Well, it's worked for Sam Moyn.

Of course Hasan Piker coauthered this.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders.

But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Too bad microblogging also hasn't been good for my brain... or mental health!

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We have to protect our precious bodily fluids.

Joe am I dumb for not knowing what a mog is?

Exactly! And bravo to Matt for pointing this out. These kinds of things are *always* written by people who have only ever been placed at elite institutions.

Try Zola's novel "Nana," in which the sexual, financial, and material appetites of the eponymous character, a Parisian courtesan, consume everyone around her. Then the name will make sense!

And so passes Rod, son of Ray, into (yet another self-imposed) exile.

Hey babe I bought cheese

I can't believe you're still having to deal with this.

AI star symbol.

It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.

it’s so funny that at the same time ross douthat is trying to whitewash the last 10 years of his career promoting authoritarianism his beloved authoritarian regime is waging a nakedly political war against the catholic church that he pretends to revere.

Amen

Daniel Bessner,

Because I know you are reading this,

There is literally nothing I could say to humiliate you more than you publicly acknowledging that you search your name on Bluesky and then whine about it on X The Everything App.

This is a problem for Moyn as well.

I laughed when I saw the headline. I mean come ON!

Let’s just acknowledge that this kind of attack is foundationally antisemitic at its core

What is a "girly job"? I feel like I don't even want to read further

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Slopulism isn't going to help us!! We're going in the wrong direction here!

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

Sam Moyn prioritizes his academic project over having to fight for children in the here and now.

Ironic for a guy who always complains liberals don’t fight hard enough.

And easy to say from the comfort of Yale.

Probably my greatest recent achievement

Steve Glazer would never

This whole story has been staggering as a software engineer, for how poor a job Cubic has done at a task that isn’t very hard by today’s tech standards. The MTC must hold Cubic accountable for utterly failing to deliver at the public’s expense.

California should also be investing more in Cal-ITP!

Clipper 2.0 Is Still Seeing Hourslong Outages, and a Full Fix Is Months Away | KQED The company running the Bay Area’s next-generation transit fare payment system revealed the depth of its ongoing issues, leaving transit officials preparing for increased costs.

Less than 10% of cards have been upgraded to Clipper 2, there have been many outages leading to lost revenue for transit agencies and frustrated riders, and it will be months until the system is fixed.

MTC must hold Cubic accountable.

Huge thanks to @azul415.bsky.social for staying on this story!

Lolz!