I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

bird flu? i bet it did

It’s really wild how we’ve memory holed covid-19 and the horrors of 2020. Especially with RFK Jr set to destroy our health institutions, we have completely violated the last sentence of Chapter 9 in the 9/11 report:

increasingly becoming aware of the gap between me in the the "oh god the voters hate my policy preferences even more than I thought" camp and people in the "secretly all voters hold my policy preferences" camp

I was kinda spitting with my first skeet during the great Yglesias discourse of ‘23

Medlock is truly the best poster of all time. No bad vibes or stupid drama, just taxes and the welfare state and cute cats.

Someone get my boyfriend an invite code I can’t keep screenshotting my skeets and texting them

Every time I experience Taiwanese healthcare I get so jealous

Bluesky gets it’s first main character

(Other than his weird antitrans stuff) I think Matt Yglesias is a thoughtful contributor to political discourse