Emerson

Policy Can't Solve a Propaganda Problem On immigration and everything else, pundits are missing the point

My latest newsletter is a response to @jerusalem.bsky.social on the politics of immigration, and why ticky-tack policy solutions won't save Democrats.

This is very good. I return to the illiberal's epistemic dishonesty: he wishes to participate in liberal discourse yet refuses to play by liberal rules upon which democracy is based: pluralism, empiricism, skepticism, philosophic doubt. For his ultimate authorities are predetermined traditionalisms.

Graphic is white with black text. "Today we are proud to introduce a new, unified place for DC community members to send information about police sightings and interactions. This new unified resource will help us better protect people both in our communities as well as in court."

Graphic is white with black text. "As DC communities experience increasing rates of harassment, profiling, and violations of our rights by law enforcement, filming the police is a crucial way we can all keep each other safe."

Graphic is white with black and red text "Send photos, videos, and tips*: report@filmthepolicedc.org FilmThe PoliceDC.org FILM THE POLICE DC *For active enforcement (arrests, detentions, active checkpoints) please still call the MSMA hotline at 202-335-1183)"

Vital information to include in the email: • Date & time • Location (include quadrant) • If anyone was detained • What type of cops/ law enforcement agencies were present? • Any other information about what the cops/ agents were doing

Per DC Migrant Mutual Aid & Harriet's Wildest Dreams.

They've created a new resource for photos & videos to protect our communities.

Send photos, videos, & tips* to report@filmthepolicedc.org

*For active enforcement call 2023351183

Include date/time, location, names etc
#FreeDC

Interesting paper and helpful thread. Bottom line: publicly supported independent media and reducing uncertainty lead to positive cycles; lower quality media and perpetuating uncertainty lead to downward spirals in this Austrian study.

From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, with all due disrespect, fuck off.

When you see a journalist ascribing human motivations to these energy-hoovering stochastic parrots they're baring their entire ass and loudly telling you they don't understand the technology they are writing about

One Million Rising — No Kings

5. Other signs of durability & commitment during this period include historic turnout at the One Million Rising online trainings, the first of which on 7/16 had over 130,000 sign-ups. This was probably the largest nonviolence training in U.S. history.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

This. Right here. Classic Fish maneuver. (Fish-esque? Fishistic?)

So reporters and editors should look to scholars of authoritarianism in covering these stories. The deal-making frame is playing right into the hands of these autocrats. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

Total 🦗 from the “socialism” crowd that spent the last 50 years accusing <checks notes> the Democrats of not respecting private property, free markets, limited government, the Marketplace Of Ideas, & the very sacred institution of Capitalism.

New York has the worst senate delegation of any blue state

#whatwouldseftondelmerdo

Someone needs to bear witness as masked agents of the government brutalize members of our community. It doesn’t surprise me that a Philosophy professor would do so.

Be at least as brave as a Philosophy professor.

(And demand that ICE release Prof. Caravello.)

Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support. It’s been a weird time for the papers of record. The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post have all made compromising to catastrophic judgment errors. Most recently, …

also thrilled to see @assignedmedia.org shouted out in this @literaryhub.bsky.social roundup of independent media as well

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Requiem for the Wagner Act Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.

Ninety years ago, the Wagner Act was signed. Labor historian Joseph McCartin says it doesn't really exist anymore.
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.

- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.

- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

If youre in dc: the analogous venue is U St Saloon, Open Piano every Wednesday night

ideology helps candidates win not because voters are ideological, they’re not, but because voters don’t like frauds l. and believing in something more than the next election/poll gives you an air of authenticity

In one of the most stunning results in Democratic politics in years, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is poised to come from nowhere and pull off a major victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the establishment’s overwhelming choice for the job. With 90 percent of the results in, Mamdani had captured 43.5 percent of the vote to Cuomo’s 36.3 percent. The final results with all allocations in the ranked-choice process will be announced next Tuesday. The win is a shock considering what Cuomo and his deep-pocketed allies threw at Mamdani in the late stages of the race, including tens of millions of dollars in Super PAC ads, endorsements from former president Bill Clinton and kingmaker former House leader Jim Clyburn, and a flurry of media rage. But as Mamdani said on Stephen Colbert’s show this week, while Cuomo had organized money, he had organized people. Cuomo conceded that late Tuesday evening with a de facto concession speech in which he praised Mamdani’s campaign. The margin, which virtually no pollster predicted, matches the excitement that canvassers have seen throughout New York for weeks and saw again on Tuesday. A near-record heat wave had some convinced voters would stay home, especially after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a state of emergency for 32 counties on Sunday, including for all five New York City boroughs. But the results speak for themselves.

This really was a case of organized people over organized money.
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brad lander primary chuck schumer

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Every single union that endorsed Cuomo should be extremely embarrassed

The good news is now they have a chance to make things right by endorsing Zohran in the general

it is not ideology it is vibes!

Mamdani is cool but watching Cuomo get smoked is pure bliss