Biden is now about even w/ Trump in national polls, and the swing-state averages are well within the uncertainty intervals from potential poll bias.
Are some people going to admit their 'Biden is doomed, just look at the polls, he should step down' takes were perhaps premature?

Eric Adams about to send 500,000 cops to the earth’s core.

Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and More Jewish Creatives Support Jonathan Glazer's Oscars Speech in Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2024/film/glob…

Learned I’m not an official New Yorker because my reaction to that earthquake was 100% california

What a wild story (and a crazy media story too) nytimes.com/2024/03/31/mag…

Very interesting read. Full of spoilers so recommend watching the show first

A sharp critique of Haidt’s book (and thesis) in Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

A lot of people who don’t know any history lecturing about other people who don’t know any history

Seems like almost every campus politics story going back generations has the same thesis: “Kids these days, amirite?”

At the end of the podcast we even discussed the “cancel culture is like Mao’s cultural revolution” bs

Since lots of bad takes about the cultural revolution are going around with the release of three body problem on Netflix, I recommend this interview with ⁦⁦tania branigan⁩ on her excellent book Red Memory about the cultural revolution sinocism.com/p/sinocism-pod…

More stories like this nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-0…

My former colleagues at The Economist have Biden polling ahead of Trump now for the first time since September 2023. My own average is not so optimistic, but it's clear Biden has gained ground over the last few weeks
economist.com/interactive/us…

biden approval is ticking up... and he's closing trump's deficit in the horse race polls

could be noise, but could be a bounce

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval…

elections2024.thehill.com/national/biden…

wow

“We did everything to make sure that Hamas will go on controlling Gaza & that PA will control the West Bank so they will fight each other.”
—Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet

“He [Netanyahu] fed the beast & it exploded in our face.”
—Yehuda Shaul, former IDF commander

“Once you’ve let your opposition to orthodoxies define you, you’re just another orthodoxy” — Radley Balko in this great piece theunpopulist.net/p/the-war-on-t…

Brilliant piece by Naomi Klein on Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech and the meaning of his masterpiece “The Zone of Interest” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A few weeks ago, a lawyer representing Bill Ackman’s wife sent a threatening, 77-page letter to Business Insider.

It’s a piece of work, as I explain here, via CJR cjr.org/opinion/busine…

The dishonesty and/or stubborn refusal to understand the grammar of a sentence is testing my self-imposed limits on posting here