Magnus Jonsson
@magnusjonsson.bsky.social
More proportional representation, less executive power.
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After all, the Senate is an 84%-White "house of lords" with a long ass 6-year term and EXTREME overrepresentation of small states. Many Senators are John Dutton types who think political power is their birthright.
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
The strangest features in the US Constitution (Part 1)
YouTube video by Huey Li and the news
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
After all, the Senate is an 84%-White "house of lords" with a long ass 6-year term and EXTREME overrepresentation of small states. Many Senators are John Dutton types who think political power is their birthright.
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
I had an old video overviewing this ridiculous design. youtu.be/_EZDhMu9o8E?...
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Maybe the USA should be Canada’s 11th Province eh?
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November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Maybe the USA should be Canada’s 11th Province eh?
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The Senate is literally the most racist structure of our government, and proves the central thesis of Critical Race Theory
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
The Senate Is America’s Most Structurally Racist Institution
Why is massive overrepresentation for white America still acceptable in 2020?
nymag.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Senate is literally the most racist structure of our government, and proves the central thesis of Critical Race Theory
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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There’s too much counter majoritarianism compared to other western democracies, facts
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There’s too much counter majoritarianism compared to other western democracies, facts
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one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
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48% yes, 19% no, 32% don't know for proportional representation. That's with very little public campaign for PR so far.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
Wow! That's a lot higher support level than I expected. And that 32%"don't know" means there's a high ceiling
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
48% yes, 19% no, 32% don't know for proportional representation. That's with very little public campaign for PR so far.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.
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Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The American people (me) yearn for parliamentarism
October 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The American people (me) yearn for parliamentarism
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Omg😱
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Omg😱
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
I think flags are kind of bad. Natives are blind to them and to non-natives it’s a constant reminder of otherness.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I think flags are kind of bad. Natives are blind to them and to non-natives it’s a constant reminder of otherness.
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Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
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Today @dennislytton.bsky.social writes about the need to put presidentialism down for good
“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again
It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Today @dennislytton.bsky.social writes about the need to put presidentialism down for good
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The incredible parochialism about What The NYC Mayor Election Means For 🇺🇸 Politics And The Democrats (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) is surpassed only by the incredible hysteria about What Zohran Mamdani Means For The Jews And Europe And Middle East Politics And Democracy Around The World.
Mamdani's actual campaign is about making NYC affordable and livable for its residents, but in the eyes of the worldwide punditocracy what he ACTUALLY wants to do is impose sharia law and declare jihad against all infidels because, well, you know.
An awful lot of ugly bigots telling on themselves.
An awful lot of ugly bigots telling on themselves.
The WSJ journalists build a house of deep reporting and accountability. Then the op-ed page editors spend all day burning it down with toxic, fact-free arson.
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The incredible parochialism about What The NYC Mayor Election Means For 🇺🇸 Politics And The Democrats (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) is surpassed only by the incredible hysteria about What Zohran Mamdani Means For The Jews And Europe And Middle East Politics And Democracy Around The World.
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cc: Janet Mills
leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...
leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
cc: Janet Mills
leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...
leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-americ...
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One of the key barriers to electrification is the ratio of electricity to gas prices.
The tax rate on electricity used in industry is much higher in most European countries than the tax rate on fossil gas.
There are many options for reform: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ember-energy.org
The tax rate on electricity used in industry is much higher in most European countries than the tax rate on fossil gas.
There are many options for reform: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ember-energy.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
One of the key barriers to electrification is the ratio of electricity to gas prices.
The tax rate on electricity used in industry is much higher in most European countries than the tax rate on fossil gas.
There are many options for reform: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ember-energy.org
The tax rate on electricity used in industry is much higher in most European countries than the tax rate on fossil gas.
There are many options for reform: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ember-energy.org
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Beautiful writeup in @nytimes.com exploring the ins and outs of bringing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's vision of Fast + Free buses to our streets, including a neat interactive example of how to shave *40%* off trip times o the B41! 🚌💨 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Can Faster Buses Really Be Free? (Gift Article)
An analysis of the possible promise and fundamental tension in one of Zohran Mamdani’s big plans for New York.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Beautiful writeup in @nytimes.com exploring the ins and outs of bringing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's vision of Fast + Free buses to our streets, including a neat interactive example of how to shave *40%* off trip times o the B41! 🚌💨 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Democracy does not just mean elections. In widely accepted parlance today, democracy is defined, as a minimum, as a system of institutionalized popular sovereignty that plays by majoritarian rules and treats all citizens as equals.
October 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Democracy does not just mean elections. In widely accepted parlance today, democracy is defined, as a minimum, as a system of institutionalized popular sovereignty that plays by majoritarian rules and treats all citizens as equals.
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You wouldn't necessarily need to increase the size if you weren't adopting a method like German-style mixed multimember proportional. The states with one member delegations wouldn't get proportional outcomes, but you'd still see a big change in Congress overall
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
You wouldn't necessarily need to increase the size if you weren't adopting a method like German-style mixed multimember proportional. The states with one member delegations wouldn't get proportional outcomes, but you'd still see a big change in Congress overall
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Interesting. Makes me realize how much I don't know about the workings of other government types. I always just blindly (now seems foolishly) followed the "our system is best" dogma
💯 Do it. Amend the US Constitution to have Congress selected by parliamentary type elections so that the Speaker of the House functions like a prime minister. House districts based on population such that party with majority chooses the Speaker.
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October 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Interesting. Makes me realize how much I don't know about the workings of other government types. I always just blindly (now seems foolishly) followed the "our system is best" dogma
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It’s only the way every. single. effective. democracy who learned from our mistakes functions. But yeah, maybe we are special and need to be different 👀
💯 Do it. Amend the US Constitution to have Congress selected by parliamentary type elections so that the Speaker of the House functions like a prime minister. House districts based on population such that party with majority chooses the Speaker.
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October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It’s only the way every. single. effective. democracy who learned from our mistakes functions. But yeah, maybe we are special and need to be different 👀
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Agree! The Speaker should have been booted out with a no confidence vote as the state machinery has failed.
💯 Do it. Amend the US Constitution to have Congress selected by parliamentary type elections so that the Speaker of the House functions like a prime minister. House districts based on population such that party with majority chooses the Speaker.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Agree! The Speaker should have been booted out with a no confidence vote as the state machinery has failed.
More and more people are on the train!
💯 Do it. Amend the US Constitution to have Congress selected by parliamentary type elections so that the Speaker of the House functions like a prime minister. House districts based on population such that party with majority chooses the Speaker.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
More and more people are on the train!
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Presidentialism was a mistake
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Presidentialism was a mistake