This 41-part takedown of Matt Yglesias' latest horseshit is a masterpiece. Very informative and worth a read.

what is happening at Brown is horrific. And the Supreme Court conservatives helped cause it by making up a new second amendment in 2008

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It’s such a shame all those Harper’s letter signatories died in that huge fire or they’d be all over this

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.

These boat strikes will be nothing compared to the war crimes they will commit after they initiate regime change to seize Venezuelan oil companies.

Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker. The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”

If Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t fight for us who will

Analysis | By calling for the execution of prominent Democrats, President Trump is preserving the legacy of Charlie Kirk.

for sale: cybertruck, never cool

Remember how, during Trump’s first impeachment, it became clear there was an entire server full of extremely incriminating calls between Trump and foreign leaders - and Pelosi literally killed efforts to get that server because she preferred a “quick, narrow” impeachment that would be “simple”?

Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project

We should NOT be selling weapons to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world. This should be a no-brainer. MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.

Schumer acknowledged to reporters he was involved in negotiations with Thune on the CR, and specifically the provision entitling senators to millions in compensation. 1/

Seriously these people are so fucking stupid and awful. Solve some problems morons. We all grew out of musical chairs a long time ago.

I’m laughing hard enough that my kids are asking what’s so funny and I’m trying to figure out how to respond

Higher education “got in trouble” by paying men like this exorbitant salaries to ruin the liberal arts teaching function while sucking up to trustees for perks. As a former subject of a Gee administration, E. Gordon Gee is a synonym for high-profile foolish waste of money.

It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.

So is Harvard going to launch an investigation into Larry Summers, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and the use of university resources to support him?

The good thing about real democracy is no one has to beg billionaires for money.

Here’s the story by itself. Again: either he’s a terrible leader b/c he can’t hold his caucus, a terrible leader b/c he can’t communicate in a way that reflects tensions within the caucus, or a terrible leader b/c he feeds the public fairy tales. Those are the options. None flatter him.

Researchers have known for a long time that you can quickly spot when the fix is in by looking for statistically implausible numbers of games ending exactly one point under the spread.

the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry

I guess regular working class people are supposed to sympathize with the people who cave the second they might have to work weekends

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now

And the number of supposedly data-driven people who are comfortable with that is astounding to me. It turns out a lot of our political quants are FAR more invested in finding a curve that fits than they care whether the model is accurate and will stand the test of time.

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor! Dick?

One thing I find hard in this era of incipient fascism is to speak out in new, unfamiliar, and uncomfortable ways. I don't think Will Stancil—if I may be the first to drop his name without a "love-em-or-hate-em" qualifier—has ever had that problem. Good insight here on what it entails.

Finally, a practical, results-oriented political proposal.

Okay I’m reading it now and, no surprise, it suuuucks in exactly the ways you would expect.

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

If you are not there constantly attacking you have no idea what issues will catch salience. The right knows this. The left let's quantitative polling dictate the few things they allow themselves to talk about with who knows how many missed opportunities along the way.

My daughter is a special ed teacher at a CPS elementary school. They're planning special Halloween events because the kids have been told not to go trick-or-treating since ICE has made it too dangerous on the streets. How anyone with a heart can support this regime is beyond me.

Another interesting fact is just because there is no precedent for elected officials doing such brazen and extreme criminal acts directly in front of our faces does not mean it is somehow purely a "political matter" and not a criminal one.

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning

I get that there are times when disputes over news coverage are a matter of emphasis or perspective on big, sprawling events, but it feels bad for public trust in a publication when it fails to accurately describe a video that’s 20 seconds long, and that everyone can see.

More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States. For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story. They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see. This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

Again: I normally don't go to these things because I don't like huge crowds. But I'll be damned, if Mike Johnson is shitting his pants about it every day, you bet your ass I'm going

Tbh I think we ought to re-masculinize society through the dispensation of brutal, merciless justice to the class of intellectual quislings who are trying to carry us back to the middle ages

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The fact that Democrats remain overwhelmingly against impeachment is nuts. It is the equivalent of saying "Sorry everyone, the law is non functional and you need to operate outside all legal boundaries if you want to remove a fascist child rapist from power."

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