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Matt Duss

@mattduss

EVP at @CIPolicy. Co-host of @UnDiplomaticPod. Former foreign policy advisor for @SenSanders. Opinions my own.

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linkhttps://internationalpolicy.org/ calendar_today18-01-2009 15:14:33

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If a politician tells you they can improve your life without taking on the concentrated power of the ruling class, they are phoney. Either they are stupid or they think you're stupid.

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Over the past year, we have shared stories that matter. Now, all of Theogony's work is under threat. In the coming days, the school board will vote on policy that censors us. We need your help: tinyurl.com/SaveTheogony

Damon Linker (@damonlinker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm substantively pleased about this. Waltz is full-spectrum hawk from the c. 2012 era of GOP foreign policy thinking: Threaten war everywhere to maintain primacy. I thought that was stupid then. It may be even stupider now. (Going to war with Iran wd certainly be stupid.)

Murtaza Hussain (@mazmhussain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FDD are smart people — they don’t emotionally react to attacks, but instead claim that they’re on the same side while sliding in their own extreme preferences (what “nuclear weapons facilities”?) and offering more dialogue to get powerful decision makers back on side.

Jeremy Konyndyk is at jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social (@jeremykonyndyk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This will be a total disaster. Utterly inefficient way to provide aid. Unsafe and unethical to make badly malnourished people move (many on foot) through insecure territory to retrieve aid. The aim here is not to cut out Hamas - it's to cut out the humanitarian groups.

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Starmer misinterpreted Labour's 2024 victory as a mandate to exhume and reanimate a zombie Blair/Clinton "third way" neoliberalism, offering Conservative Lite austerity and militarism instead of a solidaristic governing agenda. Democrats shouldn't make the same mistake.

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Everyone should be clear that the dumb, pointless, counterproductive, time-wasting fight over the word oligarchy is one centrists have picked with the left because they don’t have an actually good, let alone inspiring, agenda to mobilize around.

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"It's an obvious Commie trick, Mr. President. We are wasting valuable time! Look at the big board, they're getting ready to clobber us!"

Bernie Sanders (@sensanders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Billionaires like Trump and Musk don’t have a clue what it means for working families when it becomes too expensive to buy your kid a birthday present.

Matt Duss (@mattduss) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People should understand how completely off the rails a member of Congress has to go for that many staffers to sound the alarm to a journalist.

Matt Duss (@mattduss) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump kneecapping his party’s hawkish interventionist wing is an objectively good thing. It would be great if Democrats had a 2028 candidate interested in doing the same.

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“Rubio’s esteem has risen in Trump’s eyes since the former senator has abandoned many of his past policy views” politico.com/news/2025/05/0…

Damon Linker (@damonlinker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The best way to understand this stuff is on an analogy to gladiatorial contests: it's bread and circuses for the MAGA masses. Trump whips up the crowd, by being absurdly comical and triggering normies into fits of apoplexy about him.

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Consider the amount of time and energy the Biden team wasted on this. Literally up to the last month of his administration. Absurd.

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"On May Day, we seek to use the power of our labor to make our radical demand—a decent standard of living for the working class—common sense," writes Shawn Fain. thenation.com/article/activi…