Ron Bialkowski

Doris Lessing's famous lectures on thinking in total systems--Prisons We Choose To Live Inside archive.org/details/Prison…

@jmart Were all the justices invited?

Two Americas All six conservative members of the Supreme Court attended President Trump’s state dinner Tuesday honoring King Charles, the night before they heard an important case about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies. None of the three liberal justices were present.

@MollyJongFast can help mitigate the impacts of drugs' side effects.

@MollyJongFast No. This is a real issue. Many patients on anti-psychotics and SSRIs build up tolerances over years that result in higher dosages and more dramatic side effects. Some patients cannot effectively get by without drug treatment, but encouraging lifestyle changes and therapy

This is such a stupid idea. RFK jr is such a moron.

@katieporterca Swalwell's actions were disqualifying--otherwise it is a difference of policy.

Running to be California’s next governor and not supporting moving to single-payer health care is disqualifying. Backpedaling on your politicianesque promises in order to rake in big donations from Big Pharma, health insurers, and corporate medicine is even worse. I've supported single-payer and rejected corporate PAC money since my first-ever election. Californians deserve a governor whose values aren't for sale to the highest bidder.

@mattyglesias I think that the justices would respond that it is the duty of Congress to respond to gerrymandering.

I think this is a very popular opinion! The whole GOP side of the argument is just ignoring the fact that their justices decided not to solve this problem when they had a chance.

@nick_field90 in a crisis).

@nick_field90 It's already clear that the SCOTUS portions closer to MAGA are the appointments not made by prompt and that Warsh has policies that predate Trump. In other words, Democrats would deal with conservative SCOTUS and Fed (less a drip management approach and more massive intervention

Even if Democrats win a trifecta for 2029, they'll be dealing with a Trump Supreme Court, a Trump Federal Reserve Chairman, high inflation and record debt. Plus, we don't know what economic growth, unemployment or Iran will look like then either x.com/FrankLuntz/sta…

@monthly @billscher I think that some people are pouring more oil on this fire because that want Stevens better positioned to secure moderate support. McMorrow is competitively polling and should stay in the race.

Insurgent Maine Democrat Graham Platner just ran the incumbent governor out of his Senate primary after overcoming his controversial Reddit posts. Will Mallory McMorrow get equal grace? @billscher writes. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/01/mcm…

@Timodc I think that John Fetterman prefers dealing with the bs in the Democratic Party as opposed to ALL the Trump-related bs of the Republican Party.

Are YOU Prepared for the Fetterman Contingency? JVL posits that the Democrats actually need to pick up 5 Senate seats bc Fetterman could flip and keep Thune in power if its only 4. thebulwark.com/p/are-you-prep…

@TheOhioRob @mattyglesias He is to the left of Scoop Jackson. A conservative Democrats still gets you farther in trying to pass legislation than a moderate Republican.

@mattyglesias I believe his being breathlessly pro-ICE, anti-shutdown, showing up on False News everyday to talk shit about Dems, being pro-war with Iran, chilling with Trump at WHCD type events, etc. also played a role in his being ostracized from the Democratic Party.

It's interesting that ever since Fetterman started making Dems angry over Israel, basically no thought has gone into "how do we keep this guy on the team?"

@mattyglesias Democrats need to accept that the road to a Senate majority will always be through several Senators who are very much independent agents. Likewise, actual Democrats need to listen to their voters.

@ZaidJilani I read the other two have similar weighted problems based where you are in the Party. McMorrow on policy appears closer to the Party center than the other two.

The problem with McMorrow is she’s a culture warrior radlib. Not saying she wouldnt win the election (any Dem will this year). But this isn’t what the party needs to expand its coalition.

@danielledsouzag @JennyHegseth Uhh what attacks where? I am liberal and she looks fine. This sure sounds like a clickbait post.

Pete Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Hegseth, is now being attacked by the Left for wearing this $42 gown to the 2026 WHCD, per the NY Post. @JennyHegseth looks beautiful in this dress. The next time the Left claims to represent the “working class,” remember this.

@blankslate2017 If only ONE Democrat advances, then the party will waste much less money on the race.

Good news for Dems: Bianco and Porter are dropping. Hilton is flat. Steyer is steady and is slowly gaining. Becerra is rising. With all the energy in the race btwn Steyer and Becerra, the likelihood of 2 Dems in the top 2 is getting stronger.

@nick_field90 Nah. Fetterman is more likely to caucus with Democrats, but very credibly threaten to tank things like blocking nominees from a vote.

I used to think Fetterman would never actually bother to formally switch parties. But if Democrats win a 51-49 majority in November, it's very possible that Fetterman accepts a deal to caucus with Republicans and flips the majority back to the GOP x.com/JordanRhone/st…

@ZaidJilani These claims would be far more credible if they spoke about coming from a rule-of-law social democratic state like Sweden. Evoking the comparison with a command economy isn't credible when we are nowhere near a command economy.

Can we stop pretending America is on the verge of the Soviet Union every time someone tries to raise taxes a little bit on the super rich? It’s condescending.

@SarahLongwell25 This would be such a dumb move before the mid-term elections.

I’m sorry, I was reliably told this was going to be privately funded.

@SwipeWright identified individuals navigate the world--that is as relevant as any other demographic. In generals, most dissertations are rather narrow and seem funky to most general readers.

@SwipeWright the product of social norms; however, a different binary can just as readily be reconstructed by women. Otherwise, Otherwise, the compositions of studies based on semi-structured interviews is pretty standard in psychology. It's a dissertation about how non-binary

This new doctoral thesis claims to explain how “gender non-binary assigned female at birth (AFAB) individuals” resist and navigate the “male hegemonic gender binary.” The abstract is loaded with activist jargon: it is “guided by feminist queer theory,” seeks to describe how AFAB non-binary people pursue “liberation from gendered expectations,” and frames ordinary social reality as “cisnormative social systems.” It interviews just 18 people as the basis for their “grounded theoretical model” about how they “resist, reinterpret, and strategically navigate gendered power structures.” Despite the technical language about using “open, axial, and selective coding” and “constant comparative analysis,” this is yet another dissertation where a small number of ideologically sympathetic interviews are filtered through feminist-queer theory and presented as deep insight. It ends by claiming the data has “implications for clinicians,” but I somehow doubt that our healthcare system would benefit from incorporating these findings.