RFK jr The interesting part of the RFK brainworm story is that literally no one who read it said, “No way.” — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 8, 2024 Brain-eating worms, which I do not support, are not nearly as harmful to a candidate as the woke mind virus is. by Glenn Greenwald — New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 8, 2024 One of our most important civic obligations is participating in the political process and deciding whom to vote for in our upcoming presidential election. By now everyone seems to think that this election is a two-horse race, and many have c ..read more

Here's another repost about 21st century journalists retconning the late 19th century narrative. Based on feed back to the original, I've added some relevant details. Thursday, March 22, 2018 Tech revisionism and the myth of the killer app I'm wondering if anyone else there occasionally has a "blogger moment." It is similar to a "senior moment," but it involves either thinking you posted something that you didn't or failing to remember you posted something that you did. I had one of these this morning when I went looking for what I'd written at the time about this egregious piece of tech rev ..read more

As I said before, I don't want to make too much of this analogy, but you could do multiple of these ads just on Trump's abortion quotes ..read more

Kristi Noem: The politician who has the guts to tell you to kill your dog. https://t.co/u68uxR3b4o — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 27, 2024 Trump VP contender Kristi Noem defends shooting her puppy to death, saying it makes her “tough” pic.twitter.com/BofGjW41Wh — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 2, 2024 We'll start with a few for the cheap seats. Oh dear. https://t.co/sQsrvc6Ema — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 29, 2024 Anyone else old enough to remember this one? Campaign season is heating up pic.twitter.com/Z4EOblYFXL — Hank's Old Man (@BarcoDeTontos) April 26, 2024 And my ..read more

For around two years now, we've been hammering the point that much of the political impact of Dobbs would be from the secondary and tertiary affects the ruling. Secondary and tertiary is mainly where the unintended consequences lurk, women with miscarriages being denied urgent medical care to prevent serious permanent injury and even death, women who aren't even pregnant losing access to drugs because they might serve as abortifacients, pregnancy care being severely limited because OB-GYNs are leaving states with Draconian anti-abortion laws. With the election interference trial in New York, s ..read more

Regular readers of the blog have probably noticed that I am at least mildly obsessed with the technology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We have run countless posts largely consisting of pictures and often articles from Scientific American published from 1880 to 1910. Admittedly part of the appeal is that the indispensable Internet Archive has an excellent collection from that era, all of which are now in the public domain. The pictures are undeniably cool and, frankly, it's nice to have a topic that doesn't require a lot of work or thought on my part. But there's another more subst ..read more

things are suddenly starting to pop. I'm not going to try to make sense of all. For now, I'm just going to share some quotes and links and a few quick observations. For years now, lots of people have been getting fed up with the New York Times. I'm not talking about bomb throwers and ideologues, but smart, sober, thoughtful journalists and commentators, people like Josh Marshall, Norm Ornstein, John Harwood and James Fallows who have earned a tremendous amount of respect for both their bodies of work and their judgment. Peers at other major publications are increasingly showing their anno ..read more

As I said before, I don't want to make too much of this analogy, but you could do multiple of these ads just on Trump's abortion quotes ..read more

Exceptional call-a-spade-a-spade reporting by TPM's Kate Riga On Wednesday, the right-wing justices really preferred the safe world of legal abstraction, where they could pretend that Idaho’s abortion ban — which only has an exception to save the woman’s life — won’t inevitably leave women to gruesome suffering.  The Court’s conservative wing tried with increasing and atextual persistence to convince listeners that Idaho’s strict ban still allows emergency room doctors to provide abortions to women in varying states of medical distress, and not just when doctors are sure the patient ..read more

[For those who came in late, here's a checklist for (most) of our YIMBY/NIMBY thread.] One of the main points in our voice-in-the-wilderness housing thread was that, with many of the YIMBY movement's highly touted solutions, the sign was almost certainly right but the promised magnitude was very probably high.  With that in mind, check out this report from Erin Baldassari reporting for Marketplace. Since 2018, a number of U.S. cities and states have changed their laws to allow more housing in most single-family neighborhoods. Among them are Minneapolis; Austin, Texas; and Oregon and Wash ..read more