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Just had a very brief conversation with Sen. Cassidy. I asked if RFK Jr. had reassured him “I’d rather just characterize it as: we had a conversation” I also asked if he was still comfortable with his vote confirming RFK Jr. “I’d rather not comment on that”

Vibe shift?

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YMRI just looked into this -- Ds are actually much more competitive with Rs on large outlets like these than they get credit for. Buttigieg, Pritzker, and Khanna are leading the Democratic podcast game, making appearances across key outlets. …ungmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/which-party-…

A lot of Trump's advisors, from JD Vance to David Sacks, talk like they think powerful AI is coming soon They're also pushing a reconciliation bill that doesn't take that prospect remotely seriously

My Twitter bar mitzvah year is upon us

The goal of RCV, for what it's worth, is to incentivize politicians to not do this, not draw too hard contrasts.

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Fascinating poll on why you shouldn't fight with Trump. Musk's approval rating with Republicans in March: 78%. Musk's approval rating with Republicans in a poll fielded last week, as the fight dominated the news: 62%. Quinnipiac poll fielded June 5 to June 9.

If we mapped state-level support for Trump's BBB, I'll bet it would look a lot like his efforts to repeal the Medicaid expansion of the ACA in 2017. David Broockman and I found that ACA repeal was underwater in every state: nytimes.com/2017/06/14/ups…

Another interesting feature of RCV is this. Mamdani, having been mixed in the past courts YIMBY (!!!) voters but doesn’t have the track record to back it up. Double edged sword

This is so freaking wizard

nice Greater Greater Washington post showing the Columbia Road redesign is delivering on its goals without costing drivers travel time. I think it's important to celebrate these kinds of successes loudly--way too easy for skeptics to assume any change to our streets is zero-sum.

As I said earlier, the anti-market, anti-housing views of blue state republicans in contrast to the red state ones is an underrated driver of bad outcomes. slowboring.com/p/blue-state-r…

This was the exact reasoning given when the Dems were in the 2017-2020 phase of going big and unapologetic on just about every policy issue — almost all of Harris' positions that came up in 2024 were downstream from this theory

Kansas City faces a choice: end free bus fares or cut service massively. kcur.org/news/2025-03-2…

Jonathan Robinson Based on some research I have done, the proliferation of candidates under RCV completely undos any advantages with respect to wasted votes or the likelihood of a majority winner