Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Important reminder in the New York Times of the crucial role local newspapers play in maintaining a strong and virtuous community. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 2416
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NRSC frantically churning out memos to the White House warning that control of the Senate will come down to key races in Yemen, Paraguay, and an uninhabited weather station in the Bering Sea 1407
Reposted by Jamison FoserChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 525101812229
Reposted by Jamison FoserRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164865560
Reposted by Jamison FoserSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states 125311169
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is an absolutely bananas thing for the CEO of a company with two hundred billion dollars in annual revenue to admit out loud in public: "One day I had to pump gas -- it was a few years ago. They needed my zip code, and I panicked. I didn't know my zip code. I didn't know my telephone number." 2324
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026seems like this guy has already lost a little too much intellectual dexterity 3446
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Mike Johnson is like three days away from telling reporters he's never even heard of Donald Trump 1364
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026imo this (extremely basic and obvious, I thought) passage I wrote more than a year ago holds up quite a lot better than most of the 3-D chess political punditry we've seen since www.findinggravity.net/donald-trump... 318519
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it was dumb as bricks and this isn't hindsight; I wrote as much at the time www.findinggravity.net/donald-trump...findinggravity.netDonald Trump's attacks on immigrants are unpopular. Here's how pundits got it wrong.During the early stages of Donald Trump's authoritarian attacks on immigrants – as his henchmen snatched people off America's streets to disappear them without trial in foreign prison camps and he sen... 2353
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026a year ago the Cillizzas of the world were saying democrats were falling into Trump's savvy political trap by criticizing ICE. Now a Kansas Republican senator facing re-election is sweatily tweeting his concern about ICE. 231580308
Reposted by Jamison FoserJoe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Usually when Collins gets upset by media - and that is her standard procedure - media, especially Maine media back down Not ProPublica as you can see below - and they have the receipts to back it up So this has got to be a especially jarring for her and her team 628376
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026while I agree nobody should ever believe a word that oozes out of jd vance's lie-hole, doing so is insufficient justification for being banned from jd vance's boss's white house 0171
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026PULITZER COMMITTEE: *gives an award to a white guy for writing about white supremacy* BRETT STEPHENS: this is white guy erasure 4729
Reposted by Jamison FoserJennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Reupping this entire🧵by @notaaroncraig.bsky.social -- this time, with extra thanks for including my newsletter, ItsNotYouItsMedia.substack.comitsnotyouitsmedia.substack.comIt's Not You, It's Media | Jennifer L. Pozner | SubstackMedia literacy tips, analysis, advocacy — and feminist parody songs! — from award-winning media critic Jennifer L. Pozner, author of It's Not You, It's Media (media literacy graphic novel, Fall27) and... 162
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I know what you're thinking: doesn't bret Stephens have an editor? having once had an extended email exchange with bret stephens' editor, I can assure you that editor Does Not Give A Fuck 420826
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026if there's anything bret Stephens hates as much as minorities winning awards, it's white people winning awards after giving a shit about minorities 110112
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026also it sucks and he definitely isn't mediocre 1563
Reposted by Jamison FoserMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026All of this, from @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di... 551198227
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026look it's easy to say Bret Stephens' latest column sucks but if *you* were Bret Stephens I bet you would be pretty heavily invested in spreading the narrative that writing awards are devalued when they go to someone other than a white male mediocrity, too 518128
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this is interesting; I largely agree. IMO a big factor is the media the two parties are responsive to: Republicans are responsive to very conservative media companies (Fox, eg); Democrats are responsive to media companies that are [we can quibble about how much] more conservative than they are. 010
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026someone was going to do it, may as well have been me 020
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026is the New York Times still trying to make this guy a thing? 3608
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026say, this reminds me: After Susan Collins voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh wrote the decision that gutted a key federal bribery statute 5428139
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026oh yeah I was publicly on "trump will inspire violence to keep himself in office after losing in 2020" in 2016. it was not ambiguous! never has been! 040
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026corner bakery was good-for-1998-DC, okay-for-2008-DC and by the time I left in 2015 I hadn't thought about it in years. but in bribes as in real estate, location is everything: there's one a couple blocks from the WH and one a couple blocks from the capitol. 0190
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026if you wan to understand politics you can read National Journal today or me six months ago. the choice is yours. 4271
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026solid but not the same ballpark as Tartine. not even the same league. 1120
Reposted by Jamison FoserDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Area Man Admits He and His Colleagues Are Ineffectual Dunderheads 4046287
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think it would be just swell if the New York Times replaced this microwaved fish sandwich of a columnist with someone who bases their observations about America on a friend group that is a little more representative, or perhaps a little less imaginary. 1518
Reposted by Jamison FoserAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026find me the sasquatch you cowards 927431
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026our experiment with putting the dumbest fucking people in charge is unfolding with soul-crushing predictability 201456271
Reposted by Jamison FoserGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026And this is pretty funny: Trump's PAC now sees an urgent need to spend in Texas districts that Republicans just heavily gerrymandered to the GOP’s benefit, after he corruptly commanded them to do so. Oops! newrepublic.com/article/2155... 1037490
Reposted by Jamison FoserChristina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Next week I am teaching about this (people are not ideological) to freshman in my INTRODUCTION to American politics. It's literally the foundational finding of the entire field of public opinion research. 3326
Reposted by Jamison FoserDoug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW POLL: 53% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court, including majorities of both Democrats and independents. Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table. Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/ 17566145
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I am not saying all "effective altruists" got high in their freshman dorm and had a contest to see who could come up with the most convoluted million-year fantasy scenario to morally justify doing whatever they want right now, I'm merely saying their philosophy wouldn't be different if they had. 1396
