Call it the Everything, Everywhere, All at Once playbook. This is a country of 340 million, with half of it all stored under a single tent. There is no option but to run local, subtly or overtly distancing oneself from the nebulous but unpopular national brand whenever necessary.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

America stood up tonight.

The City of Yes will build again.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

We are the superior West Germanic language. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

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

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

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Looking forward to the greatest champion of housing in the California state government — perhaps any state government — joining the halls of Congress.

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Representing San Jose!

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

First CEQA reform, now this. There's no better champion of California families who just want to afford a life here than @scottwiener.bsky.social, and I'm thrilled how much the Overton window has shifted on this issue of paramount importance.

Fewer than 1 in 10 of our Congressional races are considered competitive - in a country that's politically more or less 50-50. This is madness. And it doesn't have to be this way.

Losing the FiveThirtyEight polling database was a deep blow to the world of election analysis. But we’re so back, baby. Thanks to @gelliottmorris.com and all involved for their indispensable efforts.

His approval rating is in the mid-to-low 40s. Remind yourself of this whenever the incumbent government tries to lie to you.

Hopefully Jay and the @bsky.app team remain firm on this point. Singal, Yglesias, Hanania, and the VP can all be blocked (I’m often tempted myself); I’m not interested in making them unavailable to other people unless the violations are explicit and indisputable.

They are not, you know, actually sincerely against showing contempt for America or its values or its peoples. That’s the essence of their movement. What does MAGA mean other than America is no longer great? No, the demand for obeisance is only directed at certain people.

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I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

I don’t think the issue is so much that Jeffries is saying this as that his staffers are too lazy to tailor their messages to Birdapp and Butterflyapp. They are different audiences, and on here, he can increase his power level, just a little. I think we can take it.

My man has made it big. Elliott’s Substack is a strong recommend from me.

always kind of mystified by people who say stuff like “I don’t want to vote when it feels like a choice between stubbing your toe and getting shot” as though that’s a challenging dilemma

Saving this list for the next time I have a student ask why I say that Watergate was small potatoes compared to what goes on in an average week with this administration.

Our own cultural revolution

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

The Trump administration in a nutshell (from www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...)

Felony assault, in fact. The officer, Gregory Lairmore, likely feared for his life. Anyway, does Sean C. DUNN have a GoFundMe yet?

What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there

Indispensable work (as is convention) from @gelliottmorris.com.

Just watched the new Superman. I found it lighthearted and endearing, and the shots weren't just beautiful — and by the looks of it, expensive — the way they flew around in certain scenes gave them a curious, relativistic effect. All very much in line with Gunn's comic book vision for the film.

This rough transcript is misleading. Sen. Mullin — who I have little love for — does falsely say that the plea deal was struck in 2009, but he doesn’t insist that Obama was in office in 2008.

@us.theguardian.com There's no doubt income inequality is a major problem here in Santa Clara County, but you've reprinted a significant falsehood from a SJSU's research program: it's the top 10%, not 0.1%, that was recently estimated to hold 71 percent of our net worth.

It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.

We were supposed to beat China, not become them.

going to college, living in an international dorm and meeting brown kids from africa, dark-skinned kids with african features from india, spanish-speaking chinese kids from argentina, and many others changed the way i understood the world in some pretty fundamental ways

All of you complaining about Hakeem Jeffries, I bet you didn't call the Congress people who could stop this. He was trying to give you fools time.

A fascinating map from @donnermaps.bsky.social overlaying Tuesday's Dem primary results with a map of the NYC subway system. Inspired by an astute observation from @kleinman.bsky.social, who noted that Mamdani did better in areas served by the subway while Cuomo did better in car-centric areas.

Yep. This time will be different, especially given how intelligent, competent, and capable our current head of government is. @jd-vance-1.bsky.social — you're spot on.

"I fucking speak English, you fucking dumbass!"

Mr. Khalil is free — as he should always have been.

"Pro-Palestinian" activists when they meet an actual Palestinian:

I think it’s very good that the opposition isn’t afraid to claim the symbols of patriotism this time around.

What he said.