Reposted by Josh ChafetzJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 3hJust heard something totally new to me and absolutely revelatory: a jazz quartet fronted by a guzheng. Absolutely amazing! 5222
Reposted by Josh ChafetzZander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 3hthat's like $15k a MC. Seems fine to me tbqh 62912
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 3hJust heard something totally new to me and absolutely revelatory: a jazz quartet fronted by a guzheng. Absolutely amazing! 5222
Reposted by Josh ChafetzDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6hPete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...militarytimes.comHegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academiesMilitary academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.” 21455196
Reposted by Josh ChafetzFr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 7hYouth pastor voice 14811130
Reposted by Josh ChafetzMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 40163501747
Reposted by Josh ChafetzJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026GO ASTROS, BEAT THE PAPAL TEAM 12975
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Someone in DC, adopt this adorable pup! Stubbs is available for play dates ... 0205
Reposted by Josh ChafetzJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is one of the most maddening thigns about this court: Not just the substantive rulings, but how they think about “irreperable harm.” If the Most Special Boy has to wait a month to do a thing he REALLY wants to, that’s irreperable harm. Actual large-scale human suffering? Meh. 627969
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Am I the only one who can’t hear Ozzie Albies without automatically finishing “oi, oi, oi!”? 0100
Reposted by Josh ChafetzBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity. 41840215
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This seems plausible, but ... imagine you do this and the LLM tells you it's found something juicy and your boss is gonna make it the basis of his entire questioning strategy at the hearing ... don't you, ya know, verify what the machine spat out before you let your boss run with it? 78111
Reposted by Josh ChafetzSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Chuck Schumer calls the Jon Husted-led Ratepayer Protection Act “a toothless messaging bill” that Republicans know will fail, telegraphing Dems will block it. He calls it an “ineffectual participation trophy” that makes data center cost policies optional, says Ds want mandatory. 48716
Reposted by Josh ChafetzAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026It's remarkable (in a very good way) to see an elected member of the Democratic Party saying this. For decades, the Party has treated public higher education as a jobs training program, not a site for cultivating democratic habits of mind. I deeply hope that things are changing. 318564
Reposted by Josh ChafetzEdward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026don't know if it was a hawk, but a very large bird just picked up the corpse of a staffer 1695
Reposted by Josh ChafetzPaul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When you're a former Senate chief of staff witnessing one of the great staff fuck-ups of all time 631744
Reposted by Josh ChafetzJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh my god Oooof @dialhforhagai.bsky.social did a work of art 2486
Reposted by Josh ChafetzBrian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026we’re hiring an assistant professor in American politics 🐘 apply.interfolio.com/194599 13924
Reposted by Josh ChafetzTim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We're hiring! Assistant professor in American Politics, specialization in Judicial Politics. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...sjobs.brassring.comAssistant Professor in American Politics - Texas Tech University - Job DetailsJob Details: The Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University invites appli 046
Reposted by Josh ChafetzCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this might be the best possible outcome. at least I would much rather see CBP money frittered away on vanity ad campaigns rather than spent on torturing more immigrants 2226141
Reposted by Josh ChafetzBradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign 601457213
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Senate projection at @fiftyplusone.news now has the odds of Republicans getting to 50 as roughly the same as the odds of Democrats getting to 54 ... fiftyplusone.news/forecast/sen...fiftyplusone.news 4467
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I try to do a policy 1080 every few years, just to keep things interesting 14708
Reposted by Josh ChafetzTabbieWolf @tabbiewolf.bluestripedboxers.com · 29/09/2026Hell yeah it’s another book birthday! Time to dive into @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s latest October Daye book :) 28123
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Excellent, as usual, @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social piece today on where things stand electorally and, more importantly, why. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/whats-gone...goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.comWhat’s Gone Wrong For the GOPAnd some speculation about why. 13613
Reposted by Josh ChafetzTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter... 441470328
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026why are the rest of us not dressed this way on an early autumnal evening? 141255
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them 201259227
Reposted by Josh ChafetzKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752301418
Reposted by Josh ChafetzDavid Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Which DuPont Cirlce is your favorite? I personally like DuPont Circle. Though I admit it that, as a Marylander, I was always jealous that only Arlington got an Arlington National Cemetery, so it's nice to now have one of our own. 4274
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I live off the map, just a little northeast of Borton Park (which also does not exist) 5211
Reposted by Josh ChafetzMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also important to note that it's not completely surprising to see a poll with Collins +3 if the race is really Jackson +3(ish), that's how polling and the distribution of errors works. 1053053
Reposted by Josh ChafetzNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if trump thought he'd rigged the midterms, he'd be saying things like, "we have rigged the midterms" because he pretty much can't shut up about it when he thinks he's done something clever. 212522
Reposted by Josh ChafetzJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I told Stubbs he could teach the campaign finance cases today and this was his reaction 4612
Reposted by Josh ChafetzSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm thrilled to share that my new book about #SCOTUS, "The Court We Need: What's Really Wrong With the Supreme Court—and How to Fix It," is now available for pre-orders: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812983... The book is set to be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social on May 4, 2027.penguinrandomhouse.comThe Court We Need by Stephen Vladeck: 9798217061815 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA brilliant and bracing account of the Supreme Court’s rise, its unraveling, and what it will take to save it, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Docket Richard Nixon turned... 321086274
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If it's Monday early afternoon, it must be time for me to be furiously demanding to know who thought it was a good idea for me to teach a class that meets from 5:45 to 8:50 PM. 7580
Reposted by Josh ChafetzMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#earlyvote midday update 9/28: at least 383,781 people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2... 34921
Reposted by Josh ChafetzAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026I think students should read full books. 1065274
Reposted by Josh ChafetzDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican... 2347895
Reposted by Josh ChafetzEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 122102082634
Reposted by Josh ChafetzJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026either Exit, pursued by a motherfucking bear or Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your fuckin’ ears 29996
Reposted by Josh ChafetzAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026Tillis: "Folks, this was stupid on stilts ... to have a Russian oligarch who's actually traveled in a delegation to Beijing fund some sort of island wedding for a very wealthy family that also happens to be related to the president? Come on, guys, this is this is amateur hour" 40154481240
Reposted by Josh ChafetzNathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After further reporting by @nataliaecm.bsky.social, we now know this error affected at least 200,000 should-be Texas voters. What a mess. 11221106
Reposted by Josh ChafetzAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyHow California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate NewsSolar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity. 10353100