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A lot of right leaning folks thought they could win over MAGA, pitch them on high skill immigration, building more stuff, making America great via funding lots of science, etc Instead Trump loves NIMBYs, kills science funding, guts high skill immigration, full nativist degrowth

A policy that could win young men is making it illegal for Draft Kings to ban you if you win too much. I'm being 100% unironic. Meet the voters where they are: their self-destructive lifestyles.

Then they came for the political scientists, but I had already laid them off.

My very hot take: CBO is basically the most functional component of the legislative branch. The staff are super smart, non-partisan (their analysis annoys both Ds and Rs), and prolific--putting out incredibly helpful public materials and backup data. It's Congress's jewel.

<spock voice> "intriguing"

A thing you learn instantly upon joining the General Assembly, says state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D., Philly), is that "you can't do a damn thing by yourself."

and im surprised it took Trump this long to say this!

What a day to have the hard copy of an article titled: "How to oppose a president like Trump?" arrive. This is in the latest PS Today from APSA.

Love Substack but pretty sure a 37 year old New York Times reporter can say the Ernst comment was dumb?

She’s right. 🤷‍♂️

You mean to tell me that the emerging techno-libertarian and national-corporatist coalition is breaking down over something as minor as their fundamentally irreconcilable political interests?

I’m going to start teaching this figure like a presidential election horse race poll summary.

Nationalizing SpaceX is a no-brainer for any US administration.

The price you pay for working in politics is everyone else has an opinion about what you do that is just as valid as yours — even if you are the Speaker of the House. Most of us know this and have the good taste not to whine about it in public

This new spending in the OBBB is all nice-to-haves if we were on stable fiscal footing. But we're not. Pushing these while running wartime level deficits, with interest rates near 5% and lingering inflationary pressures, is out of touch with economic reality.

When we talk about needing to increase funding for leg branch to boost its capacity this is the scale we are talking about. Many critical leg branch organizations have budgets smaller/not much beyond that of a parade.

Menswear Guy is a member of my community and I want him here. It’s that simple.

Similar to how Hong Kong is surrounded by water, reducing the supply of developable land, many North American cities are surrounded by an ocean of single family zoning. A net positive for the transit operator / property developer model, should elected officials empower them?

I'm not sure this helps John Thune's mandate to "Pass it By the Fourth of July" that he's been getting from the White House.

Funny to think that this convoluted nonsense is the best counter argument to single-payer they can come up with