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Join @politicsprose.bsky.social in welcoming Isaac Stanley-Becker for a discussion of his new book, Europe without Borders, tomorrow (February 22) at 5 pm EST. He will be in conversation with @ishaantharoor.bsky.social. Learn more: politics-prose.com/isaac-stanle...

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I love how clear-eyed and concrete this @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social piece on What Can Be Done is www.vox.com/politics/399...

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Things my kids call Taylor Swift songs: Cool Summer (Cruel Summer) I’ve Got a Black Baby (Blank Space) Anti-Hero, ha ha ha (also Blank Space, somehow)

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I've encountered a lot of really smart conservatives working not just in foreign policy and defense, but also economics, political theory, and (especially) law. But on the whole, they either shy away from Trumpism or openly reject it. The people that are left are mostly the grifters and ideologues.

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America is the world's leading power because of its unrivaled military, economic, diplomatic, and technological might. Trump has put a drunk in charge of the Pentagon, burned down the trade rules America wrote, spat on critical allies, and frozen federal funding for basic scientific research.

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The future of the "populist right" is two plutocrats pretending to be anti-establishment while hanging out in an oil-funded playground for the superrich

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This is the thing about the American "postliberal" right: their entire frame of reference is the domestic culture war. Everything, even geopolitics, comes down to it in the end.

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There are no words for the disgust I have at someone visiting a concentration camp and then promoting the party that is the modern inheritor of the Nazi party.

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The thing about Yarvin is that his arguments aren't really "edgy" so much as very dumb

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An admirer of Orban recommends the Orbanist strategy: Maximum culture war against minorities on the inside; minimal resistance to Putin -- some would reasonably say: de facto collusion with Putin -- on the outside.

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Important read on how stopping Trump's power grab will hinge on grassroots resistance, not the Democratic Party, and what you can do to help

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this is very good and i’d add that there will be a “if you build it, they will come” effect for Dems

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This is correct — and, in fact, typical. Opposition parties typically aren't the driving force behind movements against democratic backsliding. To see what an alternative strategy looks like, read my new piece www.vox.com/politics/399...

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Perfect timing, our new Secretary of Health and Human Services was looking for a deputy

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Good @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social article on navigating responses to the Musk-Trump coup. One big takeaway is that delay, slowing things down, is needed so awareness of what's happening can filter down into the popular mind. That, of course, requires ongoing coverage, & Dems to talk of NOTHING ELSE

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Yep! In both hardback and ebook editions bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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At this point, there are only two options: A) Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points B) Elon really is this stupid

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I'm happy to publish something I've been reporting for a while: a guide for how to fight the Trump-Musk power grab and win, with specific advice that you can start acting on today. www.vox.com/politics/399...

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Agree. And I see my work, at its best, as an attempt to build an applied defensive version of Rawlsian politics — of taking its core insights about how liberal democracy works and adapting it to address 21st century threats

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For this week's ON THE RIGHT, I wrote about Richard Rorty's eerily accurate prediction about the collapse of the civil rights consensus and the return of public cruelty www.vox.com/on-the-right...

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This piece hits hard

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There's something profoundly dispiriting about being governed by a man who thinks calling himself "Harry Bōlz" is hilarious

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Conservative intellectuals see JD Vance the way their liberals peers once saw Barack Obama: a recognizable member of their class in power

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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On first reference, DOGE must be referred to as "so-called Department"

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I think baseball and hockey are, in different ways, equally if not more rightwing coded than the NFL. Football is just universally popular among all sectors of American society — it even has the highest percentage of female fans. And that's what makes it a cultural lightning rod. Everyone cares.

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"In hindsight, the first year may have been the entire ballgame — even if no one quite knew it at the time..." Really good explainer by Zack Beauchamp here. Worth reading: www.vox.com/politics/398...

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Affirmatively stating that you are a racist is no longer a fireable offense. But supporting workplace diversity is.

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I loved this @brianbeutler.bsky.social piece on RFK's workout routine. It's not only through and technically precise, but it concludes with a much more sophisticated political argument than "lol steroids" www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...

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@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's 2022 article is very helpful for understanding Musk and the tech far right. They have an obsession with National Review co-founder James Burnham's book "The Managerial Revolution" and its idea that a "managerial class" is taking power away from capitalists/owners.

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DOGE is "the logical end point of a strain of thought that’s become popular in Silicon Valley...that building software and writing code aren’t just dominant skills for the 21st century, but proof of competence in any realm" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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