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NEW @CookPolitical House ratings show Dems as modest favorites for control, as Republicans would need to win two thirds of Toss Ups (67%) to keep the majority. www.cookpolitical.com/r…
Lean/Likely/Solid Dem: 211
Lean/Likely/Solid GOP: 206
Toss Up: 18
Lean/Likely/Solid Dem: 211
Lean/Likely/Solid GOP: 206
Toss Up: 18
January 15, 2026 at 5:19 PM
NEW @CookPolitical House ratings show Dems as modest favorites for control, as Republicans would need to win two thirds of Toss Ups (67%) to keep the majority. www.cookpolitical.com/r…
Lean/Likely/Solid Dem: 211
Lean/Likely/Solid GOP: 206
Toss Up: 18
Lean/Likely/Solid Dem: 211
Lean/Likely/Solid GOP: 206
Toss Up: 18
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11/ For nearly 100 years, Harvard has been tracking thousands of citizens, figuring out which lives lead to happiness and which to emptiness.
And their finding is simple. Careers and money don't lead to happiness. Connection, friendship, and camaraderie do.
And their finding is simple. Careers and money don't lead to happiness. Connection, friendship, and camaraderie do.
What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life
The Harvard Study of Adult Development has established a strong correlation between deep relationships and well-being. The question is, how does a person nurture those deep relationships?
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
11/ For nearly 100 years, Harvard has been tracking thousands of citizens, figuring out which lives lead to happiness and which to emptiness.
And their finding is simple. Careers and money don't lead to happiness. Connection, friendship, and camaraderie do.
And their finding is simple. Careers and money don't lead to happiness. Connection, friendship, and camaraderie do.
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🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
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This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
March 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
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Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
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My son gave me A Chill in the Air, Iris Origo's Italian war diary, 1939-1940. It's an antifa document in retrospect, but in the foreground it's just a diary. We need books like this now.
I hope diaries are not extinct & not every observation or voice of anguish is being spent on Bluesky or TikTok.
I hope diaries are not extinct & not every observation or voice of anguish is being spent on Bluesky or TikTok.
January 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM
My son gave me A Chill in the Air, Iris Origo's Italian war diary, 1939-1940. It's an antifa document in retrospect, but in the foreground it's just a diary. We need books like this now.
I hope diaries are not extinct & not every observation or voice of anguish is being spent on Bluesky or TikTok.
I hope diaries are not extinct & not every observation or voice of anguish is being spent on Bluesky or TikTok.
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I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.
U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump, won't lift block on National Guard deployment in Illinois
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump, won't lift block on National Guard deployment in Illinois
The decision, appearing on the high court’s “emergency” or “shadow” docket, is the first from the justices addressing President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops into American cit...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.
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"a.i." is a tool to circumvent the cognitive process. Our job as teachers is to teach cognitive processes. How can the two possibly compatible,
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"a.i." is a tool to circumvent the cognitive process. Our job as teachers is to teach cognitive processes. How can the two possibly compatible,
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FYI Chicagoans, there’s a free newsstand of vintage issues of @theonion.com at Hubbard & Wells
December 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
FYI Chicagoans, there’s a free newsstand of vintage issues of @theonion.com at Hubbard & Wells
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
I have this same meal with my family. Sad to see. What an unfortunate event.
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I have this same meal with my family. Sad to see. What an unfortunate event.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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it does take a certain level of maturity which is one of many reasons why andrew cuomo should never work in government again, thank you andrew for pointing this out
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
it does take a certain level of maturity which is one of many reasons why andrew cuomo should never work in government again, thank you andrew for pointing this out
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Deliberation is under threat. Without common facts and shared epistemic ground, public debate becomes everyone yelling in their bubbles, not collective reasoning. The VDA framework highlights this as a structural fault line.
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Deliberation is under threat. Without common facts and shared epistemic ground, public debate becomes everyone yelling in their bubbles, not collective reasoning. The VDA framework highlights this as a structural fault line.
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Verification is under threat. Information supply chains have become fragmented, platform logics favour viral over verifiable, and even traditionally trusted institutions struggle to anchor public belief. If you can’t agree on facts, the rest becomes theatre.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Verification is under threat. Information supply chains have become fragmented, platform logics favour viral over verifiable, and even traditionally trusted institutions struggle to anchor public belief. If you can’t agree on facts, the rest becomes theatre.
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Why this framing? Because the crisis runs deeper than fake news, vaguely defined ideas of loss of trust in institutions, or polarisation. It’s epistemic collapse, when we lose a shared sense of truth, deliberation becomes echo-chambers, and accountability turns performative.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Why this framing? Because the crisis runs deeper than fake news, vaguely defined ideas of loss of trust in institutions, or polarisation. It’s epistemic collapse, when we lose a shared sense of truth, deliberation becomes echo-chambers, and accountability turns performative.
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Verification asks: can we reliably establish what is true? Deliberation asks: can we debate and decide fairly together? Accountability asks: can we hold power to account? If one or more of those breaks down, democracy doesn’t just wobble, it hollows out.
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Verification asks: can we reliably establish what is true? Deliberation asks: can we debate and decide fairly together? Accountability asks: can we hold power to account? If one or more of those breaks down, democracy doesn’t just wobble, it hollows out.
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I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
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I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.
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I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
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SCOOP: Dominion Voting, the voting machine behemoth that Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election, has been sold to a company run by an ex-GOP election official.
Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official
Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.
www.axios.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
SCOOP: Dominion Voting, the voting machine behemoth that Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election, has been sold to a company run by an ex-GOP election official.