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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 9h

Other "attacks" in this article: he's not really a socialist, he hasn't spent his entire career working in the public sector like some people think, he likes Taylor Swift but is definitely not gay.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 9h

This has to be planted by El-Sayed's campaign, right? There's no way "has a high-paying job but rips farts in the car as a joke" is a negative with Michigander white swing voters.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So... like... when Hegseth actually was in the army, they didn't send him to fight all those people. Probably because he was considered a bit of a liability, and they didn't want to risk soldiers' lives under him, right?

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Considered in context, "Death to America" is an aspirational call for liberation, human rights, and equality rather than a call for violence. (/s just to be clear)

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It has a weirdly detached tone throughout, but indeed the section starting on page 10 is titled 'The Meaning of "Death to America"'.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not an accident that the Blue state that has gone farthest towards making universal child care actually happen by spending their own money is Vermont... one of the few Blue states that is rural.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If they were actually Republicans they'd have a more accurate picture of what rural people are interested in and wouldn't have to pretend by copying JD Vance's talking points.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bizarre take, given that rural employers constantly complain about labor shortages and are often key stakeholders supporting local child care initiatives. Like, I wish they would actually talk to rural people instead of pandering to some weird and ill-informed stereotype of rural people.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really bad luck for a definitely-not-rogue CEO of a definitely-not-rogue enterprise.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, Democrats are just as capable of deficit spending as Trump is, they're just a little less reckless about it because they know they get blamed for inflation. Anyway look this $5000 is great, Dems should get behind it and fund it post hoc with reasonable tax rates on the wealthy.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

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DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are you sure that humanities education does not have this effect? I think there is some empirical research on the question, though on quick search it does seem disappointingly thin.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, it's a different argument, and one with a reasonably strong pedigree. E.g. I'm pretty sure Bertrand Russell makes it, at least with respect to philosophy: it should be taught to defend the minds of social elites against the seductive and destructive power of bad philosophy.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“I do not regret that vote” -- Susan Collins

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula

Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was sort of how political parties were until relatively recently though...

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Historically both political parties did do stuff like that though, and it supported broad engagement and was important for candidate vetting and selection. See, e.g. Robert Dahl (1961) "Who Governs".

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yikes, between this and the AIDS stuff seems like he's really making a point of destroying the positive elements of George W Bush's legacy.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A problem with tax law (and various other business law fields) is that the prevalence of subjective intense tests really rewards and incentivizes market players to be -- or pretend to be --insane.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But the US has a lot more killer robots than pre-revolutionary France! And soon to have so many more! It's graphs like this that really show why truly need a triumphal arch / killer drone base / sniper nest in the nation's capital.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nobody thinks in advance about the fact that if your Manchurian candidate actually becomes the President of the USA, you may be forced to hang out with them.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes. I think about it more in terms of courage and responsibility rather than will, but fundamentally I agree. However the fact that there was actually no real legal or constitutional obstacle behind all the hand-wringing and delay does make the question of Will (and responsibility) sharper.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's not even correct as a legal matter. I think perhaps it would probably be *good* to have laws requiring federal prosecutorial independence, but we do not have them, and we did not have them in 2020 either.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Federal prosecutorial independence is (or rather was) not enshrined in law in the United States, but only in agency-level policy and "norms". Seems like that would be a good thing to fix going forward.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm excited for the upcoming announcement that the Kennedy center has been re-imagined as an integrated arts center / killer drone hub.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Look, you may have thought this was just a vanity project, but we have very important plans to shoot a lot of sniper ammunition in Washington DC and we really do need somewhere to store it.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So, am I reading the news correctly that there is a new cruise missile named after Ayn Rand's most irritating book, being built by a Peter Thiel-backed defense contractor named after the bad guys in Halo?

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

AOC as Thatcher is the most based political opinion I have ever heard.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not that this matters that much, since they are also perfectly straight that they have no plans to ever pay any dividends to stock holders regardless of what happens!

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Look, this is a tiny drop in the bucket of SpaceX's massive overvaluation. As they discussed in their own prospectus, the space business not nearly big enough to justify the stock price, their plan is to make untold sums of money from their barely-existing AI business. One day.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This doesn’t suprise me at all. It has happened on every social media platform as has been well documented and studied and as you all know with every wave of bots and and blue waves and trolls and romance scammers I’ve been whispering kinda loudly for folks to worry about this…

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Regulations are standards. E.g. RFK Jr. aide Alex Adams promised a "bonfire of [standards]". The administration wants to abolish the "regulatory state" -- not because they want no government, but because they want a government with no standards.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My favorite new model of the modern Democratic party is that it maximizes donations, rather than election victories. Flawed and polarizing candidates are great for that, *especially* if they drop out and set up an additional primary.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I was honestly worried that the DFL was going to lose the governorship to Lisa Demuth. She seems like a very strong candidate. A relief that the GOP is dead-set on choosing someone crazy instead.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Leonard Leo lives on Mt. Desert Island, and is a member of a secretive, 1000-year old knightly order; that also includes the pretenders to the Hapsburg monarchy; and that issues passports respected by more than 100 countries.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

FSSP was founded by priests who broke away from SSPX the first time SSPX tried to make illegal bishops, so they have basically been preparing for this moment for the entire existence of their organization.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

How courageous and visionary to propose a leadership coalition consisting of those currently holding power, plus oneself.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

There's not really much incentive to do good opposition reearch. They probably make as much with him dropping out versus winning? They got huge donations, presumably the campaign will now donate them to PACs that are connected with the consultants that boosted Platner.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Nobody has ever launched ships like this before. The harbors are packed. The oars are incredible. Beautiful craftsmanship. People are saying, "Helen, won't this start a huge war?" I say, maybe. Probably. But it'll be a GREAT war. Very legendary.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

EVERYBODY is talking about me. They say, "Helen, you're the most beautiful woman in the world!" Not me saying it—everybody says it. And frankly, they're right. The Trojans have me, the Greeks want me back, and now we're going to do something HISTORIC. I'm announcing the launch of ONE THOUSAND SHIPS.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I think it very much is a real problem, but it's also one that can be understood and addressed! There's a super interesting book by political scientist Robert Dahl called "Who Governs?" that is a study of political parties and insider dynamics, using mid-20th century New Haven as a case study.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I think certainly some elite insiders are a lot better than others so some thoughtful consideration is due to designing institutions that choose and incentivize responsible insiders! But also yeah... more engagement with alternative power structures (e.g. state parties), more leadership rotation.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Bernie Sanders has been in federal political office for 35 years. He is pretty immersed in the world of elite political insiders, regardless of what his personal ideological identity might be.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The "dirtbag left" is almost entirely a creation of elite political insiders -- a class that very certainly includes both Morris Katz and Dan Moroff.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Unfortunately, JD Vance gives a pretty strong impression of being the kind of guy who relishes power without responsibility and would probably be very happy to commit his atrocities in the name of Trump's deified ghost.

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yep. She seems very interesting, I'd like to hear more about her

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Jonathan Borowsky @jborowsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Democratic Party is run by Groucho Marx without a sense of humor. "The key to success is sincerity, if you can fake that..." Instead of Harvard Law School "lizard people" candidates, have Yale Law School consultants select and puppetmaster "authentic" candidates chosen by demographic tokenism.

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