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Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social |
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President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist, Arc Digital. Teaching, Arkansas State-Beebe. Other words: NBC NewsTHINK, The Bulwark, Salon, Liberal Currents, Foreign Policy Go Knicks, Cubs. He/Him. Views mine, etc.
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Liberal Currents
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"Bureaucracy can be a potent tool for in-grouping and out-grouping, all the more effective because of the facelessness with which it tends to operate." www.liberalcurrents.com/for-non-bina...
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Alan Elrod
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My latest
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Liberal Currents
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“We are also witnessing state-level assaults on LGBTQ Americans the likes of which we haven’t seen since the wave of same-sex marriage bans in the 2000s.” www.liberalcurrents.com/for-non-bina...
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Alan Elrod
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The Arkansas Supreme Court reinstated a ban on the use of the non-binary “X” on state ID’s.
I wrote about this and the attempted erasure of trans and non-binary people from public life for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/r/fc0b5db5?m...
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Alan Elrod
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Allow me to humbly suggest that, if you want to invest in the long-term fight to preserve and revitalize liberal democracy, you can support The Pulaski Institution
We’re working in and for heartland areas in the U.S. and abroad to build a liberal future www.pulaskiinstitution.org/donate
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Alan Elrod
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Clear-eyed summary here. Things are bad. But there’s not a low-risk option.
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Alan Elrod
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It seems to me that the one thing the Biden doubters could actually make an overwhelming case for right now is canceling the early virtual nomination. Ohio changed their law so there’s no need to nominate Biden ahead of the convention. At minimum, it leaves time to keep talking.
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Alan Elrod
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Related: the problem with arguing Biden’s age is baked in and can’t hurt him are 1) That isn’t necessarily true if he has more events that show his age affecting him 2) It ignores that his age being baked in is likely a factor in his low ceiling—he’s running behind downballot Dems
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Alan Elrod
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Important reminder that Project 2025, which Trump absolutely will legitimize whatever he says, is an existential threat to our freedom
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Marisa Kabas
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i summed up project 2025 in one sentence. feel free to use.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...
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Alan Elrod
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Probably the most compelling part of @mattyglesias.bsky.social ’s mea culpa piece on Biden. He (and people like me) spent months seeing the rabbit. Others clearly saw the duck. www.slowboring.com/p/i-was-wron...
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Jason Briggeman
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Alan Elrod
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People seem to think Biden getting reelected would make me mad instead of, in fact, very happy and relieved because I think Donald Trump is a monstrous threat to democracy. I would not be mad!
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Alan Elrod
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If anything the big risk is that the decline could accelerate
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Alan Elrod
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This is simply not the concern. The worry is that the performance was due to age-related decline, the kind of decline that occurs in a linear fashion. He’s older now than he was. And he’ll be older in November than he is now.
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Alan Elrod
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Look, Biden could still win. And replacing him certainly has risks and challenges! But the message that the concerns about Biden are merely the anxieties of the elite and are not real in the wider electorate is a false one. And it does a disservice to everyone.
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Alan Elrod
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Jon Tester, a caviar-eating dandy! An out-of-touch elite with no understanding of the people’s love for Joe Biden!
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Alan Elrod
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Meanwhile, the people
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Alan Elrod
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Biden calling his friends on a major morning news show to declare that only elites have concerns about his age and that voters, despite substantial polling evidence to the contrary, are with him all the way is a profound illustration of the cocooning effects of the presidency.
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Alan Elrod
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Ben Folds said it best in Hiro’s Song: 🎶I don’t wanna grow old/ Won’t you let me, won’t you let me explode?🎶
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Alan Elrod
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I suppose I just don’t understand all the rhetoric of being “a bridge” or “transitional” in 2020 if he was just going to stay in even in the face of losing odds and poor campaign performance
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Alan Elrod
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Not actually sure if NYT did delete their account (it’s gone right now but could be a fluke), but it’s bad that people are celebrating this as a win
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Alan Elrod
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Meanwhile, on Threads, they’re doing press as enemy of the people but pro-Bidenly
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Alan Elrod
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Cool. Cool cool cool. www.axios.com/2024/07/07/b...
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Radley Balko
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My guess is that Trump knows very little about P25 *and* it will be the blueprint for his administration. He’s famously bored by policy. He’ll appoint these people because they’re loyal. They’ll then go to work on the plan while he grifts, golfs, and gives two-hour speeches at rallies.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
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Marisa Kabas
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congrats to everyone who believed his dramatic exit story from the intercept and paid for his dumbass substack
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Alan Elrod
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lol Canada has entered the chat
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Alan Elrod
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This is terrible advice. It’s illiberal and destructive to the principle of running against the threat Trump poses to our republic.
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Alan Elrod
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We didn’t elect his family. They’re not courtiers. This sort of thing should trouble democracy advocates
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Alan Elrod
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Ben Folds said it best in Hiro’s Song: 🎶I don’t wanna grow old/ Won’t you let me, won’t you let me explode?🎶
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Alan Elrod
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There’s Joe Biden, a man I still believe can rise to the best aspects of his character and do the selfless thing. Then there’s the team around him, who have shown a sneering disdain for their critics and even their own supporters! These are people I worry will cling to power.
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Alan Elrod
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It’s fair to ask if Biden is up for this campaign or to serve four more years as president. And it’s fair to argue he isn’t and say he should step aside. I do not think it’s fair to speculate in lurid ways about his mental health. That’s unkind and unjustified.
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Chron.com
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As anti-trans laws pass around the nation, many point to North Carolina's "bathroom bill" as one of the first times anti-trans rhetoric played a part in Republican politics.
But that rhetoric was perfected in the fight over the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance in 2015.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Adam Gurri
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Trump is a brain boiled lunatic (among other things that make him unfit) but that’s sadly not news and already baked in to everyone’s existing stances towards him
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Alan Elrod
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She can say what she likes. She’s not my rep
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Alan Elrod
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More signs of trouble, from both House and Senate Dems www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Alan Elrod
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The U.K. exit poll is famously accurate, so these should be close to the final tally.
Conservatives avoided the rock-bottom projections, but Reform gaining 13 is an earthquake.
Read my @theunpopulist.net piece on Reform’s potential influence on the Tories www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-maga-mut...
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Alan Elrod
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It’s not a gratuitous insult. I said I believe the line of thinking is civically disordered, by which I mean I think your argument dangerously prioritizes subjective, partisan preferences over valuing independent and corroborated reporting. I believe that line of thinking is bad. I didn’t attack you
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Alan Elrod
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I really think if you’ve reached the place of “it’s an NYT article; I don’t trust it” in your defense of your preferred candidate, you need to reevaluate your civic priorities
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Alan Elrod
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This is civically disordered thinking. The press is covering it because it’s a real story, it matters, and we all saw a stark example of the issue on live tv last week. I think almost everyone at these places probably would like us not to elect Trump if you asked them, and Biden looks set to lose
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Alan Elrod
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This is civically disordered thinking. The press is covering it because it’s a real story, it matters, and we all saw a stark example of the issue on live tv last week. I think almost everyone at these places probably would like us not to elect Trump if you asked them, and Biden looks set to lose
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Alan Elrod
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This just strikes me as a mix of denial and rationalization. The NYT broke this reporting, and CNN confirmed it. As to the schedule itself, this is not “reasonable” for a president in the midst of what is in fact the most important electing in modern American history.
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Alan Elrod
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This just strikes me as a mix of denial and rationalization. The NYT broke this reporting, and CNN confirmed it. As to the schedule itself, this is not “reasonable” for a president in the midst of what is in fact the most important electing in modern American history.
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Alan Elrod
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Give her the whole job
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Alan Elrod
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This is just not acceptable either for the President of the United States or for someone who needs to campaign for the very life of our democracy over the next four months. No events after 8pm means no live prime-time townhalls or speeches
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yep. i was just listening to it on the treadmill today. musically, it still slaps. and daniel is right — “The New Style” is without question the best track on the record.
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Alan Elrod
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Deeply troubled by pro-democracy allies turning to defenses of Biden that rest on insisting that the journalists are all lying and the polls are all wrong.
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Alan Elrod
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If we see a return of Trump and the implementation of the GOP’s hard right policies, LGBTQ+ Americans are at risk.
Right-wing family policies from Hungary to Tennessee have become tools for erasing LGBTQ+ people. Read me at @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/25/u...
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Alan Elrod
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Oh yeah I can sympathize. It’s just an impulse we have to resists. It only corrodes further
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