Just gonna lie here on the couch posting bangers because the alternative is to grade 566 assignments (yes I counted).

It’s incredibly obvious that Trump is unwell; in largely failing to cover this & its consequences, traditional media has lost vast amounts of credibility that they will struggle to ever regain, to the long-term detriment of democracy. No other President’s staff would let this happen in public!

The attention economy is bad and is increasingly rewarding worse and worse people!

As I sit here 2FA'ing into one of my Mom's accounts (calm down I'm her DPOA) I am reminded that the increasing technological hoops one must jump through to access their own information is impossible for many seniors to navigate.

This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too. Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.

If you are a state legislator, city council member, doctor, or scientist in an R+20 or better district and for some reason you want to be in Congress, you should probably start making calls tomorrow to form an exploratory committee.

There is no money in the world to cover EVERY R+12 seat or less in a last minute resource dump in Nov 2026

Just got SUCH a good deal on some new track pants, AMA

“That sounds illegal”

Can’t believe everything you read on the Internet so decide for yourself if fat-shaming, bullying, infidelity, Nazi tattoos, racism, homophobia, and rape denial are likely to co-occur in one person.

This is a really, really important point, AND there is going to be extreme skepticism of some of the good and worthy efforts to repair what he broke, which is fair & valid given the entire history of the US of A.

"Their rent is 50% of their income and their loans are 40% and their jobs are going to be replaced by computer and they prefer Experiences to Stuff but why kids not buy things"

How about Strong Floor to Area Ratio No Ceiling on height limits near transit?

This. Hard to over-state the degree to which inequality in $$ is leading to dire outcomes for both democracy and everyone else.

Instead of firing him and giving him $33 MILLION DOLLARS, pay him $23k a year to teach a 4/4 load and serve on 3 departmental committees.

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

I consider myself open-minded, but Woodstock eating turkey at the end of the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special is a bit… uncomfortable.

Breakfast of champions* *Mothers who were awakened pre-dawn by the lovely wiggly children with whom they shared a bed at their aunts’

Oh shit I did NOT realize Stranger Things was coming out today! Ack; I will now struggle to remain unspoilered.

This is the most eye-opening piece I have read that explains the economic conditions in which I and many of my peers find ourselves. Signed, Payer of $52k+ annually in childcare for the last 3 years

My 5yo sous chef did the dotting with butter 😁

I deeply admire Pew surveys, I assign them, I cite them. Also, I think they need to think and be more precise about what "using" YouTube means.

Ooh, this is a good take! But keep your shoes on, people, regardless of your class status or tax bracket.

First go read the Ezra Klein op-ed on building housing. THEN go read all the Boomer Libs in the top comments who are doing a "whataboutism" on his central argument. Sigh.

Bear in mind: it has ever been thus! There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted

This is the future liberals want

Classics from my childhood: Post-Its (ok steal from office) New Socks (my kids get these) Candy Your Favorite Pens A bunch of asparagus! (My Dad and I put fresh asparagus tied with a red ribbon in my Mom’s stocking every year for a decade. She loved it and cooked it the next day!)

As a post-doc I remember noticing that the parking garage was free, but the gym cost money. What you subsidize is what people will do!

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

Bahahaha, an academic publisher just quoted me a $2,990 "open access" charge. Mitch, please. (My university doesn't have a broad agreement with this publisher and the few APC credits available this year have already been used.)

The AVERAGE in Norfolk County MA is around $27k PER CHILD. The last monthly check I wrote for two kids in full-time daycare worked out to $1075 PER WEEK. That is almost $56k per year and includes a sibling discount.

Throughout my career as an organizer, I have watched as younger people show up to more established organizing venues only to have their ideas dismissed & their involvement rejected by older long-timers. Also: build more housing!

This is a societal problem that should be solved with government intervention, but instead of America is just force the nation’s Gen X and Millennial daughters to do it! // ‘We Had No Idea What Was Coming’: Caring for My Aging Father www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Ok tweeps, I have a fennel bulb to use up tomorrow. What should I make with it?

Someone please give me a large amount of money to experimentally assess the impact of Batman at your polling location on turnout. For enough money, I will attempt to obtain enough statistical power adequate to assess multiple superheroes.

Thank goodness Van Scoyoc is looking out for people in the most expensive $4M+ homes in this overly expensive town! 🙄

Extremely niche take: The fact that Lizza had <2k followers on here when he posted Part I, and now only has ~2k is evidence of how BlueSky DGAF about clout-chasing, insider-y, access-trading “journalists.”

One of my favorite consultants used to describe good candidates as “having a little Elvis in them” and that’s really kind of it. Mamdani has tremendous rizz. A lot of candidates don’t.

you know what? good advice.

help

Cancelled my plans so I could sit on my couch and eat frozen food (I cooked it first) and watch a romcom. Spent the day vacillating between Pretty Woman vs Devil Wears Prada, but wound up making a last-minute switch for one of cinema’s greatest Katharines.

I will read ONE and only ONE recap of the Oval Office visit today. Just one.

Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Man, if we can come out of this scandal with both Larry Summers and Jaime Dimon getting ostracized from polite society, that would be amazing.

Taking "ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter" energy into everything now.

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.