Recrudescence of the Kakistocrats

Well, I haven't had a reason to pin a post since I've been here... ...that just changed.

Is it normal for an anonymous Wyoming LLC that sent mass mailers impersonating a transgender advocacy group to hire the lawyer who defended TX Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment in response to a court filing seeking to depose people who could unmask the LLC's owners

Last yr the Fed projected 1 cut this year. Instead we're going to end up with 1 or 2 hikes, well below what the Fed's implicit reaction function would call for. But if you're OK writing off ~0.5pp of inflation as transitory then they're right on target.

Two years ago today, Philadelphia Union’s goalkeeper Holden Trent suddenly died. Now, for the first time, his extraordinary family speak not only about the tragedy, but also how he defied all medical odds to reach the professional game. Free to read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

The right can't seem to see the distance between "I just see trans people as people" and "I will force everyone to become trans whether they want to or not, so help me God"

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Texas Transgender Student Union, the anonymously registered LLC in Wyoming that sent the bogus mailers, has retained Ken Paxton's impeachment attorney, Chris Hilton, to represent them in a court cased filed by Transgender Education Network of Texas, the group that TTSU impersonated in the mailers.

He's 19. NINETEEN!!!

Well played

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Constrained optimization is my business and business is maxxing.

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

Midterm Races To Watch In 2026 https://theonion.com/midterm-races-to-watch-in-2026/

Well, this proper sucks. Two starters down, one of whom is a high level All-Star, the other a near $30 million player. The Thunder are deep, but even for them, this is absolutely gutting.

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to laziness. As someone who spent a decade in political communications and corporate PR, the straight answer is that either she or her reps reached out to the NYT and offered to provide quotes. And lazy reporters gratefully accepted the offer.

We fought a war over this. 1 of every 30 Americans died. And then we amended the Constitution to add “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States”

I choose to look on the bright side: this LOLbertarian story only involved firearms, and not prepubescent children bsky.app/profile/mith...

Someone spent way too much effort on this

The man who has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has in his entire lifetime never says anything positive about his guy Ken Paxton. But he does serve up a steady diet of this stuff.

here's 12 observations/overreactions to the first week of the NBA season: www.theringer.com/2026/10/26/n...

doompolling (v.): The act of obsessively reading polls seven days before an election for signs that your favored candidate might be doing worse than expected.

Tim Scott calls Annie Andrews "tranny Annie"

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

The MLS “no-politics rule” is even more problematic than @leanderalphabet.bsky.social argues here, as not only does the MlS allow pride flags (for example) in its stadiums, it actively propagates pro-LGBTQIA+ and anti-racism policies!

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

"libertarian candidate for state senate in north carolina is currently in a shootout with the cops and live-tweeting his planned suicide", while not exactly surprising, is still a weird thing to read

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

After several years of calling anyone they dislike a pedophile or a groomer, the GOP has discovered that it can be done to them too, and the chairman of the Ohio Republican party is not happy about it

This week I wrote about Good Time Country Buffet, an East Village replica of a turn-of-the-millennium southern country buffet—so freakishly faithfully rendered, so uncanny in its simulacrum, that it kind of breaks the mechanism by which we judge restaurant quality www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Fox & Friends' substitute co-host is married to a Trump cabinet official and it shows www.mediamatters.org/rachel-campo...

“Silence is getting a bit loud”: Emails show UT leaders took heat for slow response to Bo French post

how in the world could the NBA not move a hawks/cavs regular season game to another date? you have until April to make that game up

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

I've got a left-field name for the Coach of the Year convo: Eric Quill. The FC Dallas manager has given his team an impressive Plan A (quick transition attacking) and a capable Plan B (hyper-fluid ball control). Color me impressed 🔴 For @backheeled.com ⤵️

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

It's perversely a good thing that there's nothing at all notable enough about me to warrant having a Wiki page. If there were, I believed it were real, and then it went into File 13...

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

This century could have been an email.

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

David Beamer (father of Todd) spoke at length at Trump’s Port Huron rally today, saying very very nasty things about El-Sayed being anti-American and not a real citizen and having a terrorist platform etc, and the MAGA/GOP folks are loving it

my hat has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my hat

@maddow.bsky.social This. Is. A. Big. Deal. Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker has endorsed Democratic State Representative Jon Rosenthal for Texas Railroad Commissioner

I’ll put it this way: you can’t guarantee anything from early voting data but if you ask me to point out positive signals for dems you’ll have to pull up a chair and if you want positive signals for republicans I got absolutely nothing