Adam Kunz

The research proposal vs the final draft.

Excellent thread. Definitely worth a read (along with the piece she links).

Remember: tomorrow, Dem leadership will still find a way to f*ck this up by striking a shutdown deal. They will have learned nothing from tonight.

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.

Last night, I dreamed that I was explaining the movie, The Two Popes, to Mel Gibson. I’m not sure where that falls in the sequence of events in the Book of Revelation, but it can’t be good.

Many books will be written analyzing his judicial philosophy using big words but the bottom line is that Brett Kavanaugh is just too fucking stupid to be on the Supreme Court.

Automakers looked like they were in big trouble with Trump’s tariff policies. But it turned out not so bad | CNN Business Even with US tariffs on imported cars and parts, this has become a pretty good time for most automakers.

"More importantly for automakers’ bottom lines, the financial penalties for not meeting fuel efficiency rules have all but vanished. Those regulatory savings could eventually offset the cost of tariffs."

I mean, who could have foreseen this? I ask you: who among us?

www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/b...

Magda Goebbels’ first marriage was to Günther Quandt, himself a committed Nazi. But she left him in 1929, and shortly after began a relationship with Goebbels that led to their marriage in 1931. Most people think it was the ideology, not Goebbels’ “charm,” that drew her in.

Just a little factoid.

Look for the helpers.

God damn…

I feel like the Fairness Doctrine is becoming the new “we ended the gold standard, so [fill in the blank].”

A family Halloween costume picture with a Minecraft theme, with a child in a Steve costume, a mother in a TNT costume, and a tired but supportive father attempting to pull off an Enderman look.

When my child comes to me someday and says, “You never took an interest in the things I cared about,” I will show him this picture of me and my wife doing our very best to be an Enderman and TNT from Minecraft without any frame of reference for either one aside from a picture.

She barely even checks in with her own brain, let alone the rest of the regime.

Who the hell is out there eating the god damn shells?! Show yourselves!

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

The number of people who have just completely caved to postmodernism is alarming.

I watched portions of this interview and let me tell you: hearing Tucker Carlson attempt to defend (watered down) liberalism to Nick Fuentes’ self-admitted identity politics was wild.

I mean, aren’t these all basically the same thing? Or can my theorist mind just not comprehend what’s being asked here?

Andrew has a £20,000 Navy pension, and his salary as trade representative was £250,000 a year. He was sacked in 2011. His mother have him £1 million per year in gifts. But he is a lot richer than that. It is well known privately that he makes money as a bag man for gun runners and other criminals.

“Mwahhh, the French champagne,” he says, as he lightly taps a bottle that slowly dissolves into a wet Eiffel Tower.

It won’t matter, though. None of them will remember this when it counts. A negative approval rating doesn’t translate to a positive one for whatever milquetoast person the Dems will pick in 2028. We’re in a constant grievance cycle, with no signs of escaping it.

Awesome. So fun. Juuuuust great.

The trauma of 2008 is real. I’m just barely getting to a point where my family is making financial headway.

AI chipmaker Nvidia is the first $5 trillion company Nvidia has become the first $5 trillion company, just three months after the Silicon Valley chipmaker was first to break through the $4 trillion barrier.

Listen, I’ve lived through at least two bubbles. There is no way that this is sustainable. apnews.com/article/nvid...

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

My yearly invited talk at the Library of Congress was just canceled. Not objectively important, but probably tells us how long our friends in the public sector think that the shutdown is going to last.

Anton Chigurh smiling

if public funding for scientific research subsidized the rise of an oligarch scammer who then bought an election and cut all the scientific research funding, of what use was it?

Trump administration won’t tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says The Trump administration is rejecting the idea of using roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing into November amid the government shutdown, according to a Department of Agr…

Cutting off food aid while building a ballroom for dinners for billionaires is the 2025 equivalent of "Let them eat cake."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/t...

A screenshot from an Oct. 24, 2025 article by The NY Times showing plans for the proposed ballroom replacing the East Wing of the White House, with the following quote: “And the various plans Mr. Trump has shared have suggested a hurried process. Along with the differences in the drawings, the model he displayed on Wednesday appeared to have some mistakes, like a staircase leading up from the South Lawn to no clear landing.”

“Stairs leading up to no clearing landing” is the perfect symbol of the regime.