A complementary pathology is that there's the perception that erring on the side of being too naive is somehow far worse than erring on the side of being too cynical, despite the fact that overly cynical predictions are wrong *all the fucking time*, wrong in just as consequential ways too!

am i drunk or is this fucking hilarious

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

i made a helpful reference

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.

Oreoboros

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

The basic rule of united front politics is you have to want to beat the enemy more than you want to control the coalition. You can’t trust liberals who hate leftists more than they hate conservatives. You can’t trust leftists who hate liberals more than they hate conservatives.

one year and everyone is so sick of your boy that Virginia is starting to look like Massachusetts and a democratic socialist won a million votes in NYC, get fucked

virginia democrats winning the three big offices with a cia agent, an indian muslim immigrant, and a black lawyer who loves committing terms of service violations is real 2025 democratic party moment

WE BUILD THE BLUE WALL TEN FEET TALLER

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

I’m so happy and grateful, oh my goodness.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Per @votehub.com , this is perhaps the biggest sign of what happened tonight. In Union City, an 82% Hispanic City in Hudson County, Sherrill received more voted in AN OFF YEAR than Harris did last year. 2024 President: D+17, 11,316-7,940 2025 Governor: D+68.8 13,304-2,402

“I am both an independent thinker AND every opinion I have is incredibly popular and would win elections” is somehow a thought all these “move to the center and throw trans people/immigrants/POC under the bus” people have and never bother reconciling.

I could just stop doing interviews and send this

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

I am as YIMBY as it comes but the one exception is for housing ICE. use every NIMBY trick in the book to fuck then over

I think Democrats should run on a promise to demolish Trump's Epstein Memorial Ballroom should they win in 2028, tbh

the NYT could never

reminder that when we win (as we inevitably will) we can't afford to let the same people who manufactured this morose state of politics get back at the wheel. this goes for believe-nothing democrats as much as """moderate""" republicans. there needs to be an actual change or we'll be back here in 32

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Kansas City. No Kings.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I would not be a national conservative if it was serious, but I would take its adherents seriously. But actually existing national conservatism consists of series of excuses to treat your neighbors as subhuman.

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

I admit that I do not fully grasp what the knowledge of an ongoing genocide demands of me, but I think if I were not bothered by that question—if I batted it away, like a gnat—it could only be because something essential and irreplaceable had absented itself from my soul.

As someone who’s been a Democrat for only six weeks, I think this is such an important point. We’re either a big tent, or we aren’t. And if we are a big tent, that means progressives unite around a moderate nominee, and moderates unite around a progressive nominee. Period.👇

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

To make an analogy as an Indigenous person, I'm critical of and roll my eyes at most land acknowledgements. But if you took this as a signal to go after land acknowledgements, instead of politically organizing for what indigenous people need, you are also part of the problem.

here are the results: since january 1, 2021, rufo has appeared in the WSJ 32 times. in the same period, he appeared in NYT 167 times.

Every Gujarati African I have ever met identifies as African first, and probably Indian second but possibly not Indian at all. Indians certainly consider us African, to a point where more traditional Indians will not intermarry with us, even if they are ethnically and religiously identical.

sorry if this offends but i hate this heinous bitch

as half-cuban I gotta say, don't love the whole "let's round up every latin person in the country" rhetoric I'm seeing

since it's the last day of pride month I figured I'd at least make one thing for it... i now unveil to you my greatest invention: color bars pride flag

there's limits on how woke a pope a woke pope can be but on the scale of pope woke this woke pope is poping about as wokely as can be

Happy #pride 🌈 NYC

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...