Big Picture American Politics

[Buck_Mulligan]

The New Yorker has published an excerpt from the new book Original Sin, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on the deception surrounding Biden's last days as a candidate in 2024.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump

[Buck_Mulligan]

New data journalism site/substack (Strength in Numbers) by former 538 journalist attempting to fill the gap left by the closure of 538.

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-americans-oppose-trumps

Original 538 founder Nate Silver is also on Substack with Silver Bulletin. It's a mix of politics and baseball, and sometimes a little too long winded for me.

[SGR]

The New Yorker has published an excerpt from the new book Original Sin, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on the deception surrounding Biden's last days as a candidate in 2024.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump

I've had this book on my radar for a little while and I probably will get around to purchasing/reading it (once I can get a used copy), even though I'm generally opposed to reading books written about very recent political history, as I think these books are more driven by the authors and publishers desire to get 'first mover advantage' on something that is still of interest to the reading public (and a part of their collective consciousness) to make more money than it is driven by a genuine desire to be as informative and holistically investigated as possible. In other words, in 30-40 years, I suspect there will be quite a few much more interesting, thorough, and better researched books on this subject than this one. I didn't really develop this position/standpoint until I read Jean Edward Smith's (who I consider to be a rather excellent biographer generally) biography of George W. Bush in 2016. I found that particular biography lacking, and I realize a big reason why is because it was written/released far too soon.

Anyways, this New Yorker article you posted is a perfect discussion point for the thread I created on the 2024 election post-mortem, so I've taken the liberty of reposting this there and have tagged you in it Buck.

[Mindy]

[Buck_Mulligan]

I've had this book on my radar for a little while and I probably will get around to purchasing/reading it (once I can get a used copy), even though I'm generally opposed to reading books written about very recent political history, as I think these books are more driven by the authors and publishers desire to get 'first mover advantage' on something that is still of interest to the reading public (and a part of their collective consciousness) to make more money than it is driven by a genuine desire to be as informative and holistically investigated as possible. In other words, in 30-40 years, I suspect there will be quite a few much more interesting, thorough, and better researched books on this subject than this one. I didn't really develop this position/standpoint until I read Jean Edward Smith's (who I consider to be a rather excellent biographer generally) biography of George W. Bush in 2016. I found that particular biography lacking, and I realize a big reason why is because it was written/released far too soon.

Anyways, this New Yorker article you posted is a perfect discussion point for the thread I created on the 2024 election post-mortem, so I've taken the liberty of reposting this there and have tagged you in it Buck.

My apols, of course the other thread is a better place for this, and I'll make any further comments there.

[SGR]

My apols, of course the other thread is a better place for this, and I'll make any further comments there.

No need for apologies! Thanks again for posting a link to the article!

[jimmy jazz]

Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer.

Get well soon Joe.

[jimmy jazz]

Apparently it's spread to his bones so that'd make it stage 4. That's really bad.

[SGR]

Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer.

Get well soon Joe.

I just logged back on to post that. Here's an article


Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' form of prostate cancer

It's (I think) the most common male malignancy. While most men don't die of prostate cancer, most men who do die are harboring prostate cancer at the time of death.

[jimmy jazz]

I just logged back on to post that. Here's an article


Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' form of prostate cancer

It's (I think) the most common male malignancy. While most men don't die of prostate cancer, most men who do die are harboring prostate cancer at the time of death.

Well I don't think it's curable. The words being used don't imply it.

'Manageable' and 'treatable'.

'Really aggressive' stage 4 cancer at his age especially is not good.

Do you think they'd have known a while before?

[SGR]

Well I don't think it's curable. The words being used don't imply it.

'Manageable' and 'treatable'.

'Really aggressive' stage 4 cancer at his age especially is not good.

Do you think they'd have known a while before?

I have no idea if they'd have known a while before. I'm no cancer expert and won't pretend to be - however I did read that only 1/44 men actually die directly from prostate cancer. It seems that usually by the time prostate cancer sets in, it's usually something else that actually causes death. Certainly it's not good, but he'll surely have the best care and treatment available.

[DJChameleon]

Well I don't think it's curable. The words being used don't imply it.

'Manageable' and 'treatable'.

'Really aggressive' stage 4 cancer at his age especially is not good.

Do you think they'd have known a while before?

So people are saying that it was known for awhile for it to be at stage 4 but I've heard medical experts say that stage 4 for prostate cancer happen pretty quickly so who knows.

[Mindy]

  

[Mindy]

  

[Auroras In Ice]

SCOTUS will not hear Ta-Nehisi Coates' case against a publisher because too many SCOTUS judges recused themselves due to conflicts of interest from their own book deals with the same publisher. Don't get me wrong, judges recusing themselves for conflicts of interests is absolutely the right thing for them to do, but to have so many of them with conflicts in the first place is pretty crazy.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/19/supreme-court-recusals-penguin-justices-coates/