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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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A lawless regime

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Justice Allison Riggs sworn in following a six month election battle against her GOP opponent

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 11/05/2025

“When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break.” kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

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The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction

AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls

Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 04/05/2025

I refuse to imagine a grimdark America. I choose an affirmative vision of a vibrant, peaceful America.

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 03/05/2025

Yes. The only question that matters is: what comes next?

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 02/05/2025

Policy : Politicians :: Engineering : Sales

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/04/2025

An important message.

Sign reading "so tired of living in an Onion article"

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 19/04/2025

Long conversations also tend to break down. Try giving it more discrete tasks… start a new conversation, explain the document revisions you want and get a revised doc in that chat. Be explicit about the output. Say you want a markdown file, a docx, whatever. Check the capabilities in the docs.

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 19/04/2025

I think you got bit by two things: 1) AI tools don’t actually understand their own capabilities very well. They can’t explain their “thought process” any better than people can. 2) Chat interfaces promise more than they can deliver. They make you think you’re talking to a person, and you’re not.

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Join the movement to become part of the biggest political transformation this century. Together we can move this country Forward.

I’m fighting. My kids deserve better than a company town in a wrecked ecosystem. @fwdparty.bsky.social is the only player focused on revitalizing #democracy. We will win because DEMOCRACY WORKS. Fight with us! home.forwardparty.com/join?recruit...

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The challenge is real. The status quo is inadequate. Revolution is inevitable. #Trump started the war on #Jan6. #DarkMAGA is winning the battle with a corporate-authoritarian blitzkrieg. But the future is open. Will you fight?

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They have won major political and economic power. They abuse it to win more power and wealth. They will not stop voluntarily.

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Hard to imagine a less attractive life-style for a young man just out of college than going back to Bismarck to live with his parents -- unless it's living with his brother in the suburbs of Chicago,....

What @naomiaklein.bsky.social calls “corporate city-states” was imagined by @nealstephenson.bsky.social as crypto-anarchy organized by franchise. You can read about it in his novels Snow Crash and Diamond Age. His short story “The Great Simoleon Caper” also touches on it. time.com/archive/6726...

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THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER

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Westphalian system - Wikipedia

There are absolutely tech folks who think that nations should be replaced with corporate enclaves. That kind of structural change IS possible. The “nation-state” concept was created almost 400 years ago. It’s called the #WesphalianSystem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westpha...

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Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“Alive to our era of genuine existential danger – from climate breakdown to nuclear war to sky-rocketing inequality and unregulated AI – but financially and ideologically committed to deepening those threats, contemporary far-right movements lack any credible vision for a hopeful future.”

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• In the short-run, tariffs pinch bottom income households 2.5x more rel. to income than at the top. • Families at the bottom lose $1,900. In the middle, $3,400. At the top, $9,300. • Consumers face +58% higher apparel prices in the short-run, +26% in long-run. 6/7

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Crimes in broad daylight. Trump and his friends are getting rich off this chaos. Market manipulation doesn’t even begin to describe this.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In fact, the 2020 election was not "rigged and stolen," as Trump's own attorney general and other advisers told him at the time. But Trump is now indicating that to say that may be illegal and cause for a Justice Department investigation.

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Liberty Complacency Dependency

Do we find a solutions in a constitution / Has the reason we designed it gone away? / Do we find repentance to suspend our sentence / Because the seasons and the times don't want to wait - Liberty, Complacency, Dependency by Threshold youtu.be/F-537WyCDSU?...

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It’s impossible to work out the details on these things when private equity owns the conversation and wants to maximize wealth extraction from your community. We need to strength democracy so politicians have healthy incentives to deliver high quality policy.

So frustrating that these problems are attacked with bad faith solutions that just funnel money to the already rich. We need modern building codes, loosened zoning regulations and robust inspection capability to unlock a building boom. These are good for developers now, good for renters later.

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What is the quality floor for #housing? Imagine you have $100/mo for housing. You’re one of 8 people sharing a safe 2 br apt for $800/mo. Do you want the option to live alone with your partner in an unsafe 1 br apartment for $200/mo? Should the state allow that unsafe option to exist?

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I’ve been thinking about this. One way to lower housing prices is to build lots of lower grade housing. There would be more places to live, and they would cost less. Historically, cheap places to live omitted features like running water and fire safety. That’s no longer acceptable.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Pretty big ask! I do wonder if COVID relocations might have reversed some of the self-sorting that’s characterized recent decades.

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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 07/04/2025

I’m not following. Which of these statements do you disagree with? 1) legacy parties are a duopoly that must be disrupted 2) have a single open primary 3) advance five candidates to the general 4) use RCV/ICV everywhere ?

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 07/04/2025

Interesting article, thanks for sharing. The goal is to fix politicians’ incentives so they fix problems. To do that, we must: - get higher-quality input from more voters, more often. - empower votes over dollars There are many ways to do this. I’ll support any proposal that moves us forward.

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Peter Bronez @pbronez.me · 06/04/2025

Yup. Which is yet another reason Trump’s approach is ineffective: The USA will never do authoritarianism better China. We must win the American way: democracy, rule of law, freedom. We’re not doing great on those right now, but they are traditional strengths we rekindle and revitalize.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

I don’t agree with @sanders.senate.gov on everything, but this video is pretty on point. You don’t have to love Bernie to fight for democracy. You don’t even have to vote D. You can join us at @fwdparty.bsky.social, in a values-based coalition fighting for democracy. youtu.be/70nHmlapu7w?...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“‘We just had to wait for the AI technology boom to be here now to let us compete with all that cheap labor all around the world,’Lutnick said” AI is not a good substitute for cheap labor. Robots can’t fold laundry. If AI does magically replace cheap labor, how will low skill people buy food?

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I am enjoying seeing all these #handsoff protests springing up around the country in towns both big and small. It's a hopeful thing to witness in such dark, scary times. And I love these DC protest signs.

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Great stuff. Probably this level of constitutional reform is needed. At @fwdvirginia.bsky.social we’re focused on bottom up efforts, but once we have significant power at the state level we will be able to advance this kind of thing. I donated to your campaign, good luck!

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Doing Something is so much better than doom scrolling. I’m putting all my worry into @fwdvirginia.bsky.social Whatever happens, I’ll at least know I did everything I could.

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Put community pressure on them. Call the relevant legislators and tell them to delay the maintenance. This is part of the fight!

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“Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sought to turn the foundry into a third-party manufacturer for customers akin to TSMC (TSM). But the division is bleeding cash, posting an operating loss of $13.4 billion in 2024.” Brutal

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What do you want to do?

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I was a Warren Democrat. I joined @fwdparty.bsky.social to form a coalition with pro-democracy conservatives. And you know what - it’s super fun! We are exploring the nuances of personal responsibility in the face of structural obstacles. Of rewarding innovation without oligarchy. I dare to hope.

Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America

I think The Politics Industry has the correct diagnosis gehlporter.com Both legacy parties are captured in different ways. Schumer Democrats pretend to defend institutions that have already died. Trump Republicans pretend to fight for the Sons of the Soil. Both are just proxies for the rich.

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The solution is obvious & urgent: - revitalize democracy by upgrading our system to listen better to citizens - elect politicians beholden to better incentives - solve problems with market regulations and direct government services as appropriate - 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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