“Consolidating all of our primaries on that date would have a much greater impact on voter turnout than any other rule change” Stop funding primary election reform already!

Jennifer N. Victor@jenvictor.bsky.social · 4h ago

America has a primary problem. In a new guest post on @misofact.bsky.social Rob Boatright, Caroline Tolbert, and Nathan Micahka describe the takeaway of their new book on the challenges and solutions to nominating candidates. misofact.substack.com/p/the-proble...

Demolished house, NIMBY sign, In This House sign - Arlington in toto

Liars deserve the career Animal Collective’s had

actually, @danielsholt.bsky.social are doing a UVa History #apsa2026 takeover - he's discussing the future of congressional historical scholarship at 2:00

If you are at #apsa2026 @americalabs.org, @mollyereynolds.bsky.social, and Ruth Bloch Rubin are having a roundtable discussion of intraparty factions in Congress at noon - Marriott Salon A. Timely, given Dem House leadership is already taking swings at DSA-aligned members (right hashtag this time)

If you are at #apsa @americalabs.org, @mollyereynolds.bsky.social, and Ruth Bloch Rubin are having a roundtable discussion of intraparty factions in Congress at noon - Marriott Salon A. Timely, given Dem House leadership is already taking swings at DSA-aligned members

This sucks “Democratic leadership is considering adoption of a system that would limit the opportunities for lawmakers who don’t fork over enough cash to the DCCC, miss key votes or abandon the party on high-profile procedural votes.” punchbowl.news/archive/9326...

9/3/26☀️ AM:

PRESENTED BY IN THIS EDITION The House Democratic Caucus is eyeing big changesGOP previews a new midterm strategyAn endangered Virginia Republican makes

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For years people have attributed some secret political acumen to Trump when all he did was win the furthest right-faction of the GOP when the rest of the party was completely factionalized. After that he has entirely benefited from the party protecting him despite his damage to it.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 7d ago

trump never had keen political instincts. that was never a thing.

Am…am I too late for the Rex Ryan joke?

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last wk.

This game is going to make a trillion dollars

"the radicalization of the political right... better captures asymmetric change, identity-driven politics, and the mainstreaming of illiberalism...Concepts are never politically innocent and persisting with “polarization” risks both misdiagnosing and normalizing authoritarian threats."

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · last wk.

Cas is absolutely right. Here's a great new paper (open access, so freely available to all) that makes the case: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

This did nothing to answer this week’s question, “who the hell is that blonde lady selling stuff at Target?”

dame@dame.is · last wk.

it’s that time of year again, Rolling Stone released their list of the top 25 content creators, which is actually a test of how old and out of touch you are… the lower your score, the more out of touch i’ve heard of 11 out of 25

Still blowing my mind listening to the Galaxie 500 live album at CBGB that they’re killing it and there’s like 20 people there

Le Tigre in a Starbucks ad I just died inside

This guy at least can read Wikipedia or something - it opened in 1971. The amount these goons hate the people who live here is astonishing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Lutnick says the Kennedy Center may be torn down if Trump doesn't get his way: "A building that was built in 1964 that isn't renovated does eventually get torn down. It does."

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

“mega-donors' influence doesn't primarily come from their ability to sway voters. As we've seen, advertising has remarkably limited persuasive effect. Instead, their leverage comes from convincing politicians that they need mega-donor money to win” It’s a political skill issue

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

The reason why the tariff refunds went to corporations and not consumers is, like many things, because Congress. IF Congress had passed a law enacting the tariffs in the first place (Rs didn't want to), if Congress had passed a law mandating refunds for consumers, if if if. Congress didn't.

Hey quick question, what the FUCK does this mean

Interview: Cerin Lindgrensavage of Protect Democracy and Christie Wentworth of CREW on defending the power of the purse from apportionment abuse and impoundments

Interview: Cerin Lindgrensavage and Christie Wentworth

How to keep the White House honest on apportionments and impoundments

firstbranchforecast.substack.com

It's not some baroque or hyperbolic meta-argument about latent white supremacism in Western culture or capitalism or whatever. Musk literally believes white people are biologically superior to non-white people, simple as. It's dumb, it's wrong, it's evil, but it's not some complicated subterfuge.

Auctions get the lowest price as we all know is how auctions work

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you believe this shit, I have a metaverse to sell you.

A congressional caper, open call for modernizing ideas, “progressive” returning to original meanings and more in this week’s…FBF

An Oversight Disappearance Mystery

Historical reports from a secret Appropriations investigations team could be a trove of information, if they can be found. Plus, an open call for modernization ideas

open.substack.com

I have seen repeated many times, including in scholarly literature, the idea that a) the Nagasaki attack was ordered strategically because the Japanese government had not responded to Hiroshima, and b) that Truman "ordered" the dropping of a second atomic bomb. Neither of these are true.

Excluding one case of double-bunked incumbents, 159 House Dems have been through their primaries to date and 5 lost (there are 11 states still to vote). That's a renomination rate of 96.9%. The post-WWII average for House is 98.3%. This is what gets much ballyhooed as a "bloodbath" in our system.

It looks like a Jeff Koons sculpture when you drive past. A balloon dog.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last mo.

"doesn't understand the appeal of patina" feels like neat summation of American aesthetics

Patrick Stickles, underrated guitar god.

Reminder that when House members like Chuck Edwards leave, the Ethics Committee just packs up their investigation and puts it away and we don't know all that happened. Its an accountability dodge and Ethics should required to release what it has

While we’re dinging Nolan, the dogfighting scenes in DUNKIRK have no leading fire

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · last mo.

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Can’t confirm the kill, but it seems from the evidence our dog killed a juvenile rabbit in the yard. We celebrate each other’s wins in this house, though.