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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8h

I assume this is the subject of the Wyden letter, right?

Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 14h

Someone In WH Called Russian FSB

May 21, 2025 the NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump.

On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the OIG because Gabbard stopped the report from routine dispatch required by law.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

www.theguardian.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 9h

We are going to win. None of this is sustainable it’s going to implode. They’re openly cruel which normal people hate, and they’re incompetent. We’re going to win this keep the pressure on them.

Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 10h

Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:

Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%

Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 10h

Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:

Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%

Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10h

Awesome! I kept a coffee plant alive in my dorm for a couple of years. I knew it would never fruit but it felt nice to grow something off the beaten path. I forget where I got it.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10h

Next up is Hämäläinen.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10h

Sears is devastating and makes Lee look really bumbling. The facts are the same so obviously he doesn’t look stellar with Guelzo, but comparing a couple versions really brings it out.

Civil War history is an interesting genre. You can have a million books about one battle and it’s totally fine.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 10h

Just finished the Sears Gettysburg book. It’s interesting when you go through a couple books on the same battle how you start to better appreciate differences between authors. Guelzo’s book for example I thought was really great but I didn’t appreciate until Sears how soft Guelzo was on Lee.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 10h

Our little coffee tree seems to have recovered from whatever was troubling it. Still not fruiting, but I only planted it last year. 🌴🌱☕️

Photo:” I took today: a shrubby tree that’s about a foot tall. It’s growing in a volcanic crevice full of mulch and compost.

Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 14h

Someone In WH Called Russian FSB

May 21, 2025 the NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump.

On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the OIG because Gabbard stopped the report from routine dispatch required by law.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

www.theguardian.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 17h

This would be “radical” in the sense that it’s a major change that remakes society but none of it is “radical” in the sense that it would require you to join DSA if you didn’t want to. We’ve had moments where (with varying success) we’ve made leaps like this and we can’t waste them out of timidity.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 17h

We can have Manhattan Projects on climate change, cancer, and Mars. We can hold traitors and insurrectionists responsible for their crimes. We can make major changes to our system of government around statehood, the Senate, and the imperial presidency.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 17h

…a robust wealth tax and still have a liberal market democracy. We will have to reconstruct what has been lost in terms of CRA and VRA and then go further to achieve what was supposed to happen in Reconstruction with reparations. All of this is still in the framework of a liberal market democracy.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 17h

Much of government is dysfunctional, overly means tested, and structurally racist and sexist. We require sweeping reform that would still basically preserve a liberal market democracy with essential social support. Reconstruction around redistribution is the same. We can accomplish so much with…

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 17h

In a lot of ways I fit the “moderate” moniker. Like a lot of economists I’m quite pro-market. I’m a liberal not a leftist. But I think people who are not leftists make the mistake that your policy and politics need to be milquetoast or compromising. In fact there’s a lot of necessary radical change.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 17h

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18h

“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social

We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew.

Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

www.bostonreview.net

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18h

“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social

We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew.

Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

www.bostonreview.net

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

www.nytimes.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like the Virginia map but it’s execrable for Cruz to attack it by appealing to what Texas did unprovoked for no other reason than subverting democracy. Even if I vote against it I have every confidence that Lucas and Spanberger have a commitment to democracy that Cruz has never had.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

I’m curious what other low hanging fruit like that I’m missing.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

In the last year I’ve tried to make/do more from scratch and three huge quality of life improvements have been sprouts, mayonnaise, and focaccia. All are stupid easy and quick. I’ll do it between starting the coffee in the morning and the pot finishing brewing. Dirt cheap and much higher quality.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose you could federally impose fair processes and that would be great. But it can still only ever be a fair process. Getting a definition or enforceable standard for what is “fair” will always be a political thicket.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Getting fair districts is even harder because it’s not clear at all that political gerrymandering is unconstitutional. There’s no legal dues ex machina. The Constitution does not guarantee good policy all the time! So it’s important to create fair processes that generate maps.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

The way you make fair districts is to have broad principles like compactness and following jurisdictional boundaries where possible and thinking about communities of interest. But you can only implement that politically with things like districting commissions.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

It is easy to say districts can’t be malapportioned because we can calculate vote weights and get a good sense of what’s close. It is much harder to have clear standards for fairness besides that. Racial discrimination is somewhat feasible to identify but even that poses complex analytical problems.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

This is really important, it’s Frankfurter’s “political thicket.” His concern was not having the court wade into intractable political choices. But the same problem confronts any national reform. How do we legally define fairness? It’s difficult to impose standards because there are so many options.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

It's true Dems generally support / GOP opposes some kind of national gerrymandering ban. But what that even looks like has lots of devil in the details in terms of what redistricting principles and processes you mandate, which to some degree just kicks the same problem up to a more meta-level.

Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

It's true Dems generally support / GOP opposes some kind of national gerrymandering ban. But what that even looks like has lots of devil in the details in terms of what redistricting principles and processes you mandate, which to some degree just kicks the same problem up to a more meta-level.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

(btw earlier this week my RA, talking about grad school plans, said one place she wanted to apply was Minnesota so she could work with you and she was VERY disappointed when I told her you’re at Upjohn now!)

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

Aaron what authority does the Secretary of Labor have over BLS? Like I know BLS is insulated in the way you say but they’re still housed in DOL. Does that have any impact or does the BLS Commissioner have pretty free reign?

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

Most agencies (DOL, HHS...) operate the way you describe. A cadre of presidential appointees run it, making final policy decisions, talking to press...

BLS is different, designed by Congresses, presidents & agency leaders over the last century & a half to be robust against political interference.

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