Just looking at the replies to me and the most ideological response here is yours.

I am not surprised by that

That letter is...I don't have words for how much of a swing and miss it was

I skimmed that report bibliography because apparently I like to make my brain hurt...woof

Lolsob David Brooks keynote

Minor sociology tidbit: I looked at the other speakers at the inaugural event that paid Rufo and hosted Joshua Katz (fired from Princeton for lying about sleeping w an undergrad), one of the other speakers was the cyber security prof from Canada who published a screed in the new Theory & Society

Yes, yes. The famous "scientific outcome" students learn in middle school, not that silly "scientific method" that is actually the basis of our understanding of science*.

*critiques of implicit positivism of said method acknowledged

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

So German Lopez is still doing the shoplifting panic in SF and the NYT is all about it. Even as he has to admit basically all the trends he attributes to new policy began (and mostly happened) before the new policy. Great. Just great

The best economists don't talk like this or do this bs extrapolation beyond their expertise. They're not sending their best.

We're at the no true scotsmaning of neoliberalism. Peak bluesky.

Theory and society's recent articles are about .001 distinct from onion satire at this point.

Indeed, and it cites Nate Silver

Noah smith stumbling onto the point but then left punching instead is so amazingly on brand of him

Blessing in disguise: was drafting a thread taking the bait from NYT about "hard work" and billionaires (short form:Joe ricketts got equivalent of 300k start up, not having a TV or AC in 1950s was normal, didn't start Ameritrade "after graduating from college, did it in his 30s) and it got deleted.

In 2026, he really looked around and said"what if Rufo and TCW had a baby and got the worst of both" and The Atlantic is like "what a cutie!" wild

The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.

Defund the police promotes Lynch mobs is another new one for the reactionary centrist move

Man blames woman for becoming a nazi after she calls Trump people racist cartoon

The quoted study is for people with reduced heart function and type 2 diabetes, so giving them glp1 instead of peptides is...just changing a prescription to a more effective medicine and not about obesity

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to enslavers. F*ching chatty tom

Saw someone post about making a teleprompter app with Claude Code to not pay $100 for an app and...has he used search in an app store before?

Fitting a team of divers would wear a mask like that in training

So glad she found our data and did this! Looking forward to reading in depth tonight

Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Representation Counting incarcerated people at their homes rather than prisons could result in additional state house seats for some urban communities of color.

Our totally kickass RA Arlyss Herzig just published a big SOLO piece on the effects of prison gerrymandering in the US. Check it out, and share it widely!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation

If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

And also, abolish ICE and dismantle the surveillance states remain my real goal. ICE violating this or Rs rejecting it can help move us there.

Bluesy responses to this is like a rorschach test of your type of left politics.

So for me: not bad given my expectations for them. Wish removing Noem and ending the surge were headlines, not last paragraph that it seems no one is noticing. Empowering states to go after ICE is smart politics.

I am all for a big tent approach to woke 2, as long as it doesnt include TCW. He can go fuck off entirely.