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That was under the 2010 cycle maps, which were worse and more tilted to the GOP.
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
That was under the 2010 cycle maps, which were worse and more tilted to the GOP.
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Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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No; I am saying the opposite.
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
No; I am saying the opposite.
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I think Will is right about this? I think a lot of current discourse is setting the goalposts in a way that YIMBYs will not win. bsky.app/profile/best...
Where I get worried is more about how this will cause people to misunderstand policy effects.
If a rezoning makes housing more available, such that household formation increases, that is a policy success!
But! If you look at "housing as percent of income" it will probably go *up*.
If a rezoning makes housing more available, such that household formation increases, that is a policy success!
But! If you look at "housing as percent of income" it will probably go *up*.
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I think Will is right about this? I think a lot of current discourse is setting the goalposts in a way that YIMBYs will not win. bsky.app/profile/best...
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One thing people underrate is how territorial law enforcement is. Even when these cops are fundamentally in sympathy with the "Let's crack skulls" affect of federal law enforcement, they will always resent other cops coming onto their Turf to do it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One thing people underrate is how territorial law enforcement is. Even when these cops are fundamentally in sympathy with the "Let's crack skulls" affect of federal law enforcement, they will always resent other cops coming onto their Turf to do it.
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Agreed. If only we’d seen more of that attitude towards the DOGE kids!
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Agreed. If only we’d seen more of that attitude towards the DOGE kids!
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nobody is talking about it but Spanberger won by 15 points in Virginia and erased the GOP advantage with working class voters after expressly promising to rescind Glenn Youngkin's ICE-cooperation order and voting against the Laken Riley Act
bsky.app/profile/greg...
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This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
nobody is talking about it but Spanberger won by 15 points in Virginia and erased the GOP advantage with working class voters after expressly promising to rescind Glenn Youngkin's ICE-cooperation order and voting against the Laken Riley Act
bsky.app/profile/greg...
bsky.app/profile/greg...
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Content moderation is hard. Someone is always mad at you. It’s hard to stay true to your own values (whether absolute free speech or a community free of hate & harassment) and balance all the other concerns & metrics. Tried to bring BlueSky drama into the convo, but undergrads were like Blue-what?
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Content moderation is hard. Someone is always mad at you. It’s hard to stay true to your own values (whether absolute free speech or a community free of hate & harassment) and balance all the other concerns & metrics. Tried to bring BlueSky drama into the convo, but undergrads were like Blue-what?
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If your argument is that young people only hate Israel because they, unlike previous generations, can easily and vividly see the human cost of Israel's
policies, that is... not a good argument about young people being wrong on this.
policies, that is... not a good argument about young people being wrong on this.
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If your argument is that young people only hate Israel because they, unlike previous generations, can easily and vividly see the human cost of Israel's
policies, that is... not a good argument about young people being wrong on this.
policies, that is... not a good argument about young people being wrong on this.
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I think the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I think the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.
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Masha Gessen on this precise thing in 2023 www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Masha Gessen on this precise thing in 2023 www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
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I doubt they strike down California's map but I could see them fast tracking a Texas case and letting them use their map while slow rolling CA while a stay is in place and eventually ruling it's fine but too late to use for 2026.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I doubt they strike down California's map but I could see them fast tracking a Texas case and letting them use their map while slow rolling CA while a stay is in place and eventually ruling it's fine but too late to use for 2026.