They call it "Moore's law" because there are "Moore" transistors

Pep Guardiola, what have you done?

"'I had thought if they only knew what I thought, they’d see things how I do,' he said. That idea now struck him as so obviously nuts that he didn’t bother to let them know what he thought." washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…

AARP poll of Montana shows Tim Sheehy with a 8 percentage pt lead over Jon Tester in the Senate race & Sheehy close to 50% of the vote. aarp.org/content/dam/aa…

Quite a moment: Jimmy Carter, nearly 100 years old, watching his friend Joe Biden, 81, pass the torch to younger generation. My latest with Kevin Sullivan wapo.st/3ASLyVL

"People close to Harris said she has not changed how she manages staff but has surrounded herself with people more comfortable with her style." washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

"I would say that Harris is ahead probably three, three and a half points nationally... Some places that remain sort of tight and hard to predict. But there’s certainly a clear path in my view to winning the presidential race." washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The line Trump just repeated about foreign-born workers supposedly taking native-born workers' jobs is not true, as Philip Bump has written: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… (The shift is due to Baby Boomers retiring.)

Today's numbers. More mediocre swing state polls for Harris, and her lead in national polls is down a tick, too, to 3.0 points. Note that these polling averages aren't affected by convention bounce stuff. More coming soon. natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-…

Despite Trump’s claims, killings are down: wapo.st/4cQaiLC

Wondering what percentage of this assignment happened solely for the Talking Heads pun on the cover: nytimes.com/2024/09/01/mag…

I’d put it at Likely-R for Senate (in part because Ds winning is very conditional on also winning the Toss-up White House), Lean-D for House.

This one is worth your time: washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…

#IREJobCenter: ProPublica is hiring a senior editor to helm the sustainability desk and help former LRN partners continue to do impactful investigative journalism. ire.org/job-center/pro…

Trump turns to outlandish promises to offset $7 trillion in tax cuts wapo.st/3z5T9Qj