Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Prepared to donate to candidates whose platform includes opposing genitalia inspectors for little girls.
Gillian BranstetterAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
This will be cited to justify the usual claims about how journalism is elitist and out of touch. But as Ryan's follow-up shows, it's actually because the NYT and WSJ are surviving while newspapers everywhere else are folding.
ryan coopermore than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Good piece by Dan Drezner on Trump's successes, and whether Dems can emulate them (to good ends, ofc). (Spoiler: no.) Recommended.
Daniel DreznerThis is an excellent way to frame it. Here’s my attempt at an answer. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/how-democr...
The Trump administration is so opposed to socialism that it has acquired — sometimes by coercion — equity stakes in 30 companies so far. www.cato.org/blog/governm...
Aaron RuparHassett: "After World War 2, bc we had centralized production to defeat the Nazis, there were a whole bunch of socialists in the UK and US that wanted to take over the economy bc they said, 'Look, we've already centralized production, so let's just be socialist.' That's why the CEA was created ... "
Things aren't looking good for a trade before the deadline at 6 PM EST, even with the Mets fire sale.
Leah McElrath⚠️ Reuters: Iran says NO talks are underway or planned, contradicting Trump’s claims.
we talked about this more at the time but initially a lot of the ppl who died were in big blue cities and were not white. this is not incidental to the revisionist and eugenicist nonsense we hear now.
Sky Marchinithis boils down to "the pandemic didn't actually happen but they still closed the applebees" which frankly i think is a trauma response by a lot of people that buy it - lot easier to be in denial that things were that bad instead of reckoning with 1.3m dead people [in this country]
"The fact that Trump cannot comprehend that historical policy shifts are more likely with legislation than without gets at the core of Trumpism’s problems." – @dandrezner.bsky.social
How Democratic Elites Think About TrumpAnd whether they are right to think this way.open.substack.com
There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
“The thing about Democrats is that they want to create new policies and new structures. There is nothing in Trumpism that will help then do those things better. So even if one views it as a political and ideological success — which I don’t — it does not translate into anything useful for Democrats.”
Daniel DreznerThis is an excellent way to frame it. Here’s my attempt at an answer. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/how-democr...
I think this thread is basically what I believed when I began covering the consumer system and while a lot of what Nathan is describing is factually correct as to the mechanisms by which the system itself works, I’ve eventually had to admit that a lot of people also do just love cheap bullshit
Nathan TankusI think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference
Fed's Williams, in interview, expects inflation to ease, says rate policy well positioned right now, but adds if price pressures not easing “it would absolutely be appropriate to act to get us on a trajectory that does bring inflation back to 2%.”
EXCLUSIVE: Fed's Williams expects inflation to ease, says Fed will act if it doesn'tFederal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he remained optimistic that inflation pressures are on track to ease gradually, but if they don’t the U.S. central bank will not hesitate...www.reuters.com
A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
The BulwarkRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!
PoliticoSenate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Senate leaders have reached a deal on a short-term government funding bill through Dec. 11. This would prevent a shutdown on Oct 1 and get through the midterms to figure out a longer-term solution. TEXT via Collins/Murray offices: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Last year the NYT reported on how SEAL Team Six stormed into North Korea, accidentally murdered a bunch of fishermen, punctured their lungs so their bodies would sink & then stormed out. Trump is now trying to force one reporter to reveal his sources: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources (Gift Article)A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.www.nytimes.com
The initial American strategy failed, the war with Iran is consuming the region, Iran and Ukraine are risking a face-off, both Russia and China are escalating their military commitments, American munitions are dwindling and Trump is raging. Other than that, everything is fine.
Opinion | World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking OutWhatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.www.nytimes.com
Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max MillerPolice reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.www.motherjones.comAbby VesoulisI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.