chancephillips.bsky.social
A student in the economics PhD program at UMass Amherst.
Bylines in @alreporter.com and @liberalcurrents.com
Substack: someconvenienttree.com
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That’s a separate point from whether it’s accurate! But it’s not a Times innovation. It’s a Lange-ism.
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Michael Lange, a NYC DSA elections nerd/Substacker, has been using the term for a while. (I believe he coined it but could be mistaken.)
www.michaellange.nyc/p/how-zohran...
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What a Wikipedia page, wow
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I did not know Jerome Powell was talking like that 20 years ago. Huh
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If he was proposing city wide first generation rent control, I think it’d be a fair assumption that that would be more impactful than zoning reform etc.
But freezing rent just for buildings built before 1974? I’m somewhat skeptical that will seriously mess up the market.
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So did de Blasio and it doesn’t seem immediately obvious that was responsible for tanking NY housing. Moreover, is there good evidence about whether a rent freeze for tenants currently in rent stabilized units (only a small but sizable fraction of NYers) will dominate Zohran’s YIMBY policies?
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I saw someone say they heard he had to rewrite the speech because of how much the campaign overperformed. Second or thirdhand so you know, 🧂
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This is from a Ganz column right?
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The Dan Osborn campaign? That's very interesting. (I knew DSA adjacent folks were working on the campaign, but nevertheless.)
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And people attack DSA for not having message discipline /j
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If you picked someone convicted of a heinous enough crime, I’m sure you could get a 5-4 decision that drawing and quartering is actually a key part of American history and tradition
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How is the first sentence distinct in your opinion from the below?
"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof"
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Pleasantly pithy point here: “The standard does take into consideration regional differences: If it’s hot, you have to do stuff, no matter where you are. If it’s never hot, you don’t have to do stuff.”
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Thanks for the explanation!
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How are Democratic staffers influencing the parliamentarian? I’m not super familiar with the process, apologies
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Zohran and Lander committing to freeze rent for rent stabilized tenants has garnered some press, and that is an indirect power the mayor possesses.
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I definitely need to read it. I love everything else by Wills that I have read. (Nixon Agonistes, Lincoln at Gettysburg, A Necessary Evil, Explaining America, Lead Time, and bits of Inventing America and The Kennedy Imprisonment)
Wish it wasn’t so timely though.
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Well for one I imagine you were a bit too young.
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The Bank War is an esp. great parallel to present lawlessness.
“Today as in the 1830s, the president of the United States believes he, in the words of Daniel Webster, possesses ‘the especial guardianship of the constitution’ and that his every action has been sanctified by a single election.”
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I see what you’re saying. Timothée Chalamet as Ford Prefect.
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$124 million bet in a month.
That’s more than the (decently big) city I'm in right now spends on the fire department in a year, and just below what it spends on the police.
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Also, the states started seceding as soon as Lincoln won.
How can you negotiate a peaceful, financial end to slavery when the entire Deep South says they have left the country?
Potter’s book The Impending Crisis is great at laying out why civil war was ~inevitable once Lincoln had been elected.
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I think the point made by Sunstein and Lessig (1994) that the Take Care clause was intended as a duty, not a grant of power, needs to be reckoned with more. Disregarding Sunstein's arguments about UET generally, the Constitutional convention was obv. not intended to create a tyrannical executive.
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A lot of people on the bad site also keep blaming ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio for making an argument that "lost the case" when Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar made the main argument. (Both did quite well in my opinion, but that's somewhat tangential to this point.)
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Link:
youtu.be/Yz4ip80uK5o?...
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Will Menaker of CTH interviewed Zohran (very positively) a few months ago. So the extent on which they gave up on electoral politics is TBD.
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The Republican staffer class, in DC at least, is also in love with folks like Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis, and follow folks like Keeperman who think Sailer has some very interesting points to make and deserves a fancy hardcover to showcase his internet scribblings.
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Not to harp on this too much, but the NY Times published a softball interview with the publisher of Sailer's big fancy collected works just last month! W/out ever mentioning Sailer or the fact that the collection was named, imo, after an antisemitic dogwhistle
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-york...
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The platform states that "USAID, NED, Voice of America, and other governmental agencies ... cynically disguise capitalist control as aid and journalism."
Personally I cannot speak to what the motivation behind it was at the '21 convention.
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I personally wish they would. USAID is very good and opposing it, even just as one plank in a policy platform that doesn't actually affect org decisions, is a quite bad decision.
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Like, the Democratic platform still has a chapter on "Securing our Border & Fixing the Broken Immigration System" in the middle of Trump's present actions.
democrats.org/where-we-sta...
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My earlier posts were made solely to explain the continued presence of the position and that it afaik isn't something DSA still promotes actively.
I will say tho that the Democratic platform also isn't adjusted outside of conventions.
I'm a big fan of USAID!
someconvenienttree.com/p/johnson-ca...
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The platform currently on the website was adopted in 2021, not 2023. I just mentioned that the last convention was in 2023.
You can tell because the preamble states that "In 2021, the U.S. socialist movement is on the rise for the first time in most of our members’ lifetimes."
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I was replying to the point that "[DSA should] at least have the basic decency to shut up about it now." The platform was adopted in 2021 and afaik DSA hasn't been posting official comms about its opposition to USAID.
It just hasn't removed that bullet pt from its platform outside of a convention.
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DSA doesn't change its platform outside of conventions, the latest one of which was in 2023 while the next one won't be for a couple months yet.
However, I don't know if the DSA International Committee (which most members disagree with) has been attacking USAID this year so I can't speak to that.
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"But the report could deal a blow to his reputation, with Barofsky also citing instances in which Fain yelled and swore at Mock or other UAW members."
I'll never say a workplace should be hostile, but barring more details, is the president of a union yelling and swearing major news?
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No, but he says he's in contact with current staffers.
"He noted that staffers described Trump as 'deeply impulsive, but impulsive without checks and balances around him.'" (Quote taken from the TNR article)
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The interview is with the exact same guy who wrote the "I Am Part of the Resistance Within the Trump Administration" op-ed during the first term. Not kidding.
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It was fun to write about that for the student paper back in the day. Everyone says that the lack of term limits is responsible for the age of people in office. It's really just uncompetitive elections (with perhaps a bit of seniority privileges).
thecrimsonwhite.com/110709/opini...
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That was 2022 I guess, so more than a year ago.
www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannop...