Before The Claw

City by Night, Edmonton George Weber 1988

I am going to go out on a limb and say that if Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are speaker and majority leader, no matter how large their majorities are, no progress will be made. They will do nothing.

Small-dollar donations to Republican candidates are just apocalyptic. Selected examples here. Our forecasting research found in-state individual contributions are a strong predictor of results. Way stronger than PAC spending! votehub.com/2026/10/24/2...

I’m going to post this, with two comments: Wow is there ever a lot going on here. Also the kicker, what the hell man. And now I’m muting this thread immediately lol.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

Cool site

@adam-lg.bsky.social 😬

Nerds rock

@gelliottmorris.com, Economist is calling for a polling error. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

the vivek ad has crossed an ethical line imperceptible to the human eye

It‘s kind of incredible that there’s vast amounts of replicable quantitative data that says being Evangelical makes you evil and despite its massive impact on politics we just… don’t talk about it all that much.

Fascist dirtbag.

A baby girl was killed in her stroller today by a Russian drone strike in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv Region. Her name was Anhelina. Her mother died as well. ​An absolutely barbaric strike on a park full of families with children. ​6 people have been confirmed killed so far, including other children.

Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

every single week i am nothing short of amazed by what the nfl red zone channel is able to pull off. logistically speaking it's a brilliant feat of engineering. 22 guys on the field, probably two or three costume changes per minute. astounding

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

As a Muslim who has been accused of dual loyalty and asked to denounce everything from ISIS to the Iranian state, I breathed a sigh of relief that I think I’d been holding in for like two decades watching this.

This absolutely fucking rules and also is yet another sign of the rural Chinese-rural American alliance that will one day sweep across this world and bring everything we thought we knew to an end Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

genuinely think that chartbeat and real-time audience traffic insight dashboards are one of the worst things to happen to the media industry. it found out what people read and wanted and public trust has pretty much only sharply declined since then

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

After someone said "Hail Satan," an Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city." www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

@gelliottmorris.com good one to remember if you ever need to find a new job…

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? pollster: oh, that's fine, it's ignorable nonresponse

I was teetering before but now I’m ready to say it: I’m full Jags-pilled.

The perpetually underrated Justice Hill

Oooohhhhh, LCD eyes

New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...

The emergence of Black Plague in Russia can be blamed on the provocative good health of neighboring European societies. by John Mearsheimer

These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...

To deny the past is to deny the future.

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

town talk diner, lake street, minneapolis, minnesota, 1984

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Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

lmao