Mark Copelovitch

The only thing popularists fear more than an unpopular idea from the left is a popular one that might actually threaten billionaires.

Aside from the casual disregard for the rule of law, Constitution, the UN Charter, & the fact that the lawless authoritarians have absolutely no plan for how to "deal with it once and for all," sure.

Come on, man. Do better.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

No

👇🎯 An incredible bar that he actually clears

No, the One Special Boy is both uniquely lawless & authoritarian & also the inevitable, logical outcome of the last 50 years of the Republican Party's ongoing collapse from generic replacement level rich country center-right party to far right authoritarianism.

The platform must be institutional reform, & it needs to be ready to go, right away, in January 2029.

Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.

If you want 70/30 and multiparty democracy, then we need proportional multi-member districts:

70/30 is 🇩🇪. If we want that, we need to either have a new constitution and adopt mixed-member PR or a similar system (not going to happen) or adopt a bunch of reforms to mimic multiparty parliamentary democracy.

If we want 70/30 & not 50/50, the platform is institutional reform. 70/30 is European multiparty parliamentary democracy. As long as we have a 2-party system, ~20% will keep deluding itself that it's still voting for the GWHB party &/or do the 1920s "communists are worse than the fascists" thing.

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then happy Friday:

Every single time a new outlet feels compelled to interview an unremarkable billionaire they should pause and ask themselves if there isn't an under-represented artist, scientist, activist, engineer, or academic actually doing useful/interesting things that's more deserving of your readership's time

Jewish unity and golden calves Twice this week, colleagues have berated me for undermining “Jewish unity” in a time of war.

On supposed Jewish unity and golden calves (& the war)

open.substack.com/pub/rabbijil...

Yes, I know I'm a broken record on this. But it is ~impossible to overstate the degree to which we are right here, right now, because no senior White House staff or Cabinet officials went to jail for the rest of their lives after either Iran-Contra or the entire GWB administration.

Sorry, I have professional obligations to not stop trying.

Again, at a bare minimum, these people needed to be excluded from polite society & not given their lucrative sinecures at the fanciest media outlets, Wall Street firms, DC think tanks, & elite universities. But we don't do elite accountability in 🇺🇸 & never have. And so, here we are.

Yes, I know I'm a broken record on this. But it is ~impossible to overstate the degree to which we are right here, right now, because no senior White House staff or Cabinet officials went to jail for the rest of their lives after either Iran-Contra or the entire GWB administration.

Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.

This doesn't mean a gas price shock won't have major distributional consequences & be bad for lots of folks, especially lower income households. But "OMG GAS MIGHT GO TO $4 A GALLON!" is a very c.2002 way for the business media to react to things.

Again, FRED is free & easy for everyone to use.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Yes, absolutely. Obvious micro-level distributional consequences to price shocks.

Again, the reason the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics, from 1865 'til now, is bc there are never any personal, legal, or professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. <Everyone> from the GWB era went on to $$ gigs in media, business, & academia

Look, the war is illegal & awful & dumb, & the One Special Boy is a lawless authoritarian who must be immediately removed.

But also, the gas price freakout is silly. <Nominal> prices could rise from $3 to $4, & that would just get us back to 2011-14 <nominal> levels. Real prices are ~25% lower now.

This is the good Torah

Here is a man with more simple moral integrity & courage that the vast bulk of Dem electeds & pundits.

Absolutely! Looking forward to reading this. Incredibly timely.

This complex move, known as the "Humpty Kinsley Gaffe" - when one both tortures the plain meaning of words AND reveals the obvious lie about grandiose policy claims one has absolutely no intention of fulfilling - regularly receives a 9.85 from the East German judge.

They think, or at least pretend to think, that this doesn’t sound like obvious cope to everyone in the world

It’s an entire White House comms shop built on the premise of “my hot girlfriend lives in Canada” being believed by normal people

"That's one hell of an act you've got there. What do you call it?"

"The Kakistocrats!"

MAGA vs. The Declaration of Independence YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

thoughts on stephen miller’s rant about “human rights” youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk?...