Chase Mohney

You’ve gotta be pretty drunk to just text out the war plans.

Absofuckinglutely

2025 US House Members

Second tab has 2024 margin. I'm sure you'll feel — as I did — that you may like these Members, but there are obvious spots where they could step back to mentor a new generation that would bring fresh energy, ideas, and media savvy to the caucus without risking a loss. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If we’re looking for an initial list of prospects… 55 House Dems are over the age of 70, and exactly 3 won their 2024 race by less than a 10 point margin.

Electoral politics is a relay, not a sprint, and we suck at passing the baton.

Where I’m from, whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. What a dangerous waste of precious resources to back up stupid lies.

Good times.

All models are wrong, some are useful. Too often I think the mess isn’t necessarily [insert model(s) here] but the mess of a strategy behind it because someone is looking for a silver bullet rather than a useful tool.

And it’s not just the trust and credibility we need to build that make it so important for this to be a culture-focused effort — it’s also distribution. Blogs had an easier time gaining traction in the early days of search. With algorithmic feeds today, we know straights news/politics gets punished.

Will is makes excellent points here. I keep thinking about the last time the left felt really ascendant — when we owned an insurgent (but meaningful) chunk of the media ecosystem in the blogosphere!

I am realizing how much the drafts feature over-indulged my wordiest tendencies in the other place.

Netflix back up for most users in US after outage, Downdetector shows Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources, showed that there were fewer than 100 user reports of problems accessing Netflix as of 5 a.m. ET (1000 GMT). At the peak of the o...

Fun fact: Often when you're watching something on Netflix, the data being streamed to your device is actually being hosted very locally by your ISP, through a program ISPs and Netflix designed to reduce bandwidth usage. That can't be done for live programming.

finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix...

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“Leaving” dammit I already need an edit button

Advertisers set to return to X as they seek favour with Elon Musk and Donald Trump Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns

Does “advertising on X” in 2025 = “booking rooms at the Trump International” in 2017?

After leading the old place 2+ years ago, might be time to get back on my bullshit.