If an enterprising GOP nerd would just sell t-shirts with this text changed to LEE ZELDIN, the New York governor’s race would be over. (At least in the white males aged 40-65 demographic.)

Five years later I can add that white toothpaste + baking soda gets Sharpie off a table.

I was right! It was the ACLU Rights for All campaign, bird-dogging 2020 candidates to ask whether they'd halve the federal prison population.

The intention wasn't 'let's create some 2022 GOP campaign ads' but here we are. foxnews.com/politics/tim-r…

The Twitter purchase scandal has gone on so long that it should be called Elongate.

(Knocks over a kid's lego set to protest climate change)

'Why do you care more about Bobby's feelings than the whole planet, huh?'

Doesn't explicitly say they're not getting their money back ... yet doesn't say they will either. I imagine there'll be a lawsuit if they don't.

The obvious implication is the system is rigged but it's better conceived of as an emergent property of first past the post single member districts (which we've had forever) and one party assembling a coalition that gets 80% in densely populated areas and 40% in sparser ones.

Having lived through NYC at peak dangerous, I think folks who chirp 'What do you mean crime's up--I haven't been mugged!' fail to understand what a high crime rate actually looks like. Even in very unsafe places, at any given time, crime is usually not happening.

I said “tolerate reduction of the housing supply? In THIS economy?”

I was polled by the U of Iowa yesterday. Asked which party I more closely identified w/, I said GOP. They asked me if I saw a neighbor's house on fire, and then noticed a D yard sign, would I still call the fire department?

John is correct in saying a national UBI is basically untestable. But the issue isn't just the limited fraction of the population covered by an experiment. Most importantly, people will react differently to a temporary program than to a permanent program & differently in long run

This'll be the next phase of the right to carry debate once more data comes in. About half of states have gone permitless, but mostly in the past decade or so.

Fantastic piece by my Manhattan Institute colleague, Robert VerBruggen in today's New York Daily News: nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

The piece draws on Robert's new Policing & Public Safety Initiative paper reviewing the research on the effect of right-to-carry laws on crime: manhattan-institute.org/analyzing-effe…

7yo: Can I have a piece of candy?

Me: No! You just had chocolate cereal for breakfast dude.

7yo: No I didn't! The chocolate all comes off in the milk!

The Grio/KFF poll:

Only 17% of Black voters want to decrease police funding.

34% of Black voters want to increase police funding.

48% want to keep it the about the same.

thegrio.com/2022/10/25/bla…