Celebrating Rosh Hashanah, by which I mean I had honey on my yogurt parfait

Harris: Mamdani is the Dem nominee and Dems should support him, duh. Also NYC isn't all that.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Canceled Disney+, which will make my weekly viewings of Rogue One and Winter Soldier a lot more difficult

Ted Cruz on Brendan Carr threatening ABC over Jimmy Kimmel: “That’s right out of Goodfellas… We shouldn't be threatening government power to force him off air. That's a real mistake.”

Looking forward to Anderson Cooper interviewing a panel of a dozen women in weighted vests next October

Good stuff from @alexiscoe.bsky.social

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quo—and why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successors. @juliaazari.bsky.social's Backlash Presidents publishes September 23 (18 November UK pub). Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I love how Ben Shapiro's new book divides society up into "lions" (who build institutions and ideals) and "scavengers" (who tear those things down), which is a great metaphor except that lions are scavengers

New at Tusk: The government pressuring a corporation to fire a prominent critic of the president is one of those moments that breaks through for people who'd rather tune out

They're really going with the "partisan divide" framing

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

I guess nothing matters anymore but what the vice president is saying here is demonstrably untrue. See Kalmoe & Mason (2022) and just about any other academic study on US political violence.

Congratulations fellas, we’ve all moved one spot up on the world’s most handsome man rankings

Research confirms that the internet is, in fact, a series of tubes

New at Tusk: What a Star Trek episode has to say to Democratic leaders about compromise versus conflict

WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trying to imaging VP Harris hosting Maddow or Pod Save America www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

@juliaazari.bsky.social: Everyone quickly tried to impose narratives on the Kirk shooting; that made it harder to understand what actually happened

This is king erasure. Elizabeth died three years ago. #chuckbucks

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

As much as everyone likes to lambast the hyperbolic rhetoric, I think it’s also good to promote responsible rheyiric. So good on Governor Cox. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

I’m cryinggggggggff 😂

Great to have the president serving as Justice Department spokesperson and Lord High Executioner

Seriously, I heard about this one guy who was arrested for stealing classified presidential documents two years ago, and his trial still hasn't started

Straight out of the 1950s. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

New at Tusk: Surveys from my forthcoming book show that local party leaders largely reject violence across party lines, but there's disagreement among Republicans

Filling out a Bright Line Watch survey with an old Chicago-style mechanical lever voting machine

more than a decade of public scholarship has taught me that the moments when it's most tempting to react strongly and quickly are the ones when it's most useful to step back, seek context, and force yourself to think slowly. i don't always follow it, but those are my guidelines for myself.

I know I’ve been arguing that the link between economic performance and election outcomes is dying or dead, but to the extent it still exists, turns out the 2024 economy was mediocre at best

The 80s are having *such* a moment

New at Tusk: Trump's approval rating has gotten mired right around where it was for his first term, despite a very different economy. Why it's no longer the economy, stupid.

At the core of this is a student saying she refuses to engage with class material that goes “against our President’s laws”

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

When the strongman surrounds himself with true believers and even one of those will sometimes call him on his bullshit

John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."

Oh yes I will be writing an essay about how the SNW episode “Four and a Half Vulcans” is wildly offensive and normalizing race science that was mainstream and popular in United States in the 1850s Like Disco called this shit terrorism What the fuck is this regressive bullshit

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

A student of mine critiqued my campaigns syllabus for being too focused on modern events and not having enough Dukakis in tanks

My survey of local Democratic leaders finds they mostly blamed economic conditions for Kamala Harris' loss, although some were concerned about whether a Black woman could win. smotus.substack.com/p/it-wasnt-h...

David Brooks is desperate for "lefties who are willing to spend money fighting poverty but also willing to promote the traditional values and practices that enable people to rise” and I feel like he should go to any mainline Protestant Church on a Sunday

Alas sabbatical has come to an end, but honestly I feel like I kinda killed this one

52 years from now we'll receive this video from Vega along with instructions for building a spacecraft

On midterm conventions, plus so many links @mattglassman312.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social @smotus.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @johnsides.bsky.social @nataliej.bsky.social and more goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/midterm-co...

New at Tusk: Why local Democratic leaders think Kamala Harris lost in 2024

Spending the weekend “prepping” my “courses” and “finishing” my “APSA paper”

I'm taking a required course on how to responsibly perform federally-funded research and it feels like taking a bootlegging course right after the 21st amendment was ratified