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Very good essay by @jamellebouie.net - but he's too generous in his assessment of Alito's argument. It's an F argument, not a C- one. Alito's argument relies on controlling for an endogenous variable.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3h agoi wrote about the biggest story of the midterm elections, imo. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/o...
Gift link. This story is worth reading not just because the ICE agent is a whole color guard’s worth of red flags, but because of what it says about ICE’s vetting system. As I read this, I kept thinking: surely it can’t get worse? And then it did . www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/u...
ICE Officer Involved in Maine Shooting Expressed Anti-Immigrant Hatred (Gift Article)
The agent talked of foreign bloodlines, denounced noncitizens and more, according to emails obtained by The Times. His fatal shooting of a Colombian-born motorist in July remains under investigation.
nytimes.com
this is and always has been the essence of blueskyism
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 23h agoit's funny that "blueskyism" is conventionally understood as "extreme leftism" when it's in fact "merciless factional infighting"
On top of that, the judge basically says NYT v. Sullivan was wrongly decided and the actual malice standard is unfair. Total hack.
Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social · 17h agoUn-fkn-believable! Trump hack judge accepts that FL residents might have used VPN to watch the BBC doc that was specifically geolocked to be unavailable in North America, denies BBC motion to dismiss Trump's defamation trollsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If they knew there weren't going to be any defection besides Massie why are we even arguing about any of this?
People are under the conviction that their only options are "parasocial relationship with Democratic legislative leadership (😠)" or "parasocial relationship with Democratic legislative leadership (😇)" and I'm here to tell you that you can choose not to have either.
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 15h agoBluesky is a place where there are many smart and interesting people to learn from, and also the median poster shouldn’t be legally allowed to tie their shoes in case something goes wrong and they start hollering about “feckless Democrats”
on a recent nyt podcast i called florida an electoral "sink for america's chuddiest seniors" and you'd have thought i called for the summary execution of the nation's puppies the way some of these people are furious
Early access to presidential decision making to people who put money in his pocket, wildly corrupt stuff.
Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 24h ago***60%*** of Trump Media's revenue now comes from selling early access to the president's posts, according to the company's latest SEC filing.
Seriously I'd challenge you to get a better outfit for $90. It is a goddamn miracle we can get suits like that for $90 and we should be thankful for it
Matt McDermott@mattmfm.bsky.social · 21h agoNothing tells the populist story of this election quite like Troy Jackson showing up in Washington wearing an $89.99 suit off the rack from Target.
absolutely true. i keep coming back to this matt post as a example of the fundamental misunderstanding of what exactly politics *is* that stephen lays out here
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h agoSo much of this advice is really great tactics if politics is a videogame, but in the real world of 'what is your candidate actually like? What is your talent recruitment pipeline like? Who are your donors and stakeholders actually like?'
so much of what passes for "centrist" wisdom in the US is an inability to basically actually engage with tradeoffs. which is funny because this is the exact same problem the people they critique on the left have!
Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 23h agoIt is funny that everyone thinks we dont hold back students and tolerate homeless encampments out of a squishy liberalism and not that the alternatives would involve raising property taxes, something that inevitably leads to mass freakouts
if you're going to award dems with maximum bad faith and republicans with *any* good faith between now and then, i don't know how to help you, you *also* haven't learned anything in the last two weeks
It’s fine for people to not know this and I understand the information environment on here is rancid but there is really no excuse for people continuing to lie about what happened here and anyone still doing it after having it pointed out to them does not care about the truth
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 15h agoI know people on here gave a lot of feelings about Jeffries but he didnt get “played,” Republicans simply have the majority until January and all of their members except Massie voted in lockstep. There wasn’t a secret villain or cause, it was just old fashioned partisanship bsky.app/profile/shai...
"Ignore evidence your candidate is a rapist &/or Nazi."
Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · yesterdayTop Mamdani advisor Morris Katz on what Democrats should learn from their midterm success -- and what the party must do next.
the secretary of state makes $250k/yr despite overseeing an agency employing 80K employees both domestic and abroad and a ~$30B annual budget, just to use one example
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 19h agopay public sector employees more (yes, all of them)
It’s true, just google “Jim Jordan minor”
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h ago> @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
The thing about "former staffers" like Jentlesen or the Indivisible folks is that if they were really good & worth listening to, they would've transitioned back to "current staffer" with some other politician.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 24h agoit is funny to see someone, jentlesen, who was on the “democrats need to accomodate themselves to the MAGA cultural victory to win again” moving towards the position i’ve had for a bit now, which is in short, a “big tent centered on firm, unbreakable principles.” www.nytimes.com/2026/11/10/o...
i feel like a lot of us spend tons of time thinking about the weirdest shit that could possibly happen in a football game and i've never heard anyone even propose this
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 2d agoWould have been the greatest interception in NFL history
What’s in struck by, more than the dementia (he remembers Suleimani) is the utter break with reality he has. His “understanding” of the issues and details of events is completely at odds with reality. (And this hasn’t changed that much).
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayHere's the entirety of Trump's bonkers call to C-SPAN, which began with a woman (not Melania) giggling in the background, continued with him going on a fascist diatribe about Venezuela, and ended with the C-SPAN host gently trying to nudge him off the line mid-psychotic rant
Good morning to Mss. Shante Marshall, with one of the greatest Facebook ads I've ever seen. Ma'am, may your every closing be smoother than smooth. @solomonrmissouri.com I think you'll appreciate this genius.
An important thing to understand about my politics is that many of the things people complain about today are downstream of the fact that in 2016, a bunch of losers decided it wasn't all that important to support the Democrat. Want to know why Trump v US was 6-3? Because he appointed 3 justices.
Wash Post Pentagon reporter Tara Copp with a first hand account of how journalists were threatened by Hegseth's security prior to today's briefing...and then how Hegseth mostly took questions from the MAGA media that replaced actual journalists in that Pentagon press purge last year:
This is fascinating cos it was shared by a sort of Young Radical account but, like, if you had to guess right now the answer is pretty demonstrably the American praxis surely?
In 2023, Massachusetts legalized online sports betting. We used 3+ years of transaction-level debit card data to follow 2,441 people who placed a bet the week of legalization. Most rarely bet again. But they're not the ones sportsbooks get revenue from. This story is about the ones they do.
The Gambling App Playbook for Bankrupting Young Men
More than half of US men under 50 are betting on sports. But the sportsbooks are making nearly all of their money from a far smaller group betting far more often.
bloomberg.com
Photo enforcement of traffic laws is good because a person who gets four speeding tickets in one week has demonstrated that they have absolutely zero impulse control and should be banned from driving forever.
sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · yesterdaylook at this lede + photo in an article about speed cameras from Sydney, Australia
David is (unsurprisingly) correct. BAAJA isn’t perfect, but it’s a significant improvement over the status quo that will, most importantly, reduce carbon emissions by making it easier to build renewable energy.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2d agoIf you're anxious about data centers you ought to love BAAJA. It requires all data centers to pay for a) the energy they consume, b) the new generation that must be built to provide it, & c) the new transmission & distribution infrastructure required to carry it. That's stronger than any state law!