Have a friend who once said “[lowercase] liberals struggle with politics that aren’t values-neutral because they’re terrified of hypocrisy.” It is workably coherent position that “we must try to ban institutional warfare, but while it exists, we should use it to do good.”

It has been very in vogue for Democrats to dislike Kathy Hochul and Gavin Newsom the past few years but I fear that, if they can get NY and CA Republicans to pass a national gerrymandering ban, they will have performed Frank Underwood levels of ball knowing.

I’ve never seen compelling data that college makes kids more liberal. I feel like selection effects are SO much more plausible than persuasion effects.

If Cuomo didn’t know what he was fighting for in the primary, he definitely knows what he’s fighting for now—his ugly, consuming hatred of Zohran Mamdani.

I don’t even dislike Pete Buttigieg but he is what happens when you let consultants and political hobbyists choose presidential candidates. Just slick on TV with no actual signature issues or positions.

First good thing Chuck Schumer has done in 2025 is (unfortunately) martyr Sherrod Brown’s political career for the sake of a chance at a senate majority.

Newsom needs to start registering the President as a donor-in-kind: nobody has ever made normie dems come around on the idea of Gavin ‘28 like Trump, and we’re only 8 months in. Trump is a bully—Newsom is a bruiser; no one can say people don’t like fighters?

Well, it seems like Gavin Newsom finally gets his wish to be Prom King.

This is such a nightmare blunt rotation.

Looney Tunes Presidency.

My favourite thing about Hamilton is that Lin-Manuel Miranda rhymed “go on and on” with “phenomenon” in A Winter’s Ball and then did it again literally a year later in Moana for You’re Welcome.

There’ll never be another Michael Jackson because global monoculture isn’t a thing anymore. President Trump was just asked about Taylor Swift’s engagement during a cabinet meeting—if it were possible to find consensus on “the next Michael Jackson” it should obviously be her.

I think is largely an artifact of how people talk about this, not a reflection of actual behavior. Conservative people are perfectly happy to cut off family members who are LGBTQ, but would not frame this decision in terms of "political beliefs."

Addicted to the genre of Republican who will dunk on California for its housing crisis and then relentlessly campaign for a nationwide prop 13. What do they think made CA housing so expensive—gay marriage?

Me waking up this morning and it didn’t happen

Cuomo’s campaign staff are pulling a prank on him atp.

Jon Ossoff has the Mandate of Heaven.

The Stranger Thingsification of the entertainment industry

Crazy unsexy electoral reform idea, but it would be interesting to make more levers for parties to dump candidates late stage (later primaries, filing deadlines, ballot printing etc). There’s a perverse incentive to back flawed candidates, which is how we end up with…

13 Reasons Why was a crazy show, but most especially for the fact that Netflix produced season 3 and 4 exclusively for pirulinpinpina! and I to watch. The burden I bear in life is being one of two people on earth who to see Clay develop an evil alter identity and Justin die of AIDS.