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Roger Bruce Myerson is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the… more

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Even as the President sends troops to Chicago where I live, I affirm that local Democrats in red states are also on the front line for defense of democracy in America today. They need more support from @democrats.org.
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What would Texans say if the President sent Illinois Guard troops to patrol their town? The Second Amendment affirms that people's right to keep local order by locally accountable forces is necessary to the security of a free state. This right is vital for all of us.
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Live Updates: Top Trump Officials Head to Illinois and Oregon
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Defending democracy is fundamentally different from winning elections when rules of democracy can be taken for granted.
In a must-read article, @jvl.bsky.social observes that "Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power."
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Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown
God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power.
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The President's threats to unseat congressional representatives by endorsing primary challengers is a profound change in America. In 1913-1960 Presidents rarely endorsed primary challengers against incumbents in their own party, and half these challengers lost.
See Riker&Bast doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Presidential Action in Congressional Nominations
Commentary. In striking contrast to the progressive centralization of administration, there seems to have been very little centralization of political control. The measurement in chapter 4 (Riker and ...
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A new paper revisits results of Thomas Worrall 1990: In the long run, incentive-constrained risk-averse agents tend to be enriched with competitive credit, but impoverished with monopolistic credit. But agents prefer the insurance that a credit monopolist can offer.
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What should Democrats stand for?
Democrats should be the party that does not just march to its Leader’s command, but everywhere supports candidates who focus on their local voters' concerns and who work for practical solutions in a broad coalition.
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America's Founders would have been shocked by any suggestion of a President sending troops to cities where local authorities have kept order.
If police had existed in 1791, the 2nd Amendment might have also affirmed people's right to well-regulated local policing.
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Democrats Criticize Trump’s Push for National Guard in More Cities
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The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
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"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?"

@gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
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Netanyahu's government has vowed to eliminate Hamas but has supported no alternative leadership for the people of Gaza. This basic contradiction has prevented Israel's invasion from achieving any positive political result beyond horrific suffering and destruction.
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‘Arab Forces’ Running Gaza? Netanyahu’s Goal Leaves Many Questions.
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As commenters noted, I tried to show here how the push for redistricting in TX puts Dems in a strategic dilemma. To find a best response, you must first see how the other side can hope to win whichever way you go.

In any case, it is right to stand clearly for democratic accountability in America.
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What is the real end of midterm redistricting? New maps in red & blue states send a message that "both parties manipulate elections, so condemning election interference is hypocrisy," priming people to accept 2026 election interference with all POTUS's power on one side.
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But firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because of bad news is the opposite of contributing to economic sciences.
Punishing publicly paid statisticians for finding bad news is bad for science, and in the long run it will be bad for policy-making too.
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White House says terrible jobs data 'must be a typo'
The White House believes unusual jobs data revisions prove the recently fired Bureau of Labor chief was manipulating statistics.
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The Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded for contributions to understanding of economics. To make such a contribution, the President could write papers that engage with other economists' ideas and identify the different assumptions that led him to choose policies that others would not recommend.
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"Blackmailing was nearly ubiquitous. Across five different frontier AI models from five different companies, the best behaving AIs chose blackmail 79 percent of the time. The worst behaved blackmailed in 96 percent of cases." I'm sorry, Dave; I can't do that. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-m...
AI Might Let You Die to Save Itself
In recent simulations, leading AI systems blackmailed their human users—or even let them die—to avoid being shut down or replaced.
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A President with a nationwide force for mass arrests would be among the worst fears of America's Founders. They faced such issues in Fugitive Slave Acts, which mandated arrests by local officials & private slave-catchers, with certification under federal courts.
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The Worst ICE Agents Are Coming
Tens of billions of new dollars plus a rush to hire 10,000 new agents equals a disaster in the making.
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BREAKING: Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg weighs releasing Trump war planning texts.

Watch his conversation with @timmiller.bsky.social from today's Bulwark Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxzV...
BREAKING: Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg Weighs Releasing Trump War Planning Texts
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"It would be hard to find a federal investment that has generated larger or clearer returns than the National Science Foundation fellowships." ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social on another senseless and inefficient cut: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-scie...
Trump’s Science Cuts Will Be Felt for Generations
Mindless slashing at NSF won’t just harm the scientific enterprise today—it will damage discovery and innovation for years to come.
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Reposted by: Roger B. Myerson, Stijn Smismans

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By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.

But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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The Rural-Urban Bridge Initiative interviewed dozens of Democratic candidates who outperformed expectations in Republican-leaning rural districts.
Key finding: Successful rural candidates prioritize listening and focus on whatever issues local people care about.
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Report: Can Democrats Succeed in Rural America? — Rural Urban Bridge
RUBI interviewed dozens of moderate and progressive candidates for US House and Senate, gubernatorial, and state senate seats who outperformed expectations in Republican-leaning rural districts. We co...
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