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One of the first exciting episodes of my career came in the early 2010s, when, in a classic state of high Twitter dudgeon, I tweeted that climate deniers should face

It's a slow, snowy afternoon. How about a on "rationalists" & "rationalism"? I want to talk about what real rationalism might look like & what people devoted to rationalism

Across the country, every day, the petty tyrants of America's local gentry hire & fire people, promote or don't promote them, for arbitrary sexist & racist reasons. These ubiquitous miniature

Twitter is so painful to read right now. People want the merits of the impeachment case to matter so badly. They want the anguish & eloquence of those whose lives

I'm a longtime filibuster hater, and I thought I understood how random, contingent, & ridiculous it is -- but even I underestimated. HIGHLY recommend this discussion b/t @chrislhayes & @AJentleson.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

The more I think about the Bruce Springsteen Jeep ad, the more disgusted I get. It's allegedly a call for unity, but it is drenched in a very particular culture's

Strongly endorse everything in this @OsitaNwanevu piece. One of the key mistakes I see among Dems, both online & in the real world, is thinking that people believe right-wing nonsense

1. I'm listening to a presentation on this big new report from the National Academies on decarbonizing the US by 2050, focused on policy recommendations. Worth checking out the whole

There is a sociological tale to be told about a certain kind of person who had some intensely negative personal interactions with snooty liberals in college, or in their youth,

Who's written the best piece about why @SenatorSinema is so much more conservative than her state requires of her? Why deny people aid & stymie climate policy & generally cause

The @nytimes ed board just wrote the dumbest shit I have ever seen committed to text. You want to know why elite institutions are utterly failing in the face of

This episode of @yourewrongabout is typically good, but what most fascinated/horrified me, what I can't stop thinking about, is the description of the Citadel itself. It's a "military college" in

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