That's...hard to picture.

That thing where you wonder whether it's worth looking up how to spell Schattschneider for a newsletter where you could just refer to him without naming him.

Has anyone ever done a count of how many Altman actors showed up on DS9?

Dems: We're confident that more Dems are going to vote but we can't figure out a way to ensure partisan polarization in this non-candidate ballot measure.
Trump:

Faked by Hollywood.

Marichal was innocent; Roseboro planted the blood. The biased LA media was in on it.

My logic was solid, but I got the conclusion totally wrong.

Problem: White House is concerned by reports that several men in the cabinet are drinking on the job.
Solution:

Best line. Just perfect.

Presumably some sort of Mad Libs result from pro-war people telling him it would be easy, just like Venezuela, while everyone else tried to explain why it would be totally different? Or...who knows?!?

As Spock said, "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow."

The problem of course is that they're not *that* far out of 2nd place, and multicandidate races can be weirdly unstable. Three weeks ago it looked like Becerra should drop out.

None in the places I was on faculty.

I could imagine that might be one somewhere at Cal, but since (when I was a grad student) the political science faculty organized themselves so that no they rarely had to share the same building, I certainly can't imagine them all hanging out in the same room.

Apparently the philosophy was hanging out in a faculty lounge until students let it out, after which it infected Thomas (and Eastman, and others). Or something like that.

He claims that Thomas's philosophy is a product of faculty lounges and just what is everyone's obsession with faculty lounges?

Saw a recent poll with her at 2% so it doesn't exactly help much, but I do think it's increasingly unlikely that Dems (plus the stupid Top Two system) will deliver this one to the GOP. Still...what a stupid system.

… Important these days not just to win wars, but also to cover the spread.

How Trump Does War Badly? Yes, badly. Plus the week's links.

Did I join the pile-on after that WSJ story about Trump At War? Was I as good as @dandrezner.bsky.social on it? Did I carve out space to discuss Susie Wiles, Ace Administrator? Yes, No (he got there first), Damn Right I Did. Plus all the links! goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/how-trump-...

Reminder: Trump promised to get a better deal in his first administration to replace the 'worst deal ever' as I discuss in Chapter 5 of my recent book.

Spoiler: he never got that better deal.

Makes me feel good about the many times I've used "RINO" in a column/blog post/newsletter.

Reed's a good call, but I'd probably put Rush a bit higher.

McConnell is a tough call. I probably would drop him out of the top five (because it's likely any GOP Senate leader would have done the same) but can see the argument the other way.

Oh baby, you know what I like

the democrats currently are as close as we've ever gotten to a party for working people, and it's not that close.

this is inextricable from the fact that the democrats are as close to a multi-racial coalition as we've ever gotten. 1

Counting this as a first term. Counting it as a second term, yes, Nixon was less popular at this point.

Yes, that was confusing; fortunately I had already figured out the problem before I read the description, which did set me back a bit.

OK, I'll give myself partial credit for jumping pretty quickly to some sort of printing error.

So apparently no one in my feed does the Sunday print NYT crossword.

The thing is, Trump is not a madman. He’s just ignorant, impulsive, and easily distracted and manipulated.

It's vaguely possible that my belief that Phoenix is normal when it comes to sunlight might have set me up for a lifetime of disappointment, but I prefer to think I've just hit an unlucky string of over-frequent clouds since I moved away.

The key question here is how short his reading has to be to keep him from getting distracted halfway through and start talking about the drapes, or Obama, or whatever else is on his brain.

Things are very bad there. The Devil has the people by the throat.

Ah. Yeah - he's certainly worst by about all the measures at any point in the first two years.