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Due to a conversation earlier this week about state and municipal financing, I ended up down a rabbit hole looking at New York State Comptroller reports.
The statistics about Wall Street compensation structure (and their implications for tax revenue) are..fascinating
www.osc.ny.gov/files/report...
The statistics about Wall Street compensation structure (and their implications for tax revenue) are..fascinating
www.osc.ny.gov/files/report...
December 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Due to a conversation earlier this week about state and municipal financing, I ended up down a rabbit hole looking at New York State Comptroller reports.
The statistics about Wall Street compensation structure (and their implications for tax revenue) are..fascinating
www.osc.ny.gov/files/report...
The statistics about Wall Street compensation structure (and their implications for tax revenue) are..fascinating
www.osc.ny.gov/files/report...
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Jealous
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Resigns in the Face of Mass Protests
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Jealous
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I think it is theoretically possible that an election entirely about health care would be better for Democrats than one fought over immigration. I also think the chance that the GOP *allows* that is approximately nil, and so it behooves us to try and figure out how to fight on immigration as well.
there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I think it is theoretically possible that an election entirely about health care would be better for Democrats than one fought over immigration. I also think the chance that the GOP *allows* that is approximately nil, and so it behooves us to try and figure out how to fight on immigration as well.
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
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The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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Want to get a sense of how bad the Trump economy is getting? Bean producers are now marketing "new recipes inspired by cooking strategies from the Depression" which ofc @axios.com is hyping as a "bean boom." 😏 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Want to get a sense of how bad the Trump economy is getting? Bean producers are now marketing "new recipes inspired by cooking strategies from the Depression" which ofc @axios.com is hyping as a "bean boom." 😏 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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It's not a question of politics or party. Congress has a constitutional obligation to impeach and to remove a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and forsakes his solemn oath.
And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.
And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It's not a question of politics or party. Congress has a constitutional obligation to impeach and to remove a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and forsakes his solemn oath.
And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.
And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.
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Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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This is so bonkers and lawless that newspapers are struggling to find a headline that fits. “Trump announces pardon…” “Trump asserts he has pardoned…” “Trump symbolically pardons…” Which is kind of a running theme, as Trump routinely announces he’s doing things he has no power to do.
NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This is so bonkers and lawless that newspapers are struggling to find a headline that fits. “Trump announces pardon…” “Trump asserts he has pardoned…” “Trump symbolically pardons…” Which is kind of a running theme, as Trump routinely announces he’s doing things he has no power to do.
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New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
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A significant move Vancouver made this week was moving forward with enabling novel Single Egress & Space Efficient Stairs. Led by the great team in Development, Buildings & Licensing, supported closely by Vancouver Fire Rescue Service; and Planning this will be transformative for low-rise apartments
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
A significant move Vancouver made this week was moving forward with enabling novel Single Egress & Space Efficient Stairs. Led by the great team in Development, Buildings & Licensing, supported closely by Vancouver Fire Rescue Service; and Planning this will be transformative for low-rise apartments
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This is the man who runs the federal police force. What could go wrong?
MS NOW, citing three unnamed sources, reports Patel has, at least twice, ordered his girlfriend's FBI security detail to also escort one of her allegedly intoxicated friends after a night of partying. Agents have objected to the order, only for Patel to throw a fit trib.al/IruNVbk
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is the man who runs the federal police force. What could go wrong?
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It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Douthat's primary role in our political culture today is to tell fairy tales to rich centrist NYT readers about how the far right extremists who have taken over the brands of the GOP and "conservatism" are totally fine and are nothing to be concerned about.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Douthat's primary role in our political culture today is to tell fairy tales to rich centrist NYT readers about how the far right extremists who have taken over the brands of the GOP and "conservatism" are totally fine and are nothing to be concerned about.
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It's notable to me that one of the main guys the NYTimes pays to be on the "conservatism" beat has long seemed to have almost no understanding of the movement he's paid to analyze.
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's notable to me that one of the main guys the NYTimes pays to be on the "conservatism" beat has long seemed to have almost no understanding of the movement he's paid to analyze.
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Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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2. Many roads were traveled to get here, the main one being Donald Trump’s decade-long campaign of hatred against immigrants.
But a road that gets less attention is just as important: Trump’s hate-mongering never saw an equal, opposite and *liberal* reaction.
But a road that gets less attention is just as important: Trump’s hate-mongering never saw an equal, opposite and *liberal* reaction.
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
2. Many roads were traveled to get here, the main one being Donald Trump’s decade-long campaign of hatred against immigrants.
But a road that gets less attention is just as important: Trump’s hate-mongering never saw an equal, opposite and *liberal* reaction.
But a road that gets less attention is just as important: Trump’s hate-mongering never saw an equal, opposite and *liberal* reaction.
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US borders were never open. Not even in colonial times. We can debate whether colonial, early republic, & antebellum state govts had the admin capacity to seal borders w/ enforcement, but there was a crazy quilt of state laws restricting & encouraging migration. See my pinned post & bio.
4. For instance, the southern border is not open. It has never been open in our lifetimes. But Trump says it is. The Republicans say it is. Their rightwing allies say it is. And the Democrats rarely challenge them.
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
US borders were never open. Not even in colonial times. We can debate whether colonial, early republic, & antebellum state govts had the admin capacity to seal borders w/ enforcement, but there was a crazy quilt of state laws restricting & encouraging migration. See my pinned post & bio.
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There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
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if you had asked me a decade ago if i thought WA would be a climate haven - i'd have said yes.
in the time since, wildfires and smoke season have increased dramatically. the heat dome. we're presently under a flood warning.
there are no havens - the effects of climate change will come for us all
in the time since, wildfires and smoke season have increased dramatically. the heat dome. we're presently under a flood warning.
there are no havens - the effects of climate change will come for us all
Climate migration is difficult to study, and even harder to predict, because a complex constellation of factors guides the decision to pick up and move. But some experts say a historic population shift has already begun, and Western Washington should start preparing now to become a “climate haven.”
Is the Pacific Northwest ready for a wave of climate migration?
www.kuow.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
if you had asked me a decade ago if i thought WA would be a climate haven - i'd have said yes.
in the time since, wildfires and smoke season have increased dramatically. the heat dome. we're presently under a flood warning.
there are no havens - the effects of climate change will come for us all
in the time since, wildfires and smoke season have increased dramatically. the heat dome. we're presently under a flood warning.
there are no havens - the effects of climate change will come for us all