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Yes, absolutely. Again, it is entirely reasonable to conclude that the single strongest revealed preference of the American electorate on economic policy in 2024 was that folks really wanted permanent stimulus checks from the government: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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I don't think we all mean the same thing we say "elite" or "prestigious" college and I think that creates some real barriers in conversations across publics and helps create an environment where people think Michigan State has an acceptance rate of 15% (instead of the real one of 84% in recent data)

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I think underrated how policy design affects popular understanding. low-info, low-trust voters are a lot more likely to hear about loudly obvious stuff like stimmie checks and eviction bans

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I never understand why Marxists won’t admit that, under a “dialectical materialist” framework, insofar as liberals are protecting a liberal status quo, while they are bad, they are less bad than reactionaries who want to return us to a feudalist state. Going backwards is worse than standing still.

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I think part of what makes Arendt's emphasis on Responsibility, not as in guilt but as in "if you dont solve this problem no one will", feel so strange now is that a lot of people even with institutional authority have not had to take much responsibility. Things just worked.

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The thing about the USA is not that it does not have a highly progressive tax and transfer system, the thing is that it is too small and too demeaning.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

As I’ve said before, in order to build a mass deportation operation to root out 4% of the population you must first build a police state.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Remembering hearing in 2020 "oh NO" spread across the office when Warren dropped out. We had no idea what we were in for the rest of the year

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During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

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We talk a lot about the parallels to other authoritarian regimes, but there are some unique aspects and it's hard to think of a comparable case where the corruption was this openly flaunted, as a point of pride and policy. Less about the money than about public submission to his shameless depravity.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

The graph for Russia looks exactly how you'd guess

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Democrats cannot form a coherent foreign policy until we come to terms with the fact Republicans hate us more than any foreign enemy, and will collude with any foreign enemy to defeat us.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I went looking to see how public Piketty's 21st Century Capital data is and it's amazing. Expanded to global, all open, and nicely visualized wid.world/country/russ...

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think of all the security clearances that were rejected over the years, meanwhile the administration is packed to the gills with every kind of moral degenerate

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

"Convulsions" feels like the key word for American politics so far this year

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Sounds about right. This is a reminder that, yes, ICE can in fact bring people back that it has wrongfully deported. It is just choosing not to do that for Mr. Abrego Garcia, in violation of a court order. But in this case, it doesn't have the figleaf of CECOT to hide behind.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The base constituency for socialist candidates in America are urban, college educated renters. Not sure what to do with this info, but it is obviously true.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

the almost 20 point difference between associates and bachelors is nuts

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Congrats again to the 99 Senators who confirmed him because he was part of the club

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

GOP has gone full Angels in America Roy Cohn

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

There's something to Tilly's distinction between "necessary and sufficient conditions" for outcomes like totalitarianism (impossible to identify) and specific mechanisms that work the same way amd processes that have the same effects across contexts

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All the fuss this caused has left me, overall, more optimistic Most responses were positive or mixed, I think many on the left increasingly get that a different approach is needed newrepublic.com/article/1953...

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Nothing like a world on fire to remind Europeans that, for all its flaws, the EU isn’t such a bad place to be — especially for the many small and few medium-sized countries whose sovereignty it amplifies.

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Like, how is this real

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Its weird how this problem was not a secret - I saw people point it out in 2016! and yet understanding it didn't let us stop it. Reminds me of www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-0...

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One Real Problems party, folks. If the policy problem you care about is not some version of “people I hate are insufficiently subjugated”, there is one (1) game in town. Yes, even basic good-government stuff. Yes, even things that would be in the self-interest of GOP constituencies like businesses.

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very obviously written by someone just out of undergrad as well

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Another invaluable article by M. Gessen. You can feel the normalization dynamics happening in real time, and fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

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State's Bureau of Democracy Rights and Labor going from, like, trying to build parties' institutional capacity in new democracies to publishing undergraduate rants on political theory and international relations on Substack is just...sad!

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Locating the philosophical origins of the Declaration in Aristotle and medieval scholasticism is, aside from being just incredibly wrong, shows the contradiction of neo-Thomists/right-wing Catholics trying to shoehorn in their ideology into the traditional Whiggish history of America

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I love how our foreign policy is literally an insane person’s blog. Very cool and stable guarantor of international order.

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“Why can’t the government perform brain surgery with this sledgehammer?” -voters

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