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Why most polls overstate support for political violence Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

Glad Morris is on this issue. Obviously political violence in our society and the openness to it is a big issue. BUT I do think a lot of these polls, intentionally or not, have a way of amplifying very hypothetical questions. Or from a different perspective ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

When Will the Lion Concern Himself Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Damn two thirds of American Jews are antisemites 😢

The US military dropped more tonnage of explosives on Vietnam than were dropped in all theaters of WWII combined.

wizard frog is insane

Unless/until there’s an explicit plan to hold them accountable, assume ICE, Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, etc etc will never be held accountable. Until they’re on notice, “I can’t wait until these fascists are prosecuted” is pure, uncut copium

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs"

Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness.
Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs.
And of self awareness.

NYT Headline: In Shutdown A Civil Service Turns Political

"Headlines Matter" part six million

-Every part of this very good story is about MAGA/Doge/Vought *imposing* politics on civil servants

-Not what headline implies www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

-What could it have said?
Same line length:
In Shutdown
Civil Service Is
Turned Political

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

Something our glorious Secretary of War does not seem to have considered is that the reason military PT and grooming standards, plus policies for EEO and abuse reporting, are the way they are is because they're necessary for recruitment and retention

this is why I'm trying to tell y'all that we have to specifically draft out and talk about *specific amendment text*. not just what problems to solve constitutionally, but actual textual drafts. Because in the end , the least violent option is simply a mass adoption of new constitutional text

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

Reminder that Hegseth's speech calling for more unrestrained violence and gore by the military follows a weekend when two Marine veterans carried out horrific rampage shootings against unarmed members of their communities.

The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much

Look, I wrote and directed a whole damn MOVIE about this in 2002. And nope. We're not there. This isn't urgent. This is bullshit salesmanship for trash fancy autocomplete tech that has NOTHING to do with sentience or personhood.

this business model should be flatly illegal

taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome

ban it completely

Cannot be repeated enough: this was not a voluntary resignation program. Workers were told they were more valuable in the private sector, that they might be fired from their jobs, that they could expect no reasonable work accommodations, that they would work for leaders who were undermining services

👇🎯🧵 We are not going to get anywhere so long as our most prominent pundits continue to insist on Murc’s Law & pretending actual things like Democratic policies, platforms, candidates, & electoral results - as they <actually> existed, not as the pundits misremember or imagine them - never happened.

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

I dislike the whole “and you’re SURPRISED?!” bullshit whenever anyone expresses alarm at a news event because the people posting it act like they’re wise sages for democracy but are basically doing the work of evil people because there’s nothing evil people want more than for evil to become routine

Cuomo could never.

I think the attitude that only development with majority support should be allowed is deeply toxic and basically counter to every social advance we’ve ever seen. People are highly sensitive to potential negative impacts, and then it happens and it’s fine.

Public Housing IS Yimby shit, it’s impossible without Yimby shit

Jewish faculty to UC: Don’t negotiate with Trump More than 200 Jewish faculty across the UC system sign a letter expressing alarm that leaders have allegedly begun negotiating a settlement.

“The University of California will survive federal funding cuts if it must... It will not survive the sacrifice of our institutional autonomy, academic freedom, or civil rights on the altar of a specious claim to be ‘combatting antisemitism.’” jweekly.com/2025/09/24/j...

“At least three” is one of the best political answers of all time

Example 1a of Biden’s empathy is him being wayyy out front on trans rights. Otoh his empathy was almost completely absent with Gazans. People contain multitudes.

Joe Manchin singlehandedly blew up Biden's welfare agenda and caused child poverty to ~double. Andrew Cuomo literally conspired with Republicans to give them control of the state Senate

Giant real estate conglomerates want growth at all costs, which is why (per their public shareholder briefings) they’re overjoyed that high-cost coastal metro areas continue to throttle housing production and keep their assets scarce