America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is an acceptable thing to say if you are resigning “standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work… for me… so I am stepping down” and only then.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

One small part of the terrible Senate deal: “The bill would hand the beer industry a major win by restricting the sale of intoxicating hemp products. The hemp industry claims the provision threatens 325,000 jobs.” -Bloomberg News www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

They think we are deeply stupid.

Carefully choreographed votes and angry press releases are all cute, but the indication of whether anyone in the caucus really cares is whether there’s any push for leadership changes or punitive action against the cavers. There won’t be, but that would be the theoretical sign this is different

Republicans could have voted for this on their own. They wanted Democrats to share the burden because it is a disaster for the American people. They got what they wanted.

Bartels did a study 20+ years ago looking at how much a member of Congress' record coincided with their constituents' views, broken down by income. MCs are a lot more responsive to their wealthier constituents. Think about whom SNAP and flight delays affect. www.russellsage.org/sites/defaul...

YouTube TV announces an agreement that will formally request ESPN and Disney consider allowing the service to air its channels in the future. Asks customers to continue their subscriptions until January.

Democrats are extremely fortunate that people still showed up to vote for them in force despite their disgust with the party. That's something that might not last forever.

You don’t need the fake vote to campaign against them gutting health care, but they know that and think we are dumb.

Since we’re playing chicken with people’s health care: The fact that there are subsidies to ACA premiums with any kind of expiration at all is a compromise that Republicans extracted to water ACA down in the first place. Precisely so they could have this opportunity to attack it again in the future.

I will admit that this is the single funniest outcome of us doing a Keep Politics Out Of Sports after a guy kneeled

A normal society would react to this by introducing regulations to prop betting or rolling back accessibility to online betting Instead we'll just get a new TV spinoff, Law & Order: Sports Investigation

HE WAITED TO COME FORWARD ON PURPOSE: “I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”

"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹

I love having the BigTen West’s great equalizer show up this weekend, horrendous weather.

Iowa has absolutely done some sort of sacrifice to an ancient and forgotten deity. Getting absolutely run over and yet… here we are again.

The majority of Americans – and a supermajority of Democrats – believe the economy is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. (Ipsos) www.ipsos.com/en-us/lesson...

Yeah… you could say the Gophers men’s ballers got a coaching upgrade, I guess.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Expanding the court is the compromise position.

The Supreme Court…

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

There were R +12-esh seats that got picked up on Tuesday. I think gerrymandering is now wildly more dangerous.

This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.

Spam texting is not organizing or outreach. The end.

On November 23rd you will all wear your luckiest Lynx gear and/or your luckiest trinket

This, but also require blind trusts

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

Should the government try to reduce the gap in wealth between the rich and the poor? (Economist/@today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251105-top...

More and more people are saying this 😅

My favorite comment on the FT story

I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

I've had this in my head all morning, and now you should too youtu.be/k3SsYyTUu50

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Someone ought to run for president on a platform of outlawing Meta and sending Mark Zuckerberg to a supermax prison for his crimes against humanity

I thought the NYT screenshots were fake yall that’s how stupid that is.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Why stop at two?

Most Americans think taxes on billionaires are too low. (Economist/@today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251105-top...

And Altman too conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

Somebody call Bill McGuire and get this done.