I believe this is what the “concept of a plan” looks like

Variety showing that it’s stuck in the early 80s

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

Bold move publicly saying you want people to go hungry

This man is 46 years old… My 70 year old father is wearing better.

Is it just me or is Word's spelling and grammar check getting progressively worse? inserting random commas in places they do not belong seems to be the latest annoyance.

Heritage in disarray! “He called Fuentes an “evil person” but one who “has an audience of several million people, and at least some of that audience might be open to be converted” to mainstream conservatism.” Long way to say nazis are fine if they vote for us www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is a spectacularly good speech.

I'll be watching how college presidents and boards move. Some people may push even harder on privates because they didn't get their electoral wishes but I could certainly see some presidents more publicly aligning with the anti-authoritarian faction.

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

Ok, that’s a good start, now:

Have the choppers started leaving New York skyscrapers carrying billionaires to safety yet, like it’s the fall of Saigon?

I’m going to assume that when reporters ask about last nights results, Johnson will say he didn’t have time to watch the news

Hell. Yess!

Have the choppers started leaving New York skyscrapers carrying billionaires to safety yet, like it’s the fall of Saigon?

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

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.

Races being called before I can finish my second cocktail of the night is a delightful outcome for my liver and the country

The politics team at Teen Vogue did some of the best reporting of the past few years, this is appalling

Time to start the new gig! I am joining @ncanetwork.bsky.social as Senior Director of Communications. I can’t think of a better time to craft the message about the importance and value of higher education, and I’m thrilled to be able to do that in support of NCAN’s policy goals. Let’s go!

Really encouraging to see a massive line for early voting in Fairfax. @abigailspanberger.com is going to win the VA Governor’s race!

I am dying laughing as one kid, who took a little longer to pick bc he didn’t want candy (braces), saw the Declaration of Independence and then had to run to catch up w/ his friends, unsuccessfully yelling over their howls and hoots “Guys - guys, guys - GUYS! I GOT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!!”

No purer measure of pop culture success than the costumes 2,000 children choose to wear when arriving at your house for candy, and after 15 minutes I’m already calling it for Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters

This is why my mountain biking pack always has a bottle of whisky in it.

This 👏 is 👏 how 👏 you 👏 do 👏 it 👏!

My cat is called Islay, partially because it’s the Scottish isle where my favourite whiskies come from, but partly because it’s never not funny to listen to Americans try to pronounce Islay correctly.

I wrote a quick piece on the Trump admin's newly published Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule that could limit some borrowers access to forgiveness even if they have spent ten years working in public service. #StudentLoans #PSLF #StudentLoanForgiveness www.forbes.com/sites/edward...

Oh 100%, every time healthcare costs come up as a topic of conversation, everyone I know talks about how they are paying so little and it really should be more expensive

My place of employment has been/is being targeted with accusations of "substantial illegal activity," as I imagine many public defender offices will be. But that's probably the point. Even fewer law grads will pursue indigent defense without PSLF for their 6 figures in loan debt.

If the administration wants to prevent student loan borrowers from receiving PSLF if they work for organizations engaged in supposedly illegal activity, why not use the proper legal channels to get such organizations shut down?

I wrote a quick piece on the Trump admin's newly published Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule that could limit some borrowers access to forgiveness even if they have spent ten years working in public service. #StudentLoans #PSLF #StudentLoanForgiveness www.forbes.com/sites/edward...

Hegseth clearly tried to grow a beard in high school and couldn’t. Now service members get this nonsense because he was mocked for a patchy neck beard as a teenager. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pure art from @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own

To say New College is struggling under its new regime would be an understatement. Makes this a fabulous way to guarantee that very few institutions sign on to the “compact” www.einpresswire.com/article/8619...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

"Does a college encourage respectful discussion and vigorous debate?" If your top colleges include states that have passed laws that restrict debate, and purge faculty and students for wrongthink, then maybe your ranking is measuring something else.

This is literally a version of the Putin playbook for staying in power forever and the press are just tossing it around as if it’s no big deal.

Worth noting this for the folks who say “they voted for this” of people in red states. Behaving like people who voted against your candidate shouldn’t get help will be one of things that turns the average person against Trump.

*New Yorkers en masse Promise?

or in six hours if my experience was anything to go by

How dare Canada interfere in another countries sovereignty! Stealing American jobs like that is truly beyond the pale.

It’s also illegal, but it would be rude to mention that in the headline.

I took two weeks off before I start the new job, so naturally I’ve spent all of the first week sick in bed. Finally felt well enough yesterday to start on making my new desk. So. much. Sanding.

Ready made campaign ad here for farm state dems.

Trump being famously charitable and reliable when it comes to donations and follow through

As someone has been grant funded for a long time, if it were this easy to raise money, I’d be a lot wealthier.

Good work here. This is what journalists should be doing more often. I would also love to see “so you’re saying that you’re basically powerless, as the Speaker of the House”?