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Serwer is right about the conditionality of gender identity threat manipulations. It doesn’t make *men* more conservative; it makes men who (a) value traditional masculinity and (b) are insecure in their gender identity more conservative.

My parents had both read Marvel comics in the 60s, so there were comics around the house growing up. My earliest memories of comics is leafing through a hardcover of “Bring on the Bad Guys” before I could read. One story in particular fascinated me, and I wound up learning to read just for it.

Seconded. I like Wilson’s translation, but the meter in Mendelsohn’s is transfixing.

The critical question of US politics right now is whether the reticence of normally solid Republican voters to pick up the phone and talk to pollsters signals a general disengagement with politics (and thus low turnout in November), or is limited to polling.

Someday, Someone Else is going to run against Generic Democrat, and then we’ll really have a race.

No red flags in the (very limited) methodology statement, but, as a general rule, you should be skeptical of any poll that releases numbers to the tenth place.

Prepping a lecture on the development of sexual harassment law in the US, and it’s crazy that one of the most important figures is a New Jersey woman who won her case against PSE&G, made sexual harassment actionable under Title VII, then dropped out of the historical record altogether.

I’m concerned that BlueSky-ers getting unprotected exposure to the LRB is going to lead to levels of pedantry never before seen in the wild.

I spoke with CNBC about people using crypto, especially Bitcoin, as part of an asset diversification strategy. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/c...

Does crypto make your portfolio less risky? Only if you do it right, experts sayThere's a right way and a wrong way to use cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin for portfolio diversification, financial advisors and market analysts said.www.cnbc.com

New Jersey passed the nation’s toughest data protection law; in doing so the legislature(apparently accidentally) banned the tools used by modern political campaign, parties and polling.

Sherrill administration will suspend enforcement of new data law - New Jersey GlobeGov. Mikie Sherrill's administration is trying to walk back the impact of a new state law that could shut off political campaigns' access to keynewjerseyglobe.com

Could we get a ruling, @bcdreyer.social?

The last scene of the Odyssey that Nolan didn't have the guts to show you.