Nostr notes by Ned Resnikoff

Wreckers can come from the left or the center. Their common ...

2026-11-01T18:36:23Z

Wreckers can come from the left or the center. Their common attribute is less ideological than it is dispositional: a pathological need to be the main character of American politics.

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2026-10-16T17:41:13Z

Congrats to incoming White House press secretary Tilly Norwood

JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States ...

2026-10-15T21:43:08Z

JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us.

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I read Rubio’s speech where he does a Prager U recap of Ancient ...

2026-10-10T22:57:47Z

I read Rubio’s speech where he does a Prager U recap of Ancient Greek history, and the funniest part is where he praises Achilles for seeking glory in Troy even though it means his death.

Yeah, Marco, the Iliad is great. What’s Achilles up to in the sequel?

There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, ...

2026-09-24T21:55:56Z

There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated ...

2026-06-29T15:56:00Z

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

For the past 20 years, Zuckerberg's only idea has been ...

2026-06-23T17:53:09Z

For the past 20 years, Zuckerberg's only idea has been "what if we made a worse, somehow even more unethical version of another company's product"

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One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching ...

2026-06-17T19:50:19Z

One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.

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I wrote about the Democrats' attempt to merge tax cut ...

2026-03-16T21:40:58Z

I wrote about the Democrats' attempt to merge tax cut populism with social democratic social policy and why it's a bad idea [publiccomment.blog/p/adventures...](https://publiccomment.blog/p/adventures-in-slopulism )

[Adventures in Slopulism](https://publiccomment.blog/p/adventures-in-slopulism )

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are ...

2026-01-23T17:27:08Z

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.

Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.

Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and ...

2025-11-12T16:33:38Z

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic ...

2025-11-05T23:49:13Z

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

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FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking ...

2025-10-28T22:48:29Z

FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: [www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7cx8kwh4 )

[Tutorial: How to cancel your S...](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7cx8kwh4 )

The irony is that Prop 13 is an obstacle to solving the housing ...

2025-10-28T18:44:40Z

The irony is that Prop 13 is an obstacle to solving the housing shortage, so it's indirectly raising your property taxes if you bought a home in California in the 21st century.

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Fascinating to learn that even with Prop 13 in place, Angelenos pay nearly twice the national median in property taxes simply because their homes are so expensive. [www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/citi...](https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/cities-with-the-most-house-poor-homeowners.html )

[consumeraffairs.com/finance/cities...](https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/cities-with-the-most-house-poor-homeowners.html )

Fascinating to learn that even with Prop 13 in place, Angelenos ...

2025-10-28T18:42:40Z

Fascinating to learn that even with Prop 13 in place, Angelenos pay nearly twice the national median in property taxes simply because their homes are so expensive. [www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/citi...](https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/cities-with-the-most-house-poor-homeowners.html )

[consumeraffairs.com/finance/cities...](https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/cities-with-the-most-house-poor-homeowners.html )

Republican officials have spent years psy-oping themselves into ...

2025-10-15T17:05:14Z

Republican officials have spent years psy-oping themselves into thinking that there are no sincere, good faith liberals or progressives anywhere in America. So no wonder they're totally unequipped to deal with a large crowd of normal people waving American flags.

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the ...

2025-10-15T15:23:05Z

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

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It's cool how many news reports I'm seeing about ...

2025-10-01T15:21:11Z

It's cool how many news reports I'm seeing about impending federal layoffs and safety net cuts that fail to note that all of this is very obviously illegal.

Here we see the Supreme Court falling back on the venerable Trump ...

2025-10-01T15:03:24Z

Here we see the Supreme Court falling back on the venerable Trump is God-King Unless He Tries to Do Something I, John Roberts, Personally Disagree With doctrine.

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What I gather from the Chotiner interview is that Cass Sunstein ...

2025-09-23T18:10:11Z

What I gather from the Chotiner interview is that Cass Sunstein has authored a defense of liberalism where liberals are defined as those who he could imagine encountering at a Harvard faculty meeting.

Shana tovah to my Jewish friends and good luck in tomorrow’s ...

2025-09-23T02:00:17Z

Shana tovah to my Jewish friends and good luck in tomorrow’s Rapture to my Christian ones

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year ...

2025-09-22T22:18:26Z

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

If Indivisible was serious about fighting Trump they would simply ...

2025-09-18T16:13:15Z

If Indivisible was serious about fighting Trump they would simply organize a general strike but do it without collecting anyone's contact information

Honoring democracy means eschewing terror as a political tool, ...

2025-09-11T13:47:17Z

Honoring democracy means eschewing terror as a political tool, but it also means taking people’s words and ideas seriously as a reflection of their goals and personal character.

I can't explain it, but something about the word ...

2025-09-08T16:44:52Z

I can't explain it, but something about the word "labubu" is disgusting and offensive to me. Just a horrible conjunction of sounds. Get it out of here.

I am a hardline "one and done" guy myself, but I do think ...

2025-09-02T16:20:39Z

I am a hardline "one and done" guy myself, but I do think there's reason to believe a lot of other young parents of 1-2 kids would choose to have more if they could make it work financially.

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The fact that CBP was dispatched to menace a press conference by ...

2025-08-15T20:22:47Z

The fact that CBP was dispatched to menace a press conference by the duly elected governor of California should really put to bed any argument about whether these federal deployments are a response to crime rates. As if it weren't already obvious what this is about.

One thing that has sort of surprised me is that it does really ...

2025-08-15T17:18:59Z

One thing that has sort of surprised me is that it does really seem like the desire to be ruled by a powerful fascist daddy is stronger in the median elite journalist than in the median voter.

Folks, the fact that Warren has been stumping for Mamdani should ...

2025-08-06T20:18:14Z

Folks, the fact that Warren has been stumping for Mamdani should be a very clear indicator that the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is over. Another clear indicator should be that it is literally 2025.

Automated enforcement works: "Seven weeks after the cameras ...

2025-08-04T13:53:53Z

Automated enforcement works: "Seven weeks after the cameras started issuing warnings, they recorded an average of 31% fewer speeding incidents than before, SFMTA data shows." [sfstandard.com/2025/08/04/s...](https://sfstandard.com/2025/08/04/san-francisco-speed-cameras-fines/ )

[SF speed cameras will start fi...](https://sfstandard.com/2025/08/04/san-francisco-speed-cameras-fines/ )

This all looks very bad, but to be fair there's no direct ...

2025-07-17T23:03:37Z

This all looks very bad, but to be fair there's no direct evidence, verified by a court of law, that shows Donald Trump has ever committed sexual assault. [touches earpiece] Hold on, I'm getting some new information.

With the caveat that I am no political strategist, my take on ...

2025-07-11T19:02:15Z

With the caveat that I am no political strategist, my take on whether to Glonzo the Epstein Files story is that demagoguery has always been central to the American political vernacular and I don't think liberals/the left should get too precious about this sort of thing now.

The fact that Chait will write a whole piece about abundance as ...

2025-06-24T17:15:42Z

The fact that Chait will write a whole piece about abundance as the future of the Democratic Party and then participate in a smear campaign against the front running abundance-aligned candidate for NYC mayor says a lot about his actual priorities.

The fact that people turned out in huge numbers to protest in ...

2025-06-14T22:05:52Z

The fact that people turned out in huge numbers to protest in Minnesota even after a right-wing chud assassinated a Democratic member of the legislature is a good example of why we are going to win.

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we ...

2025-06-14T18:43:29Z

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

I told my wife about the accommodations national guardsmen are ...

2025-06-10T01:28:17Z

I told my wife about the accommodations national guardsmen are getting in LA and she said it’s like the Fyre Festival of troop deployments

If I'm reading this correctly, then Yarvin wants the role of ...

2025-06-02T18:50:29Z

If I'm reading this correctly, then Yarvin wants the role of führer to be awarded via a Wings of Voice-style competition [www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile )
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"What I’m really worried about is less an active plot than ...

2025-05-26T21:18:26Z

"What I’m really worried about is less an active plot than the terminal erosion of those habits of mind and cultural practices that sustain a mass democracy." [publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-nev...](https://publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-never-think-alone-17051813d0b4a40f )

[You'll Never Think Alone](https://publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-never-think-alone-17051813d0b4a40f )

I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Pete Hegseth ...

2025-04-21T17:38:15Z

I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease and consequently doesn’t wash after he wipes [www.bbc.com/news/world-u...](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923 )

[Fox host says he 'hasn't washe...](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923 )

Living in a prosperous developed country has made American men ...

2025-04-16T14:34:51Z

Living in a prosperous developed country has made American men weak and soft, but don't worry because there's a solution for that.

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Are universities going to start speaking up? Because if they ...

2025-03-09T22:59:34Z

Are universities going to start speaking up? Because if they think Trump pulling back federal dollars is an existential threat, they should see what happens when no international students want to come here for fear of ending up in a MAGA concentration camp.

Congrats to Jen Pahlka on her new appointment to lead the ...

2025-01-21T17:35:11Z

Congrats to Jen Pahlka on her new appointment to lead the Department of Turning Me Into the Joker [www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...](https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/01/elon-musk-doge-government-efficiency/681366/?utm_source=feed )
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tl;dr if you already have a housing shortage, then raising the ...

2025-01-05T21:29:25Z

tl;dr if you already have a housing shortage, then raising the median income will actually *cause* homelessness. The only way out of this trap is to ensure that housing production keeps pace with wage growth.

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I wrote about the Biden economy and why homelessness is on the rise even as wages grow for low-income households: [resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-parado...](https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-paradox-of-homelessness )

[The Paradox of Homelessness](https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-paradox-of-homelessness )

I wrote about the Biden economy and why homelessness is on the ...

2025-01-05T21:27:22Z

I wrote about the Biden economy and why homelessness is on the rise even as wages grow for low-income households: [resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-parado...](https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-paradox-of-homelessness )

[The Paradox of Homelessness](https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-paradox-of-homelessness )

You know, if education polarization is one of the central driving ...

2024-10-24T14:47:00Z

You know, if education polarization is one of the central driving forces behind the rise of the MAGA coalition, then it follows that one key to building a durable pro-democracy electorate is building out public college and university systems across the country.

Occurs to me that part of the reason why NYT/Politico/et al are ...

2024-10-10T16:42:05Z

Occurs to me that part of the reason why NYT/Politico/et al are mad about their lack of access to Harris is because without access the political desk is totally adrift. There’s shockingly little capacity to, say, read campaign policy papers and find the story in there.

The Haitian blood libel is activating my basest "love it or ...

2024-09-19T19:30:06Z

The Haitian blood libel is activating my basest "love it or leave it" tendencies. Like if you want to live under an authoritarian ethnostate, there are plenty of options out there for you, but in THIS country we're trying to do a multiracial creedal republic.

Trying to honestly engage with Stoller is a mug's game, but ...

2024-08-28T14:18:35Z

Trying to honestly engage with Stoller is a mug's game, but for the record this is the perspective of someone who is wildly incurious about what YIMBYs think or say. Probably just a coincidence that he shares an office with a former aide to San Francisco arch-NIMBY Aaron Peskin.
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It is September 2024. Gretchen Whitmer has just gone on CNN and ...

2024-07-30T03:54:00Z

It is September 2024. Gretchen Whitmer has just gone on CNN and called JD Vance "a former gifted kid with high-functioning anxiety." The Democratic coalition is shattered, Trump is projected to win 49 states.