I hope we can demoralize these guys even further over at least the next 4 years.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

If this means Apple Music works on Windows then I’m down.

@realfollowers.bsky.social

I have no strong feelings about whoop’s products, but very strong feelings about them blocking the Citgo sign in Boston.

(Like, genuinely, some people are talking about real prices and linking to this article)

Also, it’s a little depressing to see all the people quote-posting this to say, “see the economy does suck”. This does not show that! This shows that we can model why people will say that it sucks even when it doesn’t.

Very interesting analysis (with some very interesting criticisms as well). One thing I will say is that I’m not convinced consumer sentiment is unbroken here. If people perceive the economy (not their own financial situation) as bad because of price levels, sentiment is unmoored from what matters.

Perhaps I will have to try this tactic. And parents, beware: those antiques you bought at the height of interest may become much harder to sell one day!

It definitely helps that you chose a very good example. We just need @besttrousers.bsky.social to start doing this himself and I will actually cackle aloud.

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My parents are desperately trying to offload a very nice table (and accompanying 6 chairs) they have before they move and are shocked that my graduate student ass does not want to take it on.

I think a useful barometer for Trump‘s fortunes is the RDI (rat directional indicator). Note how Bezos made his pro-Trump turn right before Donald won in 2024 whereas now even the dedicated right-wing talking heads are starting to falter.

At a minimum I would want: list of elected Democrats and basic info about them, a section for endorsements, and some cross-linked platform/policy papers.

I would avoid it if using it signed me up for any mailing lists.

Drama: Sentimental Value

Horror: Sinners

Comedy: One Battle After Another

Romance: Hamnet (is this a romance? It has the tag on Letterboxd)

Action/Adventure: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Animated: The Boy and the Heron

Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Dune Part Two

Oscar Winner: Oppenheimer

If such an account existed I’m now tempted to do this as a bit

And of course Tito (and two of the pitchers) ended up still doing plenty of great stuff after that season. Maybe the beer and chicken weren’t the problem!

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That’s the one. I had forgotten about that particular vote! The MA House delegation is a real land of contrasts.

Speaking of which, I had totally forgotten the insane College Dems thing from the 2020 campaign.

On the positive side, genuinely had no idea how much Neal screwed over the family pay bill. It’s amazing to me he’s only faced a serious primary once in the past decade.

If I have one nit to pick, I wish that there was a little more detail about how things failed and how that could be prevented again. Manchin is really only name-checked and Sinema doesn’t appear at all. Anti-trust is covered (good), but without any discussion of Lina Khan.

A Retrospective on Bidenomics - The American Prospect Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.

Thought this was a good article that accurately goes into where I think Biden’s presidency was directionally correct: prospect.org/2026/04/07/a...

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I’m the link you’ve shared to open, but then when I click to the next page I get this (on mobile Safari):

Surely we can make some truly cursed discourse out of this.

“Tourism to Las Malvinas is immoral while it’s still under colonial occupation” idk something like that.

Is this supposed to be affirmative action? Truly, she has a dizzying intellect.

Well, at least all the theoretical physicists will be less worried about grant money.

Literally the opening sentence is wrong. If the author read her own source, she’d see that a Michigan Republican introduced a resolution to overturn Obergefell, but obviously the state has not asked for that.

Great article that is helping me wrestle with my own thoughts about what’s going on here.

It amazed me when I read it for the first time that the “whoever saves one life saves the world entire” line comes out of a discussion of interrogating witnesses in court.