Drew Kadel

God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. --1 John 4:16 ⚓

the ADL is more mad about Zohran calling a neighborhood Eastern European than Elon giving a Nazi salute Zohran derangement syndrome is real

All claims of sf's predictive value are just survivor bias, feats of Texas marksmanship in which we fire a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draw a target around the place where the holes cluster.

Considered as a predictive literature, sf is a colossal failure. If our books are to be taken as roadmaps to an inevitable future, we have all flunked out of cartography school. More than 99.9% of these maps describe a territory that never emerged.

Sf can imagine a world that debuts "AI" as a supercomputing project of the IPCC and Sandia Labs whose primary purpose is to improve the fidelity of climate models, and whose spinoffs are modest but interesting open source tools that people run on regular computers with normal energy footprints.

Am on morning edition today taking about the polls www.npr.org/2026/10/27/n...

Today's "yikes" scenario for Iran courtesy of @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7b3c...

bluntly this is also what destroyed LBJ and led to the nixon landslide, yes vietnam also mattered and was probably #1, but the white working class was infuriated that black folks would also benefit from the great society programs

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

The truest thing JD Vance has said in a long, long time.

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South Carolina's former governors Jim Hodges, a Democrat, and David Beasley, a Republican, shoot a joint 60-second ad endorsing Annie Andrews for Senate. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ5...

Elon Musk’s AI-Generated ‘Odyssey’ Is Here to Save Western Civilization. “Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.” 🤣 gizmodo.com/elon-musks-a...

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

do you understand how bad you have to fuck up to be denounced by your all-boys catholic high school AND the cleveland plain dealer?

Brazilians beat back fascism by... voting harder? Organized offline and online around an election, using a mix of strategies aimed at both turnout and persuasion. Showed up in large numbers, and despite some very wealthy interests arrayed against them, succeeded? Huh. Pretty neat how that works.

it's the degenerate racist version of going to see 90 year old Frankie Valli belt out teen tunes from 1960

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Vivek Ramaswamy's wife: Apparently, Vivek does not support women. Apparently, he is pro-child abuse. Apparently, he doesn't respect doctors.

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

I have never heard that line. Capitalism simply means that a good or service will be priced on the basis of whatever people are willing to pay for it. "Justly rewards" simply doesn't come into at all. Capitalism is generally more efficient than a planned economy, although much more brutal.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

I know this is not libel but maybe it should be? This is more akin to 1993 anti-Tutsi radio broadcasts.

Something that's not being said. The REASON why Blanche and Bill Essayli are so defiantly violating the Constitution is bc John Roberts said they can't be prosecuted so long as they're following Trump's illegal orders. Blanche's criminality arises DIRECTLY out of Trump v. US.

No one is Assigned Marine at Birth. Marines are made, and they get really mad if you tell them someone who is a Marine isn't a Marine.

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

I love this description of JD Vance as “sociopathically juiceless “

Ossoff and some others have figured out what they can gain by fighting. That’s the key — that the gains of fighting outweighs the costs of fighting. The tipping point among Dem elites is either coming or it has arrived.

I don’t think the young people (ie if you’re under 25 you don’t really remember Obama) realize just how electric a speaker he is

When Democrats take over the government, everyone who accepts a pardon from Trump should be permanently barred from government employment. If possible, also from any lobbying or contracting activities.

Dave Barry once said the CIA's official motto is "Overthrowing Castro Since 1961."

It took decades and multiple stages before Rome, for example, got to consolidated autocracy. But it was still more or less within a single lifetime, and things move faster now. We can't afford to neglect what the trendline means on that kind of timescale. Most of us will still be around for it.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

Fall is here. So we can finally talk about this serious topic... Jonagold vs. Honeycrisp apples.

Best way to fight back? Vote. Minnesota: You can vote now or cast your ballot by November 3.

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

The English language already has a term for when a Harvard professor and a group of private equity executives concoct an idea behind closed doors. That term is financial crisis.

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

Vivek Ramaswamy thinks childhood sexual abuse is a character flaw. Being a colossal asshole, apparently, is not.

In the MAGA mind, Trump's vicious abuse of female reporters is simply of a piece with the rape ad itself: It's all a bet that MAGA misogyny and depravity are still political winners. Flagged by @atrupar.com:

The race to replace Ken Paxton as attorney general of Texas is a contest that has way bigger stakes than you might assume from the outside www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

My gripes with Matt Yglesias.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/through-a-...

"By tacitly siding with a man indicted on charges of child rape, Ramaswamy has shown us all who he is. But he’s also given conservatives space to reckon with the ethical degradation of Trumpism, though without quite admitting that that’s what they’re doing." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/o...

Watched Gettysburg for probably the fiftieth time, but my first in a while, and the whole storyline with Chamberlain and the 20th Maine is just the most goddamned inspiring thing, it holds up beautifully, what a performance

Really? There's nothing remotely "nasty" about El-Sayed's campaign, which offers a positive, upbeat, inclusive message. The nastiness resides entirely within the campaign of Mike Rogers. Indeed, "nastiness" isn't the word—it's brutal racism.