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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

I'd rather the next Dem president + Congress put into place a bunch of Court-curbing mechanisms *and* far more strenuous presidency-curbing mechanisms.

I don't think left-Caesarism is the best response here.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10d

I think Ezra Klein's take is that America is on the verge of a major step up in terms of sectarian violence, and he is afraid of that, and thinks very major compromises are worth it to avoid that outcome. Admittedly sometimes he says/suggest otherwise, but it's my overall impression.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 12d

Barney Frank liked to say that politics was all about working alongside people whom one finds morally repugnant, which seems, if one is going to be clear-eyed and also in the arena, the correct disposition.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 15d

Roger Stone is selling sets of Nixon-Agnew buttons (from his "personal collection" lol) that would have trouble commanding $5 on the open market for $45. stonezone.com/product/auth...

Authentic Richard Nixon Agnew Campaign Buttons (Set of 7) - StoneZone

These Nixon campaign buttons have been in Roger Stone's personal collection for decades.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 17d

For the record, I think it was my colleague and Mair's longtime collaborator Dick Katz, but I remember and appreciate your early enthusiasm for our work.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 19d

Wherever the dateline, "Regulars return once more to beloved local food place before it closes" is reliably the best genre of article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

Hong Kong’s Dim Sum Cart ‘Aunties’ Make Their Final Rounds

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21d

I just want to say that it gives me great pleasure to answer questions about political buttons, so please send my way. Already this morning, I've replied to Ryan and, via text, identified a fake in a display on the wall at a prominent civic venue.

Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 21d

In our department office, we have a slew of political campaign buttons and memorabilia donated by the wife of an alum after he passed away. My favorite one is this button that simply says “BRAD”. I have so many questions. Paging @daschloz.bsky.social in case he has any info.

A political campaign button that says “BRAD” alongside assorted others.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21d

Almost certainly a "local" (a non-presidential item), could even be for something like state rep or selectman. You may learn more by seeing if there's any info on the curl, which laypeople would call the rim. Unlikely to have much value, not that you're looking to sell.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21d

That's what I mean--get rid of Jay Jacobs and build a template for something way better.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21d

From the Preface to the Paperback Edition of Hollow Parties (out Oct 22!), whence @samrosenfeld.bsky.social and I explain why we're so grumpy about actual existing parties. Perhaps Jay Jacobs will read it and see the light (haha).

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 21d

If the road to democratic renewal runs through better parties, and the formal Democratic Party is run by Jay Jacobs and his ilk, then we need a massive effort to unfuck the state parties and the "Bermuda triangle" of the DNC www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 24d

The real problem with the Biden-era Democratic Party?

They pursued policy goals rather than build the party.

@johnsides.bsky.social shares insight from @samrosenfeld.bsky.social & Danny Scholzman: goodauthority.org/news/the-rea...

The real problem with the Biden-era Democratic Party?

They pursued policy goals rather than build the party.

goodauthority.org

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 29d

And here's the paper, still very much a draft. Any thoughts appreciated. It is, as we say, "a form of internal critique of our fellow policy intellectuals, with all of the awkwardness and complexity that comes with it." static1.squarespace.com/static/540f1...

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 29d

A good time to say, since we're talking about the Biden years, that @samrosenfeld.bsky.social and I wrote a paper for APSA, to be presented Sat. at noon, about why the Biden-era Democrats turned to policy as their salvation, and why it didn't work out. Here's the first paragraph.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Whether 250 years later, with tyranny again at our door, Boston has still got it.” Right here, right now, at the @wutrain.bsky.social victory party, it still feels like we have a future to build together.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Sep 8

With video like this, Henry George would have won.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Antitrusters and abundists are sniping about their opponents' unsavory dalliances--Lina Khan posing with Steve Bannon; fash-ish speakers at Abundance DC--but the underlying question of what's beyond the pale are the same for both. See @colmpm.bsky.social from June: renewal.org.uk/blog/the-cho...

The choices that lie beyond neoliberalism

Many Renewal readers yearn, I am sure, for a world ‘beyond neoliberalism’. A recent high-profile and intellectually fertile conference, which aimed to manifest precisely that, will no doubt be of inte...

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Sep 2

A nicely wistful appreciation that captures just what Nadler's brand of liberalism meant, just why now feels like the end of the line.

Bella Abzug to Ted Weiss to Jerry Nadler in that seat is a hell of a run.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 1

Breaking News: Representative Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election, ending a 34-year career as one of Congress’s leading liberal voices.

Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year

Representative Jerrold Nadler, the ex-House Judiciary chairman who helped lead President Trump’s impeachments, will not seek re-election in New York.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Aug 29

To be clear, the Watergate Babies got elected in Nov 1974, months after the Impoundment Control Act passed.

More generally, getting the good of the '70s in laws that restrained the out-of-control executive and not the bad of the '70s in red tape that means we can't build anything is our task now.

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Aug 29

Another brave column in Haaretz by my third cousin, Noa Limone. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is a genuinely edifying exchange between @waleedshahid.bsky.social and @mattyglesias.bsky.social, each extracting fractionally tinged lessons from the Republican Party of its founding generation. t.co/zDDSB4pYmK www.slowboring.com/p/your-cause...

Your cause is not the moral equivalent of fighting slavery

Against abolitionist cosplay

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Aug 25

This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Detained By Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Says

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Zcavenger Hunt is the closest thing we've seen to the torchlight parade in 21st-century progressive politics.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 24

honestly feels very 19th century (and i am a big believer that there are valuable lessons to take from the *how* of 19th century mass politics)

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Aug 24

YES!!

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is my vague feeling too, that if you're young and want big ideas now, you end up in either the Marxist or the Straussian reading group, with less space for a ~Rawlsian middle ground.

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