Sean T at RCP
@SeanTrende
Sr. Elections Analyst, @RCPolitics, Visiting Scholar, @AEI, Lecturer, @osupolisci. Recovering Attorney. Husband, Dad. Writes about elections, history and more.
If I catch you wearing these around me in a private setting, expect to see these slapped off your face. It’s only respect for the law that would keep me from doing the same in public.
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I get that people thought "three strikes" was too punitive but, like, could we do 5 strikes?
A third of all shoplifting arrests in NYC in 2022 were due to just 327 people. That's 0.00385% of the population doing 33% of the crime! This guy is one of them. Lock him up.
This is one of those things that is sort of annoying if it’s happening around you — all these out of owners buying property and driving up our costs! — but it’s actually a way worse sign if none of this is happening in your area
One in 6 Maine homes are vacation homes—which Census defines as "vacant for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use." The lowest density of vacation homes in America is Illinois—one in 125. via @_brianpotter
In 2009 the last incandescent light bulb factory in America shut down. It was in my high school hometown of Winchester, Virginia. About 280 people lost solid jobs so we could make so called "green" light bulbs in central China. 11,000 miles to ship stuff to back to America…
Out: Government-funded radio and television In: Government-owned social media.
hey guys let's nationalize tiktok i guess
"What a fantastic audience we have tonight...Ozzy Osbourne. The thing about Ozzy is he's made a lot of big hit recordings: 'Party With the Animals'; 'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath'; 'Face in Hell'; 'Black Skies'; and 'Bloodbath in Paradise.' Ozzy, Mom loves your stuff" - Bush 5/4/2002
Saw Superman. It was a great popcorn film. But I don't really understand the complaints. As far as I can tell, the politics (to the extent that they exist) are pretty thoroughly right-coded. (explanation with spoilers below)…
I watched "Eddington". More horror than satire to me. Maybe that's just how Ari Aster proves a point. But to me it just confirms: Matt Drudge, when he said "the internet will save the news business", said *the single most wrong thing ever said*. Just look around this website.
Because America is an unfathomably wealthy nation and most of its citizens, even the relatively poor, prefer to travel in a conveyance that would be the envy of any king in ages past.
Why did we build our stadiums around the most inefficient form of transportation?
Although this dude is an insane Nazi sympathizer, here he does demonstrate why the *genuine believer* religious right is similar to genuine capitalist right …they are so “principled” that they ensure tiny constituencies. It’s hard to overstate how much ppl like Trump vs this
You can call the white Antifa child molester your “countryman” over the legal immigrant with dusky skin sitting in the next church pew, but I’ll be over here with the other 99% of humanity who thinks that’s retarded.
Trump would be high-fiving the hell out of himself on Truth Social if he got Colbert fired. People are dumb.
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@SeanTrende We were talking a while back about group projects as a way to reduce cheating, which gave rise to the "but some people don't work and get my A". I got distracted, but wrote about a teaching strategy to reduce that problem. educationrealist.substack.com/p/the-in-case-…