Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man" 392473189
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialHupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When NFL teams wear throwback uniforms for games, the coaching staff should have to wear suits and fedoras on the sidelines. 461284104
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 13646362245
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/09/2026From my personal experience people don't want to pay you to tell them they can't do anything about, eg, the very likely anti-Dem. midterm backlash in 2030 (or, gulp, 34). But it's true. So consultants make up stuff like "Kamala Harris would have won if she ran anti-trans ads" 1330355
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It really never occurs to these ppl that it is not an equitable outcome to take a public university system that provides underprivileged ppl with a world-class education and make its degrees less reliable than ones from expensive private schools. 223324
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A moral outrage. Regardless of what you think about education policy or NHJ, this is not acceptable. Respect to her for being brave enough to write it. 1228223
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialLesbian Opossum @lesbianopossum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My principal used to encourage us(verbally, never in writing) to sit the best performing students, especially girls, next to the worst behaving students who should not be mainstreamed, because it would reign in their behavior(it never did) and all it did was turn good students into bad ones 1534
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialNext door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I used to be in the ban standardized tests in college admissions camp. Now I’m on the other side: high stakes standardized tests only What radicalized me? Strip malls and Facebook 610015
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way? 773077380
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The best part of the Odyssey is when Agamemnon turns to the camera and says, "Trade wars are good and easy to win." 231452139
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Almost as depressing as people using AI to write: People who have apparently read so little decent writing that they believe utterly commonplace tools every minimally competent writer employs are AI tells. 443263
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Sports gambling too. Eg: NY should require one thing that CA forbids, creating friction and compliance cots 228615
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026until someone invents a more subsidized grocery store 1543
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialterra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025We need a return to the original democratic messaging on tarrifs, they're a way for rich industrialists to screw over you, the consumer 2376
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/07/2026China is a very real place and you have to engage with it as a real place and not the answer to all of your country’s problems so you don’t say stuff like this. I assure you that you would NOT like it if China invaded the US. 2959247
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026literally one day apart. goldfish would scoff at this lack of object permanence 383733778
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Reminder to Colorado journalists: if you’re interviewing a winning candidate who usually claims that elections are rigged, ask them why this election was rigged in their favor. 11187372030
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Public relations, I’m fairly sure. I mean, still theoretically possible they go the other way, but I remain extremely skeptical of that possibility. 2732
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Correct. The Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship is the easiest of layups possible. 34790114
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialMike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Warsh was far more hostile to communications and expectations than I, well, expected. He brought up arguments debated in the 1990s through mid-00s; they are so taken for granted in academic macroeconomics his assault might blindside the consensus. 1/2 newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/kevin-wars...newsletter.mikekonczal.comKevin Warsh’s Press Conference Collides Into 30 Years of Michael WoodfordThe new Fed chair argued that the Fed should stop reflecting markets back at themselves. Forgotten debates show how this leads to confusing, indeterminate results. 35616
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 22/06/2026In many ways, this is the actual point of "The End of History and the Last Man," one of many academic texts cursed by a popularity that came from wild misunderstandings and misreadings. But it is this basic idea, cited by the Thorne here, that has been profoundly vindicated. 431857
kipcat.bsky.social @kipcat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The UFC/Trump birthday party fireworks just woke up the whole bloody city 020
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialZander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 08/06/2026they very famously were chanting something other than "*YOU* will not replace us" 🫠 4772
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026One of the things living abroad taught me is that a) it’s very nice to have servants and b) a society which makes it possible for an upper-middle-class person to have servants is deeply unjust and inequitable. 291790187
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026IMO the biggest priorities would have to be 1. Parliamentary democracy with a no confidence motion 2. Some type of PR electoral system (party list within states?) 3. Curbs on judicial review 4. Hard donation limits/public financing of campaigns I'd be interested in other political scientists' takes 107012
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026There is a whole system in place to ensure that Supreme Court Justices live long and happy lives, with free vacations, extraordinary perks, lucrative and important jobs for their spouses, and now their kids. 23510154
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/05/2026[trying to explain richard hanania] you must imagine a man so committed to the calipers that he concluded whites are the inferior race 1543436
kipcat.bsky.social @kipcat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026This is still a preferable bar environment to most suburban bars which are packed with racist and sexist "man" children 010
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026My in laws live across the street from a children's hospital in a big city in China and there are always parents on the street corner begging for money with posters covered in pictures of their sick kids 212718
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I don't know where this bizarre idea that China has universal health care comes from, but it very much does not by any normal standard. It has a highly tiered system that brutally discriminates against rural patients and imposes often crippling financial costs. 682122431
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000. 261569563
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026sure hope somebody takes a look at SCOVA’s financials 423226
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results 14643205
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/05/2026correct. the reason you have to do that with mafia cases is crime bosses tend to carefully insulate themselves from direct participation in the crimes. that is not what happened on January 6 1467597
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialJonathan @jonathansocials.com · 05/05/2026The Senate better not vote for this. It's now become a ripoff monstrosity. 1471832588
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026i have said this before but the hate you have for citizens united is imo more properly reserved for buckley v. valeo 752297524
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵 18079661723
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026My AI chatbot is conscious. I know because it is always telling me how smart and pretty I am; 372025193
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Woof. I've been critical of this Urban Institute study since it first dropped, but it turns out that the methodological errors were even more serious than I understood. econjwatch.org/file_downloa...econjwatch.org 524845
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/05/2026the basic problem with like 90% of science fiction combat these days is authors radically understating how lethal modern militaries are 721243120
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 03/05/2026As my colleague David Rosnick puts it: the Roberts Court is just calling the balls and strikes. The problem is that they do it before the pitch is thrown. 291949470
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/05/2026media 1970s vs media 2020s 410211
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Lunch break thought: it remains profoundly sad how much of the economy has been turned over to scams that pretend to be gambling which pretends to be an investment. Do you want to gamble your money with odds that are actually good? Index. Funds. But I guess that's not masculinity-affirming enough. 23821144
Reposted by @kipcat.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Upshot here is that if 2026 goes well for Dems, they’ll be able to offer Republicans a take-it-or-leave it ban on partisan gerrymandering nationally. And if Republicans decline, 2028 will be a bigger bloodbath, ahead (hopefully) of a Dem trifecta and principled democracy reform.newrepublic.comTrump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just UnleashedThe Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering points in one direction only: Come 2028, Democrats have to declare a take-no-prisoners redistricting war on the GOP. 20605134
