I guess I read your comment as suggesting Civil Rights pre-1960 election was a counter example to Yglesias' apriori assumptions about public opinions and voting behavior.

Maybe you're interested in exploring how it relates to parties taking and ceding voting blocks?

Kennedy campaign polling saw an opportunity for targeted messaging bifurcating urban Black vote and southern (white) Democrats.
Civil Rights leaders did everything to push public opinion to force Kennedy/LBJ policy
So they mobilized voting bases in the North and did medium-term persuasion nationally

Curious if Kandiaronk is on your radar? (having heard of him from the David Graeber book)

Hegel, or Ethics of Ambiguity (assuming contextualization as part of it)

With on Schumer -- just not for any Mamdani related activities. He's demonstrated hes completely useless in his office

Not saying I agree with any of those actions but they are at the right "level"

That was a Senate colleague where members have power to expel a member (and so implicitly are held somewhat accountable to self policing ethics standards).

Cuomo was a state-level position and she also called on him to resign

I think the thing that's missing about the hard power of the mayor is they can't do a ton alone, historically mayors have asked for power from the council or the state for things they want to do and if it's not crazy then it's given to them.

I don't get why state-level office holders should weigh in on local races. I'd rather they didn't, in general.

Wouldn't non-consolidation in this administration just mean multiple heads all having access to different accounts, and we'd get 5x of these kinds of tweets?

i think that if i organized a “Bouiecon” where people got together and, i don’t know, talked breakfast cereals and the constitution, i could get more than 200 people to show up

I'm not a moral philo either but I feel like removing the ability to use counterfactuals "proves too much." They're both intuitive tools and map directly from how we weigh options.
While we can dispute the value of the war, it seems important: War invites more "crude utilitarianism" than outside it