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An election that results in a 49.8% (77.3mil) vs 48.3% (75mil) win for a candidate where 36% of people didn't vote isn't a landslide or a collective decision or even a decisive win. It's a barely squeaked out victory that isn't a mandate for anything.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
An election that results in a 49.8% (77.3mil) vs 48.3% (75mil) win for a candidate where 36% of people didn't vote isn't a landslide or a collective decision or even a decisive win. It's a barely squeaked out victory that isn't a mandate for anything.
In the height of pandemic twitter derangement I absolved to not feel political anger alone—it must be in the irl company of another and it changed the way I engage online. If something pisses me off, moving on. Experiencing anger with others in real life is somehow more transformative. Worked for me
January 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM
In the height of pandemic twitter derangement I absolved to not feel political anger alone—it must be in the irl company of another and it changed the way I engage online. If something pisses me off, moving on. Experiencing anger with others in real life is somehow more transformative. Worked for me
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Your fact of the day:
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain's Poor
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
bylinetimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Your fact of the day:
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
And I think it’s (even if subconsciously) felt by Americans. What direct accountability lines do we have for flagrant violence? Id wager the demos detects none and this has democratic and legitimacy crisis implications
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
And I think it’s (even if subconsciously) felt by Americans. What direct accountability lines do we have for flagrant violence? Id wager the demos detects none and this has democratic and legitimacy crisis implications
On the contrary, legal institutions have rarely treated death by law enforcement as a disaster in the United States. There are still few incidents of accountability (importantly: indictment isn’t accountability). There is a homology between domestic law enforcement and international in this way
January 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
On the contrary, legal institutions have rarely treated death by law enforcement as a disaster in the United States. There are still few incidents of accountability (importantly: indictment isn’t accountability). There is a homology between domestic law enforcement and international in this way
Importantly, it’s substantive AND sappy, rather than just sappy. Harris running on “joy” and dismissal when everyone is indebted and nervous is vacuously sappy. I love that he recognizes everyone’s struggles while retaining the love and aspiration for a sensuous, fulfilled life. good, hearty, sap.
January 2, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Importantly, it’s substantive AND sappy, rather than just sappy. Harris running on “joy” and dismissal when everyone is indebted and nervous is vacuously sappy. I love that he recognizes everyone’s struggles while retaining the love and aspiration for a sensuous, fulfilled life. good, hearty, sap.
December 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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It's a choice to write this about Trump supporters in Northern California and not about Democrats in, say, central Nashville who have been without "their representative" ever since the GOP's TN gerrymander switched from packing to cracking? bsky.app/profile/bill...
Both devin nunes and kevin McCarthy were central valley CA Republicans
Yet somehow the times is only just now discovering conservatives exist here only by hiring a stringer like CA is Baghdad..
Yet somehow the times is only just now discovering conservatives exist here only by hiring a stringer like CA is Baghdad..
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It's a choice to write this about Trump supporters in Northern California and not about Democrats in, say, central Nashville who have been without "their representative" ever since the GOP's TN gerrymander switched from packing to cracking? bsky.app/profile/bill...
I had to see this for myself and I’m laughing out loud at this “in the news” tab on his webpage. I was scrolling for eons law.richmond.edu/faculty/ctob...
School of Law - University of Richmond
law.richmond.edu
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I had to see this for myself and I’m laughing out loud at this “in the news” tab on his webpage. I was scrolling for eons law.richmond.edu/faculty/ctob...