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Mark Copelovitch

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Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 17h

Some thoughts on where we are right now and the state of US democracy.

Trump is both deeply unpopular right now—and yet more politically powerful than during his first term, thanks to a pliant Congress and Supreme Court. That’s an uncertain, and dangerous, place to be.

Approval rating of Trump according to the Economist —he’s at -15%.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 15h

So today's Substack about the impact of tariffs concluded:

"in many ways the level of the tariffs is less important than the huge uncertainty Trump’s policies have created. And that uncertainty hasn’t abated at all."

Ya don't say. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation

Yes, tariffs are hurting us. No, Trump wasn’t right.

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

It’s hard to know what purpose journalism serves anymore if it can’t consistently communicate to the public 1) whether something is actually happening/is a complete lie; & 2) whether something is obviously illegal or unconstitutional. And yet, here we are, in late 2025, &

<all together now>

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

This is a very general problem with all the Trump admin "let's bring back the 19th century!" plans: you can't do it. The 19th century in 2025 just looks like your country falling apart.

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Apr 2

It’s worse than that. 19th c. medicine in the 21st c. won’t produce 19th c. outcomes. Not when airplanes mix ppl globally on a daily basis, when pop. density has risen to dizzying heights, when human communities have encroached on animal habitats to unprecedented levels…

It’ll be so much worse.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a suit and tie says our long national nightmare is over .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says our long national nightmare is over .

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Is this what the Brits call a sticky wicket?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Well, 1st and 2nd, no outs. Clearly, the Mariners have the Tigers right where they w-

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 9h

Nobel Peace Prize for whoever ends this game

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine this game without the pitch clock

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h

You
Can
Not
Be
Hit
By
Pitch
While
Offering
At
A
Pitch

Besides, it hit the fucking bat!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Why have replay if you can't get the call right in the playoffs 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 10h

Ichiro could end this.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10h

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

And would be an instant national scandal if a Democratic Cabinet Secretary every did it. Two totally different standards applied to two totally different parties. Every day. Every year. Every decade.