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Pew Research - Party Affiliation 2021 🟦 Democrat: 52% (D+10) 🟥 Republican: 42% 2025 🟥 Republican: 46% (R+1) 🟦 Democrat: 45% Net 11 point swing towards the GOP

Look, it's the long-awaited pivot to video.

The Right’s Napoleonic Strategy on Culture, by Damon Linker open.substack.com/pub/damonlinke…

I know universities and their various organs are in financial trouble and this looks like an easy way to raise revenue. But people making these decisions do not seem to understand that the goal of the AI enterprise is to make most of what they do irrelevant.

Independents are the kind of voters who will vote for Trump in 2016, quickly come to hate him and vote for Biden in 2020, then quickly come to hate Biden and vote for Trump a second time in 2024, and then quickly come to hate him (again), and then ... [fill in the blank].

This photo was Monday. Recycling finally came on Tuesday for the 1st time since before the strike started. But our usual pickup day is Thursday. Trash was taken that day, but no recycling. So again, we have piles of junk sitting in 95 degree heat. Not acceptable Cherelle Parker

There are many ways to read this poll, but the core finding to me is this: everything the Biden Admin touched seems to have been viewed as a failure. Trying to say this was just due to bad comms or Biden himself is cope. Biden Admin senior figures should be doing self-criticism

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Lotta folks commenting on shift of younger men to the right, but it’s young women who are also a huge story. GenZ men are basically in-line w/ GenX men on party affiliation. Meanwhile, GenZ women are 11 pts more Dem than GenX women.

ffs just come out of the closet

Taibbi gonna spend four years of Trump ignoring the people who control the White House, Congress, state legislatures, Supreme Court, half of cable news, and most of the Fortune 500 to write the same post owning the libs over and over, eh?

Manhattan is considerably safer than Phoenix.

“In limitless self-love, in frenzied arrogance, the tyrant seeks to rule not merely over men but even over gods.” --Leo Strauss

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"This is not an internet conspiracy theory." Actually, that's exactly what this is, and what we've come to expect from David Samuels. In fact, the framing of the entire piece is a justification for indulging in the hyper-rationalist paranoia of conspiracy theories.

Boy do I love this album of Dylan covers.