Grady Yuthok Short
@shortgrady.bsky.social
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There's an underutilized tool states can use to directly challenge Citizens United and build momentum for legal change. My colleague @jayswanson.bsky.social and I write about the potential for trigger laws in our latest piece.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
State Legislatures Can Push Back Against Citizens United
State lawmakers can fight the influence of big money in politics by passing trigger laws that would go into effect if the Supreme Court’s misguided ruling is reversed.
www.brennancenter.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There's an underutilized tool states can use to directly challenge Citizens United and build momentum for legal change. My colleague @jayswanson.bsky.social and I write about the potential for trigger laws in our latest piece.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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you ever think about how this guy is a professor in good standing in elite colleges
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
you ever think about how this guy is a professor in good standing in elite colleges
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"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan
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During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
I feel like this pic tells a larger story about the political-intellectual role of FedSoc
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I feel like this pic tells a larger story about the political-intellectual role of FedSoc
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in Greenland, the government owns a bunch of businesses--a fishing company that is the largest single employer, a shipping company, a ferry company, several retail and logistics companies, etc, and it all works pretty well?? I traveled there to investigate: prospect.org/world/2025-0...
This Greenland Is Red
The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. What?
prospect.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
in Greenland, the government owns a bunch of businesses--a fishing company that is the largest single employer, a shipping company, a ferry company, several retail and logistics companies, etc, and it all works pretty well?? I traveled there to investigate: prospect.org/world/2025-0...
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Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...
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announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Amazing story www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Amazing story www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
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@sbagen.bsky.social has a somber but timely warning about various 2029 rebuilding efforts. This to me is the key. If future leaders bake imagined political constraints into their planning, there just won’t be much “rebuilding” per se. www.offmessage.net/p/project-20...
September 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
@sbagen.bsky.social has a somber but timely warning about various 2029 rebuilding efforts. This to me is the key. If future leaders bake imagined political constraints into their planning, there just won’t be much “rebuilding” per se. www.offmessage.net/p/project-20...
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the campaign finance advantage of incumbents at all levels of government has declined 25% to 50% over the last decade, driven entirely by individual donors
scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
scholar.google.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
the campaign finance advantage of incumbents at all levels of government has declined 25% to 50% over the last decade, driven entirely by individual donors
scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Can’t help but wonder how many electeds and staffers might misinterpret the percentiles listed here as percent approval
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Can’t help but wonder how many electeds and staffers might misinterpret the percentiles listed here as percent approval
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BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
www.thecity.nyc
August 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
I recently saw Snow Leopard by Pema Tseden, the late Tibetan director. Tense, poignant film that depicts a standoff between some rural Tibetans and Chinese police. When it ended, there was a title card that said something like “Afterwards, the family and police resolved the issue. Things were fine.”
wrote an explainer of how the sausage gets made when it comes to censorship in China, partially to serve as a useful comparative study for America
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/19/c...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/19/c...
A Guide to Censorship in China
Strange processes determine what does—or doesn’t—get published.
foreignpolicy.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I recently saw Snow Leopard by Pema Tseden, the late Tibetan director. Tense, poignant film that depicts a standoff between some rural Tibetans and Chinese police. When it ended, there was a title card that said something like “Afterwards, the family and police resolved the issue. Things were fine.”
“Professor Shenk described the elite Democratic approach to politics as: ‘We deserve an ‘A’ from politics because we’ve ticked all the boxes. Are you proud of me, professor?’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Professor Shenk described the elite Democratic approach to politics as: ‘We deserve an ‘A’ from politics because we’ve ticked all the boxes. Are you proud of me, professor?’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
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New online: an interview with @ositanwanevu.com, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Is America a Democracy? - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
www.dissentmagazine.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New online: an interview with @ositanwanevu.com, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
I remember reading that Murphy at one point became fascinated with the postliberal right, reading Yarvin, Deneen, Ahmari and even listening to Red Scare. For that reason alone he probably has a different understanding of today's GOP than his colleagues'.
lol congressional Dems are working on a bipartisan government funding deal as if everything is normal while Chris Murphy of all people agitates for a shutdown over impoundment. Chris Murphy!
Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship
The politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat is walking away from bipartisan government funding negotiations as his party clamors for a seat at the table.
www.politico.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I remember reading that Murphy at one point became fascinated with the postliberal right, reading Yarvin, Deneen, Ahmari and even listening to Red Scare. For that reason alone he probably has a different understanding of today's GOP than his colleagues'.
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i didn't get into it in my essay on this speech, but beyond the basic incoherence of vance's assorted grievances, i'm struck by how ungrateful *he* is, a man who owes his fame and fortune to the open, cosmopolitan society he is trying to destroy for the sake of power
i love how utterly deranged this screed by the Vice President is
there's so much to unpack here
americanmind.org/salvo/americ...
there's so much to unpack here
americanmind.org/salvo/americ...
American Statesmanship for the Golden Age
We should demand that our people, whether first- or tenth-generation Americans, have gratitude for this country.
americanmind.org
August 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
i didn't get into it in my essay on this speech, but beyond the basic incoherence of vance's assorted grievances, i'm struck by how ungrateful *he* is, a man who owes his fame and fortune to the open, cosmopolitan society he is trying to destroy for the sake of power
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Me, at a party: hello would you like a drink
You, at a party: the west is good
You, at a party: the west is good
August 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Me, at a party: hello would you like a drink
You, at a party: the west is good
You, at a party: the west is good
Horrifying article that also draws attention to the expulsion of the Lhotshampas, who I cannot help but think about whenever I see someone praise Bhutan’s eco-friendliness or “gross national happiness”
Dozens of Bhutanese men ejected from the U.S. are now in refugee camps in Nepal, which doesn’t want them but has nowhere to send them.
Trump Wasn’t the First to Deport These Men, and He Won’t Be the Last
Dozens of Bhutanese men ejected from the United States are now in refugee camps in Nepal, which doesn’t want them but has nowhere to send them.
nyti.ms
August 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Horrifying article that also draws attention to the expulsion of the Lhotshampas, who I cannot help but think about whenever I see someone praise Bhutan’s eco-friendliness or “gross national happiness”
Here’s a map of precinct-level results in the Seattle mayoral primary, as of election night:
August 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Here’s a map of precinct-level results in the Seattle mayoral primary, as of election night: