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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 3h

Lovecraft’s letters are all like that. In addition to the formalities he’ll sometimes write to friends as if he were someone else from like Rome, or colonial New England or even a fantasy world and he’ll sign off with Latin or whatever else.

Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 3h

In forecasting the future of AI, it's easy to miss the main point.

Whether AI largely substitutes or complements human capabilities isn't merely a technological matter.

It's a societal choice.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 5h

Glad to hear Warner pressing this. He was doing the same thing yesterday in those emails and short videos that always get pushed on you so hopefully this is a pattern. The integrity of the midterms has to be a core part of the ICE reform/restriction/abolition conversation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Warner on Fox News Sunday: "What's amazing to me is historically the GOP has been about 'let's not have federal overreach.' We've got federal overreach with ICE. We've got federal overreach w/POTUS saying 'let's nationalize elections.' Do you really want ICE agents showing up at polling stations?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Warner on Fox News Sunday: "What's amazing to me is historically the GOP has been about 'let's not have federal overreach.' We've got federal overreach with ICE. We've got federal overreach w/POTUS saying 'let's nationalize elections.' Do you really want ICE agents showing up at polling stations?"

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 7h

Carter G. Woodson and the Politics of Civil War Memory #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Carter G. Woodson and the Politics of Civil War Memory

His scholarship and understanding of the connection between history and politics has never been more important.

open.substack.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 16h

I assume this is the subject of the Wyden letter, right?

Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 23h

Someone In WH Called Russian FSB

May 21, 2025 the NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump.

On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the OIG because Gabbard stopped the report from routine dispatch required by law.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

www.theguardian.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 17h

We are going to win. None of this is sustainable it’s going to implode. They’re openly cruel which normal people hate, and they’re incompetent. We’re going to win this keep the pressure on them.

Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 18h

Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:

Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%

Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 18h

Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:

Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%

Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 18h

Awesome! I kept a coffee plant alive in my dorm for a couple of years. I knew it would never fruit but it felt nice to grow something off the beaten path. I forget where I got it.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 18h

Next up is Hämäläinen.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 18h

Sears is devastating and makes Lee look really bumbling. The facts are the same so obviously he doesn’t look stellar with Guelzo, but comparing a couple versions really brings it out.

Civil War history is an interesting genre. You can have a million books about one battle and it’s totally fine.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 18h

Just finished the Sears Gettysburg book. It’s interesting when you go through a couple books on the same battle how you start to better appreciate differences between authors. Guelzo’s book for example I thought was really great but I didn’t appreciate until Sears how soft Guelzo was on Lee.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 18h

Our little coffee tree seems to have recovered from whatever was troubling it. Still not fruiting, but I only planted it last year. 🌴🌱☕️

Photo:” I took today: a shrubby tree that’s about a foot tall. It’s growing in a volcanic crevice full of mulch and compost.

Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 23h

Someone In WH Called Russian FSB

May 21, 2025 the NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump.

On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the OIG because Gabbard stopped the report from routine dispatch required by law.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

www.theguardian.com

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

This would be “radical” in the sense that it’s a major change that remakes society but none of it is “radical” in the sense that it would require you to join DSA if you didn’t want to. We’ve had moments where (with varying success) we’ve made leaps like this and we can’t waste them out of timidity.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

We can have Manhattan Projects on climate change, cancer, and Mars. We can hold traitors and insurrectionists responsible for their crimes. We can make major changes to our system of government around statehood, the Senate, and the imperial presidency.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

…a robust wealth tax and still have a liberal market democracy. We will have to reconstruct what has been lost in terms of CRA and VRA and then go further to achieve what was supposed to happen in Reconstruction with reparations. All of this is still in the framework of a liberal market democracy.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Much of government is dysfunctional, overly means tested, and structurally racist and sexist. We require sweeping reform that would still basically preserve a liberal market democracy with essential social support. Reconstruction around redistribution is the same. We can accomplish so much with…

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

In a lot of ways I fit the “moderate” moniker. Like a lot of economists I’m quite pro-market. I’m a liberal not a leftist. But I think people who are not leftists make the mistake that your policy and politics need to be milquetoast or compromising. In fact there’s a lot of necessary radical change.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 1d

“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social

We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew.

Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

www.bostonreview.net

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 1d

“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social

We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew.

Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

www.bostonreview.net

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

www.nytimes.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like the Virginia map but it’s execrable for Cruz to attack it by appealing to what Texas did unprovoked for no other reason than subverting democracy. Even if I vote against it I have every confidence that Lucas and Spanberger have a commitment to democracy that Cruz has never had.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

I’m curious what other low hanging fruit like that I’m missing.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

In the last year I’ve tried to make/do more from scratch and three huge quality of life improvements have been sprouts, mayonnaise, and focaccia. All are stupid easy and quick. I’ll do it between starting the coffee in the morning and the pot finishing brewing. Dirt cheap and much higher quality.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose you could federally impose fair processes and that would be great. But it can still only ever be a fair process. Getting a definition or enforceable standard for what is “fair” will always be a political thicket.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Getting fair districts is even harder because it’s not clear at all that political gerrymandering is unconstitutional. There’s no legal dues ex machina. The Constitution does not guarantee good policy all the time! So it’s important to create fair processes that generate maps.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

The way you make fair districts is to have broad principles like compactness and following jurisdictional boundaries where possible and thinking about communities of interest. But you can only implement that politically with things like districting commissions.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

It is easy to say districts can’t be malapportioned because we can calculate vote weights and get a good sense of what’s close. It is much harder to have clear standards for fairness besides that. Racial discrimination is somewhat feasible to identify but even that poses complex analytical problems.

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