NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.
We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.
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The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If you’d read the story you’d see that all the information you have included is in the first couple paragraphs of the story. I also post the info up thread.
The shoe story is the sort of thing you read about in a history book and think “how could there have been such a stupid cult of personality around a person who was so clearly unstable and unfit? Those old timey people were so nuts!” Except it’s happening right now.
Kiley has promised to caucus with R’s but that head count is still a heck of a thing, especially re: SAVE Act. An interesting development.
👀 “with Kiley becoming an independent, the House Republican majority is now down to 217 votes — in a chamber where 218 is a majority.”
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
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we have saved daylight
but at what cost
MeToo pushed a few big-name bad actors out of their positions, but it did very little to grapple with the systems and the cultures and the people that empowered those bad actors and allowed them to operate with impunity.
I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.
If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
The horror of life in America.
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
When politicians don't honor their promises, our work is to make them. To do that, we have to build enough power to make them. I understand why people get disappointed but this is unfortunately how things work in politics.
Can’t beat libraries!
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Honestly, bring back Blockbuster but with a coffee shop attached this time so that you can make the endless browsing a proper event.
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business.”
Probably could get trains AND healthcare.
They're building concentration camps. Ordinary people are shutting them down.
Welp. Turns out I can still be shocked.
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data
I’m telling you what, the study of race, race craft, and identity has never been more relevant.
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The first new @democratictheory.bsky.social articles to publish with Cambridge University Press are now online -
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There are a lot of cynical responses to this that are possible, even appropriate, but this finding is an indication of both how we got here & a window into how dire the democratic crisis. Co governance is pretty hard if you assume bad faith from most of your fellows *especially* if it’s warranted.
