Brandon Hacha

Thank goodness I don’t live in IL-09 because I’ve thought Abughazaleh is a carpet-bagging unserious populist until this email. Now I don’t actually know.

Good luck Mnookin

I dislike zoom meetings now in general, but I do love shitposting in the chat during subgroup meetings

I like Guinness, but there’s a giant gap between its appearance and taste. It looks like a magical undefinable drink when it’s being poured but then it tastes like a dark beer.

lol I’ve never thought about that and now I have to agree

I found some data in the CRC that I couldn’t find with google. The book has earned its (large) spot on my shelf for sure.

These three ICE agents, welcome to the resistance.

(I requested records about the university’s new portal for uploading vaccine documentation)

Sometimes I submit a public records request and feel a little bad because my request probably sounds like a Republican grifter trying to start a scandal. But, alas, the records are public and it’s my right to know about how decisions are made (even when I agree with them)

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

newrepublic.com/article/2059...

It will be pretty funny though if Mnookin drops the (stupid) blowback in the interim president’s lap and heads off to Columbia.

The university announced today that it’s asking all students to upload vaccination records (MMR, TDAP, etc) or confirm they’re unvaccinated by March 12th. This is good, but it also feels like something that the state legislature is going to go nuts about

Harry Styles having two U.S. listening parties and choosing L.A. and Madison, WI is
the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

This makes sense when I think of literally any Wolves fan I know.

It could be even more regional than that, but the only thing I have to go off of is that my dad also ate them growing up in (northern) Indiana

Growing up, our school lunches would pair chili with peanut butter and lettuce sandwiches. Judging by the reactions of people I’ve talked to, the PB and lettuce sandwich does not exist outside of Indiana

From an electoral perspective, charisma is the most important trait for an executive branch politician and bragging about accomplishments is the best use for it.

Look at how much love Mamdani is getting for announcing a survey!

Of course, I can rationalize this to myself as a defense of bureaucracy:

Several steps of the process are done very quickly with great communication by excellent bureaucrats and the only reason it’s an issue is because of the slow and non-communicative ones.

Our Workday-based purchasing system is making it extremely hard for me to continue being a bureaucracy defender. It actually fills me with rage.

I’m happy that Giannis is staying in Milwaukee but I would be ecstatic if the Bucks fired Doc Rivers

Watching TikTok, YouTube and Reddit bake the Epstein emails like it's 2016. No, Pizzagate isn't real. No, "pizza" in the Epstein emails doesn't mean anything other than the food, and grape soda isn't secret code for rape. They aren't speaking in code in the emails; they don't need to.

Uh… what??

Moving is good, but it would also be really funny if IUPAC split the offices into Pure Chemistry and Applied Chemistry

There’s a lot of takes I’m seeing about DOJ “killing” links, and I hate to be a buzzkill but if links are going down temporarily it’s almost certainly because some of the redactions in these files have been done very poorly

A government shutdown would have done nothing except make everyone feel pressured to do “bipartisanship” for the sake of funding the rest of the government. ICE agents weren’t going to be laid off, but thousands of others across the government would have been

Getting a 2 week CR is unambiguously a win for Dems. Like, a party-invigorating win. Lots of people are trying to spin this as a Schumer cave, but it’s the complete opposite. Everything gets funded through September, except DHS!

One of the greats if you ignore the whole Slobodan Milošević defense and Bosnian genocide denial, maybe

It’s good to read that the NTSB is still seemingly staffed by normal people

Bari would get that number boost she wants if they let Anton Chigurh do a coin flip or two on air

Now I’m sad that I’ve never gotten around to making a similarly sized Bucky Badger.