So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

“That’s one hell of an act you’ve got there. What do you call it?” “The Kakistocrats!”

the idea that weiss had journalistic concerns is belied by the fact that she's not a journalist

if this was me at a public event mourning my spouse who was violently murdered my kids would either have me committed or never speak to me again

I still tell students to go to the library, look up the book that seems right and then step back and look over the whole shelf too.

Yep. I’m sure that was the right news call and not at all something embarrassing and weird

The thing about the Free Press is that you can read it and have no idea that Trump is violating the purported values of the publication, or even that he is President. And the Free Press is the reason why Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News.

Wrote up my predictions for 2026. -I think 2025 will have been rock bottom. -The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer. -The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly. -We'll begin the long road to repair. 🤞 open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Often, unless you’ve struggled with something — really grappled with it — you don’t understand it. Now, that’s not necessary for every single reference you use, but it’s impossible to know which ones it’s true for ahead of time, and the instinct to rely on summaries is stultifying

This is a great example of a major failure mode of offloading your research to an AI assistant. Another is a lot of us are hard-wired to think we understand something when we get a summary, but that’s often just fooling yourself. Summaries miss subtleties, hide complexities, avoid contradictions.

You've never had to apologize for being white in America, but of course, that's not really what Vance is trying to tell his rabid followers. What he's really trying to tell them is that they don't need to apologize for believing they should have it easier because they're white.

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

I regret to inform you that Ezra Douthglesias is at it again

turns out the abundance agenda is a lack of object permanence

Four? Sure, why not? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics (& Media)

nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

What are we doing here? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The weak sauce of performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

In the days after the deaths of Michele Singer Reiner and her husband, the director Rob Reiner, relatives and friends painted a portrait of a devoted, relentless and ever-funny woman.

The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms. It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.

AI as double theft machine 🎯

👇🎯 The entire problem is that it isn’t Eurobonds, & it isn’t big enough. As during the euro crisis, it’s a messy compromise that doesn’t meet the moment & again kicks the can on what really needs to be done down the road. Still waiting for the Hamiltonian Moment everyone claimed we had c.2015.

An underappreciated dimension of our media and politics environment is that every policy principal is now terminally online, arguing basic policy matters in public In no sane world, prior to 2016, would anyone want the DNI (or any admin official) to set or defend U.S. policy or objectives this way

This. We’ve left the sane world behind. Are we going to rebuild structures and processes to reimpose discipline on the discussion of intelligence? Or on [fill in your favorite policy area]?

Wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. In any functioning democracy, ministers would have been forced to resign, the PM would have been thrown out, & people would have gone to jail for a long time. No one involved had any legal authority to do any of this.

With the relevant caveats about selection bias, ORD at 8 AM on the Winter Solstice seems to be one grand exercise in the demonstration of revealed preferences about the state of the economy & the Suffering From Inflation™️

So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are

I assume @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is subtweeting Ezra Douthglesias here. But he could be referring to a vast number of people & outlets in the National Conversation™️ who did exactly this & seem totally uninterested in any thoughtful reflection or humility.

Second, I think it is very odd to publicly attack someone in writing, and then when they respond to you by saying there is a lot of data to prove your interpretation of things wrong, you just dismiss them as 'the leader of the anti-me bandwagon'. I do not think that's a good way to pursue truth

Free trade is the Actual Popularism bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.

What would it take to get you off X? Is there nothing he could tweet that would make you think 'ok, despite the inconvenience maybe it's time to quit'?

I recall speaking at a poli sci conference in that era and declaring that all the participants in attendance were hereby certified "political therapists." Ten years on and the therapists need therapists, now.

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

Have seen this sentiment a lot. But it’s wrong because it inverts the core, fundamental causes. Nixon wasn‘t pushed out by his own because they wanted him out. Republicans were FORCED to push him out, by the weight of public opinion, which got his approval down to around 25%.

Something tells me teams around the league aren't going to worry about the safety of the Tush Push this offseason.

Honestly do the popularists have any theory at all of what winning elections is *for*

With all due respect, God does not care about your performance in a sporting event. You are not, in fact, His worldly agent carrying out a divine punishment of Texas A&M.

That wasn’t real close. Jake Elliott has had an amazing Eagles career but you can’t keep giving away points.

The Eagles are going to have to consider other options at kicker.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Your annual reminder that Sneakers is a Christmas movie

the sad thing here is that America's institutions of higher learning are full of actual theologians who study this kind of thing, at least at places where administration hasn't decided that learning how to write a LLM query is an acceptable substitute for humanities education

Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

Everything they do makes Trump look 10 times more guilty