Josh Zingher

It feels like the playing field has shifted quite dramatically over the past several weeks and that Trump is on the back foot after being on the offense for the better part of a year. The disastrous election results in VA/NJ have R electeds shook 1/x

All politics are identity politics. The real debate is which identities get priority.

Yeah, i dropped 50 bucks on pancakes and eggs for me and two kids at ihop last weekend. We’ve just jumped the shark.

Name one instance where limiting free inquiry benefitted a society in the long run.

Say what you will about the principles.

She’s somehow emerging as one of their few principled actors!

lol correct.

No doubt about that.

The first Emo president.

Aging pitcher finds that fastball for one last game.

All politics are identity politics. The real debate is which identities get priority.

Reminds me on some level of what happened to Tailgunner Joe McCarthy.
Everyone was terrified, until the televised hearing.

And when they're not scared of Trump anymore, they'll scatter like flies.

McCarthy drank himself to death not long after.

Love when you walk into my McMansion and the "open concept" looks like the atrium from a 1970s style Best Western.

All this goes to show that elections and public opinion still matter, even if the system is unstable. Trump is a lame duck with 40% approval. He's flagging, badly. The Democrats need to keep the pressure up. Midterms are less than a year away. Win there, and you have real levers of power. 5/5

The Epstein Files seem like they are an even bigger political story than I ever imagined. I thought they would be nothing interesting, but based on the emails we've seen and the mad fight at the White House to prevent their release, they must be BAD. 4/x

Elaine Luria helped investigate Jan. 6 and lost her House seat. Now she's attempting a comeback A Virginia Democrat who helped investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is making a comeback bid in a key congressional district as her party looks to break President Donald Trump’s gri...

Democrats have noticed what happened, too. Elaine Luria, an excellent former Congresswoman from VA 02, jumped into the race this week after losing her seat in 2022. The emergence of high quality candidates is a great sign for the Democrats. They think they can win.

apnews.com/article/virg...

Indiana likely will not push forward with redistricting despite pressure from White House It’s a massive blow to the White House’s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year.

One obvious piece of evidence is that the redistricting efforts have largely stalled across a number of states. Nobody wants to adopt a high risk-high reward map when you are heading into a shellacking like you saw on 11/4. 2/x

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

It feels like the playing field has shifted quite dramatically over the past several weeks and that Trump is on the back foot after being on the offense for the better part of a year. The disastrous election results in VA/NJ have R electeds shook 1/x

Autistic traits are genetic folks. Whatever leftover bit of variance environmental or other factors explain are likely inconsequential.

Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism Claims that the gut microbiome causally contributes to autism regularly appear in the scientific literature and popular press. Mitchell et al. critically examine influential studies underpinning these...

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Do you have tax exempt status?

the fact that Carl Bernstein's son wrote this article was a real chef's kiss>

Jim Ryan letter

Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end

I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"Completely Ratfucked: The Jim Ryan Story"

only winning move is not to play

people have agency even if they use it the most inexplicable ways possible.

nothing will disabuse you of the notion that there is something special in the water at the Ivy League Universities like actually spending time around people with Ivy League degrees.

Very proud to report that a co-authored piece with @meghanleonard.bsky.social and Hayley Munir on court curbing of lower state courts in the US.
We depart from most judicial independence literature by looking at court curbing of lower courts, rather than just supreme courts.
doi.org/10.1017/spq....