Visiting a retirement community in St. Paul, MN and this is on the front door as you walk in. No idea if ICE actually has to respect this, but I love the sentiment. Some badass senior citizens here.
Ability to control the Fed from the presidency may be the single most consequential aspect of U.S. democratic backsliding in terms of direct impact on ordinary Americans. This is a job that affects the entire economy. Millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in money supply at stake.
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Great news for the Haitian refugee community! Just as important, a good sign for democracy that the president's hold over the GOP is starting to crack and resistance is working.
www.cbsnews.com/news/house-v...
I am deeply confused. Is he trying to do a reverse-Vance reversal to set himself up in '28? How is that gonna work?
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Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?
Basically trying to convince aggrieved working class folks that the superwealthy oligarchs actually work in their interest
It's the right wing equivalent of the "doing good through making profit" we saw with progressive neoliberal corporate propaganda (and philanthropy) in the 2000's.
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Woke up and saw people posting about the Palantir thread and fascism and thought "surely they're exaggerating" and nope, they're not twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Correct. With just enough "ruling class" and "elites" stuff to capture some left-sympathetic elements.
One observation: Palantir's manifesto uses language from the far left ("decadence of a ruling class") and far right (national strength, hard power etc). The common thread is the breakdown of liberal internationalism and democratic institutions/ideals.
Day 506 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪
And it's all faculty from Yale.If they had any community college or state universities the report would be much different. This is more about Yale than higher ed.
Racial Realism plus the Countermajoritarian Difficulty = this.
How to Defeat the Authoritarian Message
If democracy’s defenders want to push back against authoritarianism, they must learn to tap into patriotic language and a sense of national identity. Such emotional appeals shouldn’t be left to autocrats and demagogues.
A year ago, I wrote that state prosecutors can enforce criminal laws against lawless federal "law enforcement" agents when the DOJ refuses to. That is now happening, and it is past time. 1/
Yes. I highly recommend @lkatfield.bsky.social 's new book on this, Furious Minds. I think the most serious/pragmatic version of this is Hazony's nationalist conservatism. Postliberalism and integralism are more extreme versions but still present as serious academic schools.
It's kind of like arguments about salary caps in MLB. The Royals could have won the WS that one time and structural competitive imbalance can still be terrible for the game.
Can we get a clarification on "ordo amoris" and immigration we're at it?
I wonder how it feels to be so wrong on doctrine that multiple authorities within the Church clarify exactly how and where you’re wrong
Not wonder in an “I’d like to experience that feeling” way though
Oh, but Vance has read Vermeule and even met Patrick Deneen in person!
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
I would be curious how he thinks the Iran campaign fits into just war doctrine when it involves a pre-emptive invasion halfway around the world.
New on our blog: Social media can both save democracy and destroy it. Both things can be true. @dwj.eurosky.social makes sense of new KF-Gallup survey data on social media & democracy. kettering.org/social-media...
Sounds very much like when Long Island Tea made a similar move into crypto. It also jumped 300%, before eventually getting delisted and a bunch of people charged with insider trading. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Bl....
The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.
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"The broad erosion in support is now threatening MAGA's foundation.
"A new CBS News/YouGov poll found Trump's approval among white voters without college degrees—the backbone of his movement—has swung from +36 early in his term to underwater at -4, a 40-point collapse."
Electoral College cartogram showing which states are in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and which ones could join in time for it to activate by 2028. Each state is sized and labeled according to its number of electoral votes. The states are spaced out enough to accommodate the changes in size but retain their general shapes and relative positions on the map. Current members are in solid orange, potential members are in light green, and nonmembers that are unlikely to join are in medium gray. Members have 222 electoral votes, potential states have 68, and the unlikely states have 248. The compact would only activate once states with at least 270 electoral votes have joined. The seven potential members and their electoral vote are Alaska (3), Arizona (11), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). Democrats would need to gain the governor's office and/or legislative chambers to win unified power in these states, as detailed in the spreadsheet linked in this post.
NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate.
This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...