this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

You: You’re a professor? What do you teach? Me: History. You: I hate history. Me: Well, history probably hates you, too. #PlotTwist

Sneaky MFers Keep that in mind for mail in ballots Have postmaster stamp it or better yet use ballot drop box 🤔🤔🤔🤔

damn that baby looks cool as hell

When there are people in your community living in terror, the question to you is simple: what are you doing to give them aid and comfort?

You will be visited by three spirits, and it will feel good.

Co-sign. This book is devastating and so very powerful. An essential read.

The idea that enhancing surveillance in academic buildings will protect students from mass shootings is absolutely fucking preposterous. What it will increase is the criminalization of our students. Reject it!!! GUN CONTROL IS THE ANSWER TO GUN VIOLENCE. BEAT THE GUNS INTO PLOWSHARES.

One more time for the shlubs in the back.

Every poll: 80% of Americans want gun control, legal weed, medicare for all, AI restrictions, bans on data centers, end corporate welfare, high speed rail, universal education, and massive taxes on billionaires Democrats: "aw, gee whiz, if we ran on that platform we'd only get 80% of the vote"

National Democrats folding on AI regulation in 5, 4, 3, 2...

I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.

I wrote a bit about the Netflix Seymour Hersh Doc Cover-Up, and how it's a good reminder that legacy media has always been on the side of power.

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

Dear God but these people just plain hate the Non-whites.

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website https://theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/

Are white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.

If the Pentagon can give $8.6 billion to build 25 F-15 jets for Israel then why are republicans so upset about giving children school lunches?

🧵, and all the comments.

Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

bring back shame and consequences - with emphasis this time around on the consequences

This is a really interesting look at the knotty politics, economics, and communication challenges of climate policy, and also a good reminder that Joe Manchin has singlehandedly done more damage to America's future than any non-Republican human on the face of the Earth.

Amen.

Crucial history.

BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇

Exactly.

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges. But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control

A word.

"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump." On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did. We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.

Letter of recommendation questions be like: "How do you think the applicant would negotiate the situation if they were held hostage in the Nakatomi Towers by German terrorists during a Christmas party?"

Come through!

Yup.

Happy Andrew Cuomo retirement day, for all who celebrate.

GOOD.

Wild

True justice would be if Klein, Yglesias, the Pod Bros, and all of the white dude pundits would take a 4 year sabbatical from commenting on politics.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Yup. Watch and learn.

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

Politics is so complicated.

This is flat out racist.

They were sleeping, driving, walking in Memphis. Then Trump’s police task force came. Law enforcement surge established to focus on violent crimes has ensnared innocent residents going about their everyday lives. @wendicthomas.bsky.social @kathsburgess.bsky.social for @propublica.org @mlk50.com