The latest from YouGov (n ~ 4k). About half of people think they'd get Rapture'd. Just 1 in 5 think they wouldn't. ...mmkay. today.yougov.com/topics/socie...

Great question. We had results on this that I found very surprising in our summer 2025 survey with Young Men Research Project. We conducted a message test around how to talk about tariffs, including two messages that focused on different aspects of its impact on costs. www.ymrp.org/polling 1/

"I think we can handle one little interview with Chotiner"

Another day of heroic pollsters preventing the Rapture by remembering to apply weights to their data

As People Mag Points out, a treatment for autism Dr. Oz just announced Trump’s FDA is approving is sold by a supplement company owned by… Dr. Oz. people.com/what-is-leuc...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1100). A majority say vaccines do not cause autism, about 15 percent do. Most people say people with autism face at least some discrimination in society today. About 11 pct of 65+ people knew someone with autism as a kid. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Au...

"So you have the legal team that lost Fox News $2bn to Dominion Voting Systems... and the legal team that lost Alina Haba's US attorneyship because they literally forgot the filing paperwork and her address... and you just libeled an enormous pharma company based on a discredited blog post?"

A nicely polished, wheeled stage prop hauled by a guy in an expensive suit with a conspicuous choice of comfortable walking shoes. This is such a good encapsulation of the fake, rotten multilevel marketing scam Republicans have branded as Christianity

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel announced on X Friday afternoon that after much "considerable thought and prayer," he won't be part of the 2026 race for governor in the Buckeye State. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/22/j...

Jerome holding the line

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 9k). People believe vaccines are beneficial, and believe MMR vaccines should be required. RFK Jr approval is at -16 on net (compared to about -12 for Trump). today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

Thinking about how Russia has very intricate and detailed tax laws on the books so that Putin never has to worry about promoting someone he doesn't have absolute leverage over

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 9k). People believe vaccines are beneficial, and believe MMR vaccines should be required. RFK Jr approval is at -16 on net (compared to about -12 for Trump). today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

Quick summary of some message testing we ran on talking to young men about the impact of tariffs

donald trump is just fucked up on a molecular level

Solidly 99 percent of the people fuming at this post are making some... bad assumptions about the views of people who did not vote in 2024

Just openly mocking the notion Trump would ever have the backbone to actually commit to a military alliance www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Hm. TIL Roosevelt's "four freedoms" speech got crickets when he originally gave it

It’s bleakly fascinating how little there is to the man. There’s nothing under the mask. This is all there is.

Republicans just tanked a commonsense proposal to keep the government open AND prevent your premiums from skyrocketing. They’re clearly on the record now: they’d rather shut down the entire government than keep health care affordable for millions.

Daily reminder to all the reply guys to polling results on this website who are shocked and appalled that any normal person could dare be unsure how they feel about various political questions these days

Quick summary of some message testing we ran on talking to young men about the impact of tariffs

#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency. Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll. www.bls.gov/cex/notices/... #econsky

Daily reminder to all the reply guys to polling results on this website who are shocked and appalled that any normal person could dare be unsure how they feel about various political questions these days

Great question. We had results on this that I found very surprising in our summer 2025 survey with Young Men Research Project. We conducted a message test around how to talk about tariffs, including two messages that focused on different aspects of its impact on costs. www.ymrp.org/polling 1/

I appreciate Zack going through the *how* of how we'd lose our democracy. It's not canceling elections or troops in the streets, it's takeover of media platforms and either buying off or silencing dissenters.

I regret to inform you I have stared at the word "accommodate" long enough to decide it was originally pronounced "axom-MOE-date"

I'm wondering if the online brainrot on the right helped tip them over into thinking they could just get away with pressuring Disney to fire Kimmel. He's one of the biggest names on TV, period. We forget how many normal people watch TV! today.yougov.com/topics/enter...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3k): Welp. today.yougov.com/topics/socie...

Every single reply to this is "it doesn't matter what these people think, the Constitution unambiguously protects this speech" and I just don't think all these people stepping out of the time machine into 2025 picked a very good year for their chronosafari

not able to reply so i'm QTing simply to say... QT

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

this is what every uncle no one hangs out with voluntarily outside of Thanksgiving sounds like after having his beliefs probed for more than 45 seconds

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

Susan Collins is not interested in standing up to Trump. Consider supporting the local Maine activists fighting for a better Senator in 2026. secure.actblue.com/donate/jrsli...

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3k). People overall believe Jimmy Kimmel's comments were acceptable. Further, people found FCC Chair Brendan Carr's comments about planning to retaliate *unacceptable.* And overall, people strongly disapprove of canceling Kimmel's show today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

My general sense is most comedians know comedy is in a bubble right now with way more money in it than is warranted in the long term, and I hope its biggest names know they could really damage the industry's appeal by failing to speak out on this extremely obvious government repression of rude jokes

The 53-32-24-21-39-67 road trip (KC BBQ through German meat+cheese through Ohio Jewish delis through Pierogi Central up to the ancestral homeland of the Buffalo Wing) would make for a top tier road trip

They're reading the subscriber comments and they're afraid I know we're supposed to believe that everyone who ever held these types of beliefs is an irredeemable monster but you can see that a lot of them are seeing the hypocrisy plain as day

I think the information environment has a lot to do with how people evaluate the economy but also the fact of the matter is consumption is currently being propped up by the conspicuous wealth and spending of the top 10% Per this chart, the top 10% of earners ~ 49% of consumer spending

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

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Gentle reminder that Trump also declared Antifa a terrorist organization once in 2019 and once in 2020, and Congress also entertained resolutions to this effect in 2019, 2021, and in January of this year. I don't think democracy is dead. I think Trump is, once again, flailing.

I know its stupid to want Rogans of the left but I think it's worth observing that relatively small production outfits, that wear their views on their sleeve and don't have to limit their bravery to that of the most cowardly corporate exec, are probably harder to cancel just because the FCC wants to

all the Brave And Dangerous comics out there with specials called "TRIGGER WARNING" and "CANCEL THIS!" quietly hissing to their producer to make sure Brendan Carr sees their fawning praise for his decisive action on this week's ep

Getting to live in DC at least for a bit is great for many reasons, among them, you learn how much of the thing called "punditry" is actually just boring guys who want to be perceived as interesting at upscale Georgetown house parties and overpriced Dupont happy hours

Honestly, this is pretty strong. What's striking about it, to me, is that he specifically describes what Kirk's ideas were. That may be a low bar, but an awful lot of people have failed to clear it.

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