One can't help but wonder if a year from now Mamdani's approval will be 34%, the left will have declared him a neolib sellout, and this meeting with Trump will be depicted as the moment we all should have known
It's only Tradecraft if it comes from the Langley region of Northern Virginia. Otherwise it's just sparkling expertise
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!
Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!
Really excited to present one of the papers coming out of my PhD at the AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) conference tomorrow called "The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology". Link here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... Thread on the paper below 👇
love to see it. curious which unions will respond
“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”
"For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key."
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Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!
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i'm so mad i can't play in this. calling it now: whoever does this in DC will become the post-Bowser mayor
"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"
tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.
They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
“Now let’s talk about you getting rid of your body hair so you’re nice and smooth and then getting super ripped”
have democrats been winning for 50 years
I can explain it. It’s dynamic social expectations. They all perceive that “being praiseful of Kirk” as a kind of savvy, difficult position that will produce a reward, so they’re competing with each other to do it most extravagantly.
Same thing happened after the election with “Trump is king now.”
So much for the "big tent"
Also if you can't make people care about sending troops into the capital city for purely optics purposes you shouldn't be a politician, regardless of how that tests
All of this!! A single poll test of a message doesn't capture the effects of that message catching fire, for example. What Republicans do really well is hammer a message until it becomes what a campaign is about. Message testing is fine on the margin but like you say, we end up ceding the framing
The Democratic Party has handcuffed itself with data rather than use it to their advantage. My latest: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
Test cricket is still unbeaten.
This is a Mohammed Siraj fan account #cricket
data-driven decision making is the rage in politics and democrats have the best & the brightest working on it.
and yet it's never felt more obvious that we've been missing the forest for the [binary-search?] trees.
there's an analog here to mcnamara, and I've been soul searching
SOME PERSONAL NEWS:
My biography of Harry Reid is available for pre-order and on sale Jan. 20! Exciting news for a project I started more than four years ago on the most powerful official in NV history and one of the more influential DC leaders ever.
simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ga...
Conventional wisdom in Test cricket was always “bat first if you win the toss and, if you have to think about it, still bat first”.
Ben Stokes has changed that. The England captain has turned bowling first into an attacking weapon.
✍️ Paul Newman
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