Gerrymanders are bad. Representation in Virginia got worse yesterday. No one is arguing that's not true, but there are other competing interests at issue.

All of the people answering this question with gefilte fish have clearly only ever had the stuff from jars. There’s better gefilte fish out there!

I was thankfully spared ever having to eat p’tcha. And Kishke’s the main reason I’ve never been a fan of most cholents despite loving the concept.

My mother made a dish I loved as a kid but can’t imagine eating now: canned asparagus and canned cream of mushroom soup over white toast.

I wonder now if it was learned from her own Depression era parents.

Chopped liver is also disgusting. There’s a reason the joke “What am I, chopped liver?” became a thing. Why do so many American Ashkenazi Jews pretend to still like this inedible atrocity?

I’m going to go with kishka, also known as stuffed derma, from the Ashkenazi tradition (a lot of E. Europeans have their own versions of Kishka which are different.) it’s a mostly tastless mush of matzah, flour, and overcooked veggies with a little paprika inside a cow’s intestine.

Headphone jack.

I’m hopeful that a new CEO actually means this is possible.

I bit my tongue pretty hard while sneezing. I think I should just call it a day and go to bed.

Exactly one year ago today:

This is the best reason I’ve heard to have kids: someone to finish my reviews after the reviews finally finish me off.

My experience as a tenured professor at a major university (though not Columbia) is that you can generate a decent amount of wealth to leave to your children but only if you don’t have any children. Children are expensive!

A year ago today, my University’s campus dining coordinator, Robert Morales, and a campus dining vendor, Tiru Chabba, were shot and killed on campus by an FSU student. The accused assailant had long espoused far-right, white-power, and antigay views, and he was an avid Donald Trump supporter. 1/

I’ll do it for half of what Rufo got!

It also helps to live in a low cost-of-living area and not having a particularly extravagant life style. But the no-kids thing is pretty necessary.

My experience as a tenured professor at a major university (though not Columbia) is that you can generate a decent amount of wealth to leave to your children but only if you don’t have any children. Children are expensive!

The “if” in that quote is doing so much work it is clearly part of the exploited proletariat.

I’m seeing some people freak out about this poll putting Rs in both of the spots to advance to the general. But ~20% of those polled are undecided and I bet given the CA electorate most of them are former Swallwell supporters or otherwise lean D. D shutout in the general possible but unlikely.

Florida’s taxes are easier: you don’t need to file anything. Of course, we have crappy public services compared to the northeast but I do appreciate the ease of doing taxes this time of year.

Plus, every reason she gives why women aren’t independent equally suggests that men aren’t independent.

I love Popcorn and I believe she truly loves me but that’s not how she reacts when I come from a trip and I kind of wish it were.

I think the biggest difference is that Magyar was shooting for 2/3 of the legislatures and that could likely only happen with a grand coalition party. Democrats goal in 2028 is a bare majority of EVs which I think can be achieved a center -left coalition which implement policies that I like more

Broader East European story I’ve been tracking for some time. The old Left parties are disappearing one by one replaced by much smaller coalition-y ones, but also scattering formed supporters. Some supporting the pro-EU side and others the populists 🤷🏻‍♂️

That doesn’t mean it definitely would work in the US in 2028 but perhaps we shouldn’t just dismiss these centrists with derision this one time. (They still deserve to be derided and dismissed on most of what they advocate for.)

This is the dream of many centrist pundits in the US, that a moderate Democrat or even liberal Republican can defeat Trumpism through a unity party. I don’t believe it’s the only way to defeat Trumpism though and it’s not my preferred way but I think Hungary shows that it can work.

Turnout was high and the one remaining left wing party in the race attracted only a small number of votes. This was coordination at both an elite and voter level as it seems voters on the left were willing to turnout to support a right wing party just to get rid of Orban and bring back democracy.

What is happen in in Hungary is that a center-right party that agrees with Fidesz on many (most?) policy issues but is committed to democracy managed to get nearly all of the opposition and enough Fidesz voters to support them, thus wiping out Fidesz and likely being able to restore democracy.

Please, Republican Party, send JD Vance to campaign in every close Senate and House seat!

I struggle to come up with 4 or 5 good names.