Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 59mA real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human. 111221
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 17887404
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 2hI am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people. 191110290
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13hThe people who told you that Democrats must Only Talk about Kitchen Table Issues and not the Authoritarianism were deeply unserious (not least because this is a false dichotomy) & we should benchmark this when they give advice now & in 2028. 1430172
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22hI hope I'm wrong, that he collapses into even more of a wreck than he is, but I think he's going to flail around in an especially reckless and dangerous way, whether it's against the press or votes he doesn't like or perceived enemies abroad. Anyway, yes, I'm a cheerful guy, what. 121025
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22hI've been saying to people - and thought I'd plant my flag on this - that the time after the democrats win next month is going to be an especially dangerous one for Trump's opponents of all kinds. He is going to *flip out.* 717420
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 23hlike, this isn’t even an “AI could create that much value” versus “no it can’t” argument - let’s grant the premise, let’s say it does in that world, with these people in charge, unemployment and poverty explode and no safety net is built to handle it 221789156
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 23hyou’re not letting us work three days a week, you’re all going to start competing for who has the most trillions of dollars instead of billions of dollars while spending significant portions of it to make sure that any taxes that could be used to that end never come to pass 101940146
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 23hthe reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 92108122536
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In a political system where companies can be gouged for unlimited cash, inconsistent application of the law is a powerful financial opportunity. At some point some of these companies might realize they are better off under a predictable and impartial legal system rather than a personalist one. 17358100
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The entire MAGA project is about blaming the problems created by billionaires on anyone but the billionaires. 216737
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The head of the Fraud Task Force unaware of corruption inside the Trump administration, despite it being widely covered in the media. All by design: The Public Integrity unit in DOJ was gutted and has been told to focus on welfare fraud in blue states. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper... 10691174
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026One simple way to see that neither the GOP nor the national media really cares about THE DEBT & only pretends to when Democrats propose spending on left-coded domestic policies is that neither CNN nor anyone else in the media is asking “How can we afford that?” about this incredible waste. 38227
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The option of not moving on from "this is an illegal, unconstitutional outrage that should end his presidency immediately" was available to Peter Baker & every other journalist in the country, not only in 2019, but still in 2026.publicnotice.co“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase. 335496
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's 312298600
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026this is effectively a new $100k tax on international students, and will destroy the market. Which is killing the golden goose -- higher ed is one of the most successful exports the US produces 1032873
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/202614 years of GOP presidents & 12 of unified GOP Congress in the 21st century. Not once did we get masthead editorials like 👇, let alone op-eds, Substacks, podcasts & Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias & co. about how The Republicans must do an Abundance of Popularism, let alone basic competent government. 17320
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I think it was @jamellebouie.net who said, amidst the Hunter Biden Pardon Hysteria, that the media knows how to make something a scandal when it wants to. I get why it doesn't w/ most things, but "destroy NATO & the post-1945 territorial conquest taboo" seemed to clear the bar. I was naively wrong. 0355
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You could have covered & not stopped covering "we will invade our NATO allies" as a presidency-ending scandal. You could have covered & not stopped covering the open monetization of the presidency as an outrageous presidency-ending scandal. See also: all the rest. You decide this all the time: 217830
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties. 515552
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice 15947204
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up. 241293406
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 108106081803
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Congress has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with the Supreme Court. It can expand the membership of the court, and it can punish it in several ways too. We simply need to fill that Congress with a Democratic majority that has the will to use that power. 872686648
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Wrote this in a fit of annoyance. www.offmessage.net/p/the-man-in...offmessage.netThe Man In The Arena: A Play In One ActIn which a party professional explains how winning works. 4356
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects. 674797
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7938981134
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialNick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The real reason working-class people almost never become politicians anywhere is that running for office is extremely personally burdensome, and that screens out the people who live the most precarious lives, including working-class people. 14111
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423359711
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322942640
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism 1439463
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Moderate” Democrats like Tammy Duckworth & Rahm Emanuel are already laying the ground for this exact scenario with their “don’t impeach anyone & just get back to work” messaging. 615718
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible. 1435671
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Unprecedented corruption, happening every day, right in front of us. A constitutional order that cannot end & severely punish this is not really worth saving. We need massive institutional reform. 216351
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026The Dems need to viciously attack every power and money center for the conservative movement. Eliminate car dealership monopolies, enact wealth taxes on billionaires, eliminate citizens United, crack down on crypto, and bring silicon Valley to heel. 20751102
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin. 261106205
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power. 381516336
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialSpook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Politics these days is a turnout game, which means it's an enthusiasm game, which is yet another reason why triangulation isn't a method fit for purpose for the modern centre-left. 31610
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is exactly the same as "We shouldn't do impeachment because it will fail." You impeach. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And you make the far right authoritarian party block it in the Senate, again and again. 1328254
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment 1153987
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it. 18824198
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialChance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m concerned he’s not going to take this well and we have set up bad market practice around what norms we have allowed to be rampantly trod upon. Also he’s turning DC into a literal bunker but I’m sure it’s fine. 311414
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10141991469
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day. 532200388
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops! 9607183
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 152108342343
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is 321529286
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For a very clear comparison, emulating Magyar would be removing all the MAGA justices and judges from Federal Courts in the first 100 days. That is the scale of democratic chemotherapy we are discussing. 20823160
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day. 151029252
Reposted by @fencer13.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking. 8771132