Josh Chafetz

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Essays like this leave me aghast. She seems to want credit for supporting the evisceration of state capacity *except* when that evisceration directly and negatively affects her. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

1/2 Trump should absolutely not be able to fire Lisa Cook. But this is because he should not be able to fire anyone with statutory tenure protections.

This 2-post thread is the strongest argument against certain forms of Dem confrontationalism in the current moment. As Dan says, it's a question of comparative mobilization, and I don't think anyone can *know* which way things would break.

My "I have never been legally accused or convincted of a crime in connection with Epstein's sex trafficking" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions &c.

This was such a great workshop! Many, many thanks to @maybell.bsky.social and her colleagues for having me!

Rough start for Ohtani so far. His season ERA has shot up to 1.0.

*angry goose meme* and how did Afghanistan work out, Mark? How did it work out?!?

oh yes