Americans have no clue about what percentage are [various categories]

This is what demographic panic looks like. When people are this uninformed, democracy faces serious headwinds.from @jvl.bsky.social

Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social) 2024-11-24T20:41:50.262Z

Important point I learned from this paper – overestimation of the population sizes of minority groups is a more general cognitive error and NOT a domain-specific misperception.

Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T15:22:48.216Z

Trump doesn’t care about his opponents

Fascinated by this Pew finding: "Americans give Trump low marks for his efforts to date to reach out to those who supported Kamala Harris in the election."Question: has Trump done *anything* to reach out to those who supported Kamala Harris in the election? http://www.pewresearch.org/politics/202…

Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) 2024-11-22T19:25:56.762Z

He’s done nothing to reach out to Harris supporters. I haven’t forgotten how he called opponents vermin and the enemy within during the campaign.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2024-11-22T19:34:30.601Z

Compassion and decency are for suckers and losers

George Conway (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2024-11-29T20:30:49.507Z

D. John Sauer, Trump's lawyer and choice for solicitor general, yesterday: "President Trump has called for our Nation’s partisan strife to end, and for the contending factions to join forces for the greater good of the country."Sauer's client, this morning:

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2024-11-28T15:33:57.958Z

Trump called his opponents vermin and the enemy within. He has no interest in unity.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2024-11-28T15:58:44.832Z

Washington Post article on Trump and TikTok leaves important information out

The Washington Post published the article below which includes information on Trump’s change in position to pro TikTok. It leaves out his contacts with Republican donors, one who owns a share of TikTok. These discussions presumably were influential in changing his position. Trump responds to people who give him money. I wrote a tweet reply to the Post on this but they haven’t added anything to their article.

The Post Article

Trump and GOP Got Financial Help From Another Donor Linked to TikTok

Trump’s TikTok flip raises concerns over billionaire clout

Cornyn’s hypocrisy on recess appointment

John Cornyn, a Republican senator from Texas, supports Trump’s goal of recess appointments. He opposed them when Obama did them.

Manu Raju on CNN made a tweet on Cornyn’s current position. I replied asking if he asked Cornyn on his prior position.

See my posts on X (Twitter.) I am taking a Twitter break

Trump will use the appointments of unqualified people like Gaetz and Kennedy to increase his power. He’s shitting on Republican senators who will have two bad options:

  1. vote for bad choices to avoid the wrath of Trump and threats from his cult
  2. Let Trump increase power with recess appointments. They can avoid voting this way.

I predict they will take the coward’s way out – recess appointments.

More tweets on Trump’s unpaid campaign event bills

what a scumbag

Trump’s Unpaid Rally Bills Add Colossal Sum to Already Staggering Debt

Corned Beef Row photos from the 1940s and 1970s

Baltimore’s Corned Beef Row (1000 block of East Lombard St.) is in the area where Jewish settlers originally moved. There are still a couple of delis left – Attman’s and Weiss’s. I had heard the area called Jewtown so I guess they cleaned up the pejorative aspect of the name by renaming it Corned Beef Row.

I remember walking along Lombard St. in the 1970s and peering into a storefront where they had live chickens.

There are now two delis left on Lombard St. – Attman’s and Weiss’s. Attman’s looks like it did in the 1970s when I moved here. Look at the photos of old politicians in the inside pictures on Yelp.

At Attman’s, you go through a cafeteria-style line to order. You can eat in a small dining room.

Attman’s has a new location at Harbor Point. It’s very modern with a bar and waiters. It’s more expensive but the food is still excellent.

The other deli is the Weiss Deli Weiss’s has all the atmosphere of your high school cafeteria. See the Yelp photos. Unlike Attman’s, they are not on any delivery services as far as I can tell. The menu is much smaller but the food is good.