Tom Hoffman

Assoc Prof of Political Science&Law @sprhill specializing in political philosophy, US politics & Con law. All views my own; RT doesn't imply endorsement.

[Matt Swaim @mattswaim]

I can understand how some people who went to Catholic schools no longer believe in the Church

I myself went to public school and no longer believe in the state

[Independent Normie @full_of_win_]

@Dale_Chu @RahmEmanuel @Morning_Joe STEP 1: Outlaw public sector unions.

I'll bet Rahm isn't ready for that, but he's tilting at windmills until it happens.

[迷思拆解_Panda🐼🐼 @andy88988696]

一个政客死后到了天堂
天使说：
「规定你要先在天堂住一天，再去地狱住一天」
「最后自己选」

他先到地狱
结果超爽
高尔夫球场、牛排、龙虾、酒吧

以前的朋友全部都在里面开趴
连恶魔都很亲切
隔天到天堂
也不错
大家弹琴、聊天、生活很和平

最后天使问：
「你想选哪里？」

他想了很久：
「天堂很好」
「但地狱好像比较适合我」

结果一回地狱
门一开
到处都是垃圾、火焰
朋友全部衣衫褴褛在做苦工

他吓到问恶魔：
「昨天不是这样啊！」

恶魔拍拍他的肩：
「昨天是选举前」
「今天你已经投完票了」

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

You can’t deploy Hasan Piker aggressively in factional primaries and then turn around after you win and say “why is everyone talking about Hasan Piker.” If you don’t want people to talk about him, don’t campaign with him!!

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Marxists listening to the last 150 years of economics:

[Thatcherite Princess @ThatcheriteBish]

I liked Dolly Parton but I can’t mourn someone who never used her platform to speak out against the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947

[Tom Hoffman @tojohoff]

Art fraud on top of everything else? Will this hurt his presidential run?

[Darbyzmom @darbyzmom]

Hunter Biden is being sued by the college girl he hired to create the art he claims as his own.

According to court filings, Biden contracted with University of Delaware Art Student Josephine Barron for a dozen pieces, paying 20 percent each time he sold one.

Biden sold the first four pieces for more than $300,000 each and stiffed the artist.

She's asking for the $240,000 he owes her in commission plus $10 million in punitive damages.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Yes. Whenever I hear someone say "I am entitled to get back what I paid into Social Security."

Great, you have a deal. We'll even throw in the interest it would have earned in a basic savings account. Solvency problem solved.

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

It's also worth noting that the Nazis were the exception in being racist and genocidal. Other antisemitic movements throughout history offered to leave Jews alone if t hey conformed to the movement's goals.

Unfortunately, the dominance of the Nazis and the Holocaust in narratives about antisemitism has led to the an implicit "not like the Nazis, so not antisemitic" excuse.

[Tom Hoffman @tojohoff]

@JeffreyASachs So, a typical academic entity, aside from its ideological bent?

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

Reminder: Free marketers have a highly developed set of ideas that rely on decades, centuries really, of empirical evidence and success. It's the economic populists who rely on slogans and demagoguery.

[Tom Hoffman @tojohoff]

Cocoa Puffs > the CCCP

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Things that have lasted longer than the Soviet Union

McDonald’s
The average tortoise
Mel Gibson
Cocoa Puffs
Tupperware

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This is a great example of how “public financing” of campaigns is actually an incumbency protection racket.

[Tom Hoffman @tojohoff]

Another economic landmark for the US:

[Bruce Hunt Jr @bruceahuntjr]

"For perspective, it took nearly 200 years for America’s gross debt to reach $1 trillion for the first time in 1981. At that time, President Reagan told the nation in a televised address, 'If we as a nation needed a warning, let that be it.' Jumping to America’s 250th year, we are spending more than that just on interest payments on our debt."

[Chris Gaun @cgaunerd]

I want to one day be rich enough for my kids to join DSA

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

All prices are dynamic. That’s their point.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Sigh.
1) Higher prices when demand spikes also imply lower prices when demand slows.
2) Preventing price fluctuations guarantees shortages and gluts.
3) Don't like a price spike? Compete and offer the ice cream for $1 less in summer.
4) Markets are smarter than regulators.

[David Wolpe @RabbiWolpe]

I'm nostalgic for an America that knew the difference between communism, fascism and autocracy- and despised them all.

[Pedro Lanz Bloodstock Agent @2yovar]

INSHALLAH didn’t just win… he blew up the clock.

The $2.1 million son of @LanesEndFarms Flightline colt just delivered the fastest debut of the entire Del Mar summer meet.

Official fractions (5½F):
:21.52 – :44.44 – :56.79 – 1:03.11

Compared to every dirt sprint at Del Mar this summer including multiple Graded Stakes:

✅ Fastest final time of the meet at the distance

✅ Strongest half-mile split (:44.44)

✅ Elite opening quarter that he carried all the way

His five furlong split of :56.79 was only 0.47 seconds slower than Listenupshance’s :56.32 in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby , a race for older horses where the winner was heavily ridden by his jockey. I repeat, nothing more and nothing less than a Grade 1 with the best sprinters on the West Coast. Inshallah still had something left under a hand ride.

Selected with the #SealofSuccess for KAS Stables at the @FasigTiptonCo 2026 sale, consigned by @sequelfarms
Congratulations to jockey @JRosarioJockey , trainer @johnwsadler , assistant @JuanLeyva1984 , and the entire barn team.

TDN Rising Star.

The best is yet to come.

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.

People rejected this.

We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.

The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.