🦃 Seth Masket 🦃
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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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What are you kidding? The first episode of "Death by Lightning" is the 1880 Republican Convention? How does this not have a porn warning?
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What are you kidding? The first episode of "Death by Lightning" is the 1880 Republican Convention? How does this not have a porn warning?
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Just getting dinner onto the table for the kiddos, will deal with this later.
Trump: "We had a guy named Buttigieg. Boot-edge-edge they say is the best way. Just say two 'edges' like off the edge of a cliff — which is where they were taking us, by the way."
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just getting dinner onto the table for the kiddos, will deal with this later.
I'm curious how he defines "hold fiercely accountable."
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I'm curious how he defines "hold fiercely accountable."
I've got a real treat for y'all tomorrow. Denver 9News' Kyle Clark will be joining me for a live conversation on Tusk. That's 11/11 at noon MST / 2 EST. Kyle is an awesome and thoughtful journalist and we're going to discuss how the media have been changing. Hope you'll join in!
Live interview with Kyle Clark!
Join me Tuesday at 12pm MST
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I've got a real treat for y'all tomorrow. Denver 9News' Kyle Clark will be joining me for a live conversation on Tusk. That's 11/11 at noon MST / 2 EST. Kyle is an awesome and thoughtful journalist and we're going to discuss how the media have been changing. Hope you'll join in!
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
[Avengers reverse the Snap and have all their heroes and all of Wakanda's army arrayed against Thanos]
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
[Avengers reverse the Snap and have all their heroes and all of Wakanda's army arrayed against Thanos]
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
Cap: "Okay *now* we surrender"
Trump: No one stands up to Trump.
Senate Dems: No one stands up to Trump.
Bipartisanship at last!
Senate Dems: No one stands up to Trump.
Bipartisanship at last!
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Trump: No one stands up to Trump.
Senate Dems: No one stands up to Trump.
Bipartisanship at last!
Senate Dems: No one stands up to Trump.
Bipartisanship at last!
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
These Senate Dems are all "Now we can roll up our sleeves and begin the hard work of sitting down with our colleagues and having a real dialogue about doing the business that the people sent us here to do with common sense solutions to the problems that everyday Americans..." shut up shut up shut up
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
These Senate Dems are all "Now we can roll up our sleeves and begin the hard work of sitting down with our colleagues and having a real dialogue about doing the business that the people sent us here to do with common sense solutions to the problems that everyday Americans..." shut up shut up shut up
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
The 2026 primaries could be the bloodbath Dem incumbents largely avoided in 2018
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The 2026 primaries could be the bloodbath Dem incumbents largely avoided in 2018
I've got a rare treat for y'all this Tuesday: I'll be interviewing 9News Denver's Kyle Clark on a Substack Live session! (@kylec.bsky.social) I hope you can you join in. It'll be 11/11 at noon MST. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I've got a rare treat for y'all this Tuesday: I'll be interviewing 9News Denver's Kyle Clark on a Substack Live session! (@kylec.bsky.social) I hope you can you join in. It'll be 11/11 at noon MST. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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jfc
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
jfc
Bartels did a study 20+ years ago looking at how much a member of Congress' record coincided with their constituents' views, broken down by income. MCs are a lot more responsive to their wealthier constituents. Think about whom SNAP and flight delays affect. www.russellsage.org/sites/defaul...
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Bartels did a study 20+ years ago looking at how much a member of Congress' record coincided with their constituents' views, broken down by income. MCs are a lot more responsive to their wealthier constituents. Think about whom SNAP and flight delays affect. www.russellsage.org/sites/defaul...
All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win
“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win
When you're too much of a squish for Ritchie Torres
The proposal is “not a deal," says Democratic U.S. House Rep. Ritchie Torres.
"It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.”
buff.ly/9aW3zLz
"It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.”
buff.ly/9aW3zLz
Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies
Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
When you're too much of a squish for Ritchie Torres
Yes all this
Okay I'll try a premature thread.
So first of all, *the details matter*. We know they didn't get their full demands, but we don't have the full deal, and once more, the details matter. Dems may have won real concessions or not. We don't know yet.
So first of all, *the details matter*. We know they didn't get their full demands, but we don't have the full deal, and once more, the details matter. Dems may have won real concessions or not. We don't know yet.
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Yes all this
He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
Democrats are trying to make Trump look heartless. So is Trump.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Democrats are trying to make Trump look heartless. So is Trump.
“Flouting convention”
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“Flouting convention”
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Cornell, like other capitulators, shamefully justifies this by saying it preserves *our* independence. Even if that were true, it is pure moral cowardice to take the every-institution-for-itself approach when extortionist is rampaging through our academic community.
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Cornell, like other capitulators, shamefully justifies this by saying it preserves *our* independence. Even if that were true, it is pure moral cowardice to take the every-institution-for-itself approach when extortionist is rampaging through our academic community.
My son ten years ago using what was about to become the main way Americans got their news
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My son ten years ago using what was about to become the main way Americans got their news