Alito should fly a tea party "don't tread on me" flag, but he flies Jan6er flags instead. We see reports that 40 percent of the house staff are groypers, worse for interns at think tanks. And the shrinking of journalism means the reporters are disproportionately in this sad dc world

I think DC's moving parts are the $ & the people. For media, the atomization of mass audiences changes incentive structures towards the rich. The ascendance of the GOP (all branches) have changed the people. And that is all being slowly Magatized.

Rooftops - 1926
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13 yr old me is confused as to why someone nicknamed the Big Dumper wants his front towards the enemy

I like Biss better, but I do think this is real work. www.mediamatters.org/author/kathe...

Thanks! I've also theoretically spent the offset multiple ways

Thanks for this. For Van Hollen is that the 10 yr cost? And it after the offset tax on rich?

Analysis of Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s Approach to Tax Policy Sen. Chris Van Hollen has recently introduced the Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act, which offers a generous middle-class tax cut paid for with a new tax on millionaires.

The Van Hollen plan is similar. This is a good look at it: itep.org/senator-van-... I see it as a quarter trillion cost in a 7 trillion budget. Then paid in part by a tax on rich. And that's with his separate CTC/EITC expansions, which I really like.

W/a phase out at 80k. Unclear how it interacts w/EITC and other credits, which might mean it doesn't help poorest as much as it might seem.

AGENDA 250

My guess is she means this: patrioticmillionaires.org/agenda-250/

Clyburn’s Daughter Will Have to Wait As Her Dad Decides to Run for 18th Term ‘We’ll Just See How Things Go’ A few days ago, Rep. Jim...

Note for @kateriga.bsky.social:, whose work I appreciate There isn't a union of workers who build homes. NAHB is a trade association for the companies that do that work, and is currently led, for example by the president of Owens Construction. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

What are you looking for here?

Oliver was arguing that the GOP was always stronger in opposition than these D's. But I think its something they learned in 2009-10, and that there might be things from that process that might have lessons

THere's a political science doctoral dissertation that starts with the game of whether you tell the truth or say you have bigger feet than you really do, and then when the shoes dob't fit do you wear them?

Mitchell Robinson
Marcella Hazen's alfredo recipe made tonight by Kid A
Kid B taking con law and telling me that Lochner was a "Dad case"

For me, question is whether the leadership is going to understand where the base is and go through their own process of standing up, and whether funders will support that or try to intervene. I think we're actually in that fight now. 2/2

Fetterman had a 73 oppose % last year, lowest D. Murkowski in '09 opposed Obama 34%, lowest R. Different policy spaces, but in that 1st yr, even McConnell voted w Obama 46%. GOP went through a process of learning to be fierce. Tea party/funders showed path. 1/2 library.cqpress.com/cqmagazine/f...

Both Burgum and McMahon knew what they were getting into and are part of. McMahon may be less zealous, but she's still trying to destroy it piece by piece.

SJC rules charter schools must comply with public records law - The Boston Globe The court concluded that charter schools qualify as government entities under the law because they perform a core public function and operate with taxpayer funding.

Glad to see. If charter school argue that they are public schools, then they should follow the same rules.

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Here's my bottom line:

Much of what they are doing is bad.
Much of what they are doing is unpopular.
Pushback is working.
We are winning.
Keep fighting.
Be creative.
Push for what you'd want.
Allow for insiders and outsiders.
Realize that change takes time.
Reduce harm in the meantime.

Mine to, and I think we agree that there are gaps in fortitude and strategy.

I like your posts & in that spirit want to offer that this might not be worth a joker turn. This bill is raised whenever gas spikes. The hikes already outstrip value of tax, so if passed (unlikely) it won't really make war seem better. Sometimes a bill saying "they messed up, we want to help" is ok

I suspect the purpose of the bill is to say "the administration messed up, and we, the sponsors, are trying to help you." It doesn't legitimize the war. Its not big enough to provide war w/real material support. Also, its not like the GOP wasn't going to figure this out.

Watching tons of folks take a totally predictable bill whose purpose is to say "the GOP screwed up and we're trying to help" and treat it as some kind of strategic own goal.

I think a big question is if this act in any way legitimizes the war, & it doesn't. (I hate implication it would be fine if Trump did it right way). I also don't think its big enough thing to move the needle on tolerance for the war. I do suspect its an ok signal that something is wrong here

First lesson of leg strategy: don't make a bad bill better. But I don't think this is as problematic as folks are making it out. It doesn't legitimize the war. Its small potatoes. The GOP was going to think of this themselves. I don't like idea tax cuts are a solution to everything, but its meh

Whenever I see something like this from Jonathan I turn it into an @ to my federal electeds. I'm seeing Sen. Alsobrooks potentially get better on this, and while that's a lot more than me posting through it, I think being purposeful w the info can help
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I get irked when my federal officials act in ways that legitimize what's happening. So I think its important to thank @alsobrooks.senate.gov and @vanhollen.senate.gov for refusing to do so today and standing up for us

Thanks for everything you've done to help clarify this stuff, its allowed me to understand what's going on to a greater extent

Such paths don't always need to include senate nominations.