Good one

Time to renew those Tesla Takedown protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

In 2024 democrats run as the protectors of the institutional status quo. Since many despise the status quo, it cost them dearly. I 100% agree with Bonica - it’s in their interest to now run as the reform party.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

I love that the legend has a clear definition for what a "red arrow" captures but there are no actual red arrows in the figure that need to be defined.

What is the crazy thing that Trump will do tomorrow to distract the media from discussing the democrats' electoral victories?

I love that Mamdani enlists the don't fuck up with us, NYC mentality, to the fight with Trump. No appeasement here. Maybe Columbia University should select a New Yorker as president.

Tonight should also signal the death of "electability" punditry based on race, gender, and religion. But it won't.

We all needed this night. Democracy too.

Ciattarelli called Sherrill to congratulate her and explicitly concede, like it's 2014 or something. This is how it should be.

Spanberger will be the first female governor, following 74 men… Mamdani was the first Muslim mayor after 111 mayors. Ghazala Hashmi, Virginia’s lieutenant governor-elect, is the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office anywhere in America. Good times.

JUST IN: Democrat Mikie Sherrill will be the next governor of New Jersey, Decision Desk HQ projects

I'll be presenting today on DWRAP at the World Bank's Law, Justice, and Development conference. The talk will be live-streamed; details below. www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

Btw - this is exactly the point Ezra Klein made this week that somehow got people riled up. Democrats don’t need to necessarily moderate or move left to beat MAGA- they need to run a campaign that is tailored to their local context.

I'll be presenting today on DWRAP at the World Bank's Law, Justice, and Development conference. The talk will be live-streamed; details below. www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

Worth watching the clips Ben Shapiro assembled to demonstrate what a nazi scumbag Nick Fuentes is. Also, it might be a good time to remind people that Trump dined with Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago.

We are not sufficiently concerned about the right-wing shift in our media environment: WaPo, CBS, TikTok... There's no accountability with a cheerleader news media.

This is how personalistic autocracies operate. Here in the USA.

Wow. This game …

Hard to grasp how bananas it is for the institution responsible for funding bills to NOT be open exactly when it is crucial to negotiate a compromise that would allow to reopen the government.

You don’t have to agree with all, but it is a very good read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

It will never stop amazing me that there is a sizable bloc of Jewish voters that is much more scared when a Democrat says "something bad about the IDF or the Israeli gov" than about MAGA leaders fetishizing about a white Christo-nationalist future.

Happy to share that my article with Miguel Rueda and Shuning Ge is out for early view at @bjpols.bsky.social. We show that the level of aggregation at which electoral results are published affects election integrity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I learned a lot from listening to @davidfrum.bsky.social's latest episode in which he interviews @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Also, Frum's opening remarks on stupidity are excellent.

NEW - Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud? - https://cup.org/3LBfv1G "...we found no evidence that greater transparency leads to substitution into other forms of electoral manipulation..." - Miguel R. Rueda, @guygrossman.bsky.social & Shuning Ge #OpenAccess

Happy to share that my article with Miguel Rueda and Shuning Ge is out for early view at @bjpols.bsky.social. We show that the level of aggregation at which electoral results are published affects election integrity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The party of free speech absolutism.

In what world, Philly, the city of grit, is omitted from this @washingtonpost.com story? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Literally the opposite of originalism. A profound betrayal of his constitutional responsibilities.

This sort of lying is pathological: he lacks a part of the brain (or soul) that produces shame.

Autocrats, at times, use the military to shut down their parliaments and rule by executive orders. That Johnson chooses to shut down Congress so willingly is just a breathtaking abdication of responsibility to represent the body politic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Breathtaking corruption. Shameful

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"that economists say". cowardice.

fascinating new NBER paper •⁠ ⁠a big chunk of the tariffs on wine was passed on to consumers •⁠ ⁠⁠but… it was only reached consumers about a year after the tariffs were levied •⁠ ergo⁠: “liberation day” price effects should hit consumers around next summer www.nber.org/papers/w3439...

Someone should explain to Parker the difference between a peace agreement and a (shaky) ceasefire.

They just can’t seem to say what our eyes all saw- that the video depicted the president dumping shit on Americans exercising their 1A right.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

The “it’s actually not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic” party is now “nah, it’s actually a monarchy” party.

Pritzker is an excellent communicator. The democratic party base will reward his willingness to fight Trump if and when the time comes.

"they" is doing a lot in this @nytimes.com led...

Protest is one of the highest forms of love for one’s country. #NoKings

Whales and unicorns for democracy! #NoKings.

Whales and unicorns for democracy! #NoKings.

Liberty and Justice for All #NoKings

The party of lawlessness and disorder. Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

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The "don't call us nazis" party has chosen an interesting way to de-escalate political violence rhetoric.