In 1780, the large urban centers were populous states. The interests are same today except that is states with rural and suburban populations that aren’t dominated by inner cities tend to go one way. The southern states didn’t shift to the Rs until 1994 when…
Replying to @hedcannon @DerekPederson3
why would they design the constitution biased against large urban centers, when they had already no power as of population compared to rural areas?
… Ds traded their working class and union voters for inner cities and government workers. Ds have the get out the vote advantage by appealing to inner cities. The advantage to Republicans in the Senate is not baked in stone.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
by Rudyard Kipling
kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/po…
There shld be a term in Political Science for the human inability to perceive OBSTACLES in politics as anything but INJUSTICES.
The following are policies Democrats have recently jettisoned to appeal outside their urban base:
Trans primacy
Defunding police
Right public camping
…
Replying to @hedcannon @DerekPederson3
The Constitution was not designed to be biased against large urban centers, that is a post hoc justification.
Now do Liz Cheney voting to impeach Donald Trump.
Gaslighting. His supporters don’t believe what Yglesias is saying — except that he redefines anti-semitism to exclude most anti-semitism. If his supporters thought he honestly condemned antisemitism they’d complain a lot more.
This woman is vying to be the modern Marie Antoinette.
Shes never built anything. She persists as a tapeworm in the gut of Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram app.
nypost.com/2026/10/20/world-…
At least this gain of function lab is in the middle of Siberia and not in one of the most densely and highly populated cities of the world. Is GoF testing still happening in Boston?
Replying to @mattyglesias
It really drives me crazy that after living through Covid and all the downstream problems of the attempted response we have done extremely little on prevention or preparedness.
slowboring.com/p/hantavirus-…
Are we sure someone didn’t eat a rat?
🚨☣️BREAKING: Plague outbreak expands, Russia BSL-3 lab accident - FIVE hospitals now quarantined🚨☣️
The plague outbreak in Siberia, Russia has expanded w/5 hospitals now under QUARANTINE: Irkutsk Hospitals No. 1, No.3, No.10, Ivano-Matreninskaya Children's Hospital, and an unnamed maternity hospital (Lyudi Baikala news, Moscow Times).
Quarantine is NOT voluntary. Even in the U.S., quarantine is among the most extraordinary measures gov't can impose on American citizens who haven't been convicted, or even accused, of committing a crime. Quarantine means being forcibly confined and medically examined by law. U.S. quarantine can be imposed on anyone infected by a legally quarantinable disease listed below (this can change). One should assume Russia's quarantine protocols are even more severe. As of 2026, under Executive Order 14047, legally quarantinable diseases in the U.S. are:
■ Plague
■ Smallpox
■ Viral hemorrhagic fevers
■ Cholera
■ Diphtheria
■ Yellow fever
■ Infectious tuberculosis
■ Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
■ Flu that can cause a pandemic
■ Measles
Photo: Russia’s RKhBZ defense troops perform nuclear, biological, and chemical defense training (w/permission from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation) — from BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton, 2026).
If you think “Woke 1.0” is over, I guarantee you that “Woke is woke”.
Baltimore Rock Opera Society boots white boss after she sports cornrows at Burning Man trib.al/JuUnt9k
Many government assistance budgets assume many technically qualified people will not be able to navigate the system. I expect AI will cause breakages there as attorneys and cartels did with immigration.
Step 1: It’s not happening.
Step 2: It’s happening but the other side does it (we know bcz they banned it)
Step 3: It’s happening and it’s a good thing!
Replying to @nypost
Israel has been using children as human shields for decades. They even appealed their Supreme Court decision banning It… of course the israelis ignore their own courts cnn.com/2024/10/24/middleeas…
“Colonists” are subject to a foreign power. Israel is a refugee camp from a 2 millennia catastrophe — including refugees from the whole of the Middle East.
A separate catastrophe occurred when Arabs refused share a nation that even INCLUDED Jews (let alone a state) and lost.
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King of the Divan (the Stochastic Mongoose) retweeted
This will be viewed through a woke-race-culture-war framing but really it’s just that universities don’t take intellectual misconduct all that seriously anymore. It just stopped being treated as an unforgivable sin. White or black. From ChatGPT cheating to social science fraud.






















