Bouie called me an idiot because he's lost his power to dominate discourse. I feel bad for him because he clearly finds politics boring, but his ambition dominates him so thoroughly he can't actually pursue his real passions.
You didn't write a single column defending the withdrawal as it was happening. If you don't care, why should anyone else?
The monopoly round-up for the week is out. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-all-courts-matter/comments
Elon Musk is clearly masking a change he wants to make by being totally unreasonable. He’ll eventually back off slightly and people will think he’s listened. That and he doesn’t want to pay bills because he likes money.
Question for historians. When did the GOP stop celebrating John Brown? He was an iconic party figure until at least 1912.
Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter and then tried to save money by laying off half the staff, including engineers responsible for maintaining site infrastructure. Like buying a Ferrari and trying to save money by skipping oil changes.
A recent attempted takedown of 'deliverism' uses Democratic initiatives like the ACA to illustrate that delivering on policies doesn't equal more voters. @ddayen.bsky.social@matthewstoller.bsky.social argue that the ACA never delivered, so it can’t be used as a test case.
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives.
And today we have the 67th attack on Lina Khan from the WSJ editorial page. They are obsessed, and it’s creepy.
