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I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
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NEW A gift link for a detailed story in the Atlantic story about President Trump’s cell phone usage. The president is very accessible (not a good thing) and giving a large intelligence gift to foreign intelligence agencies (enemies and allies).

Weed found at workplace that DOGE had occupied. I will say it again: maybe the government should not be run by sociopaths who are high on drugs.

Report: Elon Musk was lying when he said “Reuters is lying” about Tesla canceling its low-cost car sherwood.news/tech/report-...

Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing

My take on Elon Musk and his plan to leave government. www.economist.com/united-state... With a mini scoop at the end - the workers going back into the United States Institute of Peace offices found a whole bunch of weed apparently thrown away by the DOGE staffers who had been hanging out there

Have been having fun with ChatGPT this evening...

There is a very big asterisk to the CNN finding that Americans support government intervention: the growth is heavily among Republicans, meaning the desired intervention probably isn’t what Democrats would hope. From my (free to read) newsletter: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

Curtis Yarvin *is* Dom Cummings minus the Bismark references?

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

Imagine being shown this headline fifteen years ago. What would you have thought?

Imagine being shown this headline fifteen years ago. What would you have thought?

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

She’s not officially on staff. She holds no White House or campaign job. Yet Laura Loomer has played a role in major decisions—including the ouster of Trump’s national security adviser. Now, Trump’s advisers have officially grown tired of her. And they hope that Trump may soon too.

Reform’s “British DOGE” when they finish up looking at Kent Council:

I mean "let's not talk about my Nazi phase and stick to rockets" is a time honored American tradition by now

Americans who report paying “a lot of attention” to news (everyone on this platform) are (a) in the minority of voters and (b) very, very prone to assuming the other side of the aisle is all extremists. This is counterproductive to broader party efforts at persuasion. I have sources: 🧵

Ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science? Just what the Trump administration likes...

It's always rough when you sober up from a year-long bender.

And I thought I couldn't dislike Unherd any more...

Tim Walz takes a shot at Susan Collins: "She's always 'deeply concerned' about things. Well do something then, about being 'deeply concerned.'"

I was told Musk didn't want to build the Model Y that now makes up most of Tesla's business because "Tesla doesn't make boring cars." I'm not surprised to learn he personally canceled the affordable Model 2 as well. Even after 20 years he does not have a strong handle on the car biz!

American life expectancy sucks already compared to other developed countries, even before Trump, RFK Jr, Musk et al have taken their chainsaw to public health. This is going to be an absolute disaster.

Oof!

Elon Musk, drugged up anntelnaes.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

He literally admitted to using the drug LAST YEAR. www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/t...

How to torch global standing and soft power in six months.

It’s insane how many people were mad at inflation and then voted for this

New study by Sofia Jonsson in Political Studies shows that sexual corruption undermines political trust even more than conventional bribery. #UU-RESC journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing to see how Musk’s X, with its algorithms deliberately encoded to suppress news of Ukraine, isn’t even trending in the last two days on one of the most dramatic developments in modern warfare — the destruction of strategic bombers by drones

“new” 🤦‍♂️

"At least 11 big companies are moving work away from law firms that settled with the administration or are giving—or intend to give—more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals, according to GCs at those companies and other people familiar with those decisions."

Jake Tapper looking like an absolute idiot tonight, completely missed that Joe Biden was actually dead and replaced by clones and body doubles in 2020. His book proven entirely wrong.

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It is good to see Pulp back and on fine form...

I think it's a good example of our terrible political discourse that the fact that the Labour government is literally passing legislation right now strengthening EDI policy is relegated to a 2nd order issue in a story about a random campaign group saying the opposite.

Blue Labour are barely sentient.