Carl your criticism of liberalism is reasonable and my complaints about you are wildly overstated

Lori Chavez-DeRemer @LChavezDeRemer X.com No one fights harder for the American Worker than President Trump and I am honored to have served under the most pro-worker president in US history. The allegations against me, my family, and my team have been peddled by high-ranked deep state actors who have been coordinating with the one-sided news media and continue to undermine President Trump's mission. I look forward to continuing to fight the good fight from the outside and always advocating for the American worker. 5:50 PM • 4/20/26 • 59K Views

It seems that the hard right can only ever be happy out of power. Once they control all three branches of government, fire all the civil servants and install partisans, and are unconstrained by the rule of law, they still have to blame “the deep state.” Sister you are the state

we will all be super shocked when tucker carlson endorses jd vance

The world needs to purify itself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka

You Can Do Me Some Good - The Class Mates - 1967 YouTube video by The Vintage Soul Machine

Rare rola from 1967

m.youtube.com/watch?v=llvn...

“A small number of extreme users constantly post fringe opinions, which creates the illusion that these views are far more widely held than they really are.”

This is a critical concept.
The most powerful tool for deception today is “selected speech” — billionaires boosting ideas they like…

Opinion | Prescribing in a 'Black Box' of Prior Auth Decisions An excerpt from 'Coverage Denied'

Thanks to @medpagetoday.com for highlighting an excerpt of my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality, which hits shelves this Thursday! www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

as the kids say, nightmare blunt rotation, but literally this time

Point is politicians shouldn't blame voters for election outcomes, say voter feelings about the economy are just vibes from media, etc...even if those things are true

Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police

Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War

Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.

Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social

indiv contributions by law enforcement since 2012 -- shifted sharply once Trump on the ballot

Police Group Endorses Obama-Biden Ticket Biden campaigning in Baltimore

The Trump era is just different. Look at police unions endorsing Obama 08 (who was not the "top cop" or really any kind of cop).

www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Interesting, the cops voted against the "top cop"

coughee brothaz - we gettin high YouTube video by pastetca

"I'm higher than a thumbtack on a flyer //
Like Reba McEntire, I'll set that thing on fire" lmaooo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2aq...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Devin The Dude & Coughee Brothaz - We Get High (Official Music Video) YouTube video by naturesoundsmusic

Cough one time for my people over there!
Cough two times for the ladies everywhere!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B4p...

Reefer & Beer Video (feat. matt & que) YouTube video by mclbso

Will never stop telling everybody that Devin the Dude is top 10 all time. Creative, legendary. Listen to him do both voices on this "duet" (apologies for bad audio quality, it's the last version online with the original beat)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH-e...

When you consider the mysterious deaths of BLM activists over the years, not to mention a century of surveilling Black movement leaders, this is quite something

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

I keep thinking about what a big signal this is to the establishment. Mamdani is Obama Approved™

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

The US is off the regressions line: an extremely high income country where residents think politics need big changes www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026. Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!

Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper.

More soon!

pretty good

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