The conventional wisdom is the Democrats' big climate law failed to deliver votes and then died. That's wrong. My new study finds its factories moved 2.5 million votes—more than Trump's margin. And the law's still alive. My latest in @theatlantic.com. Gift link! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

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They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Seems simple enough, mamdani is an exceptionally talented communicator and hong is not

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2d ago

one thing that I appreciated about Zohran was his willingness to backtrack from some of the Woke 1.0 era posts that didn’t age well and were posted in a different context. I do not understand why Hong is incapable of doing that, especially since she is running in a swing state instead of NYC

The Reflecting Pool of Hormuz

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again

oh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again

Expected the administration of reality TV stars to be bad at running the government but I confess I didn't expect them to also suck at making reality TV

Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

Weird text from a random today

IG told me to make hainanese chicken & rice and when social media tells you to do something, you do it

American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 32% from its 2024 highs and 22% over the last year alone

felix bautista coming all the way back from injury like

John Travolta Confused: What Huh

ALT: John Travolta Confused: What Huh

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I can't find the new york times making this claim but I can find some other people making it

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

time for some late night fridge scrap cooking again

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Incredible job by welker here, you have one of the admin's top cheerleaders being like "look, we ALL know the president is crazy and lies all the time, heh heh heh, that's fine!" and you just let it slide right by so you can share a chuckle about his bullshit federal judge story

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

lemme guess, the scammer sent an email like "Hey [staffer's name], Ken Martin here. It's our WORST NIGHTMARE– if you can't donate $29,000 by TONIGHT, our party is DOOMED"

Dave Levinthal@davelevinthal.com · 3d ago

ICYMI, in @notus.com: Already cash-strapped Democratic National Committee lost about $29,000 to this scammer posing as Chairman Ken Martin. www.notus.org/democrats/de...

I brought this up at work the other day and my coworker immediately was like "HAM! They were trying to steal my sandwich!" so chalk one up for ham

Seirian Sumner@waspwoman.bsky.social · last wk.

Are wasps feeling the heat this summer? Be kind to wasps at your picnic this summer: share your meal & tell us what they're after. Is it Ham (protein-rich)? or Jam (sugary) @uclnews.bsky.social @theconversation.com @femi-benny.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social theconversation.com/where-have-a...

[putting on my academic hat] the trash bags smell and attract rats, but they're also part of the erotic biotic infrastructure of the city. i was ferried to an orgy by a rat king the other day. until the dumpsters offer to fist you, count me out

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

At least this guy's miserable all the time

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

I read this shit and my eyebrows just keep going up and up and up man. My forehead hurts now

fetterman, but the stroke helped him: what outlet are you with? xinhua news agency? good, let me tell your viewers this, i love seeing the continued prosperity of your country's handcrafted porcelain industry. the finest in the world. i would be honored to visit jingdezhen. i love beautiful ceramics

I think it's obviously a true statement and also won't matter literally at all politically, much like how the right attacking biden's kids, walz's kids, harris's stepkids, etc etc etc doesn't matter. And this isn't even attacking the kids it's attacking the dad

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d ago

I think it’s a remarkably stupid thing for a political candidate to say. This is not the first time people have pointed out Vance’s hypocrisy on this issue, but to pull his children into it and say that you somehow know what’s in Vance’s mind about his own kids is over the line.

Sounds like another incredibly scandalous grand jury proceeding

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

Well yeah it's just real with white people. Urban white people are pretty evenly divided between the parties and rural white people are like 3:1 republican. The problem is the rurals as a whole are like 80% white

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

Also, as we all know, there are lots of rural areas that don't vote GOP. Coincidentally, they're all the rural areas that aren't majority-white. We do ourselves a real disservice pretending the "rural-urban divide" in politics is real. It ain't. Full stop.

I think if one group of students is using AI to generate the music track and then another group is using AI to generate/redo the animation then you are actually replacing creativity rather than expanding it. Which is fine (or not fine, idk) but just like be honest about it

Dartmouth Arts and Sciences@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 5d ago

Students in the Foundations of Digital Design and Music and Artificial Intelligence classes teamed up this spring to make animation set to a music track, using AI to expand creativity rather than replace it.

on every matter of geopolitical importance trump absolutely doesn't give a fuck and will just say "sure, it's really tremendous" to whatever person last materialized in front of him, but with completely trivial shit he'll be like "I WILL KILL AND DIE TO BUILD 30000 MORE PARKING SPACES AT DULLES"

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d ago

No one can ever believe anything Trump pledges, says or puts in writing. With Trump, a deal is never a deal and nobody can count on the US for anything while he’s president. His word is garbage, agreements mean nothing, and he lies about everything.

glad the kid who was doing cuomo's social media found a new gig

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

another L for the folks who are like "actually trump is not an aberration, presidents are always bad"

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

veteran michigan pollster who now

Without addressing the hate mob phenomenon which is self-evidently bad I think we're also running into a philosophical difference where one side is like "does this action solve this problem" and the other is like "is this action morally good"

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · last wk.

if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue