These people lie like they breathe.

Chait is wrong. So is Aaron. Biden didn’t promise to pick a black woman at the behest of liberals, & he wasn’t forced into it by leftists. The constituency pushing for it was… black women! They had massive influence over both liberals and leftists during the George Floyd summer.

Every culture on Earth has red state morons, and I will mock them all.

Nobody get mad, but I think I've landed on the most genuinely contrarian take possible for the NYC mayoral race, which is that we've got three great options and I can't wait to see what either Zohran, Cuomo, or Adams gets done in office.

This seems to be the argument for Mamdani. Genuinely awful policy views, and really, really bad instincts around markets. However, he is intelligent and young, and so might improve.

Noah Smith is the dumbest man in the world

Trump 2024 has been instructive about people's priorities. I see many who wouldn't cosign ICE body-slamming random Latinos, or Trump throwing himself a military parade birthday. But it doesn't really bother them much. But 3 Waymos burn? Democrats have to go!

Watch DSA “YIMBYs” at community board meetings: “We support this project… IF you remove all market-rate units, make it 100% affordable, use union labor, and promise no one making over $50K can live here.” That’s not compromise - it’s project assassination with extra steps.

Correct. We live in a democratic country, which means our politicians have a structural incentive to lionize and coddle voters. No matter how stupid voters get, no one who wants to win an election is going to tell them that.

Luttwak’s crusade against loser spies who don’t know how to bang is one of my favorite things on this app.

Stoller is wrong (Israel is clearly a Jewish state) but this was very funny. x.com/matthewstoller…

Team Abundance is calling for critical support for Ezra Klein's wife at this juncture.

Hogg pivoting left. Beware, DSA guys: if the Harvard hacks you despise more than anyone decide to take over your political movement, they will win.

Boss's announcement at the team meeting is that he's no longer in a polycule.

Do we think it might have been a good idea for the people who invaded Iraq to know the religious and ethnic makeup of Iraq? In retrospect, is that the sort of information that just maybe could have been useful for predicting the outcome of that war?

No, it doesn't anymore. Democrats should be thinking about how to destroy the institutions which have signed onto this.