one funny throughline of the epstein story is that he seems to have genuinely convinced himself he was a genius because the scientists he would dangle money in front of humored his bizarre eugenics takes about neuroscience and evolutionary biology

The DNC is going to release a review of the 2024 campaign that absolves Biden and Harris of any blame and instead criticizes an outside group for not explicitly breaking the law

A fresh face railing against corruption in Washington? This has never worked at the national level

Love La Guardia/hate Moses is kinda like love Brandeis/hate Wilson, like yes, sure, but who was being empowered by whom, who was empowered whom

it's impossible now with trump because people kinda have to report on what he says, but i wish we still had the norm of not reporting on lawsuit threats, which are just an intimidation technique without having to make any real claims in court or pay lawyers

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Babe Ruth in 1933

with gerrymandering and the house capped at 435, we don't really have communities represented in congress. if the house were, say, 800 seats you have an "arab" seat in michigan, more republicans from new york city, a dem seat in utah, it would be more small-d democratic

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