Brian Libgober

How do political institutions shape today’s wave of economic interventionism? 🇺🇸 vs 🇪🇺

Find out in our new article just out in @govjournal.bsky.social
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To your point, Eric Adams, Bob Menendez, and a party that refuses to conduct a competitive primary to replace an obviously mentally incompetent candidate does not make an overly compelling alternative case. The Rs have credibility: vote 4 us, you get a tax cut. Idk what anyone trusts Ds to do.

Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.

Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

Well said

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

The same thing happened with Veep. The last season they had to phone it in because Jonah Ryan’s crazy MAGA style stunts were less wild than what was actually happening in politics.

Didn’t really see MAGA going in a degrowth direction but here we are

I think there’s at least a little to this, no? lots of neighborhoods looking like Jersey City is probably an outcome we want to avoid. Does being red pilled on YIMBY require me to want to live in an endlessly repetitive landscape that looks kinda like the matrix?

Less environmental damage if we simply drop a very heavy object, a sort of space anvil ideally

the american flag is waving in the wind ALT: the american flag is waving in the wind

A right to buy some boomers money pit.

Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels

Two thoughts. 1) The state treating leaders claims as facts with no care for their truth is the highway to dark places. Pretty much doin 90 to get to 1984. 2) the supremes should’ve seen this coming, in fact they were warned. Officials shouldn’t be above the law.

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Where political science meets David Lynch

Summers Lovin'

Epstein emails reveal that Harvard prez Larry was hopelessly devoted to grease ball Jeff. Did some of Summers' nights involve a hand jive from a beauty school dropout? And did he lose interest after girls went through those magic changes?

by Maureen Dowd

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

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Why is Michael Wolff advising Jeff Epstein in this way? I guess I haven’t really followed the issue closely enough to get what’s going on there

People think that they have better insight into what the Rs were going to do than the senate democrats do.

1st Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago | Becker Friedman Institute

Really looking forward to the first annual Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago (OPEC!) this coming Saturday.

@luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.

Will people who this happens to blame the Democrats or the Republicans?

Great thread. What about the risks of owning the travel headaches a shutdown imposes? Why can they not shutdown again at end of January when terrain might be considered more favorable for various reasons, in particular lower political risk.

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Tbh I think the D are playing a horrible hand ok. Considering where they are and where they mightve been after a march shutdown, I’m not too sure they’re worse off. In April Trump did the tariffs, a huge own goal. A long leash would be a mistake, but short leash like this? Not sure it’s a mistake.

More likely, they still are working as a block and sorted so the ones best positioned to compromise electorally did so. If so, I think they can do a shutdown again on Jan 30 and solve with another 90 day CR. The Rs are wasting their majority on this nonsense, Dems can keep stringing it along.

Well we don’t really know what is going on inside the coalition, if there’s reporting on it I would love to see it. One possibility is that they could not control the moderates who wanted to cave. If that’s so, then the outrage now could strengthen the Ds hand.

An extension until Jan 30 is not much of an extension, really. If the Republicans were not going to cave until after January, which seems a reasonable belief, it is not really obvious to me how the Ds are worse off through the deal. Let’s blow up the holidays for ACA tax credits is not a great sell.

Is it just me or does Thomas Paine look like a NYT columnist?

The budget negotiation is much like a strange production of Waiting for Godot, where Godot is played by Donald Trump

Worth considering every time one writes Word,

The banner above, all the news that’s fit to print, really accentuates the dystopian notes

@himself.bsky.social nails it. People have so much pent up energy to be organized/to help. So enough with the text messages for $ and let’s get the Party started doing stuff for everyday people.

The question to sort out is how much of the impressive Dem sweep was a result of differential voter turnout that might not carry as strongly into 2026 and 2028 and how much of it signals a sustainable repudiation of Trump in the form of the mobilization of new voters and voters changing sides.