@jmv32.bsky.social
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We're in this situation because Nixon didn't go to jail for Watergate and Reagan wasn't punished for Iran Contra. The path of least resistance brought us here.
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
We're in this situation because Nixon didn't go to jail for Watergate and Reagan wasn't punished for Iran Contra. The path of least resistance brought us here.
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Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
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“organizations need to be interested in generating variety as well as stability. A successful social organization is not a machine for keeping things the same.” - @himself.bsky.social
www.programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos...
Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
Organizing and generating variety in politics
www.programmablemutter.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“organizations need to be interested in generating variety as well as stability. A successful social organization is not a machine for keeping things the same.” - @himself.bsky.social
www.programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos...
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Raise Taxes
Meet the San Francisco woman who charges $30,000 to name your baby
Her bespoke naming services include a "baby name branding" campaign, a genealogical investigation designed to ferret out old family names and even a think tank to discuss the top naming options.
www.yahoo.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Raise Taxes
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Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation
September 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation
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Billionaires are using the anger of the working man to keep themselves in power to get richer on their backs.
It’s been a massive scam
It’s been a massive scam
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Billionaires are using the anger of the working man to keep themselves in power to get richer on their backs.
It’s been a massive scam
It’s been a massive scam
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Last week @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social and I put out a provocation & set of suggestions on how influence has changed and why institutions (& funders) need to change their thinking on shaping public opinion and connecting w/audiences. The old way no longer works.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies
To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.
carnegieendowment.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Last week @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social and I put out a provocation & set of suggestions on how influence has changed and why institutions (& funders) need to change their thinking on shaping public opinion and connecting w/audiences. The old way no longer works.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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Strange how employers aren't leaping to hire people when there's no way to know what economic policy will be in the next week, much less next year. Maybe toilet paper costs 50% more. Maybe the federal gov't breaches a contract with your biggest customer. It's all one big game show, weeeeeee!
How does recent growth compare to recent years? Economy added 1.54 million jobs over 12 months to July 2025.
Weaker than any year to July since 2010 other than 2020.
Weaker than any year to July since 2010 other than 2020.
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Strange how employers aren't leaping to hire people when there's no way to know what economic policy will be in the next week, much less next year. Maybe toilet paper costs 50% more. Maybe the federal gov't breaches a contract with your biggest customer. It's all one big game show, weeeeeee!
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You can’t have it both ways. The moderate wing of the party always expects the left to rally behind them. Can you imagine the reaction if Mamdani lost the primary and decided to run in the general against Cuomo?
July 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
You can’t have it both ways. The moderate wing of the party always expects the left to rally behind them. Can you imagine the reaction if Mamdani lost the primary and decided to run in the general against Cuomo?
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1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
July 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
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#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why.
Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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that said we don't need to wait for people to get incarcerated to think about how to make pro social activities accessible. this is a public works program we could sink billions into rather than the gestapo jobs program we've landed on in the US
July 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
that said we don't need to wait for people to get incarcerated to think about how to make pro social activities accessible. this is a public works program we could sink billions into rather than the gestapo jobs program we've landed on in the US
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I do think people on the left need to come to terms with the fact that the hillary emails stories were a right wing smokescreen that the media agreed to play along with, even if you don't particularly like clinton.
Patrick Healey, the guy behind the NYT's "but her emails" coverage and the Opinion section's inane, right-leaning citizen panels is now a "masthead editor" in charge of "standards and trust" for the NYT newsroom. This is not good. This does not build trust. www.nytco.com/press/patric...
Patrick Healy Joins the Newsroom Masthead | The New York Times Company
www.nytco.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I do think people on the left need to come to terms with the fact that the hillary emails stories were a right wing smokescreen that the media agreed to play along with, even if you don't particularly like clinton.
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The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable
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This is so true and equally valid of Trump’s other fellow travelers: “free speech purists” who hate progressives more than they love free speech; “economic nationalists” who hate foreigners more than they love their own; and the tech billionaires who hate regulation more than they love science.
This thread reminds me of something the Cato Institute's executive vice president David Boaz once said to me, as he watched, with great sadness, so many in his libertarian movement get on board with Trump: "It turns out they hate the left more than they love liberty."
There's much overlap between the American "anti-leftist" tradition and the American conservative tradition. I'd argue that the "anti-leftist" tradition (with roots in the more McCarthyite/fascistic threads of the anti-communist tradition) attracted "conservatives" with a more authoritarian bent.
May 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is so true and equally valid of Trump’s other fellow travelers: “free speech purists” who hate progressives more than they love free speech; “economic nationalists” who hate foreigners more than they love their own; and the tech billionaires who hate regulation more than they love science.
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Honestly given where things are heading, and have been, we need more prison journalism. Every beat exists in prison: health care, education, labor, inequality, markets, media, the arts, the law, politics…
May 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Honestly given where things are heading, and have been, we need more prison journalism. Every beat exists in prison: health care, education, labor, inequality, markets, media, the arts, the law, politics…
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1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
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Don't watch the stock market, watch a baby goat try to figure out a hammock
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don't watch the stock market, watch a baby goat try to figure out a hammock
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"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov 😭😭😭
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
April 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov 😭😭😭
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist