Taylor Swift reversed the Knicks jinx

Seems like Boston did a hard pivot from “dressing like shit because it’s cold dark winter” to “dressing like shit because it’s oppressively hot.”

I went through a Bolognese making phase last year, and IMO the Bon Appetite recipe is better. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Some levity for your timeline.

I am frankly ashamed that our country is hosting this joyous event against a backdrop of rising ethno-fascism.

This man is literally embodying my new external political efficacy construct. Yeesh.

IDK chat, but I'm kinda thinking of going heavily analog for the course materials in one of my classes this fall. Like, readings assigned on physical paper.

Me re-re-running all of the final replication code for my research paper I started back in 2022:

The widespread use of LLMs diminishes creative ideas. An analysis of over 2000 college essays finds that human-written essays contributed more new ideas than GPT-4 written essays www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Parameter- or prompt-modifications does not mitigate the creativity gap.

This is a great policy proposal. Urban areas need to construct a substantial number of additional condo units with two, three, and four bedrooms, ideally near existing public transit infrastructure. This solves a whole lot of problems at once!

This guy is External Political Efficacy inducements personified.

This is Bass's challenge now that she is facing a viable alternative in the general: what can she blame a single council member for when SHE IS THE MAYOR? Only 34% of voters so far cast a ballot for her in the prelims. Not great!

Zaid Jilani's recent statements: June 6: The Nazi tattoo'ed extramarital sexter is "morally superior" to the Democrats June 7: "Democrats are scaring away men!" June 9: Democrats should force *some* women to carry to term, as a treat Yikes yikes yikes.

tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building

dawg they booed through “The Star-Spangled Banner” to get to the president

The last time the Knicks won the championship was the year DOJ sued Fred & Donald Trump for racial housing descrimination.

I demand more Booing and more Booing posts

Friend waiting to get in to MSG reports that when the motorcade rolled by Trump was waving out the window to “the loudest set of boos I’ve ever heard”

Awesome job alert for election-brained data-enthusiasts. Apply apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/tmc/jobs/857...

Go @burhanazeem.bsky.social go!! #mapoli

An example of the Protest Paradigm in action: Professional journalistic norms result in delegitimizing news coverage that focuses on violence & confrontation with police at the expense of policy demands. #polcomm

I guffawed.

screworm outbreak is another good opportunity to remind americans that government is what protects us from things like this and not the magical free market. want safe food? government, bitch.

Our sister school, UW-Eau Claire is hiring a VAP in American Politics. MA or ABD are welcome. 1 year appointment but likely to be renewed a second year. And a good opportunity to get strong consideration when the line turns into a TT position. Reach out to @adamkunz.com. www.uwec.edu/job-postings...

This is such a solid, straightforward argument.

Raman passes Pratt in the LA Mayor tally

Over the last five years, the number one reason millennials and Gen Z leaders have given us for wanting to run for local office is “the cost of housing.” It is THE thing that pushed people to act. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/n...

My estimate yesterday was that Raman needed to win what was left over Pratt by 12-13% . Today, after this batch (which she won by 21%), my estimate is that she has to win what is left over Pratt by 9-10%. So she is certainly on track.

Ok soccer I’m listening…

“quote-unquote real job”

He has until July 13 to drop out. Maine Dems could, in theory, poll all of the popular also-rans in the Dem Gov primary and pick the strongest vs. Collins.

LOLOL my page proofs have a Beyonce reference I snuck in there 2+ years ago.

Right now I kinda envy people who just make art and don’t follow politics.

Uhh timeline cleanse?

Plenty of lefty and "progressive" men will reveal their misogyny when given the chance. Let's not act like embracing Trump in spite or because of treatment of women is something unique to the right.

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

Looking forward to learning who won in California three weeks from now.

I just rolled my eyes so hard I may have strained a muscle.

I dunno, chat. The Platner situation is giving Dems the chance to experience having your own Truly Awful, Reprehensible candidate... and that's who likely stands between you and a possible Senate majority. Lots of blame for the situation to go around: Katz, Schumer, Mills, the voters of Maine...

Does anyone actually expect anything to *happen* for this event at this point? I tried to avoid being cynical, but it’s clear that the USA in its current incarnation cannot pull off celebrating its 250th.

“There is a way to address our housing shortage. It’s called building more housing and building it faster,” Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll said at a pro-housing rally at the State House last week. buff.ly/ttsaP2m

Just for funsies, can someone who has a large survey going out into the field in the next week ask a question about whether or not this slush fund actually happened?

One of the Boston news letters I read cited increased MBTA ridership. Gotta figure general economic / COL strain is behind part of it, and gas prices will only cause this to (cough) accelerate.

No Strait This Month, Happy Pride

oh well if candy crush businessman mel morris says so

POLITICIANS: these protestors in the streets are outside agitators PROTESTORS: so if we’re locals, you’ll listen? POLITICIANS: no

My current takeaway on this whole race is that Platner is a piece of shit, and voters in Maine have no standards. Seriously! They do not care. Signed, A 6th Generation New Jersey native and adopted Masshole

“AOC is right: The bigger ambition is to change the world, not just to be the one in the position to change it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

If you have not seen the film Pride, you absolutely should! It depicts the origins of the relationship between these two communities.

Priming: The manner in which the news media shapes how readers contextualize of a topic by highlighting specific concepts or issues. Here, they are priming readers to see the TX Senate race as a contest over who is the most masculine.