Michael Artime

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliams Award

The Carey McWilliams Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to society’s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Political…

@clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes brilliantly about the need to honestly grapple with history. His book was essential for my class in DC last January. It is infuriating that the anger from the administration is with teaching this history and not the fact that unconscionable violence was committed

Cracker Barrel allowed people to buy an audio book and return it at another Cracker Barrel and get everything but $5 back. Great for road trips. I have a fondness for it. So, one on hand, this is the absolute stupidest nonsense. On the other, people lose their jobs and are hurt.

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

When you strip away humanity

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

This was the *short* version of the paragraph too, it easily could have been 2-3x as long. Anyway, for all the handwringing certain Dems do about what might happen if they expand the Supreme Court, this is what is going to happen for the next 40ish years if they don't! bsky.app/profile/prof...

Every once in a while I think “what if someone made a straight version of Police Academy without the jokes” and honestly that’s what the Rockies are

Two density plots comparing age distributions. Top graph shows Republican senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Republican voters (more evenly distributed, median age 57). Bottom graph shows Democratic senators (peak around age 70) vs. registered Democratic voters (more evenly distributed, median age 50). Vertical lines mark where half of each population falls. Democratic senators have a much larger age gap from their voters than Republicans do.

The Democratic Party’s age problem isn’t just bad, it’s much worse than Republicans’. Half of registered Democratic voters are under 50, yet half their senators are over 67. Despite claiming to represent the future, party leadership systematically blocks younger voices from gaining power.

We astoundingly elected the one single person in the entire world who is not interested in reading the intelligence in the President’s Daily Brief.

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up
"a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

Guys, you're still trying to replace FDR. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.

Person who purposely set off fireworks in their house hailed as local hero for successful use of fire extinguisher

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

No one's doing this better than JB right now.

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

How utterly unserious we must seem to the rest of the world at this moment.

Seems like this would be a good message to spread far and wide

Trump: "There's a map on the back of the Constitution. We're going to be looking at it very closely. We've been talking about it from the day I got in, and we're looking at that very, very strongly."

But didn’t removing workers guarding nukes and woke fix this?!

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

The fact that only 2% of professors identify as fascists shows just how insular and out of touch universities have become.

Immediately adding this to my personal style-guide.

I’m just going to carry around a screenshot of this to help answer student questions about why Congress is unpopular

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

It’s hard to overstate how alarming the hearing was today. This is not just Democrats being anti-Trump, this is about arming a conspiracy theorist with immense political power

Despite being a straight, white, Christian guy, somehow I’ve managed to spend my whole life studying some of the worst parts of American history without ever feeling personally guilty abt it.

I wonder why that is.

If “that guy back then was racist” makes you feel bad, it’s … not abt THAT guy.

This will certainly reduce the price of eggs