Cruel, pointless, and inflationary
Heba Gowayed هبة جويدMy Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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Aaron Strauss
Профиль VivelyFollowing the evidence to elect more Dems. Dad x2; kidney donor; baker; goalkeeper
Shout it from the rooftops, @carlosodio.bsky.social and Rachel Stein (@equislabs.bsky.social )! Let's treat voters as humans -- don't reduce them to their standard demo profiles. Their new sub just launched: thenewdynamic.weareequis.us/p/lessons-fr...
My inaugural substack ("Just Solutions") is out: a concrete plan to ban gerrymandering. It's a response to a challenge from @leedrutman.bsky.social; and @benwikler.bsky.social's book launch inspired me to sit down and write it all out. Hope it's useful: justsolutions.substack.com/p/how-to-ban...
How to Ban Gerrymanders: ProportionalityWelcome to the first of very occasional posts on my Just Solutions substack, in which I provide solutions to issues of the day. Today’s problem and solution are:justsolutions.substack.comLee DrutmanOkay Aaron, what's your solution then? The whole argument of this piece is that there is a solution: proportional representation. But fine, if you want to defend a broken status quo of single-member districts, please make that argument.
Looking one cycle ahead to 2028, @gelliottmorris.com highlights some excellent news: non-voters are coming back our way An anti-establishment nominee in '28 could supercharge this trend. substack.com/redirect/719...
One of the few issues where the Great Compromise of the Constitution could be relevant. With permanent DST, sunrise in Indianapolis would be **9AM** the last week of school in December. Nuts. Curious if senators from IN, MI, OH can stop this.
Mrs.OtisSendsHerRegretsThe House on Tuesday voted to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, amid a yearslong push to end the twice-annual clock changes. www.cbsnews.com/news/dayligh...
"Different issues" ... except for the most important issue (by a fair bit) Glad that our "big tent" party has a clear, strong tentpole that holds it up: www.natesilver.net/p/12-questio...
Got nothing to do 'cause no World Cup games this afternoon? Spend some time with this insightful @milsingh.bsky.social post on the shift in views on Israel. He uses Zaller's classic book, which I also highly recommend, as a jumping off point www.theargumentmag.com/p/it-really-...
This take from James Warner, one of the first Speakers of the MA House of Reps, was quite prescient. Indeed, King George found us much more than "arduous". www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2...
Very cool how UK political practitioners find the exact same RCT results as we do. The approach to measuring silence here is particularly praiseworthy:
Steve AkehurstFirst, the theory: v crudely, centre-left coalitions are divided on culture and united on economics; radical right coalitions the reverse. So: you try to raise the salience of values divides on the former to displace the latter. Cost of living is a hook for this.
CO-8 (Trump+2) gets all the attention, but don't sleep on Killin in CO-5 (Trump+9). She's a paratrooper and her opponent is way too conservative for the district.
VoteVetsBREAKING: Army Veteran Jessica Killin is projected to win the CO-05 Democratic Primary. She now heads to November to face Republican incumbent Jeff Crank in one of the most critical flip opportunities of the cycle. Let's GO!
Our entire history has shown that it's "wrong" (Klein's word) to worry about racial demographic shifts in this country. I agree that lots of people worry, but those people are wrong.
Nate ORufo has now primed Klein to accept the first step in the radicalisation pipeline of irrational fear over 'large-scale demographic change'. Klein is now openly affirming the 'concerns' underlying the Great Replacement Theory in The New York Times. Great job, Klein! You did it! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!