Insult, outrage, injury laid down generation upon generation like sedimentary layers. Where do they think that simmering anger goes? Eventually it must resurface, black as coal, hard as diamond.
One thing that people lower-down-a-status-hierarchy absolutely do notice is if another person is only friendly to them in a context wherein by being seen to be as such they gain greater access to or kudos with someone higher-up-the-status-hierarchy. They notice this and talk about it.
Excited to share that Cindy Kam’s and my article is published online! We examine item refusal pre- and post-Dobbs and find a significant increase in women’s refusal to disclose their pregnancy status after the decision, with concerning implications for research, policy, and women’s health.
Finally got to @gelliottmorris.com's piece this week on how poll question wording dramatically affects responses. It's excellent. This is classic stuff in the political behavior subfield of poli sci, but we don't hear enough about it in punditry.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...
Governor Newsom's recent comments about Israel were confusing and problematic at a critical moment, as the United States, Israel, and their regional partners confront significant threats from the Iranian regime. If the Governor intended to express concern about proposals to annex parts of the West Bank, that debate requires precision. Invoking the term "apartheid" is wrong and inflammatory, does not reflect the complex realities on the ground, and only risks inflaming tensions.
The future of the Democratic Party will be centrist Democrats saying factually true things (and in fact understating them) and the collective pro Israel lobby freaking the fuck out
I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:
Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.
they are unpersoning trans people at an accelerating rate and the democratic consultants are bleating its a 'distraction'
its the fucking ballgame
you either believe in human rights or you don't
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The left made me do it!
People who rationalize their own bigotry and other bad stances by saying harsh left-wing online comments forced them into it really hate when someone gets attacked online by rando lefties and doesn’t lurch to the right.
It shows that they didn’t have to. That it’s a choice.
Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
If I were a medium sized country/middle power without nuclear weapons, I would be having frank discussions with my defense minister and nuclear power industry about how long it would take to have an operational prototype.
In a book from the early 1980s, he predicted that if people were discouraged from speaking publicly about their deepest convictions, “this would create a kind of moral vacuum, a void in our public life, an emptiness of meaning that sooner or later would be filled by narrow, intolerant moralisms of two kinds: fundamentalism or hyper-nationalism,” he said recently. “Four or five decades later, alas, that’s what’s happened.”
Who, exactly, has been "discouraged from speaking publicly about their deepest convictions"? It seems to me that the trajectory of public discourse over the last five decades--especially with the rise of social media--has moved in precisely the opposite direction that Michael Sandel posits here.
My take on Learning Resources v. Trump: the elephant in the room in Chadha and the legislative veto.
fivepoints.mattglassman.net/p/the-court-...
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
A data point to remember re: “popularism” is that the popular position on what is happening in Iran and happened in Venezuela is “no war, this is insane, full stop” and the moderate elected officials we are supposed to like are saying contorted, legalistic, unpopular word salad instead of that.
OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.
a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
openai.com/index/our-ag...
A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.
This is just such an embarrassing way for a country to fall apart.
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.
The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.
He spent a year in jail for this.
SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.
Half are luxury jets.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...
the right's propaganda against trans people has been one of their most successful campaigns as of late. it's been so obviously astroturfed, so clearly manufactured. but they have useful toadies like singal who gets opinion pieces in the NYT to convince the liberals it's okay
This is deeply illegal, breaking the Medicaid statute and the ICA.
States are entitled to funding from federal govt to help pay for Medicaid. Providing less than the statute calls for is open and shut illegal, more akin to the impoundments Nixon lost unilaterally before SCOTUS than anything so far.
