William Brown

Trump calls for Fed Chair Jerome Powell's 'termination' in blistering attack President Trump lashed out at Powell for not acting sooner to lower interest rates. The president's own tariffs make that more difficult, by putting upward pressure on prices.

President Trump lashed out at Powell for not acting sooner to lower interest rates. The president's own tariffs make that more difficult, by putting upward pressure on prices.

Scolds

"Still, legal analysts have raised questions about the legality of sending US citizens to prisons abroad."

what are we doing here. it is illegal. there is literally zero question that it is illegal. what is this 'raised questions' stuff.

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else.

Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back

These lies are reprehensible. That includes what they're saying about Mr. Abrego, a man who has never even been charged with a crime and whose sole criminal arrest was for loitering outside a Home Depot seeking work; they've called him a "violent criminal" and accused him of human trafficking.

Like this paper? Here's another that will be right up your alley.

Here, the authors merge voter files & online resumes to create a dataset of 34.5M people.

They show that Dems & Reps choose distinctive career paths and employers. This leads to a lot of partisan segregation at the workplace.

things can possibly get worse from here

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

A Review of “In Covid’s Wake”: According to Laptop Class Professors, the Heroes of the Pandemic Were Laptop Class Professors The authors of the Great Barrington Declaration prevented fair and honest discussion by constantly spreading fake information. The authors of a new book don't care at all.

Best academic dunk I’ve read in a hot minute, thank you @joho.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...

I can’t compete with this

Voters don't like when politicians use partisan attacks. But... they think the other side does.

"*I* may not thrive on partisan hostility, but others surely do."

This continues the cycle, leading to a breakdown in political trust and civility.

my most conservative-coded trait these days is that i honestly think that the worst possible thing that can happen for young men is for the entire society to coddle them. what they need to hear is that they have one life to live and they have to take responsibility for it.

Title: The Growing Generational Divide Transforming the Democratic Party in Congress Subtitle: Data Shows Democratic Legislators Becoming More Progressive With Each Generation A scatterplot showing the ideological scores of Democratic legislators across different generations, using data from the DIME dataset. The x-axis represents ideological scores, where lower values indicate more liberal positions and higher values indicate more conservative ones. The y-axis categorizes legislators by generation: Silent, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Each point represents an individual legislator, while vertical black bars indicate the median ideological position for each generation. Notable legislators are labeled, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maxwell Frost, Jim Clyburn, David Scott, Joe Manchin, Henry Cuellar, Jared Moskowitz, and Jake Auchincloss. The plot illustrates a trend where younger Democratic legislators, particularly Millennials and Gen Z, are more progressive compared to older generations. At the bottom, a note states that the data comes from the DIME dataset, with ideological scores derived from campaign contributions. It clarifies that individual points represent legislators and the vertical bars show group medians.

Wondering why Democrats keep selling out your values—and our democracy—in the name of ‘moderation’? Is it because the party leadership is too old, or too conservative?

Turns out, it’s the same problem.

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.