+12) than Janet Mills (+4) among those who have an opinion of each Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/a-governor...

Something this book really drilled home (scuse the pun) is that we're not stalled out on climate because scientists didn't model hard enough or campaigners didn't come up with the perfect message, but because the world's most powerful spent gazillions to sabotage action. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

Totally unsurprising.