Matt Rothstein

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Scoop: Inside DHS's vast college football surveillance effort If you go to a college football game, the feds have cameras on you.

In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office.

Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.

It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.

www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...

starting to think there is a huge untapped reservoir of voter energy that a competent political party could harness to effect rapid and lasting positive change

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.

Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.

Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.

Glad everything worked out for them.

How about you?

Ordering the 'molon labe' off the tiny auxiliary chalkboard indicating a special that hasn't been changed in years

A St Louis Fed paper analyzed the Silicon Valley Bank bailout and analyzed the assets and found it would have been better to let it fail because 90% of the assets were crypto and VC bets and would have had little to no effect on the broader economy.

In my brief time as an op-ed editor (<year), Brettbug Stephens argued Ashkenazis might be genetically superior, & Tom Cotton called for violence against George Floyd protestors. Some of us were constantly pushing back. I met with Sulzberger multiple times. Lip service was given, nothing changed.

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

I think Dems' anticorruption, platform temperance program should include fighting stuff like this.

Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

once a week the president says into a microphone out loud "I simply love dictators, it's so great how they order people around, nobody disobeys them, it's wonderful"

Not pursuing criminal charges against Boeing, like not pursuing criminal charges against any of the banks/bankers who drove the financial crash of 08, is just a huge fucking mistake.

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency

Trump take Thanksgiving, air travel, and soldiers eating meals is a mess they should let them lie in until the USA gestapo kidnappings on our streets stop tbh

Jesus I see what you've done for others

I'm so pissed they killed IRS free file.

When we take the government back he should break up turbo tax with a baseball bat.

Make it so that no one ever wants to use private tax software for their personal returns again.

ICE is a team sport for guys who would otherwise be school shooters

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

FINALLY A DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT I CAN BE PROUD OF, IF ONLY FOR A NIGHT

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."

--Dick Cheney probably

The ginger hibiscus juices alone will protect his joints and his tummy

still feels as timeless as the day I filed it

a good reminder that in LA, Portland, Chicago, and elsewhere, people have been taking care of their neighbors and doing stuff like this around the clock for months.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.