I was surprised to see how widely endorsed Argentina’s claim to the Falklands is relative to the boring logic of “the people who live there should get what they want.”
Data centers are THE issue of the moment but there are tons of “known unknowns” surrounding this including very basic questions like how many data centers are there and how many are being built. www.slowboring.com/p/theres-an-...
“They” didn’t want you to see Coyote vs Acme but it’s good. boxd.it/gepsjT
A ★★★★ review of Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
It’s not for little little kids, but my son (age 11) and his friend and his friend’s younger brother all enjoyed the Looney Tunes physical comedy gags and I think this genuinely does a much better job...
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The big climate social media account vacillate schizophrenically between total solar/battery triumphalism and and prophesies of global doom in a way that I find very disorienting. Better to try to steer a stable course of mild optimism.
It’s sort of funny how much the post-liberal Catholic right dislikes the Pope. What did y’all think integralism meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
“The Road to Serfdom” turns out to be chock full of bangers but also its main idea is obviously wrong.
Something grim about how the macho men who renamed it “the department of war” also won’t admit they’re fighting a war with Iran.
A DC mom asking the national guard for help clearing a tree blocking her kid’s title 1 school: Her: Aren’t you supposed to be here to help? The national guard: Nope.
Late Habsburg Empire had 99 problems but Vienna’s housing stock and infrastructure was growing rapidly. www.slowboring.com/p/you-cant-b...
100 percent agree with this take, but I think it’s interesting that when the other side does it everyone can see that “fighting,” “energizing the base,” “leading, etc don’t work and doesn’t make sense as a strategy. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...
Factional warriors on the left have invented a conspiracy to sink the Michigan senate race and then keep getting madder and madder about it rather than considering that it’s just not happening. www.slowboring.com/p/stop-makin...
People who don’t like El-Sayed will take a totally innocuous tweet of his, attribute nefarious intent to it because they don’t like him, then treat their own circular analysis as if it’s new evidence that he’s bad. www.slowboring.com/p/stop-makin...
Stop making up reasons to be mad at your adversaries
A harmless old A.E.S. tweet, a paranoid anti-A.E.S. conspiracy theory, and the case for a mind of winter
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Facially absurd and highly insulting to the intelligence of every New Yorker. But that’s the TWU for you.
Reed Schwartz@reed-schwartz.bsky.social · 6d agoThe new case for two-person train operation, per NY's Senate Bill S9586A: conductors are necessary to reduce terrorism casualties
I volunteered for Cheryl Jacques in a primary against Stephen Lynch way back in 2001, that guy's been defeating more progressive primary challengers since the prehistoric era.
I've played around a ton with AI but the main actually useful thing I do with it have ordinary language conversations generate ggplot graphics which is super useful in a banal way. www.slowboring.com/p/the-great-...
We needed more reviews of One Billion Americans — true abundance requires an abundance of people.
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · last wk.In my last job (Washington Post Opinion section), I was asked repeatedly to write about the book "Abundance." I kept making excuses. Finally, I just bluntly stated that there are many, many books published about politics and it was strange that the entire political media was obsessed with this one.
A viable mass transit system with mainstream users is a huge unlock for bigger kids like my sixth grader. www.slowboring.com/p/an-easy-wa...
An easy way to give kids more freedom
Apple should let kids use digital transit passes. They’re already riding the bus — make it easier!
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Republicans used to always out-raise Democrats. But then it flipped in the Trump era and Dems normally had a financial edge. But Trump 2 hits different and the GOP has a big cash advantage. www.slowboring.com/p/republican...
Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
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Really helpful detailed rundown of DC’s improving school performance, including a lot of subgroup analysis which shows it’s not just gentrification — the results really are getting better. capitalcommonsense.substack.com/p/dc-student...
DC Students Post a Fourth Straight Year of Gains on the 2026 State Assessments
Guest Post from Josh Boots, founder of EmpowerK12
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Bruenig’s AI enthusiasm seems like “correct” leftist doctrine based on the canonical texts and it’s interesting to me that so few on the left share his viewpoint. mattbruenig.com/2026/08/31/m...
Three More Thoughts on AI — Matt Bruenig
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Democrats are screwing up the US-Canada relationship and their own political best interests by not clearly committing to undo Trump’s actions here. www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats should vow to surrender in the Canada trade war
Good politics, good policy, and the search for a peaceful world require complete repudiation of this nonsense.
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I think a lot about a German guy who told me in Berlin circa 2013 that I would understand why he was so opposed to Google Street View if I “understood the history of this country” as if somehow Hitler had needed Google Street View.
LePen wouldn’t be leading all the polls if France had universal health care and strong labor unions.
Country music conquered America by becoming a more expansive version of itself. www.slowboring.com/p/everything...
Everything is country
How a once-loathed genre became the sound of America
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Woke 1 was crazy but a lot of aspects of this striking shift in public opinion were good. www.slowboring.com/p/the-great-...
Yes, this idea that we should regulate on the basis of pecuniary externalities in favor of the status quo like this would be incredibly destructive to human freedom.
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 2w agoAs mentioned in this interminably long post, McKenzie's nicely done FT piece and @tomslee.net old book, No-One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, converge on this "take ... with profound and troubling illiberal implications" ( @mattyglesias.bsky.social ). www.programmablemutter.com/p/no-one-mak...