Gady Epstein
@gadyepstein.bsky.social
A longform editor at The Economist. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s
This is a good point. His Last Jedi ranking may cost him some swing states
I don't know you guys, do we really WANT a candidate who panders to this website THIS hard?
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is a good point. His Last Jedi ranking may cost him some swing states
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November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Liberalism with real liberal principles, a rarer thing to see than you might think!
My hot take is that people can be very wrong about movies while still having other valuable opinions to offer. Many such cases
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My hot take is that people can be very wrong about movies while still having other valuable opinions to offer. Many such cases
They’ve learned a few things about accounting since Enron
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
They’ve learned a few things about accounting since Enron
“… they will lose the majority before this term is out” is certainly a “huge if true” sort of statement
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“… they will lose the majority before this term is out” is certainly a “huge if true” sort of statement
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answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
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If someone handed me a column draft this week about how Jeffrey Epstein was not symptomatic or representative of a broader elite class, and that column did not contain the name "Summers" (or "Harvard") I would hand back the draft and ask for some revisions
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If someone handed me a column draft this week about how Jeffrey Epstein was not symptomatic or representative of a broader elite class, and that column did not contain the name "Summers" (or "Harvard") I would hand back the draft and ask for some revisions
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Imagine being Andrew Cuomo watching this lmao
Trump is now defending Mamdani in response to loaded questions from Fox News. incredible scenes
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Imagine being Andrew Cuomo watching this lmao
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Wow. Trump was asked about Mamdani arresting Netanyahu. He simply said they didn't discuss.
He was asked about sending agents to NY & Mamdani disagreeing. He simply said they both want NY safe.
Mamdani had Trump doing something he rarely does: emphasizing agreement, over and over
He was asked about sending agents to NY & Mamdani disagreeing. He simply said they both want NY safe.
Mamdani had Trump doing something he rarely does: emphasizing agreement, over and over
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Wow. Trump was asked about Mamdani arresting Netanyahu. He simply said they didn't discuss.
He was asked about sending agents to NY & Mamdani disagreeing. He simply said they both want NY safe.
Mamdani had Trump doing something he rarely does: emphasizing agreement, over and over
He was asked about sending agents to NY & Mamdani disagreeing. He simply said they both want NY safe.
Mamdani had Trump doing something he rarely does: emphasizing agreement, over and over
Yeah they say politics is the art of the possible but this is really something
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yeah they say politics is the art of the possible but this is really something
He good at this
"I expect to be helping him, not hurting him. A big help" -- Trump is totally charmed by Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
He good at this
Enjoyed this one, speaking as someone scarred in the (relentless) Thucydides Trap discourse wars of the late 2010s
“In a startling reversal, it is America, not China, that seems determined to spring Thucydides’ trap. At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
“In a startling reversal, it is America, not China, that seems determined to spring Thucydides’ trap. At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
Trump has ended all the worry about China destroying the American-led order by destroying American primacy all on his own. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Enjoyed this one, speaking as someone scarred in the (relentless) Thucydides Trap discourse wars of the late 2010s
“In a startling reversal, it is America, not China, that seems determined to spring Thucydides’ trap. At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
“In a startling reversal, it is America, not China, that seems determined to spring Thucydides’ trap. At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
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Update: "it's not Judeo-Bolshevism because in this case my conspiratorial thinking is actually true"
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Update: "it's not Judeo-Bolshevism because in this case my conspiratorial thinking is actually true"
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You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Prohibiting the word oppression seems a little on the nose
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Prohibiting the word oppression seems a little on the nose
We need a bonus episode
and yet you insisted on cutting the meanest part
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We need a bonus episode
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This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
So Grok was trained on the DPRK publishing house catalog
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So Grok was trained on the DPRK publishing house catalog
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SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
There’s a creeping inevitability to this Summers news cycle. It didn’t make sense that the one thing he’d keep doing was teach
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There’s a creeping inevitability to this Summers news cycle. It didn’t make sense that the one thing he’d keep doing was teach
This is super interesting. Trying to fathom the phenotype, as it were, of cops who are keen to leave their local force to join ICE
Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
The more local police see ICE assholes as criminals, the better it will be for us.
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is super interesting. Trying to fathom the phenotype, as it were, of cops who are keen to leave their local force to join ICE
Not nearly enough Bugonia discourse on here for my taste. One of my favorite Yorgos movies.
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Not nearly enough Bugonia discourse on here for my taste. One of my favorite Yorgos movies.
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Hearing her state out loud “the kids who starved had complicated medical histories actually” is a very “Do you hear yourself?” thing and beyond that a case of anyone thinking that reporting had value even on its own stated terms just massively undermines credibility.
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hearing her state out loud “the kids who starved had complicated medical histories actually” is a very “Do you hear yourself?” thing and beyond that a case of anyone thinking that reporting had value even on its own stated terms just massively undermines credibility.
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This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
Further, it’s stunning how Lepore waxes on about the excesses of #MeToo without acknowledging she signed a public defense of a prominent anthropology professor against his accusers, then was embarrassed into retracting when the accusers’ lawsuit dropped. Her interviewer here doesn’t bring this up!
The Lepore interview boils down to her saying that despite better pay, research support, & resources than 99.9% of historians working today, she wanted to quit because some students - whom she barely has to teach given the low load - were too woke. These are not the advocates the discipline needs!
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Further, it’s stunning how Lepore waxes on about the excesses of #MeToo without acknowledging she signed a public defense of a prominent anthropology professor against his accusers, then was embarrassed into retracting when the accusers’ lawsuit dropped. Her interviewer here doesn’t bring this up!