@drsox.bsky.social
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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Being a racist seems bad for business
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Being a racist seems bad for business
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I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.
(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.
October 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.
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29. That’s why Platner isn’t truly apologizing. That’s why he’s covering the tat up. He *must* put race in the background, especially the race of those he’s courting. If there’s one thing most candidates avoid, it’s reminding white voters they’re white.
www.editorialboard.com/a-nazi-tatto...
www.editorialboard.com/a-nazi-tatto...
A Nazi tattoo can’t keep a good (white) man down
In asking for trust, Graham Platner isn’t invoking the solidarity of class.
www.editorialboard.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
29. That’s why Platner isn’t truly apologizing. That’s why he’s covering the tat up. He *must* put race in the background, especially the race of those he’s courting. If there’s one thing most candidates avoid, it’s reminding white voters they’re white.
www.editorialboard.com/a-nazi-tatto...
www.editorialboard.com/a-nazi-tatto...
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"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases.
people disagree on politics! that's how it works.
deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism
people disagree on politics! that's how it works.
deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases.
people disagree on politics! that's how it works.
deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism
people disagree on politics! that's how it works.
deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism
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My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.
Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
data4democracy.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me
It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.
September 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me
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watch this.
September 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
watch this.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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An Update:
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
September 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
An Update:
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly.
(I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).
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We’re just 6 days away from our last big fundraiser before the election!
If you’re not already excited by our news that @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com and @jazzformayor.bsky.social hold a 10-point lead over Frey, we’ll have Ranked Choice Voting Mayoral yard signs on Sunday!
If you’re not already excited by our news that @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com and @jazzformayor.bsky.social hold a 10-point lead over Frey, we’ll have Ranked Choice Voting Mayoral yard signs on Sunday!
September 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We’re just 6 days away from our last big fundraiser before the election!
If you’re not already excited by our news that @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com and @jazzformayor.bsky.social hold a 10-point lead over Frey, we’ll have Ranked Choice Voting Mayoral yard signs on Sunday!
If you’re not already excited by our news that @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com and @jazzformayor.bsky.social hold a 10-point lead over Frey, we’ll have Ranked Choice Voting Mayoral yard signs on Sunday!
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The Abundance crowd LOVES masked agents kidnapping delivery drivers and snatching children away from their families
September 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Abundance crowd LOVES masked agents kidnapping delivery drivers and snatching children away from their families
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when you come right out with "the Left got too extreme in 2020"... that is a YOU problem, bro
September 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
when you come right out with "the Left got too extreme in 2020"... that is a YOU problem, bro
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In the archives of most US politicians from the post WWII era are folders labeled "Crackpot letters." The crackpot letter files contained correspondence staffers decided was not worth responding to. What seemed marginal then, is now our present reality. rightlandia.ghost.io/i-read-a-box...
I read a box and a half of "crackpot letters" in Tom McCall's archive and all you got was this newsletter
Or, how I found some politically meaningful stories in a place Oregon's Republican Governor thought there weren't any
rightlandia.ghost.io
August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In the archives of most US politicians from the post WWII era are folders labeled "Crackpot letters." The crackpot letter files contained correspondence staffers decided was not worth responding to. What seemed marginal then, is now our present reality. rightlandia.ghost.io/i-read-a-box...
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My favorite WaPo fact-check is the one where they gave Bernie three Pinocchios for accurately citing a study.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
August 20, 2024 at 5:17 PM
My favorite WaPo fact-check is the one where they gave Bernie three Pinocchios for accurately citing a study.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...