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Donald Trump has an interesting relationship with downside risk. www.slowboring.com/p/presidenti...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Just pounding the table harder isn’t political leadership … real leaders set priorities, exert discipline, acknowledge tradeoffs and try to make progress. www.slowboring.com/p/what-true-...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The intra-party horseshoe — leftists and mods alike want Democrats to focus less on democracy and more on questions of material interest. www.slowboring.com/p/leftists-a...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

New York City has a lot of unique, valuable attributes which spawns a political economy of predatory interest group politics that Cuomo is complicit with and Mamdani doesn’t seem to understand at all. www.slowboring.com/p/the-statio...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

I hope it all works out, and it definitely might, but this is a course of action with a lot of downside risk and very limited upside for the United States relative to what could have been achieved through diplomacy. www.slowboring.com/p/21-thought...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Does the overwhelming labor union support for Cuomo lead anyone on the left to question their sentimental assessment of unions’ role in political economy?

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

We could have a much healthier dialogue about national politics if we took Mamdani’s level of political support seriously. www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-f...

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

An advantage of proportional representation and parliamentarian over things like ranked choice is you can have explicit bargaining for the support of people who prefer someone other than the top two contenders instead of guesswork and arguing. www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-f...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Many cities feature a de facto alliance between a cartel of entrenched developers and various NIMBY elements

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

On trying new things www.slowboring.com/p/why-i-join...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Trump's back-and-forth orders on immigration enforcement remind us of the fundamental logic of comprehensive immigration reform — actually removing millions of workers from the labor force would make most native-born people worse off. www.slowboring.com/p/trump-redi...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Blue State Reform is an important project, but almost by definition it’s not the thing to talk about in swing states or key senate battlegrounds. But there’s a version of “abundance” that makes sense electorally — Big Ass Truck Abundance. www.slowboring.com/p/big-ass-tr...

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

You can’t stop the MAGAfication of the judiciary or pass progressive laws of any kind if you don’t have a strategy to win the senate. www.slowboring.com/p/why-im-obs...

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

IMO this is a perfect illustration of why “debating” people is pointless. Freddie got some good content here, and I have nothing to say in reply except that this is an absurd worldview he’s trapped in that’s not worth engaging with. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/heres-a-pe...

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Boomers aging out and Zoomers aging in is going to lead to a lot more antisemitism. www.slowboring.com/p/a-rawlsian...

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

The impact of money in politics is a little more complicated than many people realize. www.slowboring.com/p/a-rawlsian...

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

The energy provisions in the Trump BBB are really bad too — more expensive electricity, less innovation, dirtier air. www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-bea...

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Direct meme pipeline from Racist Twitter to official Trump administration social media accounts.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

At least some good things are happening in the policy world. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/c...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Taking a break from the news of the world to talk about Hindu nationalists battle with the growing archeological, linguistic, and genetic consensus on the origins of Indo-European languages. www.slowboring.com/p/the-strang...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Police polling news.gallup.com/poll/690959/...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

One of the big regional differences in American housing politics is that Northeastern Republicans almost uniformly oppose pro-housing bills, while in the Sunbelt we get bipartisan reform coalitions. www.slowboring.com/p/blue-state...

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

America needs a legacy sequel to THE SHIELD where we see the continued adventures of ICE special agent Vic Mackey in the Trump era.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

FDR, one of if not THE single biggest deliverer of progressive change in all of American history, also did TONS of ugly compromising with the prevailing sentiments of his time. www.slowboring.com/p/real-talk-...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

I would also like billionaires to give me money

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

“Construction workers, who were building a student housing complex that overlooks Florida State University on the corner of Gaines and Mosley streets, stood in a line for hours waiting to verify their documentation or be hauled away.” www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Congress is WEEKS away from kicking more than 10 million people off their health insurance via $1 trillion in health care cuts. It passed the House and is now in the Senate - which is planning to vote in a few weeks. Then back to the House to be re-passed. We have only a few weeks to stop this.

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Scrabbling

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

Contrary to legend, “abundance” people have really theories of political power and it’s our opponents who are being steadily naive about this. www.slowboring.com/p/an-abundan...

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

The class realignment in voting patterns means Democrats can (and should) be bolder and more aggressive than they historically have been in pushing back on GOP efforts to gut programs for the poor. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

I'm a build / zoning / build / zoning guy — I believe that if you make it legal to build housing in the most in-demand areas that other people will manage to figure out the detailed hows and whys.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Why don't men write about parenting? www.slowboring.com/p/where-are-...

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

They’re getting closer to outright rigging the economic stats www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 24 days ago • 48 comments

What the failure of DOGE to unearth meaningful “efficiencies” tells us about Trump’s bogus promises on Medicaid. www.slowboring.com/p/yes-doge-f...

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Why can’t they just build a normal subway station?

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Montana just passed a bipartisan housing overhaul. No more costly parking mandates for small homes, a greenlight for six-story single-stair apartment buildings in all commercial areas, and fairer rules for manufactured homes and ADUs. More choices, less red tape, lower costs. Let’s go!

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

How I think antitrust policy should figure into an abundance framework. www.slowboring.com/p/an-abundan...

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

New Stereolab … are we back? And Clipse soon.

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments