Hey, while we're at it, let's prioritize swap lines for munis and unis who issue liabilities for public needs domestically.

Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6 Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
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La boîte de Peter Thiel, Palantír (encore des fachos qui n'ont rien compris à Tolkien), a publié un fil Twitter hallucinant et carrément facho.
On rappellera que c'est une boîte de surveillance.
Les techbros essaient vraiment de mener la planète dans une dystopie à leur main.

Infuriating

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

More data and details: popular.info/p/the-media-...

Too Bad To Fail is their mantra, apparently

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

Own goal

US continuing to 💩 in its own nest

Led by “extraordinary” growth of solar, clean energy pushed fossil-fuel generation into reverse

Solar growth of +600TWh in 1yr is the largest ever rise – from any source – excl rebound yrs

5/10

Great thread

If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it.

Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.

“Clinicians preserve uncertainty & iteratively refine differential diagnoses, whereas LLMs [across model generations]collapse prematurely onto single answers….

The risk is not just that LLMs are sometimes wrong but that their reasoning is brittle precisely where uncertainty & nuance matter most.”🧪🛟

Of course

Just seeing this. Worth re-upping.

Fresh concerns? It's graft and corruption all the way down.

It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.

Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

If Rs try anything, it will be to dismantle social spending to get their "pay fors".

We shouldn't give in to the spend$X = tax$Y or don't spend$Z.

The "pay for" is in real resources. What's the overlap between defense and child/health care in real resources?

It could also mean larger deficits, and I'd argue that's more likely than a 1:1 tax offset under Republicans.

Or is it that music is not as good because people feel poorer? Dammit

Not surprising, but WOW...

Lessons I Learned Working For A Narcissist And What That Means For Il Trumpe Many moons ago, I worked at an organization that was run a textbook narcissist. Everything about Trump’s behavior reminds me of my former boss. Everything. Before I get to my own thoughts on …

I guess I shouldn't be angry that some of us figured this out a decade before Baker did, but I am. mikethemadbiologist.com/2016/12/01/l...

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How many are being detained illegally?

No 2nd amendment for software...

Dems should counter with auto registration to vote when back in power

Polls close at 7pm ET in Georgia.

They close at 7pm local, meaning 8pm ET, in Oklahoma.

They close at 7pm local, meaning 8pm ET, in Missouri.

They close at 8pm local, meaning 9pm ET, in Wisconsin.

They close at 7pm local, meaning 10pm ET, in Arizona.