Ryder Kessler

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Two things:
(1) “Candidates should be authentic communicators driven by their values & rooted in community” is in direct tension with “candidates should hold [insert ideology here]”
(2) Unless you’re proactively getting people to run, you don’t really get a say in any of this!

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”

they hate your freedom to challenge them and want to end it www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Free idea that literally every Democrat in Congress could and should get behind today: Impeach Brendan Carr.

jesus christ

If Biden had said even one-tenth of this, he’d have been impeached and removed as a dictator. What is wrong with our elites? They’re paralyzed by their fear of looking unsavvy or biased against MAGA. They’re going to keep pretending everything is normal until the bullet passes through their face

JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news?

Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news?

Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?

Lucky by Design Wharton economist and market designer Judd Kessler pulls back the curtain on hidden markets that determine who gets what in everyday life—and how to tip th...

Sounds just like the story my brother (a behavioral economist) starts his forthcoming book with, about the mechanisms he uses to fairly allocate dessert amongst my nephew and nieces!

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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

1997: the president was born in 1946
2007: the president was born in 1946
2017: the president was born in 1946
2027: we’ll see

Generational change is critical for maintaining the vision and vitality we need to take on fascism.

Thank you congressman for an incredible career of public service, and for recognizing that now is the time to pass the baton.

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

"Revision of US capitalism" is a euphemism for the ages

Also, what Trump is doing is THE MILITARY INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF AMERICAN CITIES and has nothing whatsoever to do with fighting crime. Military units can’t and haven’t apprehended criminals or solved crimes. “He’s lying, this is an authoritarian occupation” - how hard is that to say you idiots

Republicans run against a caricature of the Democratic Party, which voters believe is true.

Democrats run against the truth of the Republican Party, which voters believe is a caricature.

It's the same as "Kamala Harris proves we need to avoid talking about trans people!": a demonstration of the strength of the right-wing's reality construction apparatus. Even most DEMOCRATIC STRATEGISTS have a mental image of Democrats that is a collection of Republican stereotypes of Democrats.

i am begging for any examples in the last half decade of mainstream democratic politicians trying to appeal to voters with this language

i think they're handing this medal out to dipshits *because* it's gone to people like rosa parks and MLK

Old enough to remember when the Post editorial page was only going to publish opinions about personal freedom and open markets.

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.

Opinion: My Family Built a Life in NYC. Today's Zoning Wouldn't Allow It. - City Limits "The City Council should enthusiastically approve the 10,000 new homes that will come with the MSMX plan," the author writes. "More homes and the increased affordability they bring is vital to all New...

"We cannot keep neighborhoods frozen in amber but expect to retain New York’s accessibility and dynamism," writes @ryderkessler.bsky.social of @abundanceny.bsky.social‬, calling for the City Council to "enthusiastically approve" the Midtown South Rezoning. bit.ly/3ULKQQJ

Today, former Republican gerrymanders in states like Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia have been replaced by much fairer maps, thanks to a mix of favorable court rulings, referendums and legal changes.

Very odd to put Ohio & Florida among “fair” maps.

Ohio’s map was repeatedly struck down by courts as illegal gerrymander, and GOP just ignored the ruling till it ran out the cock.

Florida’s dismantled a Black-majority district that a court had ordered last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

It’s not just about a different ideology -- it’s about action One thing that’s different about 2025: People signing up are telling us some variation of “I'm done waiting my turn” -- a sentiment we didn’t hear nearly as often in the last eight years. Nearly all these candidates and future candidates share an orientation towards action. They are sick of the status quo. They are tired of hearing that better things aren’t possible. They are especially frustrated by a generation of Democratic electeds (and operatives) who seem to think the opposition is still the Republican Party of George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, or John McCain, and who want to try to compromise. The GOP of 2025 is burning it all down without any thought for the consequences -- the leaders coming up are not inclined to give them a little more gas for the fire.

The future leaders of Democratic Party aren’t necessarily 100% aligned on ideology, nor should we demand that -- to win in both Anchorage and Miami (as Run for Something candidates have done!), we should be rigid in our values, but flexible in how those values show up as policies, acknowledging that some voters may prefer to take baby steps forward and some are ready for giant leaps. But: It is telling that there is no comparably-sized pipeline of copy-paste-establishment candidates eager to defend the status quo. There is no surge of middle-of-the-road dream-smaller leaders raising their hands to run. Whether you like it or not (and personally, I do!), action and fight are where the Democratic Party is headed.

(3) It’s not just a different ideology - it’s a different orientation toward action & the status quo.