I’m with you in the corruption concern, but securing reelection is in practice often an encouragement to corruption as is securing and exit gig, given the role of monied interests in our system. 1/
I’m not with you in the legislative expertise concern. Legislative expertise properly belongs in parties and their staff, not electeds. Relying on electeds for expertise creates a strong and pernicious incumbency bias. 2/
We end up torn between candidates who earnestly advocate for our values and interests but would lack effectiveness for lack of experience and incumbents who are less beholden to our values and interests but are more competent and effective. 3/
I oppose any role of seniority in Congressional promotion or influence for this reason. /fin
Me too!
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it’s hard to live in a world like this. ht @amerpie.lol www.propublica.org/article/revl...
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Are they fucking with annual flu shots in the way they are fucking with annual COVID boosters?
On how the absence of a strong left cripples policymaking even (perhaps especially) on the liberal center. By @chrisdillow.bsky.social Placating the right yields terrible governance — practically, morally. Outcompeting the left requires delivering. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
many of them along 101.
meanwhile, these people are sitting on the tarmac in a airplane, right?
Screenshot of weather in Djibout, showing it currently to be 91℉
How much does US vaccine politics (e.g. imposing huge burdens on booster by the FDA) affect availability of vaccines outside the US? Will boosters be readily available elsewhere?
it’s hard to believe Elon Musk will become aloof to politics given how much risk he would be in from the criminal justice system under different politics.
swallow your fear of swallowing your fear of swallowing…
what if all of our phobias converted to phagias?
Habeus Corpus is the story of a young zombie trying to make his way in a world full of hatred and discrimination.
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text is now infinite what grows scarcer and scarcer is voice connected to a human soul.
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China’s made a bunch of pretty plain mistakes. Nevertheless, they’ve maintained overall a strong enough market system to provide some feedback to the center and its schemes, and it’s hard to dispute the overall relative performance that’s resulted thus far. 1/
But yeah, it depends on quality of decision making. The more decision making is centralized, the more kurtosis in the distribution. Things can turn out very well, or very poorly. /fin
“The enduring strength of a state-dominated Chinese system that can pivot, change policy and redirect resources at will in service of long-term national strength is now undeniable, regardless of whether free-market advocates like it.” ~Kyle Chan www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
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the discourse is enriching.