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I’m still stuck on this. You can’t barge your way into a bureaucracy where you have no experience or subject matter expertise, blow it all up, and then go “nooooo I’m just a smol bean programmer I never expected anyone to USE this output”

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Mountainhead (2025)

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there's a show on Netflix where the entire premise is Japanese toddlers running errands

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Everyone loves Milkshake DOGE, the disaffected DOGE developer who just wanted to write some useful code for the government to save money on wasteful contracts [two weeks later] We regret to inform you that the developer's prompt engineering is for shit www.propublica.org/article/insi...

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I mean, the instigating issue for this beef is a policy dispute over whether we should kick a bunch of people off of their health insurance coverage (Trump) or whether we should kick a bunch of people off their health insurance coverage and also their Social Security benefits (Musk).

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well, i wrote this week about the LAST big discourse - immigration and what Trump voters did and did not vote for. my take is slightly different, as I focused on how immigration is uniquely suited for a disconnect between poltiics and policy goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/no-one-vot...

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so Indiana is just the team of destiny huh

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TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President

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Myspace Tom, watching this all go down

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I love how some people think that two famously thin-skinned, grudge-holding, insecure people have enough discipline to stage all this.

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underrated subplot here is that they're having this flame war on their own respective platforms

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Since 2016, 1 notable pro-GOP shift has come from Latinos. How did Latinos shift towards a party taking strong positions against unauthorized immigration? @wpmarble.bsky.social & I use population-based panel surveys to help answer that in a new paper: osf.io/preprints/so... Quick 🧵

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"I bought the US government fair and square" is literally the argument he is making in public.

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"would you say that you're sad or are you sadsad?"

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Devastating @donmoyn.bsky.social takedown of the NYT piece alleging censorship of a conservative student at Brown. The student was actually engaging in behavior that could be reasonably be deemed harassment. The admin let him do it on free speech grounds donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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APSA has a webinar along these lines at 1pm eastern politicalsciencenow.com/webinar-stra...

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for those of you teaching intro this fall, "White House press secretary spends time in the West Wing planning a heel-turn book tour that involves disaffiliating from the party" is a pretty good teaching example for the principal-agent problem

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It is okay for Members of Congress to not personally read every part of the legislation they vote for. But that only works if they can trust their staffers and other Members of Congress to flag issues, etc. It seems like very few Republicans can trust their colleagues right now.

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🇲🇽 🌮 💣 New Mexican food-Thomas Schelling themed post from me 💣🌮 🇲🇽 Why do I think TACO only half explains Trump's bargaining? Because Trump plays the 'madman strategy' both before AND after striking a deal. We end up with TOSTADA. What's that??? Read on... 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

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They're literally doing the meme

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the main complaint I've seen people make about Mountainhead is that it's too much of an over-the-top caricature but, I dunno man, its source material is setting a pretty high bar

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Every streaming service should have two categories for documentaries, “Documentaries” and “Okay, But, Like, Actual Documentaries”.

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~everyone holding a "mass deportation now" sign at the Republican convention voted for Trump in 2020, when he lost. most of the voters who put him over the top in 2024 didn't watch that convention and even if they did they probably didn't give much thought to what "mass deportation" meant

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"A one sentence explanation of the Federalist Society vs. Trump might be this. An ideology welded to a spoils machine is in a fight to the death against a spoils machine welded to a spoils machine." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-federa...

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now that we’re dealing with (very real) learning loss there’s this narrative that mitigation efforts focused on schools didn’t appreciate the tradeoffs, and what I remember from that time is this being the other side of the tradeoff everyone was well aware of

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There's been a lot of research showing increased vaccine hesitancy attitudes among Republicans since COVID-19. My new paper shows that this is reflected in post-COVID Flu vaccine behavior. academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

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🚨Manuscript accepted 🚨 @meredithconroy.bsky.social and I introduce and test a novel theory of asymmetric partisan opportunity for women in primary elections. Forthcoming at @jwpp.bsky.social. Preprint available at: mikecowburn.com/wp-content/u...

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again all of this stuff is resignation-level for literally everyone involved www.notus.org/health-scien...

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I'm sure I'll take shit for saying this, but this passage from Glenn Loury's Chronicle interview perfectly captures for me the civilizational necessity of a relatively autonomous academic sphere. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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absolutely begging everyone to be explicit about when they are arguing the merits of a proposal vs when they are arguing its politics

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Even if the courts make the administration back off it feels, much like tariffs, like the damage is already done here. It’s much harder to agree to a very expensive, multi-year investment in your education if you also have to worry that it could get interrupted at any moment by the government.

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