Why does no one ask, buy if from whom?
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Why does no one ask, buy if from whom?
It’s shocking how stupid it all is
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
It’s shocking how stupid it all is
This must be a major part of the reforms moving forward
December 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This must be a major part of the reforms moving forward
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The problem in the "Global War on Terror" (which shaped this Admiral's thinking and practice) wasn't that Congress didn't authorize force - it did - but that this authorization was so vague and open-ended that Presidents (D & R) began to feel they could apply it to basically anything.
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The problem in the "Global War on Terror" (which shaped this Admiral's thinking and practice) wasn't that Congress didn't authorize force - it did - but that this authorization was so vague and open-ended that Presidents (D & R) began to feel they could apply it to basically anything.
I think the moment has passed on trying to reach out to these folks. They only operate in bad faith, they are mostly soulless conmen without spines
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I think the moment has passed on trying to reach out to these folks. They only operate in bad faith, they are mostly soulless conmen without spines
After reading that I feel dumber
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
After reading that I feel dumber
The relentless bad faith of these people make me want to lose my mind
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The relentless bad faith of these people make me want to lose my mind
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<Everything> else - whatever Kitchen Table or civil rights or other policy issue you care about - <follows> from fixing our broken institutions & having multiparty majoritarian democracy. <All> of it. We keep doing it backwards, thinking Just One Popular Policy will fix it. It’s a category error.
This is why Democrats need a platform focused on institutional reform. Having to adopt policy positions opposed by supermajorities of the national public to win the hyper-malapportioned Senate is anti-democratic, & promising policies you can never pass is political suicide.
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I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
<Everything> else - whatever Kitchen Table or civil rights or other policy issue you care about - <follows> from fixing our broken institutions & having multiparty majoritarian democracy. <All> of it. We keep doing it backwards, thinking Just One Popular Policy will fix it. It’s a category error.
Lawrence Lessig has been saying this for a decade
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Lawrence Lessig has been saying this for a decade
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🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
I am in awe of your shit posting
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I am in awe of your shit posting
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Fair. Corrupt as in so overtly partisan, perhaps.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Fair. Corrupt as in so overtly partisan, perhaps.
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I wld state it slightly differently. Venal corruption is only one form of corruption; seldom the most damaging. They aren't ruling by any ideology at this point, consistent or otherwise. They going a la carte, mixing& matching to serve the interests of the GOP. That's a corrupt use of their power.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I wld state it slightly differently. Venal corruption is only one form of corruption; seldom the most damaging. They aren't ruling by any ideology at this point, consistent or otherwise. They going a la carte, mixing& matching to serve the interests of the GOP. That's a corrupt use of their power.
The republicans on the Supreme Court have damaged America more than Trump
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The republicans on the Supreme Court have damaged America more than Trump
I want to see evidence Roger Marshall works 110 hours
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I want to see evidence Roger Marshall works 110 hours
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Saying that government must punish entire campuses for speech that you defend when it is featured on the Tucker Carlson hour is just not a coherent or defensible position.
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Saying that government must punish entire campuses for speech that you defend when it is featured on the Tucker Carlson hour is just not a coherent or defensible position.