Stephen J Read

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True! But did she say she heard him say that, or that someone told her he said that? I honestly don’t remember

Threatening to murder, ruin or imprison people is now a routine thing for Elon Musk. It's evidence of his rapidly evolving sociopathology. bsky.app/profile/rbre...

Trump is bragging about "an absolute fortune" being made in the Middle East. That must be comforting to the families of the 21 service members killed and the 865 wounded in the war with Iran.

One of the things sheriffs do is warp the perception of democracy. Each county has one sheriff no matter how few (or many) people live there. About 2/3 of counties are rural (there's no real definition of rural, so this is broad). Little map for you. The green is rural.

Israel may have a democracy if they can keep it. #Discover #Following #News #USPolitics apnews.com/article/isra...

We interrupt our usual programming to inform you that I was never hired by Facebook to do a hit job on Jonathan Haidt. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/10/27/w...

The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells. (Published August)

Apparently the new objective of the Trump immigration doctrine is to make the United States into the global center for the criminal underworld. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

The absolute unrelenting courage and tenacity of Epstein survivors cannot be lauded enough. They continue to be put through absolute hell and most of media ignoring each revelation is another renewed assault against them. The Pedophile Protector Party is run by a rapist.

Wait, so now we WANT Latin America to send us their criminals?

JD Vance: 1) Proud of inate incapacity. 2) Proud of not caring about job requirements. 3) Proud of having no work ethic. 4) Proud of playing his audience for fools.

🤣😂🤣 and a NOSEJOB……

One week until Election Day. America deserves better than the pedophile protection party. Knock doors. Make calls. Get your friends to vote. Let’s elect Democrats up and down the ballot and finally make Trump release the Epstein files.

Since Ken Paxton was sworn in as the attorney general of Texas, he has taken about 350 trips outside the state with a taxpayer-funded security detail, including 25 to foreign countries, according to a New York Times analysis. nyti.ms/4yOQK5k

The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.

Thread where I learned that Bill Ackman sponsored Bubonic Bob's racist vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau.

This, like the Comey seashell case, should have been laughed out of court, with severe sanctions on the lawyers who brought it. Judges need to stop playing nice. The DOJ is mocking the law. They should be severely punished.

As proof that this remark made people think of Donald Trump, JD Vance recited a new version today. He no longer talks about a "tinpot dictator," but "a FOREIGN leader IN THE MIDDLE EAST." That is, "I'm not talking about the tinpot dictator in DC, y'all!!!"

Trump not doing much to shake that "viceroy of Latin America" label...

"The Trump administration is exploring a new concession to Russia: lifting sanctions on the country’s flagship government investment fund, long viewed by U.S. officials as one of the Kremlin’s most powerful tools of international influence."

May all the US right wingers who lose elections next week also flee their country.

'He's a star, so we let him do it.'

The role of $ in elections is sometimes overrated, but this kind of news is still interesting, because it reflects parties' unpublished internal polling. If the DCCC is doing this, they are seeing things that lead them to feel bullish.

Donald Trump LOVES tariffs... ... AND he LOVES LYING about them 🤥 Here's the truth about tariffs Republicans hope you won't notice: YOU ultimately pay them.

America was built on checks and balances. Let's restore them with a #BlueWaveIn7Days 💙 https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-democrats-affordability-corruption-018019529b14a6b3bc4a343a4e17c44f

As the midterms approach, I would just remind everyone that US politics has become increasingly parliamentary and that what matters most is the *number* of Ds or Rs, not the idiosyncrasies or ideological quirks of individual candidates. If you want D outcomes, vote D up & down the ticket.

Meta making me feel sympathy for Haidt is not something I had on my multi-dimensional bingo card.

I did a classic base rate neglect demo in class today. Half of the class did probabilities (Kahneman & Tversky, Bar-Hillel) and half did natural frequencies (Gigerenzer & Hoffrage). Remarkable replication: complete base rate neglect for probabilities and perfect Bayesians for frequencies.

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

The word for this is racism

Welp . . . #WorkingToFix2026 #Shibboleth

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Trump-appointed judge in AZ admonishes the Trump admin for dragging its feet in complying with his Oct. 6 order to "facilitate" the return to the U.S. of a Egyptian man that the admin deported to Equatorial Guinea in April w/out due process. A deplorable case: www.courtlistener.com/docket/74798...

Kidnapping & child trafficking.

He's such a phony. His wife's name was Usha Chilukuri when they met. His in-laws names are Radhakrishna and Lakshmi Chilukuri. He was married in a Hindu ceremony presided over by a Hindu priest.

NEWS: Susan Collins’ latest campaign ad is sparking outrage in Maine. The ad takes a swipe at Democrat Troy Jackson’s working-class roots, sparking accusations of “shameless elitism.” Even a former Collins staffer is blasting it, declaring: “The race is over.”

No, we don't need scientists! AI will do it all!

‘Even successful and highly profitable technology companies are struggling to afford the enormous costs of AI... How to summarize the sentiment among AI firms right now? “Take it when you can. Everyone is going to need more.“‘ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...