I talked with @amandalitman.bsky.social about all things Platner — the role of (left and establishment) elites, where the red line for a candidate's personal behavior should be, whether this risk is inherent to unvetted outsider candidates, and more www.vox.com/politics/494...
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The Senate used to be a lofty, elevated place (where a senator could crash out on the floor about Ingrid Bergman’s relationship with Roberto Rossellini)
I'm at the Mark / I'm at the Wayne / I'm at the combination Mark and Wayne
Grimly funny that after all the corruption, incompetence, scandals, chaos, and bloodshed, the last straw for Kristi Noem was a comment at a hearing that annoyed Trump
These "imagine if the war goes beautifully and perfectly" articles are getting increasingly maddening. Can't believe people are writing stuff like this with a straight face www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Since January I’ve been on parental leave, which is the closest I ever get to normie levels of news consumption, and can confirm So much stuff flying by, so little time to make sense of it unless you’re obsessed or it’s your job
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 5mo agohad a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
The weirdest thing about Munich, which I rarely see discussed, is Spielberg thought he was adapting a nonfiction book, but it became clear the book's account was fabricated. Kushner clearly not eager to talk about the book here
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 5mo agoa few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich
Perfect embodiment of the Free Press ethos here. Sure Trump illegally put his name on the Kennedy Center, purged the board, is making it a politicized personal platform like no other president, but the *real* problem is some arts people now don't want to perform there anymore
It is not a "psyop" exactly but the focus on data center water use is definitely a strategic choice made by rich progressive donors and foundations who are funding various anti-AI activist campaigns.
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 7mo agothere have been multiple stories of middle school girls getting harassed with generated CP of themselves over the past few years and somehow the only AI fear that seems to stick is the fucking water if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
A+ thread here with many insightful points about how the information environment functions now
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 7mo agoI feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Doing a national primary held on a single day with RCV would make some sense, but the idea of grafting RCV onto the Dem presidential primary -- 57 separate contests held over a period of months that each allot delegates -- seems a bit strange.
Axios@axios.com · 8mo agoDemocratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting.
The huge number of legal errors and abuses competing to kill the Comey prosecution are kinda like Mr. Burns's various diseases
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 9mo agoNEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Polls asking "do you approve of Trump's immigration policy" show rising disapproval. But polls asking what people think of both Republicans *and Democrats* on immigration often continue to give Rs the edge. Same with crime. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Pretty much everyone who actually runs in a competitive race believes moderating your views on certain issues to better fit the electorate — "Zohran's position on the NYPD has evolved" — is a good strategy.
"Vaxxes were being put in arms and were expected to completely end Covid and quickly bring the economy and society back to normal" seems like a pretty decent explanation of consumer optimism then. Unfortunately it didn't pan out!
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 9mo agoLike there is just no possible way to explain that consumer sentiment peaked in APRIL 2021 and has never been nearly as high ever again except to admit that people’s perception of the economy is fundamentally irrational and in no way based on, you know, the actual economy
I'm confused by this belief that voters should base their perception of a party only on the specific messages you offer in a brief general election campaign, rather than their years-long governance record. Biden did a lot on climate and LGBTQ issues! In other contexts we admit this!
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
Biden did a lot on climate and LGBTQ issues and I feel confident that if elected Harris would have also. I don't think voters are misled or wrong to believe these are major Democratic Party priorities, even if Harris minimized them in her campaign rhetoric.
southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt’s crazymaking to watch people nod sagely about findings that are just demonstrably untrue. What is true, I think, is Dems keep trying to run cautious meat and potatoes races only to be tagged in the public mind with all the social issues their opponents obsess over and they leave unanswered.
Dems lost many voters' trust on crime in the Biden years because they were viewed as the soft on crime party when most voters thought crime was a problem. It is true that Harris running on 2024 as "I was a prosecutor a long time ago" did not solve that. www.vox.com/politics/458...
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt's so funny to me that the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024 was a former prosecutor who made that a part of her pitch, and the latest postmortem from The (centrist) Groups says "voters reject Democratic policies like prison abolitionism."
"I told him that photo would come back to haunt him..."
Chris Rufo had a brilliant plan to claim that "the left" killed Charlie Kirk, using it as pretext for a crackdown. There was just one problem: many right-wing influencers concluded, instead, that the Jews did it. www.vox.com/politics/465...
good piece on a topic that is definitely unnerving to read about
Andrew Prokop@awprokop.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew: The leaked Young Republicans chat, and the bizarre conspiracy theories about Jews being involved in Charlie Kirk's murder, have spurred a public debate on the right. Should they do more to condemn antisemitism in their own ranks — or not? Gift link here: www.vox.com/politics/465...
New: The leaked Young Republicans chat, and the bizarre conspiracy theories about Jews being involved in Charlie Kirk's murder, have spurred a public debate on the right. Should they do more to condemn antisemitism in their own ranks — or not? Gift link here: www.vox.com/politics/465...
The Trump-Miller DOJ strategy: "flood the zone with shit." Target Trump's enemies & opposition with multiple likely doomed prosecutions. When one fails, move to the next (perhaps against the same person). Goal isn't conviction, it's putting enemies through the wringer www.vox.com/politics/464...
