@dandrezner.bsky.social
Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
11.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 8769 🔁 1759 💬 254 📌 103
kidnapping
11.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 918 🔁 366 💬 26 📌 11Note that this is the same compromise position adopted by the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday in advance of oral arguments (and in both cases an administrative stay) bsky.app/profile/josh...
11.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 428 🔁 124 💬 13 📌 1The best and the brightest
11.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 971 🔁 121 💬 34 📌 5“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
11.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 14052 🔁 4246 💬 212 📌 91When the government engages in cosplay, perhaps more absurd cosplay can win
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A federal appeals court said that it will not allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard in Illinois, largely preserving a ruling that had suspended his administration’s campaign to send troops into the Chicago area.
11.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 291 🔁 87 💬 16 📌 4Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)
11.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 2973 🔁 1404 💬 82 📌 111Damn.
11.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 95 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 1If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
11.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 2303 🔁 301 💬 25 📌 7Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices
Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil
Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world
Founder2: ok that works
Are you fucking kidding me.
11.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 1975 🔁 465 💬 139 📌 19
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
11.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 15240 🔁 8424 💬 853 📌 1121Omg the AI trash can episode of English Teacher 😝
11.10.2025 02:48 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.
11.10.2025 02:45 — 👍 687 🔁 278 💬 10 📌 6
Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
11.10.2025 02:46 — 👍 665 🔁 274 💬 29 📌 29Yes but who better to tell us what American universities need than <checks notes> an asset management executive.
10.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 85 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0Yes that prompted a good guffaw.
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I was chuckling pretty hard as I was reading this drivel but then I got to "these are not politically partisan requirements" and lost it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
10.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 100 🔁 8 💬 10 📌 6The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.
10.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 404 🔁 137 💬 5 📌 2Wait what.
10.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 287 🔁 66 💬 28 📌 5“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take
10.10.2025 17:44 — 👍 2378 🔁 631 💬 89 📌 15Oh snap.
10.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 64 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0DHS Federal Protective Service is meant to secure federal property but is a weapon to deploy thousands of DHS agents to counter protestors. (See my next post for how they did this in LA.)
A new legal memo shows how far off the wheels have come.
Cities like Chicago can, must restrict work with FPS.
You'd think CEOs would have learned from the Elon shitshow but I guess not.
10.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 92 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 1This response to Linda McMahon from MIT’s president makes me proud to be an MIT grad
links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...
America's Golden Age
10.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 73 🔁 12 💬 7 📌 1Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize
10.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 2794 🔁 430 💬 61 📌 9
Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
WSJ: “.. the portion of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit a record of more than 6% ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
