not feeling great about being a floridian so far tonight.

today’s family outing.

i think the strike at the nyt tech guild is really moving the needle.

today is a day for heroes without capes.

see, what we need is to make Thanksgiving music a thing.

i don’t want to jinx anything, but what if Wednesday morning we wake up to a country much better than we had thought it was?

what do you do when you are tired but not sleepy?

happy election day, to all who celebrate.

me too!

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god i hate that these people are still asking for money when it’s plainly too late to spend it. what do campaigns do with the surplus funds they amassed, once an election is past?

kind of surprised “the enemy within” hasn’t become a t-shirt tagline, like “nevertheless she persisted”.

“he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.” @jamellebouie.net on Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/o... ht @ryanlcooper.com

the way you find out who will win an election is you hold one.

people who style themselves “truthtellers” are usually (at best) better characterized as oversimplifiers.

the etymology of “peer” is that everybody pees it’s a sacred bond that binds us all on fundamentally egalitarian terms.

Maybe it’d be good if, in places like Texas, there were lists of lawyers willing to accompany pregnant patients. It’s horrible Texas has made lifesaving care a legal risk for providers. We should fix that yesterday. In the meantime we could make clear there are risks in both directions.

who’s the kid?

It's, well, Scott Alexander has a particular voice, and has nurtured a particular community around his blog. Sometimes it's best taken anthropologically, like visiting an off-the-grid tribe and trying to make sense of its ways.