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“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”

That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.

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.

The media blackout of Jared Kushner's historic, ongoing corruption scandal.. #filth #media
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Happy 420. We need a new national conversation about legal cannabis in the US. The presumption that any of the early legalizing states’ systems were well-designed, or sustainable, has been disproven by the evidence. And it would help if policymakers admitted it.

Democracy Docket vs Politico.

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This is a good moment in @donmoyn.bsky.social's dive into the tech broligarchs: They keep talking about the "west" in order to feel like world-historical sages but they're just echoing warmed over white nationalist inanitites at this point:

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Time to break up Amazon and cancel your Prime account

Someone is going to swear the solution is socialism and do 100 percent of nothing about eugenics, misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia...American politics is actually just a drunk hamster on a wheel

And I get that the reach us supposed to be for a new New Deal. But a lot of groups were abandoned to make that deal. If you repeat the same mistakes...nevermind

100 years ago was very firmly Jim Crow so maybe better messaging is in order...

Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis."

So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water.

Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.

Damn that's crazy. Anyway, let's look at who's running the US delegati--

I’ll have to dig up The Diamond Age and find a certain passage with the Drummers that’s stuck in my head as a metaphor for twitter

there's currently a graduate student who's been detained by the federal government for two years for his political speech. you won't guess what his ideological affiliation is

And frankly, some progressive Black folks are tired of dealing with antiblack racism within the coalition, and being told we only care about identity politics.

Far too many are very comfortable with racism. As if it’s an immutable law of physics. And not something that can be changed.

Listen, I wouldn’t have said what Cory said in the D yesterday how he said it. But it’s no great secret that the millions of Black voters agree with him. And he’s not entirely wrong.

Contemporary US democracy feels like a group project that rests on OUR backs and shoulders… my people are TIRED.

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

Black people show up. In a million myriad ways, we show up even when we don’t get a whole lot out of it.

The Dems aren’t great or good. They aren’t enough. They never have been. WE KNOW.

We vote as we do because the alternative is unthinkable.

It’s a shame that this perspective doesn’t matter.

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

UChicago’s FedSoc chapter is the fucking worst (Eastman, Ho, Rao, etc).

The IRS leaked our data to ICE and I don't see them offering to pay us anything.

Language like ‘establishment’, ‘populism’, and even ‘the left’ can often obscure or distort the actual power dynamics at play – are you punching up or punching down? We need better political vocabulary.

It doesn’t get said enough, Neomi Rao is the fucking worst

Trump judges playing disingenuous 'im not touching you' word games with crimes against humanity

You can get ai to write the code

Almost makes you think there’s a narrative being sold here

Easy campaign message:

I mean

🧵🧵🧵 Here’s a thought experiment:

Imagine a sitting governor who ascended to power as a feminist hero is running for the U.S. Senate. She has a record of service in the interest of shared prosperity, social liberalism, and the environment. (1)