John Walson

This is such important work. The role of the consultant class is key to understanding money in politics and remains vastly understudied in political science.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

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...

when the end times come i am planning to get raptored (fly away on a giant bird of prey i have been cultivating the loyalty of)

“tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time”

Vivek saw The Producers and a lightbulb went off to the tune of “Springtime for Hitler”.

Is there a breakout for donors who gave to both campaigns in their respective primaries? I’d be curious to see the overlap between Stevens and Rogers BEFORE the primary results. And this infographic is an object lesson in obfuscation. wtf. Definitely not a discipline of Tufte’s.

Bruh

Not yet, but it’s been two years and I think we deserve one. So sorry I am now rooting against every remaining higher ranked team to lose

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We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

Like at this stage I see no reason to engage Samuel Alito intellectually. We are way past the point where any of that matters.

Normal person: Damn what a gorgeous, innovative building, amazing how it maximizes outdoor spaces for its residents Me: I wonder how many balls get kicked into those canals, maybe this helps explain why the Dutch prefer to ping it around on the floor

Millions of reasons why I hate this (and most of real life right now), but everyone acting like they have no free will might make me the angriest. "We can't simply make MORE money, we have no choice but to make the MOST money even if we're screwing our future selves. It's out of our hands!"

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit https://theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-with-how-much-trumps-english-has-improved-since-last-visit/

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

Endorse.

Shout it from the rooftops

Analogies, how do they work?

Reorganizing the cabinets and I think they should scan your ID at Stonewall Kitchen like you’re trying to buy Sudafed for the fourth time in a week

If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

A prominent former Ecuadorean government official was deported from the United States last month. The former official, José Serrano, is now being held in a maximum-security prison in Ecuador. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u...

“why do you refuse to respect right wing scholarship?!” i demand, waving around the chart i made up

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

After four years of no real change, the USMNT can finally get back to what it does best: getting our hopes up that these are the kids who will finally make us good at soccer

god this is good

the custom previously was to wait until someone threw a subway sandwich at you and ran

As a professional punter, I’m in absolute awe at the masterclass put on by this Congress. Just punt after punt after punt, it’s like rewatching the 0-16 Lions.

The Supreme Court's conservatives like Donald Trump and want to see his ballroom get built

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

Kinda funny that almost all of sports TV is about DEBATE But a piece of federal legislation — something which is, almost definitionally, meant to be debated about — gets presented uncritically as Good

NDSU’s punter might hold the record for kinds of cultural experience in a six year span

Pretty sure Michigan just invented the WR Read Option.

The college sports bill is one of, like, 3 bills Congress has actually tried to work on in the last year, it’s one of the less important things they could try to legislate about, and it has still been stuck in molasses

The movie Hackers was one of the most cringe cultural products of the 1990s

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

There is no “also” here. This is just a business pitch. The grid is doubtless insecure but “man asks for money” isn’t evidence in support of that.

9/11 might be the only day where I feel like I can recall what I was doing during every minute. That includes today. What I was up to around 9 a.m. today? I'd have to research that

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

Always