We need to replace physics with evolution as the paradigmatic science up and down our pedagogy. “Is MAGA ‘fascism?’” is precisely the same sort of question as “are dogs the same species as wolves?” It’s nothing at all like categorical lines in classical mechanics.

Why is educational attainment so predictive of partisan alignment? We’ve been moving that direction for a while. What happens at college has something to do with resentments of non-college voters. Thread on The Hard Hat Riots…

We need serious local news outlets, doing original reporting, subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party. Hyperlocal with lots of youth sports and WeRateDogs-type content.

C’mon, man, A. Parties aren’t “brands” B. It’s not “destroying” anything Scammy emails are a problem, but Mothership has been blocked from most Dem clients, & what they’re doing appears to not be easy to shut down. I want Dems to bleed them dry, but it’s not the party, it’s feeding off the party…

You all see how these news companies and TV channels are bowing to Trump? What can be done? Well, here’s a message more Democrats need to get into their heads. Spread the word 👇

The Cult of SCOTUS is created by law professors and journalists who gain status along with the Court. After WW2 the media became non-partisan and needed non-partisan protagonists. At the same time law schools and law faculty exploded.

This kind of thing will never hit home with voters as long as humanities professors throw a public shit fit when the Secretary of Education says parents expect college to prepare their children for a career.

The White House is way too small and it's impossible for Dems to do anything about it without getting trashed in the media so this is good.

Law schools have a hack gap problem.

I know people think that Dems are doing nothing but once again it just isn't true. Part II. (Good that @gregsargent.bsky.social is on this; you would think from some accounts around here that Dems are trying hard to downplay the scandal).

Minute 31: If you haven’t been the subject of the news it’s hard to describe how disorienting it can be to read something and be like, “Is the reporter a psychopath? Have they not met any human beings?” Only to hear normal people *praise* those journalists. youtube.com/watch?v=XBbk...

One of the things killing our democracy is that the professionalization of journalism has turned Enlightenment fantasies about how democracy works into the background assumptions informing the discourse.

If only we could a have a democracy as successful and stable as Brazil? What the actual fuck?

Academics loudly proclaim that you have to let them do anything.

Media-academy complex is never going to tell you they are the problem. Instead they say that they are democracy incarnate.

Intellectual diversity is neither here nor there when you devote a ton of resources to “higher” education for the favored 40% of students and leave 60% a chaos of under-resources choices for training after high school.

people would rather blame Tim Walz not saying the magic words because it's too blackpilling to admit the people who decide what our phones show us threw the election on purpose

It takes zero legal changes to end the dominance of neutral journalism. Just a tiny bit of imagination on the part of journalists.

New Congress, Two Beers In! @mattglassman312.bsky.social and I discuss the BBB, its institutional consequences for the House and Senate, and the status of Congress’s power of the purse. Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

“'Stop looking for the quick fix. Stop looking for the messiah. You have great candidates running races right now. Support those candidates,' Obama said, calling out the New Jersey and Virginia elections" www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...

This is among other things a partial test of the president vs. GOP aligned media...although it's possible that for Fox this one might be a trickier product to exploit than it is for, say, single-voice radio talk shows or social media posters.

Good forbid someone in Omar's position treat media business models as a variable, a thing which could be otherwise.

Isn’t this just a token of the general problem with critical theory used to make empirical claims, where clever people come up rhetorical moves to argue only “power relations” are real and everything else is an illusion?

Meta-process question for @joshhuder.bsky.social after listening to pod. Big Ugly Bill is vandalism but end of filibuster has to be ugly, no? Could you overcome status quo bias without terrible results *from the perspective of Senators voting Yes* from filibuster workarounds like reconciliation?

People really struggle with the idea that the New York Times is a for profit company executing a business strategy because that’s not the language used to communicate the strategy to the reporters (or to the public).

Why do people on this website even get out of bed in the morning?

There never have been any consequences for GOP lying. That’s a constant since Joe McCarthy. But unpopular policies still lose elections.

Bade is one of the worst people in Washington DC.

Pretty much everything egghead "reformers" have imposed on America has backfired. Why we continue to listen to folks outside the arena these subjects is beyond me.

Alligator Alcatraz is just Four Seasons Total Landscaping for jails. He demanded they open Alcatraz so his toadies did it. Good example of Trump 2.0 being so much more effective at empowering insanity.

I don’t think the reform folks have come around to the reality that strengthening parties vis a vis billionaires is the goal. That means removing all restrictions on party fundraising while putting obstacles in the way of effective spending by individuals and IEs.

A business model built for 1975 premised on “both sides=balance and, ultimately, truth” struggles to update its narrative about which side is which.

Turned on MSNBC “…divide in the Democratic Party, you’ve been endorsed by AOC by BerCLICK Mamdani got Tish James’ endorsement, Cuomo’s biggest was Ritchie Torres, no major Dems endorsed, but supposedly the Dem establishment was against Mamdani. Proof? Cuomo got $ from the former Repub mayor of NYC

You don’t need much imagination to envision how Dems could use this precedent to pass temporarily, then extend permanently, policies that had been off the table (public option, M4A, pick your favorite) More modestly: Temporarily then permanently undo the unprecedented safety net cuts in this bill

My idea for hyperlocal news subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party would feature an absolute ton of youth sports with highlight reels packaged for sharing on social.

It is extremely on brand that all the folks demanding Democrats get better at kayfaybe are failing to recognize when Democrats execute textbook kayfaybe.

Something to Note: Every major category of violent crime is down in Chicago, but there is no push to declare the progressive mayor Brandon Johnson a successful crime fighter because he didn’t invest in militarization. Even when progressives are successful, they won’t get credit.

Are we just making things up now? Gillibrand didn't endorse Cuomo. And someone who has to win statewide distancing herself from someone seen as an extremist upstate? Hardly seems to justify this level of disdain.

Two maladaptive institutions driving the current crisis: media and academy.

People will say he’s disingenuous but then why say it? The GOP antigovernment rhetoric was ahead of its antigovernment legislation and seems likely that current transformation will take time.

I think the way liberal advocates before the Warren Court linked racial progress with freedom *from* religion is way underrated as an unmitigated disaster for American democracy generally and racial progress in particular.

Some institutions require a Constitutional Amendment to change. Otoh, the media could change radically with just a little imagination. The academy is tied up in knots because its members are wealthy in status that would be threatened by major changes, but the threat is existential.

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You aren't allowed to own individual stocks at all in a Democratic White House.

Neither Schumer, Pelosi, nor Jeffries have weighted in on the NYC mayoral election at all

So Ganz was spreading positivity about America and the Democratic Party when a good lefty like Bill deBlasio was mayor?

This is madness.

So Ganz was spreading positivity about America and the Democratic Party when a good lefty like Bill deBlasio was mayor?

Is there a law against using the words like media or journalism in posts like this?