Greg Martin

for what it’s worth - the public’s descent into insanity, i believe, is because the stagnate legislature has prevented the democratic mechanism’s primary function, which is trial and error, from informing the voters of the consequences of their choices. the solution is still democracy

My NYC election hot take (from 4 hours away) is that the rent is too damn high, owning a house is too hard, and that is a winning issue in any election in the USA right now where young people exist.

The establishment commentariat, all property owners, is materially divided from the electorate.

they’re saying kill the boer. they’re saying it, lots of people actually. my people say Mr Trump we can’t possibly kill the boer. but i say hang on. hang on. [turns to the side, performative shrug] I can kill the boer, right? [pause for applause] but we’re gonna do it and it’ll be bigger than ever

This is the dinner bell being rung for political consultants.

All across the country, they have started salivating without knowing why.

The more sensitive among them have suddenly felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if billions of dollars have suddenly cried out "some take me."

Econ’s disciplinary imperialism coming back to bite it in the ass. Imagine seeing an offhand one liner in a chemistry paper saying “I use the method of Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995) to measure price elasticities for my sample of 1000 chemical compounds” with no further explanation

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

We will fail often. Many people are bad. Many people don't know much. But people looking at much worse, less knowledgeable electorates — people who literally couldn't read or write, who had been intentionally kept from political information — worked to expand democracy anyway to our eternal benefit.

This comment from Gavin Newsom happens to be some of the dumbest political analysis I've ever seen by a politician, and is also a compelling display of cowardice and moral vacuousness. Not things you can build a successful 2028 presidential campaign on! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/should-dem...

Still, Democratic pollster Natalie Jackson said on X that the evidence makes him “a bad poster child” for Democrats’ case against Trump — even if he didn’t deserve the treatment he received — and that the party needs “a better ‘hero’ for due process” than Abrego Garcia.

the pollsters, the politicians, anyone in this camp needs to be shown the fucking door

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

AGAIN: the kidnapping of students who engaged in protected speech or protest is THE ISSUE that should united universities, including and especially Columbia. It's immoral and illegal, it threatens their mission and their bottom line, and it harms US national security. UNIVERSITIES SHOULD SUE NOW!

if Ritchie fucking Torres can do this and Chris Van Hollen can fly to El Salvador the rest of the Dem caucus can show up too

hell, everyone should go on the El Salvador trip

now’s the time, folks, this road ends with you in the foreign prison

No one should be above the law, most especially the President.

Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.

They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

going to need to start hearing from governors what they intend to do to protect residents of their states from the federal government

Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

High time for what colleagues have been advocating as a compact of mutual defense and a shared litigation strategy.

What’s incredible is that Trump is doing this based on fake constitutional authorities and made-up emergency powers but because US institutions are so pathetic about capitulating to him no one even thinks of bringing that up, even as he burns our country to the ground

Not only removal an impossibility but even basic forums of democratic accountability in which Trump is forced to defend his insane policies via Congressional hearing, press conference, interview with a non-sycophant, Town Hall, or even a televised address to the nation feels like a pipedream.

Fact check: mostly true

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Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

Again: The Trump admin is showing you they have capacity constraints -- they can only do this shake-down procedure piecemeal. If these institutions want this to stop, they'll refuse to negotiate and take them to court. Hold the line, create a bottleneck.

There is an extremely good argument for applying strict broken windows policing to American elites

It's too late for *preserving* our democracy. The American democracy that prevailed from 1965—weakened severely since around 2000—definitively ended January 20th, 2025.

Now, the task is *restoring* American democracy, hopefully with a better set of institutions (& leaders).

if you think this violates the law (and it very clearly does imo), you don't seek an injunction, you seek an indictment, given that the law makes it a class 1 felony. cowardice from the AG, cowardice from the courts, nobody wants the responsibility of actually enforcing the law. cowards all around

Just. Arrest. Him.

fundamentally, "just go back" is never an adequate response to this kind of constitutional crisis. it just doesn't work. and that's why, among other things, any project of American Reconstruction *must* involve the revitalization of Congress as an active force

I want to start offering a graduate course in Strategic Political Communication for congressional comms staffers.

I would ask them to read these skeets aloud, interrupted by spritzes of water in their faces. This technique would last until they apologize and explain where they went wrong.

Thinking MA should say it's on the hunt for the kidnappers and that they plan to arrest and prosecute those who snatched her from the streets.

Make the Trump admin defend that its power here was lawful. It looks utterly criminal under both fed and MA law and thus bad to act as if it might be legit.

An analysis of the first 2 months of New York City's congestion pricing policy shows that road speeds increased and emissions decreased inside and out of the congestion zone, from Cook, Kreidieh, Vasserman, Allcott, Arora, van Sambeek, Tomkins, and Turkel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33584