Booooo

What’s crazy to me is how badly Virginia wants this flag back, and how little they seem to grasp that they are never ever getting it back. “It’s more important to Virginia than Minnesota” - oh, is it? Is it really? Sounds like you still don’t really get why all those Minnesota boys were out there

Steven Spielberg and David Lynch United Artists and Pixar Studios James Turrell and Wayne Thiebaud Thelma Schoonmaker and Marcia Lucas The lobster roll and Cincinnati style chili Salt and Straw and Oklahoma fried pie The redwood tree and the saguaro cactus

Its easier to get YIMBY/abundance policies on the left (which actually wants to do stuff) versus the center (which sees triangulation as a virtue and is terrified of bold ideas). You wont get abundance if you need to votes of jared golden or MGP to do it

There needs to be some kind of infrastructure to redistribute wealth from maga people to democrats via automated scams.

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

What was the point of the years of naked corruption if we're gonna get screwed like that?

That’s a ridiculous red card. Germany’s disallowed goal was also ridiculous.

the thing is that Cohn's poll is all priors and he's honest about it: he doesn't think anyone can get enough data. the priors have just been good enough that it's played out the way he wanted it to.

This is kind of a trend with MAGA apologists: You take something so utterly normal it hadn’t even been remotely controversial pre-Trump (like “law enforcement should normally identify themselves and not wear masks”) and pretend it’s some wacky innovation.

nina totenberg spent a career not doing actual journalism and then fucked it up the first time she tried it

The funny thing about this whole thing is that Culver’s shrimp is a mid Culver’s item.

King shit btw

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Cool that James Madison envisioned everyone having a rocket launcher but the authors of the 14th amendment explicitly stating their intentions doesn't count for some reason.

Think this person muted me bc I said the American political press favors republicans and hates Dems. How the turn tables.

We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I think this case is one where—paradoxically—the larger the reform, the more moderate it appears. A small change to just the Supreme Court is much more easily dismissed as a partisan power grab.

Go home and rest Tomiyasu

“Takeaways are entrusted to the reader” is such a fucking line my goodness if that doesn’t describe basically everything wrong with the press today. Back in the day I’ve had a journalist tell me explicitly they don’t bother reporting Trump’s corruption because the public already knows.

We’re back to the Sunday market manipulation loop, folks

When the benign explanation is “our political press care more about their feelings about Joe Biden than whether Trump regularly raped children” then it really does raise salient questions like “Do people in media even think pedophilia is bad? Do they think it’s good because they practice it?”

One of my weirdest claims is that I don’t totally believe gentrification is real

Just one example- Tucker could donate tens of millions of dollars to the Democratic Party. That’s one way.

I think about him every day, but that’s only bc I think his death was one of the funniest things to happen this century.

I’d say there’s still time to delete this but honestly don’t think there is

This to me was always the best argument for autonomous vehicles. Cars are all designed like a theater pointing in one direction. What if every car was like a limo?

that's well put. eg, Thaddeus Stevens aimed as high as possible but he'd always take whatever sized loaf he could get when it came time to count votes. a guy like Rahm Emanuel negotiates with himself and then gets bargained down from there

I can just about understand the “pro-life” worldview. But opposing contraception and gay marriage have absolutely no possible justification in the social contract.

The Republican Party has abandoned the American project and are laser-focused on waging war against the American people, the only sovereign that our Law recognizes

A/C discourse, which I will otherwise be avoiding please and thank you, has reminded me of this passage from Norman Malcolm’s memoir of Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein visited Malcom in Ithaca, NY, in the Summer of 1949 (his only visit to the US).

The thing about Alito is that he a gutter racist of the worst kind

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

@mattyglesias.bsky.social maybe you could convince your friends to write a letter in a national magazine about this censorship?

the wachowskis did not disguise the camera as part of of morpheus' outfit to get this "impossible shot" so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable":

I think this will just delay it, which is fine, bc I’d like the Dems in 2029 and 2030 to benefit from higher housing production

you hired a bunch of people who like to kill people, sent them to an academy and trained them to shoot first and the only important thing was ending your shift alive, gave them an all powerful union, armed them to the teeth, and then never prosecute them. At this point, cop killings are intentional

You may as well say "Democrats and Republicans are diverging on whether developed society should exist" news.gallup.com/opinion/poll...

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

The left ceded all notions of patriotism to the right? I saw that and didn't get it. Then I remembered the same person's assertion scolding everyone that they have to be on X because that's where persuading regular people happens, and it made more sense. Sometimes the timeline delivers.

NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts.

Ive knocked tens of thousands of doors in southern Arizona and have found that isn’t true at all. Plenty of libs fly the American flag.

Turkey is pretty indisputably the worst team at this World Cup given the quality of opposition they’ve lost to

Remember this when the Teamsters try to feign solidarity when it suits them…

And anyway, the vast, vast majority of people with mental illness and substance abuse issues are not homeless. It's a risk factor, but most of them have housing, and not even subsidized housing. Some have help from family but a lot provide for it on their own.