Tim Bresnahan

A penny for your thoughts, Mike Dukakis?

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.

Our fool is building his paradise

Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Trump is going to great lengths to cover up something that’s personally damaging about his years long association with the world’s most infamous child sex trafficker.

It’s really not that hard to imagine what he’s trying to hide.

Time to update our Bayesian priors, blah blah blah, but seriously:

If you're an elected Democrat and your default is to look for chances to be bipartisan, you need to revaluate. That's been wrong for a while. Your default should be knee-jerk opposition. To everything. That is how you win.

It’s wild that Hunter Biden with all his baggage sounds more authentic and real than 99.99999% of the Democrats. And it’s not really on him, it’s that the party has largely forgotten how to sound like a normal fucking human being.

come join us at dfp!! esp if you’re interested in energy/env/climate!

Just to level set on this:

What they have experienced are some of the worst things that a government could possibly do to people. There is absolutely nothing that happened here that should have happened. The people responsible for this should have it follow them the rest of their lives.

Thread.

"The Mamdani momentum withered in the deserts of southern Arizona on Tuesday night," comments Jack Healy of, indeed, a Democratic primary in g.d. southern Arizona.

Has the Times been dropped on its head lately and repeatedly?

He explicitly stated that he was going to do this

John Roberts, smothering the Constitution with a pillow.

A single tear tolls down his cheek because he heard someone mildly object.

i love how they spent 8 years saying michelle obama was trying to control kids when she said they should eat healthy and now theyre literally full-on fascists

This is essentially what Noem said about California, and unconstitutional is an understatement.

No one can be surprised that the guy who did a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day behind the presidential seal created a Nazi computer, but we’re going to let them pretend somehow that they didn’t know this could happen

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right And blowing its credibility in the process.

The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

If you or your organization are still using Twitter, you are lending your credibility to a platform that's doing this. And btw, every time you post you're also helping him train this (n)A(z)I bot

The first World Cup in the U.S. sparked my interest in the sport. The second one is doing its best to kill it.

There are competing definitions of anti-semitism, but if you are using stars of David and arrows to connect different Jewish people in a conspiracy theory, you are 100% there.

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

I wonder if there’s another domestic population capable of agricultural labor

Here’s JD Vance-influencer Curtis Yarvin advocating a return to slavery.

So that’s how things are going on this July 4th.

To the extent he has some sort of magical power to control politics and public opinion, that doesn't come from him anymore, it comes from the conservative news outlets, mainstream news outlets and social media that are controlled by his close allies and sub in a fictional version of him.

Maybe it's time to draw the line with certain media outlets. Like, yes, there's a wall between owners and journalists. Yes, there's a wall between editorial and journalists. Until there's not. 🧵

The man who’s pretending that he’s burning down the universities in order to protect Jewish students:

Don’t let anyone get away with “this isn’t what we voted for.” It’s EXACLY what was promised, in their own words, again & again, and people of influence like Rogan should have actually thought about the reality of it for 5 fucking seconds. It’s all a game to these people until it’s too late.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

House Republicans just voted to cut Medicaid, rip food off tables, and hand tax breaks to billionaires. Every Democrat voted NO. Jeffries spoke for 8+ hours to stop it.

This bill is cruel. Corrupt. And it will hurt millions.

As Mariame Kaba says, “Let this radicalize you—not lead you to despair.”

Grotesque.