Stein’s Law is the law now in America.

This is excellent, by @leedrutman.bsky.social. (i think the piece suggests fusion voting would not do enough more than that it’s a particularly hopeful way forward. but the analysis of where we are, and how futile much of our factionalizing is, has never been presented more clearly.)

is there anything in the modern world like the yellow pages, where i might ignore the ads and just get an exhaustive list of all the businesses of a certain type in a geographic area?

one of my most illiberal views is that every form of ad personalization and targeting (beyond the targeting implicit in advertisers’ choice of context) should be straight up banned.

he’s just a remarkable figure. how well he has aged relative to Trump, Biden is a small piece of anecdata that suggests karma is real. (he’s older than both of them.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Excellent, by @deanbaker13.bsky.social.

you used to have to change the clocks, but now it’s like a treasure hunt to find a clock that hasn’t changed itself.

“That rabbis composed and distributed a letter condemning a single candidate for mayor in one city, while too often remaining silent regarding the explicit hate speech that now runs through the Republican party, is embarrassing and shameful.” @ravmike.bsky.social

“It is unreasonable to expect working-class Americans to behave politically as a cohesive class when the party that supposedly champions their interests will not address or organize them in those terms.” @gabrielwinant.bsky.social

five behind greenwich mean time.

concentrating our forces off Venezuela and Nigeria will ensure our critical national security interests are protected.

Reagan: Morning in America Trump: Mourning for America

i miss @kdrum.bsky.social.

yet another reason to bring the universities to heel. they are literally teaching this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_the...

this strikes me as something akin to when Greenspan remarked in 2008, about his prior economic ideas, "I have found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is. But I have been very distressed by that fact." Greenspan has not since become a champion of social democracy, however.

Who in the leadership of the EU is a stalwart defender and proponent of European social democracy?

first humanoid robot i worry could replace what i actually do. ht @niedermeyer.online

when the third term thing inevitably comes before the Supreme Court, they could just publish this piece as the unanimous opinion, if they were actually calling balls and strikes and devoted to enforcing the original intent of the Constitution’s text. unfortunately a big if.