Josh Chafetz

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich The state Senate and Assembly budget proposals are set to include plans to boost taxes on millionaires, a plan opposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich

Gulf War: Tehran Drift

Bexar was Harris +9.7 and so far partisan gap is Democratic +33.

Dems have gotten 37% of Harris's vote total in the county.
GOP has gotten 23% of Trump's vote total.

Seems consistent with early voting patterns?

the public tends to think that undermining parties is virtuous and good, but in fact it is the opposite and just creates chaos and harms voters.

Here is the war powers resolution Rep. Gottheimer is pushing w/ Reps. Golden, Cuellar, Costa, Landsman and Panetta.

Unlike Khanna-Massie, it gives the admin 30 days to end hostilities w/ Iran and allows them to maintain troop presence in the region for "defensive purposes"

YouTube video by Mart0zz Zelda Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley on Marimba

some favorites: marimba www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWhO...

Trump administration can’t stop New York's congestion pricing, court rules Gov. Kathy Hochul declared victory: “Congestion pricing is legal, it works, and it is here to stay. “

NYC FTW. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The top-two “primary” has been & will continue to be a problem every two years until it’s replaced.

It’s one of America’s worst electoral systems in use today. It does little of what proponents claimed it would & often does the opposite—like parties playing favorites in primaries to avoid a shutout

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades

New York Times runs in-house ad asking listeners to “support any news organization dedicated to original reporting” The New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has voiced a new ad encouraging listeners to support any news organization dedicated to original reporting — even if it's not the Times. It's Sulzberger's...

"Not asking you to click on any link, just subscribe to a real news organization with real journalists doing firsthand, fact-based reporting."

A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, urging people to support "original reporting" wherever they find it.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...

Top-two primaries are so dumb

Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms

even longer and stranger, it seems

I don't think this is the headline Trump expected to see today.

“The U.S. Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel.”

This week's YouGov survey gives Trump his worst approval rating (-21) since November 2017.

In our tracker, he's down to -19, lower than any point in his first term: www.economist.com/interactive/...

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Residency Applications After Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization This cross-sectional study using an interrupted time-series analysis investigates disparities in the residency application rate to programs in abortion-restricted states compared with nonrestricted st...

Oh look.
Residency applications took a dive across multiple specialties (OB/GYN, family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine) in states that banned abortion after Dobbs.
They made us all less healthy and less safe.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pretty stable opinion on the Iran strikes. No rally around the flag bump for POTUS, and much less popular than previous wars when they started www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...

epic ear architecture

now he nautilus

Policies that benefit the Democratic Party are presumptively unconstitutional/unlawful.

Policies that benefit the Republican Party are presumptively constitutional/lawful.

Our displeased 10-year-old after the Supreme Court’s evening news drop interrupted our post-dinner family hearts game:

“UGHH couldn’t dad have just been, like, an architect or something?!?!?”

epic ear architecture

Generally, but sometimes it goes 100% the other way

Perhaps, but I think there’s something unique about devoting all your scholarly energy to a *person*, with all the messiness and contradictions and pettiness that come with us, that is different.

So hard for biographers not to wind up either captured by or hating their subject.

CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago

Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago

New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6

CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East

Two days into the war:

- three F-15s shot down

- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames

- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded

- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

YouGov's state polling has been very good recently (nailed the NJ and VA gov races last year). Primaries are a different beast, but worth indexing on this new poll of TX. Has Talarico +13 and Paxton +4

yougovamerica.substack.com/p/polls-on-t...