Magnus Jonsson
@magnusjonsson.bsky.social
More proportional representation, less executive power.
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All joking aside, parliamentary systems (in which there is a Prime Minister who is elected by the legislature) perform better on many metrics than presidential systems like ours.
If we were to rewrite the constitution today, we should have a Prime Minister, not a president.
If we were to rewrite the constitution today, we should have a Prime Minister, not a president.
Donald Trump has not just convinced me that I do not want a king—I'm not even sure about the president thing anymore.
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
All joking aside, parliamentary systems (in which there is a Prime Minister who is elected by the legislature) perform better on many metrics than presidential systems like ours.
If we were to rewrite the constitution today, we should have a Prime Minister, not a president.
If we were to rewrite the constitution today, we should have a Prime Minister, not a president.
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New EKOS polling backs that up. Sixty five percent of British Columbians agree seats should reflect the popular vote. Support jumps to 75 percent when asked about proportionality by region. 4/10
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
New EKOS polling backs that up. Sixty five percent of British Columbians agree seats should reflect the popular vote. Support jumps to 75 percent when asked about proportionality by region. 4/10
Yes, please! This time, make it the One Vote system aka Open List Proportional Representation!
First order of business for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : charter commission on bringing back proportional representation to the council.
NEW: Julie Menin is claiming victory in the City Council speaker's race after securing commitments of support from 35 of her colleagues, putting an early end to the contest and teeing up potential tensions with incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Story coming shortly
Story coming shortly
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yes, please! This time, make it the One Vote system aka Open List Proportional Representation!
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
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🇺🇸, a mere 35 years ago, under a GOP president, led a UN-backed coalition to uphold the principle of territorial sovereignty, the bedrock of the post-WWII int'l system. Like threatening to take territory from our allies (🇨🇦 & 🇩🇰/🇬🇱), working to allow 🇷🇺 to violate this should have ended this presidency.
Exclusive: Surrendering land to Russia to end the war is off-limits, Zelensky’s chief negotiator tells Simon Shuster. “As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory.”
Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🇺🇸, a mere 35 years ago, under a GOP president, led a UN-backed coalition to uphold the principle of territorial sovereignty, the bedrock of the post-WWII int'l system. Like threatening to take territory from our allies (🇨🇦 & 🇩🇰/🇬🇱), working to allow 🇷🇺 to violate this should have ended this presidency.
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"Proportional representation is the only true solution because it renders gerrymandering irrelevant."
www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/202...
www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/202...
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"Proportional representation is the only true solution because it renders gerrymandering irrelevant."
www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/202...
www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/202...
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A quiet EV upside the FT highlights: less noise.
Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are already seeing calmer, quieter streets—and better sleep—as EV adoption rises.
EVs are notably quieter at low speeds, though tyre noise dominates above ~50 km/h.
Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are already seeing calmer, quieter streets—and better sleep—as EV adoption rises.
EVs are notably quieter at low speeds, though tyre noise dominates above ~50 km/h.
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A quiet EV upside the FT highlights: less noise.
Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are already seeing calmer, quieter streets—and better sleep—as EV adoption rises.
EVs are notably quieter at low speeds, though tyre noise dominates above ~50 km/h.
Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are already seeing calmer, quieter streets—and better sleep—as EV adoption rises.
EVs are notably quieter at low speeds, though tyre noise dominates above ~50 km/h.
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“Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries” electionlawblog.org?p=153200
"Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries" #ELB
Axios: Democratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting. Driving the news: Democratic Natio...
electionlawblog.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries” electionlawblog.org?p=153200
In the richest city in the richest country on earth, 8 out of 1000 people are homeless. Would it be a great burden on the 992 people to share the cost of solving this problem? Or is it just intractable for some other reason?
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on earth, 8 out of 1000 people are homeless. Would it be a great burden on the 992 people to share the cost of solving this problem? Or is it just intractable for some other reason?
I get the same sense subjectively from Swedish news.
It's not just you. News headlines have become more negative in the 21st century -- particularly in partisan outlets
THIS IS BAD!
THIS IS BAD!
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I get the same sense subjectively from Swedish news.
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Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines.
Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.
Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.
Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines.
Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.
Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.
Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
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I think the conventional wisdom that switching to PR, even explicitly to block Reform, would delegitimise the system is completely wrong. You would get buy-in from every other party, bar maybe the Tories, and it's historically the main reason electoral reform happens. www.jstor.org/stable/2585577
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I think the conventional wisdom that switching to PR, even explicitly to block Reform, would delegitimise the system is completely wrong. You would get buy-in from every other party, bar maybe the Tories, and it's historically the main reason electoral reform happens. www.jstor.org/stable/2585577
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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"[W]e must institute a multiparty democracy (via #ProportionalRepresentation like most democracies) and an executive more like a prime minister than the imperial president we seem doomed to endure under our current constitution."
My recent piece in @liberalcurrents.com on proportional representation and reigning in the Imperial Presidency.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"[W]e must institute a multiparty democracy (via #ProportionalRepresentation like most democracies) and an executive more like a prime minister than the imperial president we seem doomed to endure under our current constitution."
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After all, the Senate is an 84%-White "house of lords" with a long ass 6-year term and EXTREME overrepresentation of small states. Many Senators are John Dutton types who think political power is their birthright.
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
The strangest features in the US Constitution (Part 1)
YouTube video by Huey Li and the news
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
After all, the Senate is an 84%-White "house of lords" with a long ass 6-year term and EXTREME overrepresentation of small states. Many Senators are John Dutton types who think political power is their birthright.
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
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Maybe the USA should be Canada’s 11th Province eh?
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November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Maybe the USA should be Canada’s 11th Province eh?
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The Senate is literally the most racist structure of our government, and proves the central thesis of Critical Race Theory
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
The Senate Is America’s Most Structurally Racist Institution
Why is massive overrepresentation for white America still acceptable in 2020?
nymag.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Senate is literally the most racist structure of our government, and proves the central thesis of Critical Race Theory
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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There’s too much counter majoritarianism compared to other western democracies, facts
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There’s too much counter majoritarianism compared to other western democracies, facts
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one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
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48% yes, 19% no, 32% don't know for proportional representation. That's with very little public campaign for PR so far.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
Wow! That's a lot higher support level than I expected. And that 32%"don't know" means there's a high ceiling
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
48% yes, 19% no, 32% don't know for proportional representation. That's with very little public campaign for PR so far.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
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Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...