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A SWEET Cure for Gerrymandering
Achieve nearly proportional representation, destroy incentives to gerrymander, and make every vote matter - all at the small price of one unorthodox feature
substack.com
I have a proposal that would fix most problems with our electoral system, without any fundamental changes. It would be easy to implement; all that is needed is political will. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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This is a very important video to watch. Thank you Ashley the Barroness. One comment from IG was America isn’t becoming Germany. America is becoming America. That really hit home for me. Watch this! Be uncomfortable.
January 13, 2026 at 11:42 AM
This is a very important video to watch. Thank you Ashley the Barroness. One comment from IG was America isn’t becoming Germany. America is becoming America. That really hit home for me. Watch this! Be uncomfortable.
Many people will say that such evil deeds in the name of Christianity are profoundly unchristian, but Christianity literally invented antisemitism and stoked it unambiguously for most of its history.
Stephen Pittman, a 19-year-old man accused of setting fire to Jackson’s only synagogue, Beth Israel, declared that “Jesus Christ is lord” after the judge asked him if he understood his rights in federal court today.
@nickjudin.bsky.social reports + AP:
@nickjudin.bsky.social reports + AP:
Jackson Synagogue Burning Suspect Tells Judge, 'Jesus Christ Is Lord'
A suspect in the arson fire at the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, allegedly admitted to targeting it because of its “Jewish ties.”
www.mississippifreepress.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Many people will say that such evil deeds in the name of Christianity are profoundly unchristian, but Christianity literally invented antisemitism and stoked it unambiguously for most of its history.
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As of today the full scale invasion (3 day special military operation) officially lasts longer than the entire eastern front of ww2
January 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
As of today the full scale invasion (3 day special military operation) officially lasts longer than the entire eastern front of ww2
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Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack)
open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
January 6 in Historical Perspective
January 6, 2026
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack)
open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
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You do not really understand the mental and social universe of the people in the 30th percentile of voting propensity - I guarantee you they don’t know who Dick Cheney even is, much less that his daughter did a campaign stop with Harris - but they’re the ones deciding modern elections.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
You do not really understand the mental and social universe of the people in the 30th percentile of voting propensity - I guarantee you they don’t know who Dick Cheney even is, much less that his daughter did a campaign stop with Harris - but they’re the ones deciding modern elections.
Even worse, the homeowner’s girlfriend is moving in with the bear.
Black bear living underneath California house shows no sign of budging as homeowner mulls legal action
Black bear living underneath Altadena house shows no sign of budging as homeowner mulls legal action
The 550-pound black bear has taken up residence in the crawlspace underneath Ken Johnson's home in California for a month.
www.cbsnews.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Even worse, the homeowner’s girlfriend is moving in with the bear.
That’s getting into the territory of needing to call your doctor about Viagra’s side effects.
December 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
That’s getting into the territory of needing to call your doctor about Viagra’s side effects.
“I settled the Trojan War. It only took me 15 seconds.”
Trump: "It's funny, I settled 8 wars. Some were going on for 35 years. And we got them settled in a couple of days. Some of them -- one was going on for 37 years. I settled it in one day. But this is a very complex one."
December 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“I settled the Trojan War. It only took me 15 seconds.”
Far from the most important thing in this thread, but… was Carl Linnaeus the reporter’s godfather?
The reporter, Anemona Hartocollis, argues that things are not so bad. Students are studying the Odyssey! She uncritically shares the views of the college President about the need for campus debate. This is yadayadayadaing an ideological purge. Here are things that are not mentioned:
December 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Far from the most important thing in this thread, but… was Carl Linnaeus the reporter’s godfather?
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
I don’t know what is more insane, the position he holds or his thinking that this would be seen as a rational argument. Reported for hate speech and blocked.
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I don’t know what is more insane, the position he holds or his thinking that this would be seen as a rational argument. Reported for hate speech and blocked.
In 1941, the USSR was short on weapons but had plenty of people, so they would allegedly send two men to the front with one rifle, for the second to take it when the first falls. Now Russia has plenty of weapons but no people.
“Criminal syndicates are recruiting Africans to help Russia replenish its army… [after] years of war in Ukraine. Hundreds of Kenyans, many with no military training, have been lured to Russia with false promises of jobs…to find themselves deployed in the fighting”
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Russia’s War Ensnares Unwitting African Recruits
Welcome to Next Africa, a twice-weekly newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. Sign up here to have it delivered to your email.
www.bloomberg.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 1941, the USSR was short on weapons but had plenty of people, so they would allegedly send two men to the front with one rifle, for the second to take it when the first falls. Now Russia has plenty of weapons but no people.
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
This is the same fallacy as “corporate greed causes inflation” and “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. Determining individual culpability and explaining macro phenomena are completely separate. We don’t excuse individuals’ moral failures, but they are useless at explaining societal change.
No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is the same fallacy as “corporate greed causes inflation” and “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. Determining individual culpability and explaining macro phenomena are completely separate. We don’t excuse individuals’ moral failures, but they are useless at explaining societal change.
I guess serious professors now consider it juvenile to make movies about “Adenoid Hynkel” and “Benzino Napaloni”
Sure, it's cute, but I really wish people would stop with the memes and funny names. It's stupid and unserious. As I wrote here in 2021:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I guess serious professors now consider it juvenile to make movies about “Adenoid Hynkel” and “Benzino Napaloni”
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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Thought experiment: what do you think would happen if your local police chief announced that henceforth, they would be shifting the majority of their resources to crack down on underage drinking. Three things would logically follow:
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thought experiment: what do you think would happen if your local police chief announced that henceforth, they would be shifting the majority of their resources to crack down on underage drinking. Three things would logically follow:
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Bob Dole's 1996 acceptance speech was pretty right-coded but his view that even recent immigrants had the same access to the American dream as "direct descendants [transcript says "descents"] of the Founding Fathers," marks quite a contrast with Vance's blood and soil nationalism.
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Bob Dole's 1996 acceptance speech was pretty right-coded but his view that even recent immigrants had the same access to the American dream as "direct descendants [transcript says "descents"] of the Founding Fathers," marks quite a contrast with Vance's blood and soil nationalism.
Required diet for NYT Crossword authors
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Required diet for NYT Crossword authors
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
This makes ultraprocessed foods sound a lot like gerrymandering. Incidentally, my cure for gerrymandering sounds yummy! bsky.app/profile/sven...
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This makes ultraprocessed foods sound a lot like gerrymandering. Incidentally, my cure for gerrymandering sounds yummy! bsky.app/profile/sven...
Someone needs to ask him, if this is true, how come only as many as necessary voted for cloture, and zero out of the eight are up for reelection?
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Someone needs to ask him, if this is true, how come only as many as necessary voted for cloture, and zero out of the eight are up for reelection?
We shall believe their promises on the beaches, we shall believe their promises on the landing grounds, we shall believe their promises in the fields and in the streets, we shall believe their promises in the hills; we shall never accept victory.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We shall believe their promises on the beaches, we shall believe their promises on the landing grounds, we shall believe their promises in the fields and in the streets, we shall believe their promises in the hills; we shall never accept victory.
I have a proposal that would fix most problems with our electoral system, without any fundamental changes. It would be easy to implement; all that is needed is political will. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
A SWEET Cure for Gerrymandering
Achieve nearly proportional representation, destroy incentives to gerrymander, and make every vote matter - all at the small price of one unorthodox feature
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I have a proposal that would fix most problems with our electoral system, without any fundamental changes. It would be easy to implement; all that is needed is political will. substack.com/inbox/post/1...