they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

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VA Dems’ new map would make 4 GOP seats bluer:

1—Rob Wittman: Trump+5 to Harris+8.5

2—Jen Kiggans: Trump+0 to Harris+5

5—John McGuire: Trump+12 to Harris+8.5

6—Ben Cline: Trump+24 to Harris+3

Dems already could flip 1 & 2 on the current map, but their odds would greatly improve with the new map

According to previous anti-vax cycles (it is a recurrent cycle, an outbreak of hysteria every 50 years or so) the antivax fever will end after mass death of children. That usually does it. One would think we could skip the mass sacrifice, but no. We won't. #MedSky

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

Hyper-surveillance of labor is here.

Was telling this to a loved one who was deep into prepping. Those dudes with big plans for living off the grid are more, not less, vulnerable to shocks.

How the American oligarchy went hyperscale The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

"Oligarchy is now more than an idea; it is a place."

Come to Seattle and you’ll have the promised perpetual night and rain

There’s a lot here, too much to comment on, but I’m surprised at how loud the ambient noise on the ship is.

I guess I shouldn’t be considering everything it’s doing to keep those folks alive, but it still runs counter to my intuition of what space travel sounds like.

Maybe this is naive, but it seems to me that removing the camera solves 99% of the problems?

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Case in point

I agree, though it’s hard for me to parse out whether this is an indicator of Platner being a strong candidate or Mills being a terrible one.

My fear is that D’s learn too much from the former and not enough from the latter.

The folks at Beyond the Screenplay did Fight Club recently, and were just like “yeah this movie basically predicted 2024 back in 1999”

Good

Oh hell yeah

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At this point I want the court packed out of spite

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Power hungry men are not willing to relinquish power for strategic victories? Huh

Hubris is the signature weakness of this regime.

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

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Former Senator Sherrod Brown's official Senate portrait

Senator Jon Husted's official Senate portrait

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"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

I love his victory tour of going Orban controlled institutions and telling them that he is going to delete them.

man, this is such a bad asymmetry. eventually Ds are going to get so black-pilled by the double-standard that they give up the standard entirely (cough maine cough). and frankly i'd understand the impulse. media is allowing this to happen - facilitating it, in fact.

The seditionists are inside the house