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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Has a corner every thrown in the towel in a debate to save their guy?

Ossoff: "Whatever Donald Trump says, Mike Collins does. Doesn't matter what it is, he doesn't think for himself. I'd like the congressman to say if there's a single time he has voted against Donald Trump?"

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 3d ago

Google the list of countries where the death penalty is legal and ask yourself if that's a list of countries you'd want to be on.

BREAKING: The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Democracy is good for business because political liberty goes hand and hand with economic liberty. Authoritarianism, no matter how business friendly it tries to market itself as, always has a pay to play dynamic. Authoritarians hate free markets because they reward ability rather than loyalty

Trump admin is suspending a bunch of tech companies (Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini) from participation in the H-1B PERM program, alleging fraud. Some other tech firms (Apple, Amazon, Google, etc.) notably absent from the list.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Democracy is good for business because political liberty goes hand and hand with economic liberty. Authoritarianism, no matter how business friendly it tries to market itself as, always has a pay to play dynamic. Authoritarians hate free markets because they reward ability rather than loyalty

Trump admin is suspending a bunch of tech companies (Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini) from participation in the H-1B PERM program, alleging fraud. Some other tech firms (Apple, Amazon, Google, etc.) notably absent from the list.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is exactly the point for the Project 2025 acolytes pushing it through, not an unfortunate side effect.

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

As a broader point, the Administration is war with data collection. The goal is simple: you can't prove racial discrimination in court if the government doesn't collect data by race. You can't show climate change if the government dismantles climate monitoring. This is Authoritarianism 101.

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 5d ago

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 4d ago

Important thing wrt political science and the NSF, it isn't just about 'woke' in the usual race/gender theory sense. Republicans have been angered by hardnosed quant findings that have been inconvenient to the GOP on things like gerrymandering, campaign finance, voter ID, political violence, etc

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

As a broader point, the Administration is war with data collection. The goal is simple: you can't prove racial discrimination in court if the government doesn't collect data by race. You can't show climate change if the government dismantles climate monitoring. This is Authoritarianism 101.

The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4d ago

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

So how do we save these two sources? In extremis, how can it be done?

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 5d ago

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · last wk.

25 years ago there was a show called Crank Yankers on Comedy Central that had muppets act out prank calls. One of the prank calls was by a guy running for "district selectmen" speaking to a prospective constituent who had problems with her son and he promised, if elected, he'd send in the SWAT team.

Gov. nominee Byron Donalds promises a Florida Republican voter "his word" that he will work on a 'grandparents' rights' law so her daughter stops estranging her

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 5d ago

The function of modern media is laundering and reformatting this insane man's statements for the public so they don't have to confront reality. The fact that *this person* holds the world's most powerful office and we allow it to continue raises so many hard questions we just choose to ignore it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.

Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh damn bro that’s fascinating, now to take a big sip of coffee and look up when and where the word “gymnasium” entered the language.

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6d ago

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 6d ago

Post 2030, the path to the presidency runs through the Sunbelt and the perpetual swing states of TX, GA, and AZ

Lots of talk since 2024 among certain consultants about how the Electoral College gets hopeless for Dems after 2030 when the "blue wall" Midwest states no longer have enough votes to deliver an EC majority. But all EC bias predictions depend on Texas being a close but dependable Republican state.

I did some back of the envelope Electoral College math and the GOPs advantage depends entirely on Texas. If Texas is no longer reliably red, the Dems have a clear advantage going forward

Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 6d ago

I was thinking today it's striking how much of our discourse now is just people lying in public.

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 6d ago

Our politics have become completely amoral. Obviously, having Trump dominate everything is a huge part of that, but we've also accepted crypto, gambling, AI, prediction markets etc. with no regard for the moral consequences. There is market for *moral* politics that is wildly underserved.

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 6d ago

As a matter of fact, if you look at who defaults on student loans, a shockingly high percentage of them are from predatory, for-profit cosmetology and barber schools.

"Also, cosmetologists generally rake in the dough, no? " They do not. tcf.org/content/repo...

Micah @rincewind.run · 7d ago

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is so true. The answer to bigotry posing as morality is to say that bigotry is immoral. The answer to corruption is prison, not impunity.

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 6d ago

Our politics have become completely amoral. Obviously, having Trump dominate everything is a huge part of that, but we've also accepted crypto, gambling, AI, prediction markets etc. with no regard for the moral consequences. There is market for *moral* politics that is wildly underserved.

Shoe-per Intelligence@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

Our politics have become completely amoral. Obviously, having Trump dominate everything is a huge part of that, but we've also accepted crypto, gambling, AI, prediction markets etc. with no regard for the moral consequences. There is market for *moral* politics that is wildly underserved.

This is wild.

Shoe-per Intelligence@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

Our politics have become completely amoral. Obviously, having Trump dominate everything is a huge part of that, but we've also accepted crypto, gambling, AI, prediction markets etc. with no regard for the moral consequences. There is market for *moral* politics that is wildly underserved.

This is wild.