Little feet came running into my room at 12:30am. “Happy Birthday!” I am very lucky. 🥹

Chuck Schumer is teh suxxors

Not gonna lie, at this point in time this is kind of the working definition of Hell

I am looking forward to Nuremberg 2.0

Worth your time from the great @brianbeutler.bsky.social

This is the kind of thing Hannah Arendt was talking about when she said people have a responsibility to think.

Gay Americans exist, they are exactly as American as all other Americans, and their history is true American history just like the rest of American history. Ordering educators to erase millions of their fellow Americans from existence is sick, bigoted, and profoundly anti-American.

This article is really interesting w/r/t two aspects of digital political communication #polcomm 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/o...

Americans prefer Democrats to Republicans for “maintaining a strong economy” for the first time since 2010:

What if I told you government could do things to meaningfully improve your life?

I put together this "experiment checklist" for the grad students in my experiments class -- practical advice for experimental design. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lwbco...

🚨New Working Paper!🚨 How do Americans mentally map political coalitions? We often talk as if U.S. politics is just two sorted camps. But when people think about which groups go with which, the picture is more complicated. 🧵👇

Just saw a Facebook reel of raviolis having a rave (“rave-iolis”) and you know what?! That *is* the kind of content I want more of in my feed.

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Just saw the Sue Bird / Megan Rapinoe news and reader I GASPED 😲😲😲😲 Then thought about how much of their podcast is talking about how much they argue 🤔

I just want to be clear that I will read an 8000 word article about how his political career is leading people to discover his music.

This is a really interesting conflation of what "socio-economic status" means. Social =/= economic. There are social roles (based usually on employment) with high(er) culture capital but those may not (often do not!) convey the economic capital of, say, a banking executive.

“The next Einstein” dies every day in a favela or informal settlement, from malaria, dysentery, pollution, dirty water, preventable disease, and poverty. All fixable problems, but humans who *could* fix them choose not to.

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mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

In which I argue that politics is downstream of culture. news.northeastern.edu/2026/04/15/t...

Not enough to flip districts, gotta elect people who don’t suck.

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán: 1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee 2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

One candidate's past Town Meeting votes to abstain from LGBTQ+ resolutions take center stage in the Brookline School Committee election. She's also been criticized for comments on the deaths of children in Gaza that she says were taken out of context. brookline.news/school-commi...

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Gallego has said gross stuff about the women he serves with in Congress. I really don’t know how much good faith he deserves here.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

This is truly horrifying on so many fronts, including the likely use of AI and the careless corporate cruelty Target used here.

Amen! // Faith-based land could unlock hundreds of thousands of new Massachusetts homes www.axios.com/local/boston...

With the 1st pick of the WNBA Draft, the Dallas Wings select Azzi Fudd! 2026 #WNBADraft presented by State Street Investment Management SPY

Azzi and Paige! Love wins! Go #UCONN! Go Dallas!!

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

YUP. In TX, women circulated an anon. “Burn Book” of men who were known harassers &!assailants. There were legislative offices where women interns were warned away. A colleague of mine in Upstate New York had to tell women political science majors they were not safe interning in Cuomo’s office.

Fuck yeah, just got invited to do a press interview on the rise of swearing in politics.

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

Ahhhh I just came up with the most elegant and simple yet effective data solution to a thorny problem and I am feeling so great rn 😎

In France, a new wave of black mayors & other elected officials won office in the recent nationwide elections. Smart, dynamic, & left-wing, they represent a France that tourists never see (or want to see). Their victories have sparked a racist backlash. Good read. 👇🏽

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

Never underestimate the political force of people who get fed up with your bullshit and realize they can just run you out of town! Also profound case for state and local work because you can score big wins with outsized impact, often on a slim margin.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

Gonna have to call it something other than a Common-wealth at this point

It was snowing this morning, 2 days after Easter. Sigh. We all owe Al Gore a huge apology.

Wait… UConn has a men’s team too?! 😜