Omg the reason most voted yes is bc Tesla is a meme stock driven by retail. losing elon means a crash in value. Not bc he’s a genius that will make great products in exchange for proper incentives. We must regulate the gamification of Wall Street. It’s FanDuel but with macrofin implications.

“I thought I was being invaded” because brown people were knocking on the door If you believe them - they’re extraordinarily racist If you don’t believe them - they’re hate criminal racists

Easy credit, opaque and hyped up financial instruments, defanged regulators, atop an economy still recovering from a pandemic…

The incredible shrinking attack on U.S. universities continues. Cornell has signed an agreement—but unlike the UVA agreement, instead of pledging to follow the gov't's highly questionable July "guidance" on discrimination, Cornell simply agrees to hand it out to faculty as a "training resource"!

Unprecedented corruption

To qualify for SNAP benefits, your income must be at or below 130% of the federal poverty level. For 2025, this is $1,696 per month for one person and $3,483 for a four-person household. Why are these are the families and individuals we portray as entitled? open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

#lawsky Cincy college of law is hiring a professor of practice! Deadline 12/1 Come meet Rico and Fritz jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

Best. Take. Ever.

Oh yay southwest Ohio is getting a data center too 🥳🎉🎈🍾 local12.com/news/local/d...

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

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Notable that the reasons for “leaving” (if they do leave) have zero to do with socialist policies and everything to do with “antisemitism,” crime etc. Those leaving for reasons of “competitiveness” were already gonna leave. And that one soon-to-be expat is a billionaire developer (good riddance)

Intel Corp has a question

The only person who has been seizing private companies through the power of the state is Trump.

more upsets: in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (a 54% Trump and ancestrally Republican county), Democrats have likely won a county judicial race for the first time since at least World War II

Obviously cuomo would have won if Lara trump stumped for him while singing god bless the USA on autotune

He’s got almost as many jokes as JD

Omg my fellow Kentuckians go touch some of that bluegrass

Trying to keep track of the MAGA hot takes. First up, we have the “sliwa is a spoiler there is no mandate”

My word

apnews.com/article/redi... 😱😱😱😱😱

Our votes are going predictably bad in Texas. Overwhelmingly stupid const amendments. But not just Texas, Texasing, Austin faced an enormous campaign against Prop Q, a barebones tax to maintain homeless services/parks/etc in the face of state cuts to taxes. And we are voting no. And it sucks

Looks like we’re finally getting our first Black mayor in Syracuse

This is making me too hopeful stop it

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

If Cincinnati can learn to pronounce the name of their mayor, Aftab Pureval, surely everyone else can learn to say “Zohran Mamdani” properly.

I know tonight is rightly mostly about Mamdani and Virginia — but let us take a moment to savor a loss for dear JD

Seeking corporate law dork input to the issue-spotter of the decade! I'm pondering Trump's purchase of 10% of Intel. Did the board breach any fiduciary duties? There's the a possible duty of care claim (how fast did they agree? did they consult any experts? what impact on, e.g., sales in China?)

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Trump pulls out a carrier/base on the Black Sea so nato feels abandoned (so much for forcing Putin to negotiate in good faith), then test launches Nukes (cuz…who are we supposed to be deterring? Putin? But see Supra) and meanwhile hegseth told generals to quit if they still followed the laws of war

If it looks like republicans are being pretty reckless about how they’ll do in midterm elections, you have to ask yourself why. Who’s in charge of making sure that people who are elected actually get seated?

I’m so sick of the economic issues are more important than social issues people. 44% of the US is non-white, 30% are white women. We’re all included in “DEI,” a group they’re trying to kick out of the job market. It’s hilarious that anyone thinks they can have an economy without us.

And I think we need to talk about what this portends if the midterms don’t go their way despite the gerrymandering and voter repression tactics

This w/e I was fortunate to learn from @epopppp.bsky.social about the history of theories of value and how marginalism disfigures our administrative governance.

And investing in musk Oh wait

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. ➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Authoritarianism wins when there’s no countervailing power in civil society. Institutions and organizations, clubs, unions, churches with the resources to resist - and inspire others to resist. We talk about lot about universities. But what about an even bigger resource — our businesses…?

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

A reminder that a completely unqualified Republican politician, Marco Rubio, is the Acting Archivist of the United States, a fact which fills me with such utter disgust as a professional archivist and librarian. The records entrusted to his care are of enduring value and irreplaceable.

apnews.com/article/affi... After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class.

Not sure whether a society loves children when it forces its children to have children

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making. In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

At the same time the Trump admin is dismantling the production of data necessary to solve public problems, industry is building up its production of data in order to monetize us for private profit. So. “Science and facts” not in great shape

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