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@NickyFrank30 “ [alaska is a] far more pro-gun state” spoken like someone who’s never been to maine

David Hogg rooted for Mary Peltola to lose for taking a far less right wing position is a far more pro-gun state

@Jesse_Leg @DrewSav i din’t feel bad for him. release it or resign

I genuinely feel bad for DNC Chair Ken Martin. The autopsy almost certainly says something to the effect of: Democrats lost in 2024 due to a combination of economic dissatisfaction, incumbent fatigue, Kamala’s unpopularity, concerns over crime and immigration, and overreach on cultural issues like trans, DEI, and other woke crap—reflecting what is now conventional wisdom. So Martin puts the kibosh on its release, because he knows many of the bigwigs in his own coalition—like the Pod Save America Bros—aren’t willing to contend with those realities. They insist upon telling themselves stories about how if Kamala had just been a little bit more pro-Hamas and hostile to Israel, she would’ve beaten Trump. This is, of course, absurd. Very few Americans cast their ballot based on Israel or Gaza or Iran or any of that stuff. And to the extent foreign policy played any role in the last presidential election’s outcome, it’s likely that voters doubted Harris‘s abilities to keep Americans safe following the Biden administration’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. There were no foreign policy incidents even remotely as calamitous as that during Trump‘s first term. Beyond all that, it’s worth noting that Jill Stein—the Green Party’s protest vote option for Palestine-obsessed, self-loathing Americans—also racked up markedly fewer votes in 2024 than she managed to collect in 2016.

@maiamindel it’s not the ABA; it’s the state bar. ABA would just roll over for her; that’s why so many law schools want to abolish the bar exam

kim kardashian failing the bar exam so many times that she gives up on being a lawyer is making me realize the american bar association might just be one of like three remaining institutions in the us that won't just roll over and give the exorbitantly wealthy whatever they want

@zdch @daveweigel b

@daveweigel Will this net out to being a) conducive to electing Democrats or b) antithetical to electing Democrats, do we think?

NEWS: The Democracy Alliance, the progressive donor network that's spent $2bn on causes/think tanks/campaigns, is directing "tens of millions" of dollars into new progressive media. semafor.com/article/05/01/…

@dilanesper depends on your rules of evidence. is your camera supervisor going to authenticate video at every trial? do you have enough of them to do that?

Well, obviously, if the cop pulls you over it's easy. The cop will testify. But what if a camera catches your license plate? Does this mean the state loses the case because it can't prove you were driving? Not at all!

I got this response a few times and I think we should be a little more clear about the relationship between speed cameras and proof. Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine a speeding ticket is a misdemeanor, with a jury trial. How will a state prove you were speeding?

@magi_jay @liamkerr i don’t care about the autopsy itself but the refusal to release it is a sign of a broken culture that can’t course correct

I don't care about the DNC autopsy. We have tons of actual electoral results + current polling that inform what works/doesn't work. What does the psychic screech of Dems mid-2025 add to this? These guys want it brought up because intra-Democrat fighting is their business model.

@IsaacDovere @ewarren i won’t vote for any candidate who solicits her advice

NEW from me: Lina Khan's phone has been ringing w/prospective 2028 Dems, as she pushes for an even more aggressive anti-trust stance, adding tools from Trump. @ewarren: “If you’re a leader who wants to deliver on affordability, it’s a smart move to call" cnn.com/2026/04/20/pol…

@liamkerr if i had known about this i would have donated a penny. hint: my motive is not supporting newsom

Revealed beliefs of the “we may not have another election!” people

@ammarmufasa sounds like the comms staff were just as delusional as the digital staff then, so idk what your argument is. fire them both?

A lot of dem digital strategists live by impressions and want to convince you that’s how we win. I sat there and pitched dozens of stories about how Kamala HQ was winning the internet. We didn’t. Famously.

@agraybee i think that every time i get blackout drunk but my friends always tell me i got there under my own power

Everyone speculating what this could be, but have you considered Republicans are crazy? Not crazy as in having weird opinions, I mean mentally ill. The FEMA director thinks he teleported to a Waffle House.

@burkehenryt generally the airport is the scammer in the airport taxi scam, often supported by corrupt laws

The cancer at the heart of American governance from the municipal to federal level is just an unwillingness to stop scams. Gambling companies pretending they're investment firms? Fine. Airport taxi scammers? Whatever. Scam callers bankrupting boomers? What are we going to do?

@keysmashbandit that’s why it works in the academic job market

Sorry to dunk but that's straightforwardly a worse and less informative sentence

@crystalxduan i love whisper networks

my day job is managing a community and i hear a lot about how much people - especially men - hate whisper networks. well wait til you have some interpersonal drama that you actually can't say to the person's life for fear of consequences you can't control. this is just what happens when these things grow

@mattyglesias @liamkerr i would rather the national party adopt the actually correct views and she loudly denounce them to win

@agraybee i thought “pro Israel” was just code for “da joos”

In short: the guy who runs it decides if he likes a candidate, and then works backwards to determine what constitutes a "pro-Israel donor."

@myhandle what if you could get 50m by holding out

if someone offered me $26M for my farm but I wanted to keep farming I would take the money and buy a bigger farm

@patio11 i would say it is from who it claims to be from and is also a scam

Ruriko asked me if it was a scam. I said very probably not; nothing in the communication is necessarily trustworthy but a “1” by itself gets nothing unless they actually know the full CC number (and perhaps a few other bits). Immediate automated follow-up:

Interesting payment UX: Wife received an SMS saying “This is [medical professional]. You have a bill for $X. Reply 1 to pay the bill with your credit card ending in 1234.” No actual bill or option to see the bill, presumably a combination of HIPAA and UX thinking.

@robinhanson @ATabarrok insider journalists may have better trivia but they write worse stories to protect their access. it’s why NYT cheerled us into Iraq

Many worried about "insider trading", but few worry about "insider journalism". But is it fair that reporters with better connections write more informative and interesting stories? Shouldn't we make sure news stories are only based on public info equally open to all reporters?

@CountDankulaTV @niubi i think a real win for freedom of speech would have been this idiotic case not making it to trial. dismissal with costs and attorney fees to be paid by plaintiffs

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

@militech_en @arpitrage that’s a flaw in the geneva convention, not in the strategy of attackibg enemy leaders

@arpitrage Killing civilian leaders who do not give direct military orders violates the Geneva convention.

In modern warfare, the initial strike is a decapitation attempt at enemy leadership. Advances in ballistics and intelligence allow this, as opposed to first working through the foot soldiers at the front.