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Armchair science, public policy, and manga. After 2016, too much politics.
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Reading @delong.social latest on a new Karl Marx translation and I never conceived of Marxism in terms of 19th century utopian cults (this was not his argument, just a passing thought in my own brain). This would be a neat connection for students to make.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reading @delong.social latest on a new Karl Marx translation and I never conceived of Marxism in terms of 19th century utopian cults (this was not his argument, just a passing thought in my own brain). This would be a neat connection for students to make.
@mattyglesias.bsky.social : Regarding Dems who caved on the #shutdown: it was all about the #filibuster.
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@mattyglesias.bsky.social : Regarding Dems who caved on the #shutdown: it was all about the #filibuster.
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This deal funds SNAP through the end of next year, right? So starving children would be off the table in a February shutdown fight. Maybe that makes a difference or maybe not.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This deal funds SNAP through the end of next year, right? So starving children would be off the table in a February shutdown fight. Maybe that makes a difference or maybe not.
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Seriously.
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Seriously.
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So the Dem #CaveCaucus aren't even getting a real vote out of their surrender:
♦️Without a House vote, any Senate vote is meaningless.
♦️And without at least 4 GOP crossovers, a Senate vote is meaningless too.
♦️Without a House vote, any Senate vote is meaningless.
♦️And without at least 4 GOP crossovers, a Senate vote is meaningless too.
Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
So the Dem #CaveCaucus aren't even getting a real vote out of their surrender:
♦️Without a House vote, any Senate vote is meaningless.
♦️And without at least 4 GOP crossovers, a Senate vote is meaningless too.
♦️Without a House vote, any Senate vote is meaningless.
♦️And without at least 4 GOP crossovers, a Senate vote is meaningless too.
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3/ But this is a key front in the battle against Trump's autocracy, for a dignified life for ordinary people. The Republicans are getting mauled. If they insist on continuing this let them.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
3/ But this is a key front in the battle against Trump's autocracy, for a dignified life for ordinary people. The Republicans are getting mauled. If they insist on continuing this let them.
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Nothing says ‘fit to lead’ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. 🤦🏽♂️
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Nothing says ‘fit to lead’ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. 🤦🏽♂️
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The thing these people are really doing is permission-structuring themselves to support actual political violence against their opponents in the coming years.
Somehow I doubt they were this concerned about the Melissa Hortman assassination.
Somehow I doubt they were this concerned about the Melissa Hortman assassination.
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The thing these people are really doing is permission-structuring themselves to support actual political violence against their opponents in the coming years.
Somehow I doubt they were this concerned about the Melissa Hortman assassination.
Somehow I doubt they were this concerned about the Melissa Hortman assassination.
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The #filibuster is suppose to force negotiations. But in practice it does not - Republicans have rebuffed multiple offers by the Democrats to meet.
"it's a symptom of a deep and abiding dysfunction that Republicans, despite holding the presidency, the Senate and the House, can't fund the government and can't even get themselves to get together in a room to strike a deal."
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The #filibuster is suppose to force negotiations. But in practice it does not - Republicans have rebuffed multiple offers by the Democrats to meet.
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No one could have possibly predicted that allowing federal agents to wear ski masks & not identify themselves would lead to lawlessness.
This is just one of the reasons we passed legislation to ban this shit.
This is just one of the reasons we passed legislation to ban this shit.
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
No one could have possibly predicted that allowing federal agents to wear ski masks & not identify themselves would lead to lawlessness.
This is just one of the reasons we passed legislation to ban this shit.
This is just one of the reasons we passed legislation to ban this shit.
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Bravo to space.com for this deeply reported, lengthy piece.
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Bravo to space.com for this deeply reported, lengthy piece.
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
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"To Trump, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like." -Jake Lundberg
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump
Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"To Trump, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like." -Jake Lundberg
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate …
As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Hey folks, an update on the battle to bring down prices!
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hey folks, an update on the battle to bring down prices!
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1. A watershed moment.
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
1. A watershed moment.
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
Trump forges a consensus. Not really a deal as there was no negotiation.
I spent the entire Biden presidency warning idiotic establishment Senate Dems and Biden who opposed getting rid of the filibuster that Trump and the GOP would come back to power and do it themselves. I hate to say I told you so but… I fucking told you so.
Trump: “…BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Trump forges a consensus. Not really a deal as there was no negotiation.
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We're now on ten years of Trump / GOP having no healthcare plan whatsoever. Not even a suggestion of what direction they want to go with it except repealing some overwhelmingly popular elements of Obamacare.
Worth remembering when pundits talk about the importance of nuanced policy messaging.
Worth remembering when pundits talk about the importance of nuanced policy messaging.
Trump trashes Obamacare in a new post. Funding under this law is the main dispute between the two parties in the ongoing government shutdown standoff.
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
We're now on ten years of Trump / GOP having no healthcare plan whatsoever. Not even a suggestion of what direction they want to go with it except repealing some overwhelmingly popular elements of Obamacare.
Worth remembering when pundits talk about the importance of nuanced policy messaging.
Worth remembering when pundits talk about the importance of nuanced policy messaging.
NYT Oct 29, 2024. The warnings were accurate.
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
NYT Oct 29, 2024. The warnings were accurate.
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Trump: “…BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Trump: “…BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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This is pretty wild. The head of Heritage basically said Nazi ideology is just another flavor of conservatism to be hashed out. Of Nick Fuentes he said:
"Cancelling him is not the answer... When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate."
"Cancelling him is not the answer... When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate."
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts stands by Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host release his controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is pretty wild. The head of Heritage basically said Nazi ideology is just another flavor of conservatism to be hashed out. Of Nick Fuentes he said:
"Cancelling him is not the answer... When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate."
"Cancelling him is not the answer... When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate."
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Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
@joshtpm.bsky.social From today's Bloomberg. Bad economic numbers, soaring stock market.
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@joshtpm.bsky.social From today's Bloomberg. Bad economic numbers, soaring stock market.
Trump trade policy shaped by desire for TV wins rather than policy substance. @delong.social has 10% tariffs as a baseline, with the likelihood of periodic specific country flareups due to Trump's mood.
braddelong.substack.com/p/the-state-...
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The State of Trump's Trade War: Short- & Long-Run Consequences of Optics vs. Economics
Symbolism wins, technocracy bends: the public sees “tough,” firms get exemptions, and growth pays the tab. And then cycle repeats: unilateral tools plus attention incentives make escalation cheap...
braddelong.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Trump trade policy shaped by desire for TV wins rather than policy substance. @delong.social has 10% tariffs as a baseline, with the likelihood of periodic specific country flareups due to Trump's mood.
braddelong.substack.com/p/the-state-...
braddelong.substack.com/p/the-state-...