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Congressional Democrats have moved on from the "chaos" frame in official e-newsletters

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Cover of Azari’s Backlash Presidents book

What all the cool kids are reading:

These guys are making a strong case against central planning. Conservative performance art.

Much more data from @tesler.bsky.social @goodauth.bsky.social. Tells us something about the backlash to DOGE and the OBBB, I think. And buttresses Democrats' stance on extending ACA subsidies.

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Under Biden, there was no thermostatic shift in public opinion about the size of government. The public stayed relatively liberal. Take attitudes toward the government's role in health care:

Jerry Jones flipping off a Jets fan during the Cowboys game.

"He is the worst person in the world but he gleefully hates the same people I hate." Made it into my intro slides. Negative partisanship is a helluva drug.

Hi this is your daily reminder that insurance has become UNAFFORDABLE for most Americans. Health, Auto, and Home. I wish my party would make this a priority.

We live in interesting times. Can’t tell if this is Georgia tea leaves, higher aspirations, intra-party drama, maverick branding, or all of the above, but it’s something to see.

Think we will get the “bad medication” interaction excuse.

Security footage reportedly shows Mark Sanchez following 69-year-old truck driver before stabbing: ‘This guy is trying to kill me' Sanchez allegedly smelled of alcohol and slurred his speech as he confronted a 69-year-old truck driver.

A lot going on. This is what most sports fans are talking about today. Wild wild story. Sanchez was likely more than drunk. sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking...

One of the best ways to stay connected with family and friends who are politically… ah, distant, is the football pickem pool. Touch grass together. Joke around. Be normal. Sundays can be fundays.

Bar chart showing that 20% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results believe these summaries are extremely or very useful. Far more (52%) see them as somewhat useful, while 28% see them as not too or not at all useful. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

Bar chart showing that 6% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results have a lot of trust in the information they get from these summaries. Another 48% have some trust in this information, while 34% have not too much trust and 12% have no trust at all. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

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Was at a music show last night that unexpectedly opened with the national anthem. Always chokes me up but this one hit the crowd in a raucous way I hadn't seen before. Felt defiant.

They are opening a wide lane for enterprising politicians to wrap themselves in every American patriotic symbol as a form of resistance. A lane so wide even the Dems shouldn’t miss it.

The book is currently undergoing peer review, but I’m really excited to share all I’ve learned, which is the nice thing about writing a book: I got to share and think about a lot in those pages!

In the meantime, you can read my article on respectability here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It was exhilarating celebrating 20 years of PRIEC! 🎊

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

How have Americans’ immigration attitudes changed in recent decades?

Ollerenshaw and Jardina observe how opinions have evolved since 1988 among partisan and racial/ethnic groups. The most significant shifts have been from white Democrats.

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YouTube video by Big Guy’s 45’s LOOK AT ME LIKE A HUMAN BOY!

Trying to get my son to smile normally for a family picture. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xng4...

Seems like data worth centralizing

Give me the courage of the backup QB rolling into the stadium wearing this.

Voters really loved the 2019 economy. It explains ~ 50% of American politics right now I think. wertwhile.substack.com/p/trump-45-w...

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Shutdown Pod 2025 – Congress, Two Beers In Podcast Episode · The Government Affairs Institute · 10/03/2025 · 27m

If your students need sober discussions of the shut down. These are great. 1/2. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

So many conservative American Catholics are actually Protestants. "The Pope is wrong, the Bible says something different" is literally the defining ethos of Protestantism. Quote Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog · Oct 1 Really terrible answer from Pope Leo. God Himself prescribes the death penalty in the Bible. Is the Pope saying that God is "not pro-life"? And who exactly is advocating for "inhumane treatment of immigrants"? What sort of inhumane treatment is he referring to?

library(dplyr) library(gm) golden <- tribble( ~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric, "E4", "q", "I’m", "G4", "q", "done", "C5", "q", "hid-", "B4", "q", "-ing", "D4", "q", "now", "G4", "q", "I’m", "E5", "q", "shin-", "D5", "q", "-ing", "G4", "q", "like", "B4", "q", "I’m", "A5", "q", "born", "F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to", "G5", "q/3", "be._", "G5", "h", "" ) music <- Music() + Key(1) + Tempo(125) + Meter(2, 4) + Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) + Tie(13) + Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) + Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) + Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) + Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) + Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) + Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) + Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13) show(music)

The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

Even if minority leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries recognize that shutdowns are political losers that never achieve their policy goals, they may judge a party fissure to be an even worse outcome, for themselves and perhaps for the party. When choosing between bad options, you still need to identify the least-worst one.

There are few plausible ways to end this, but one would be for the Republicans to offer to extend the ACA subsidies in November, after the Democrats agree to vote for the clean CR now. This would give a lot of factions what they want; liberals would have gotten their fight, Schumer would get his coalition management, Trump would escape from any statutory restrictions on his spending actions, and Republicans would protect their front-line members on health care, neutralizing the issue somewhat for 2026.

One of the best writeups of the shutdown mechanics I’ve seen. This isn’t a normal shutdown. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Bar chart showing that a declining share of Republicans in the United States believe economic conditions will be better a year from now. The chart also shows that a broad majority of Democrats continue to believe that economic conditions will be worse a year from now. The chart is based on Pew Research Center surveys of U.S. adults.

A majority of Republicans (56%) say current economic conditions in the US are only fair or poor. Republicans have also become less optimistic about the future direction of the economy, as this chart shows. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Ben Franklin's World Ben Franklin's World is an award-winning podcast about early American history hosted by historian Liz Covart, Ph.D. It's for people who love and enjoy history and want to know more about the people, p...

Country over self.

George Washington could’ve become king. Instead, he gave up power for the country.

242 years later, that choice still matters.

🧠 I wrote about Washington’s example & how it echoes in today’s headlines.

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