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Cannot emphasize enough how Team Trump's black outreach program is vaporware propaganda bsky.app/profile/radl...

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Orange Man Bad explains far more than many comparative politics PhDs care to admit

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“Dems need to panic and project weakness”

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Even the briefest perusing of classics should teach that survivorship bias is the fundamental blind spot that you need to be aware of.

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Right, like in the Lebron comparison he’s *both* durable enough to play in the NBA for 21 years *and* he’s an elite scorer with a 25.7 ppg average in year 21. Might be like Brady going to the AFC title 10 years straight.

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I have only the vaguest sense of how the pelton’s work and how teams game stages; so I guess my question is what’s the median stage win chance for the top guys? 35 stage wins sounds like both being consistently elite and consistently grinding tours.

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“Will I be able to decide the number of child in this family?” and other pocketbook items.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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this is pretty much entirely a new york times mania

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It also signals to your coalition members that you’ll be the first to break ranks, the moment the going starts getting hard.

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Begging Justice Roberts to recall the bygone era called “2017”

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly's avatar Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social
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Donald Trump is out there this very week indulging in extreme hypotheticals about what should happen to his enemies, and Roberts thinks they should become practical realities asap.

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Contextualizing this as like Eliud Kipchoge winning Boston 5 (10?) years in a row.

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35 stage wins?? That’s insane

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Art Sulzberger has committed the greatest sin in journalism- more people are talking about the publisher of the paper than what is in it. As the Indian newspaper legend Ramnath Goenka said "When the paper is in the news, it is bad. When the paper is the news, it is over."

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This is my biggest issue with ‘The Discourse’ atm; pundits are intentionally doing second- and third-order metacommentary, the most tedious of all commentary.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li's avatar Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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these are not serious plans for dealing with a reactionary autogolpe.

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I think it’s foolish to indulge haters because fecklessly placating your critics only serves to validate them.

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You have to remember that a presidential election is about a coalition of people, not just a person, but that person is obviously key in the sense that they bind together that coalition as a leader. It’s important not to get feckless for the sake of pandering specific factions without some asset.

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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That's part of the attack. It's intended to destroy hope

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Right, swinging margins in marginal states is how you win the presidency, but low-info voters are a little different from independent or undecided voters.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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Roberts, Alito and Thomas all cut their teeth in a Reagan administration eager to expand the outer limits of executive power. Kavanaugh did the same under George W. Bush who tried to make the unitary executive a reality.

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undecided, low-information voters are more likely to simply not vote, specifically because it's a rematch. Resigning is probably the worst move possible since it demobilizes your base and projects weakness to undecideds.

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Just naked will to power at this point imo

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This "is a paramilitary assault on the legislature bad or not?" question really bringing out the stupidest chin-stroking I have ever read.

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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I’m comfortable saying that is extremely bad.

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they're opinion pieces! They need to be labeled as such!!

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This "is a paramilitary assault on the legislature bad or not?" question really bringing out the stupidest chin-stroking I have ever read.

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Popularism deeply misunderstands that people walk backwards to policy through policymakers they like and have an emotional connection with.

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ManhattanJuryAppreciator 's avatar ManhattanJuryAppreciator @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social
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Popularism only works if you assume the media environment is beneficial or neutral, and guess what we've learned!

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Neil Stenhouse's avatar Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social
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One of the best descriptions of this kind of phenomenon I have seen. When your job/identity depends on making abstract rationalizations, you’re going to keep making them however real world circumstances change

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Reverse Spider-man in action; with great power comes no responsibility.

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Logic is easy as long as you only walk backwards from the conclusion you’ve already determined.

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We’re trapped in this tortured logic of both not supposed to take Trump literally or seriously, but also take him both literally and seriously. Legit doublethink.

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Evan Urquhart's avatar Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social
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I wrote this earlier, but it may be broadly applicable today. Accepting things you can't control doesn't mean giving in to hopelessness. Quite the opposite- it's a guide for how sleep at night after facing ugly truths. I sleep knowing I did what I could, and the rest is out of my hands.

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You’d think these well-heeled attorneys would have a better grasp of the classics.

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Men with swords, famously known for letting people to quote laws at them.

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Men with swords, historically famous for recognizing the niceties of the legal systems and institutional traditions.

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Why doesn’t Evan Gershkovich simply petition to be released? Is he stupid?

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People like Fallon start from the premise, "Can I imagine some explanation in which this thing, standing alone, can be fitted into a principled legal system?" I mean, yeah, sure, that can be done for anything. But doing so makes you a collaborator and a propagandist, not an honest & wise scholar.

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nervously watching to see if my heeler mix is going to try and mount the new dog in the gate? couldn't be me

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now if we can just get a rail workers strike...

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The field really took a dark turn when twee thought experiments started replacing material rigor.

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The myopia on display is honestly breathtaking.

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“Look at what you made me doism” —the hallmark of an abuser.

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One party tried to corruptly steal an election. The other party tried to stop that. These are both the same.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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