There should be public dialogue from Dem leaders about what the medium-long term political strategy against Trumpism is. They don't want impeachment (not enough votes) so what can a Dem congress do that's more effective? Is there a philosophy other than "Vote for us and hope something good happens?"

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

Putting on my Political Strategist hat to write "DON'T LISTEN TO LOSERS," in big letters on the chalkboard.

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

One reason the Dem establishment hates Mamdani is that he's just *better at this than they are*. He just talks like an authentic human about things that matter & people respond & it breaks their poll-tested, consultant-cooked brains.

good blog about the myth of "the high IQ genius" that includes the banger of a quote Stephen Hawking gave when someone asked him what his IQ was: "I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

With Gawker, there was at least a non-frivolous claim. (It wasn't worth $140m and the judgment should've been stayed pending appeal.)

With Media Matters, there's nothing here, no reason for them to have legal bills at all, just judges and AGs breaking their oaths to crush it.

really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.

The rag and bone men of the Amazon age

Someone just say immigration is good actually! Higher Education is good actually! Paying higher tax is good actually!

@hipple.bsky.social we both changed user names

something like 80% of the phone calls I receive are straight up attempts to defraud me and no prominent politician has thought to make a big deal of it