I just muted anyone who doesn’t follow me. If you want to troll me on politics, you’re going to have to endure my opinions on DC traffic and the proper way to make pie.

RT @RogueWPA: Saying Republicans crashed between 2004 and 2008 because of Terry Schiavo, rather the financial crash and a worsening situati….

Rereading Errol Morris' book on the Jeffrey MacDonald case and whether or not you think he's guilty, it's hard to argue he got a fair trial, or that there was enough evidence to convict him in a fair trial.

RT @daveweigel: What’s the last op-ed that backfired as badly as the “let’s redefine death to scoop out more organs” one?.

RT @besttrousers: People keep putting BLS in the "process modernization box" and I don't think that makes much sense. Plenty of processes….

RT @jessesingal: Ross is great and you guys should all follow him -- I'm extremely happy for him he got this position.

I grew up in a district that consisted of two far-flung neighborhoods connected by a narrow strip running down the west side highway.

While that's what I voted on in 2024, it's pretty clear to me that's not how the overwhelming majority of people vote, and that this strategy decisively failed in 2024 for that reason.

RT @PatrickRuffini: I have this sense that people have an encyclopedic memory of everything that happened post 2000 election while remember….

RT @besttrousers: I think the mental model here is just wrong - the point of therapy is not that you/your relationship have weird issues th….

RT @cafreiman: It would be nice if democratic socialists could finally settle the question of whether Cuba is a socialist success or a stra….

RT @daveweigel: I’ve figured out a hack for this: Writing my own sentences.

Wow, that's bold.

RT @Afinetheorem: Diverse boards/teams "perform better" commonly believed, but best research very mixed. Lots of *really* bad work on this.….

RT @SeanTrende: Again, I just want people to decide if a fair map is a map drawn without reference to politics, regardless of consequences….

RT @rSanti97: The McKinsey study that claimed diverse workforces lead to bigger profits was always fake (they won't share data, it doesn't….

I'm less fussy about what's in the canon than about the fact that we need a canon. When I visit even elite colleges now, it strikes me that the kids have fewer and fewer common references. They don't recognize bible quotes, don't recognize Shakespeare, don't recognize Dickens . .

Went for a drive with my 80-year-old aunt yesterday to visit a cousin, and along the way got a fascinating cultural history of Boston's Irish neighborhoods. Get that family lore while you can, folks.

RT @mattyglesias: Important to understand that "environment review" is not a substantive set of rules that protect the environment (the way….

RT @besttrousers: "All of the fear about AI causing mass unemployment serves to distract from the very real threat of continued job loss th….

RT @LMandrakeJr: With no conception of the degree of difficulty involved in reporting jobs numbers across the U.S. economy.