“The other trend is the increasing cost of housing, which is a growing problem for seniors and isn’t showing signs of abating.”
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“The other trend is the increasing cost of housing, which is a growing problem for seniors and isn’t showing signs of abating.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...
Is it too, too direct to ask if Platner was the coke dealer at the Tune Inn for any staff, friends of staff, etc.?
maybe this'll do it? maybe?
Is it, like, reading web reports of how badly it fucked up and perhaps -- UNLIKE ITS HUMAN HANDLERS -- realizing that murdering school girls is bad? A war crime, even?
IMO Mills is a signifier for all the ways Schumer is failing to read + respond to the moment. EMILY's List endorsed her so it will be tough for another woman to get in.
It's all, just, emblematic of every way the DC / High-Level Dem "leaders" are screwing themselves (and us, and the U.S.) over.
I do think that if no one else gets in the race, it’s… gonna be rough. Mills is old (which is an issue!) and has some procedural stances that suck, and only emphasize her ties to The Establishment, which voters hate.
But if no one / nothing is driving up his negatives, no one else will jump in.
I wonder if pushing the “he’s an idiot with bad judgment” angle would be more effective in getting Mainahs to drop him. Frankly, I worry that the problem with the casual white supremacy issue is that it’s probably way too familiar too many voters: it’s their cousins, friends, selves.
Split the difference, move clocks 30 mins forward tomorrow and let the rest of the world adjust. Freedom!! USA! USA! (Could work, maybe?)
“When you think about it, we weren’t trying to make history or trying to rewrite history. We were responding to the problems of the particular time.”
What a life! Rest in power.
You did do it!! You did the thing!! 🎉
Smiling puppy?
It is 2026 and we are not fucking doing this anymore. EIGHT WOMEN came forward and told stories of Franken GROPING AND FORCIBLY KISSING THEM. The man was a sexual abuser. He did not and does not belong in congress. Fucking period. End of conversation.
“We will now be running express from Saint Mary’s directly to Cleveland Circle”
is he gonna fire Noem "like a dog" too because she might take that as a murder threat
This piece from 2021 has also stuck with me (and has lots of overlap with Sawyer's excellent points): www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Your piece is great, esp. w/r/t the Tenure Chase. I'm not sure I agree *entirely* with your argument (b/c institutions vary in what "counts" + how they weight it) but I would say it's definitely an articulation of the Standard Paradigm every scholar has to consider in charting their path.
ok this is really good (per your usual) but I am AGHAST to see that your internet time piece is turning 15 years old.
are you going to let it get a cellular device?
My initial objection to billionaires was based on the extreme income inequality that creates them, which is warping America, blunting human potential, & ruining lives.
Now, my primary objection to billionaires is their outsize role in warping democracy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-l...
If gerrymandering is when politicians pick their voters, is NIMBY-mandering when politicians pick not having more voters in the first place?
I was surprised, much like I was surprised when I went looking for an agreed-upon measure of political trust. “Surely,” I thought, “surely there is an agreed-upon construct that I can put in the survey with which reviewers will not take massive umbrage.”
There’s a wide range of measures, some are about perceiving authenticity through news coverage. I went with something else that had a mix of adjectives like trustworthy. I haven’t run the data, I had to collect it last year right at the end of the fiscal year lest it go poof.
I dug into the authenticity literature last summer, and it’s so incredibly loosey goosey. (Did a little preliminary testing in my political graphic design research about whether logos cue authenticity or not.)
IMO we cannot as a field measure authenticity. It’s “know it when I see it.”
Yes x 100. I think this also gets into questions of “authenticity” and what kinds of aesthetics and identities are perceived (by pundits? by voters? which voters?) as “authentic.”
Consistently, in survey after survey, housing availability and affordability is THE number one issue facing Massachusetts voters.
A ‘status quo’ approach to housing from any elected official, of any political party, should be considered malpractice today.
It’s all of the above. I don’t have fridge capacity to cool everything before hand. I could keep it all outside for 24 hours on the porch… it’ll be in the 40s. I don’t have coolers and don’t want to have to handle ice bags.
2 or 3 cases of seltzer on the porch overnight will just have to do!
Is seltzer in cans a non-starter? What about spindrift?
Tweeps, what is a non-alcoholic beverage for adults I can serve at room temp at my child’s birthday party this weekend?
(Do people drink room temp LaCroix?)
What if you did it Pardon The Interruption-style where you had a countdown clock on each topic?
It's the intersection with being a Maine RV *and* being in a Dynata panel. I've used that firm. There are valid questions about whether one could weight it to representativeness.
