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Michael Podhorzer

@mikepod.bsky.social

Former political director, AFL-CIO. Senior fellow, CAP. My Substack: www.weekendreading.net

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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4w ago

Read this whole thread. The Platner implosion provides occasion to recollect what we learned about Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, our two sexual predator Supreme Court justices. bsky.app/profile/mike...

Michael Podhorzer@mikepod.bsky.social · 4w ago

2/ Breaking a story about rape or abuse is a long and involved process. Any well-reported piece at a major outlet asks the accused for comment before it runs. Sometimes, as with Platner, the survivor confronts him privately too. He always knows what’s coming before the public does.

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 4w ago

All of this. And, the additional hubris is assuming they will sail through anyway. That the women will not be believed or that the allegations will not matter -- assuming the public will see the women as these men have and do.

Michael Podhorzer@mikepod.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/ Here's what we too rarely talk about when a man seeking high office is credibly accused of sexual misconduct. Platner, Swalwell, Kavanaugh, Thomas—these men almost always have the option to keep the allegations private. They almost never take it.

Michael Podhorzer@mikepod.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/ Here's what we too rarely talk about when a man seeking high office is credibly accused of sexual misconduct. Platner, Swalwell, Kavanaugh, Thomas—these men almost always have the option to keep the allegations private. They almost never take it.

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · last mo.

Under appreciated about NY winners is that they ran better campaigns. They talked to voters & got voters to talk to each other about them. Magnetism 101: if you want people to come to your cause, be attractive. Pollingists can't comprehend or recreate this: donors are their audience.

Michael Podhorzer@mikepod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great piece from the Roberts OG, @thelisagraves.bsky.social . Truly, she is Roberts's anti-Boswell. If you haven't subscribed to her Substack, what are you waiting for? www.graveinjustice.news/p/the-robert...

The Roberts Court Is Letting the (Former) Confederate States Hang a “Whites Only” Sign on the Legislative Door: Part 1

John Roberts Lost Ronald Reagan’s Battle to Erase Black Representation But Used the Supreme Court to Give Trump Whites-Only Maps–Will He Lose the War?

graveinjustice.news

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The ability to cast a vote (already deliberately constrained given work day, restrictions on mail, registration, lines, etc) does not democracy nor even "representation" make. A "free and fair" election is one where you can actually choose leaders who represent you & act in your name.

Michael Podhorzer@mikepod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Black voter participation soared right after the VRA passed in 1965. But not until 1992, after Congress strengthened the VRA to require majority-minority districts, did we start getting closer to proportional Black representation in Congress. Because Black votes finally counted more in the South.

Black representation in the US House, Confederacy vs. rest of the US: chart showing a brief surge during Reconstruction, then almost none during Jim Crow, then a big surge after the VRA (mostly in the rest of the US, not the Confederacy), then a big surge all over the US, especially the Confederacy. Only in the last 10 years has Black representation in the House grown to about the same proportion as the US black population.
Michael Podhorzer@mikepod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Black voter participation soared right after the VRA passed in 1965. But not until 1992, after Congress strengthened the VRA to require majority-minority districts, did we start getting closer to proportional Black representation in Congress. Because Black votes finally counted more in the South.

Black representation in the US House, Confederacy vs. rest of the US: chart showing a brief surge during Reconstruction, then almost none during Jim Crow, then a big surge after the VRA (mostly in the rest of the US, not the Confederacy), then a big surge all over the US, especially the Confederacy. Only in the last 10 years has Black representation in the House grown to about the same proportion as the US black population.