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Liberal Currents
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“The arteries of the constitutional order are clotted with antidemocratic plaque.” www.liberalcurrents.com/an-american-...
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just a silly little guy
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Liberal Currents
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“The arteries of the constitutional order are clotted with antidemocratic plaque.” www.liberalcurrents.com/an-american-...
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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Yeah this seems undoubtedly true, and I think "it would be better to have someone who has the energy to campaign 24/7" is a very fair point. Need to be incredibly careful of action bias though when the supporting data is so messy and inconclusive.
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☀️ Starshine
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theres exactly 4 types of papers in the us now. Fox News Premium, Fox News, Fox News Lite and the Financial Times
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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I genuinely enjoyed Good Night And Good Luck but yeeeaaah
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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I am very open to the idea that Harris may be a better candidate overall, but I don't think current polling can settle that. Fucking sucks because it would be much easier if there was an obviously best option we all could agree on.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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It's not that I /distrust/ polls! I think they need to be understood as useful data points which require a lot of assumptions to make sense of, and which have enough path dependence built in to make counterfactuals even harder to interpret.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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Occam's razor requires the solution to actually explain the situation at hand, and my (layperson!) experience of following polling on particular issues voters claim to care about tells me that taking them at their word usually does a terrible job of explaining their ultimate behaviour.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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And the lack of major differences in polling b/w Biden and alternatives suggests to me concern about age likely is partly a proxy for something else that is either indicative of issues with the polls, or much deeper issues for Ds that won't be fully resolved by changing candidate.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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I think the "upside" with Biden is stuff like "incumbency with a strong underlying economy" which likely won't transfer cleanly to Harris no matter how hard you try, and which would be extremely valuable in a "normal" race -- so the question becomes to what extent this is a normal election.
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Margot Finn
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A sweeping, and timely, historical and contemporary analysis of Thames Water's continued woes from History & Policy:
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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I mean I am being asked to not believe my lying eyes and ears telling me he's a 81-year old but clearly fully there (& more so than his opponent), even if I don't particularly like him?
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George Pearkes
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I really liked this piece by Conor Wroe Southard, which almost strays into Cracking A Cold One.
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Coach Finstock
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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It's one thing to fear (& yes completely understandable and even good!), another thing entirely to channel that fear into demands that established democratic (in the general sense, not party sense) processes are overturned.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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"... or perhaps in color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live."
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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"Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, ..."
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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"It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other."
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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"uwu smol bean elite media journalists are innocent observers" fucking listen to yourself lmao
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Listening to an interview with an Intercept guy who's been reporting from Gaza and he asked a source if they could use Google Meet and the guy said "Hamas prefers Zoom," which I can already tell is one of those phrases that's going to rattle around in my head forever.
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smdh that silicon could be used to play videogames, as god intended
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Tell me I'm wrong: A bunch of the media and donor class panicked, for good reason, after the debate. Made a big coordinated push to make Biden step aside. Didn't work, wounding pride of lots of big egos. Now too miffed to concede so stuck denying that Biden can win to justify continued aid to Trump.
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Stephen Bush
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It's been kinda funny watching the NYT slag off Will Lewis and British journalism, I mean, look, when it became clear that David Miliband was not going to resign in June 2009, we didn't have days of coverage about a coup that was visibly running out of steam, and that was actually organised.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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Take your jobs with the seriousness they deserve and stop behaving like you're in a discord feud with the Biden campaign, it's frankly fucking embarrassing!
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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We really need you to collectively get better at this! Elite media journalists in particular are not smol bean observers but very active participants in the liberal democratic process, and that comes with expectations and duties which are being failed across the board in this moment
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I can't really make it much clearer than "the media is also a necessary cornerstone of liberal democracy and right now you guys are collectively doing a much better job of burning down all credibility than the democratic party could ever hope to"
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drow zelensky
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A children's hospital.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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Bucking pressure from the Biden administration, the new Labour government of the United Kingdom is expected to drop its objections to ICC arrest warrants being issued against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. The UK will also contemplate whether to restore funding to UNRWA in the near future.
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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(an interesting feature of this blog is that the author could be both a Blairite or an ancom depending on what you focus on, which suggests it probably is getting at an actually useful thought at least)
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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Of course this strain of analysis leads to the conclusion that e.g. AOC is doing an excellent job, which may or may not be where people complaining about this want to end up
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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I kinda think this but I also think the solution in many contexts is to just be boring big tent social democrats Like I don't really see how "political violence and pinky promises to not misuse it" is more attractive than "tactical voting for the best option and engaging in party democracy"
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😶😶😶
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Manisha Sinha
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For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Stephen Bush
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Another very interesting expert appointment via the Lords (this time someone already in there): Peter Hendy, former head of TFL, to the Department of Transport. Makes sense as TFL an excellent model for how to run a nationalised* railway. *Let's not open the 'is TFL nationalised or not?' debate.
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Robert McNees
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A thread about the value of the fine structure constant in Quantum Electrodynamics. (1/137)
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Honestly I was skeptical but now that I see they went for Halo 3 instead of Reach or Halo 2 I am coming around
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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I hope he arrives on a scooter
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Machinedad ↙️↙️↙️
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He is a modern Gaullist and centrist technocrat who enjoys some extremely French Bonapartism as a treat
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Faine Greenwood
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Yes, I absolutely do think over half the country cares about having their basic human rights taken away by a bunch of authoritarian freaks. For Christ’s sake, Project 2025 calls for banning PORN. We can get voters mad about this.