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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

Sorry...did someone say...Banks on the Brink?! 🤔😂

Matt Smith

@mattsmith_news

1 year

House GOP on call tonight to discuss next steps in bank collapse Rep. Bryan Steil, member of House Financial Services, if any other banks are on the brink: "Obviously, there's handful that have some unique exposure and, in particular, were subject to bad management..."

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

5 years

Very pleased to see Scott Walker finally pay respect to dedicated public employees - all graduates of well-funded public universities - who achieved miraculous things as part of a government program financed with sufficient tax revenue.

Scott Walker

@ScottWalker

5 years

This is one of the many moments that makes us proud to be Americans 🇺🇸 #Apollo11 #Apollo50th #apollo11anniversary

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Mark Copelovitch

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2 years

Perfect time for the media to finally ask Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and Susan Collins why they continue to oppose important and widely popular public investments and why they continue to align themselves politically with the far right authoritarians.

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Mark Copelovitch

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2 years

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" Truly, congrats everyone. It takes concerted effort to fail this epically & completely.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

5 years

The government is not a business, universal public education is one of the greatest achievements in American history, our public universities are the envy of the world, and this is pathetic nonsense from an Education Secretary.

The Hill

@thehill

5 years

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: "Government has never made anything better or cheaper, more effective or more efficient. And nowhere is that more true than in education."

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

Reminder that Bernie Sanders’ policy positions, on almost every issue, are far closer to the median voter’s than Nikki Haley’s.

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

3 years

Time to face the harsh reality, socialist Bernie Sanders will become the chairman of the Sen Budget Committee. He has vowed to use his position to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending, & cutting defense spending. @standamericanow

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

We call this move “reverse emails” and it has been going on for seven years now, because <all together now> “Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Stu Levitan

@StuLevitan

1 year

Yes, the @nytimes put news of a Supreme Court Justice committing what is called "a direct violation of disclosure requirements" on page A-19. Nineteen. Page 19.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

5 months

Happy 2024. Since we're still pretzeling ourselves to explain why folks think the economy is bad despite all the data, here's the latest update of media coverage of inflation/recession vs unemployment/recovery, thru 12/31/23. The truly astounding imbalances persist even in Q423.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

6 years

Now two days in a row. Happening all over again.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

13 days

Either this is the performative public lying that is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, or this is a US Senator divulging classified military intelligence on national television, jeopardizing US national security.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

13 days

Josh Hawley says that US soldiers are currently secretly in Ukraine (big if true!)

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

A reminder that, in actual functioning republics, even the far right parties don't engage in the level of authoritarian nonsense of today's GOP. No attempts to restrict suffrage. No lies about nonexistent voter fraud. No refusal to concede. No ex post coup attempts.

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

Marine Le Pen concedes defeat to Emmanuel Macron in France's presidential election - but adds that the result is still a "victory" for her political movement. The projected result from Ipsos saw Macron get 58.2% of votes compared to Le Pen's 41.8%. Live:

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

This is basically the bare minimum response we should be expecting right now from our elected officials, & only Romney, among the entire GOP, seems able to clear the bar.

Igor Bobic

@igorbobic

1 year

Romney says Trump "brought these charges upon himself" “By all appearances, the Justice Department and special counsel have exercised due care, affording Mr. Trump the time and opportunity to avoid charges that would not generally have been afforded to others."

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

Today ends w/ Joe Biden not yet elected, Donald Trump neither impeached nor removed under the 25th amendment, & those who stormed the Capitol not arrested. You don't have to ask <if> or <when> American democracy will backslide. It already has, to unprecedented levels, today.

David Darmofal

@david_darmofal

3 years

No more votes expected tonight.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

Today in “Joe Biden is good at politics”

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 year

@DougJBalloon lmao Biden leaves the podium by putting on shades and making a Dark Brandon reference. amazing

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 years

Dreams and Nightmares

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 years

In functioning democracies, you just count the ballots. All of them. & you don't change the rules about how & when to vote days before the election. B/c, in functioning democracies, major political parties don't make restricting suffrage a central pillar of their policy platform.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 months

Periodic reminder that Joe Biden, on both policy & personnel, is the president that you thought Barack Obama would be

Jennifer Bendery

@jbendery

2 months

Biden announced 7 more judicial nominees this morning. All to district courts. One of them, Danna Jackson, is a tribal attorney for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, MT. If confirmed, she'd be the first Native American lifetime federal judge in MT.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

Wisconsin is not a democracy by any meaningful definition of the word

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

🧵👇 The asymmetry of the “asymmetric polarization” is so asymmetric that the very concept & term obscures the important reality: one party has collapsed into far right authoritarianism, and the other one remains a replacement-level center-left pro-democracy party.

Thomas Zimmer

@tzimmer_history

3 years

The problem is that even when it comes with the qualifier "asymmetric," the term "polarization" still implies *both sides* moving towards the extremes at least to a somewhat significant degree (that is certainly how the term is used in the broader public discourse). 39/

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

6 months

Quite literally, @GregTSargent is the person @washingtonpost could least afford to lose. He’s been the single most essential journalist on the democracy beat for years. Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

6 months

Well, looks like the news is out: This is my last week at @washingtonpost . I was offered a voluntary buyout and I accepted it. My deepest thanks to all the great people at @PostOpinions and the rest of the paper -- it was a privilege and an inspiration to work with all of you.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

9 months

Once again, I invite you to consider the weeks-long National Conversation™️ about "civility" that we would be forced to endure if a single Democrat ever spoke like this about even a single municipal-level Republican anywhere in the country.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

9 months

Trump sneers about Nancy Pelosi, whose husband was assaulted by a deranged MAGA: "How's her husband doing, anybody know?" He adds that the wall around her house "didn't do a very good job."

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 months

I know I'm a broken record, but it's mind-boggling to look at this graph side-by-side with this chart of the volume of media coverage on inflation/recession vs jobs/recovery. Just a staggering imbalance. And then we pretend to puzzle over why folks think the economy is terrible.

Gregory Daco

@GregDaco

4 months

🇺🇸January #jobsreport : BOOM but handle with care! ✅Payrolls +353k 🟢Private +317k 🟢Goods +28k 🟢Svc +289k 🟢Gov +36k ✅Diffusion 66% ✅Revision +126k 🔻Hours -0.6% ✅ #Unemployment 3.7% (flat) ✅Part rate 62.5% (flat) 💵Wages +0.6% m/m 🔥Growth 4.5% y/y (+0.2pt)

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 year

Chuck Grassley is on Fox News accusing Biden of involvement in a bribery scheme. But when pressed for details, he says, "we gotta wait." Sounds legit.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

6 years

@musepolsci At least 5 stories more important as ongoing front page news than "same low level of migrants flowing toward US border": 1. Trump seems to have committed massive tax fraud 2. Trump's serial lying 3. Saudi Arabia/Kashoggi 4. Trump w/d from INF treaty 5. Wilbur Ross rigging census

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

In functioning democracies - where all major parties are mainstream parties committed to the principle that it is legitimate for all other mainstream parties to win elections & govern - Senators don't have to make announcements about this vote.

Manu Raju

@mkraju

3 years

Sen. Lisa Murkowski: “I will vote to affirm the 2020 presidential election. The courts and state legislatures have all honored their duty to hear legal allegations and have found nothing to warrant overturning the results. I urge my colleagues from both parties to recognize this”

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

Normal pro-democracy political parties try to win elections & govern according to their political philosophy. Much like they don't make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, they don't make "destroying" alternative political views a key political goal.

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

1 year

Desantis says Good Morning: “I will serve two terms, and I will be able to destroy leftism in this country.”

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 years

When far right authoritarian parties show you who they are, over and over again, believe them

Mike DeBonis

@mikedebonis

4 years

Read the results of our survey of congressional Republicans on presidential election resulted: Only 26 of 249 public acknowledge Biden as the winner, via @pkcapitol @sfcpoll & a cast of dozens

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day to all who celebrate. Which should be all of us. May his memory be a blessing.

40 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war

On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 years

The scandals that should end any presidency immediately now occur on a daily basis without consequence. Today in life under competitive authoritarianism.

Jesse Lehrich

@JesseLehrich

4 years

MA received 17% of requested medical supplies from the Trump admin. ME: 5%. CO: 1 day's worth. FL got everything they requested. + an identical shipment the next week. oh, and a 3rd is on the way.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

Counterpoint: it quite obviously and clearly doesn’t transcend politics

Lawrence H. Summers

@LHSummers

1 year

The most disturbing set of data on America that I have encountered in a long time. This transcends politics. This is especially scary remembering that demographics were the best early warning on the collapse of the USSR.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

What if, and hear me out, we hadn’t steadily defunded public higher education for five decades, & hadn’t allowed the far right authoritarian party to dominate the National Coversation™️ with the twin false narratives about radical leftist indoctrination & campus speech crises?

Chris Murphy 🟧

@ChrisMurphyCT

2 years

Those that believe a college degree is very important is down from 70% to 50%. This should be a blinking red warning light for the higher ed industry. The model is broken - too many schools today are too expensive with not enough ROI. Time for reform.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

11 months

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

11 months

here's Rand Paul making shit up on Fox News (Trump was not indicted for his statements about the election -- he was indicted for conspiring to disenfranchise voters)

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

12 days

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

12 days

"I didn't say 'lock her up'" -- Trump, on Fox & Friends and facing possible jail time, tries to distance himself from the ubiquitous "lock her up" chants about Hillary Clinton at her rallies

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

5 months

One can argue the tone's shifted, & that's likely true on inflation & recession since Oct, but framing even the good economic news through the lenses of inflation/recession still shapes public opinion. And the near total lack of coverage of the unprecedented recovery is shocking.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

6 years

Having now abdicated our leadership role in designing TPP and begun a trade war harming American consumers and producers, we should now rejoin the TPP on others' terms? Truly, there is 8-dimensional chess going on here...

Molly Beck

@MollyBeck

6 years

President Trump directs advisers to look into rejoining the the Trans-Pacific Partnership to protect farmers from trade war

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

MUSK: libs have the woke mind virus NYT ... MUSK: I'm literally urging you to vote Republican NYT ... MUSK: *high-fives every far right account on Twitter* NYT: ... MUSK: I support Ron DeSantis NYT ... MUSK: *reinstates a slew of Nazis* NYT: It's unclear what he stands for

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

Congratulations to Jeffrey Sachs on receiving the John J. Mearsheimer Award for Demonstrating To People Who You Really Are

Orbán Viktor

@PM_ViktorOrban

2 years

Great meeting with @Columbia professor and star economist Jeffrey Sachs. He shares my concerns about the war in 🇺🇦, we must avoid further escalation before it’s too late. Thank you for the visit, Professor!

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

Today's reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in American politics, dating back at least to Iran-Contra, is because there is absolutely no accountability or consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening.

Michael Knigge

@kniggem

3 years

Not sure John Bolton needs to be one of the first people to be interviewed on the fall of Kabul by NPR’s Morning Edition.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 month

Once again, if I were a journalist or editor at one of our country's major news outlets, this would cause me to react in complete horror & engage in serious reflection about my industry's apparent inability (unwillingness) to perform its core function:

Mohamed A. El-Erian

@elerianm

1 month

Per the latest FT-Michigan Ross poll: “Joe Biden’s re-election prospects are being dogged by persistent fears over #inflation , with 80 per cent of voters saying high prices are one of their biggest financial challenges.” “Aside from anxiety about inflation, the poll also found

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

5 years

Aside from the shameful, inexcusable treatment of a NATO ally, this is also about gender. A powerful, intelligent woman rightly called out the nonsense as nonsense in public and now he is angry, using the same language as he has for Clinton, Harris, Pelosi, etc.

Daniel Dale

@ddale8

5 years

Trump says the prime minister of Denmark was “nasty” and “inappropriate” by publicly rejecting his unsolicited proposal to buy Greenland in the way she did. He says she could’ve just said no, and he’s not going to let her talk to him that way.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

11 months

I invite you consider the headline we would be reading if a <Democratic majority> state legislature blatantly defied the explicit ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States of America

Chris “Law Dork” Geidner

@chrisgeidner

11 months

What is the matter with you, @nytimes ?

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

11 months

Why "but"? Why do we always frame/imply that public sector jobs are somehow bad/less good than private ones? The government is the country's largest employer. People are working. Public services are important. Etc. Also, guess what never recovered from the Great Recession?

Heather Long

@byHeatherLong

11 months

US gained 209,000 jobs in June, but 30% of that was gov't jobs. Some industries did lay off. Gov +60,000 Healthcare +41,000 Social assist +24,000 Construction +23,000 Biz +21,000 Hospitality +21,000 Transport/Warehouse -7,000 Retail -11,000 Temp help -13,000

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

5 months

Today in “Joe Biden is good at politics” and “Joe Biden is the president you thought Barack Obama would be”

Will Stancil

@whstancil

5 months

Life is complicated and full of surprises. One of those surprises is that the very old guy who spent his entire life as a kind of opportunistic moderate has been an extraordinarily successful policy president who has expediently welcomed progressive voices into his administration

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

10 months

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party ( #2388 ):

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

10 months

"We're gonna shoot 'em stone cold dead" -- DeSantis again promises extrajudicial violence at the border

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

8 months

🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Once again, I invite you to consider how the national media would be covering 3.8% unemployment and 33 straight months of job growth if Donald Trump were still president.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

wOrKeR sHoRtAGe

Joe Weisenthal

@TheStalwart

3 years

Incredible. One of the most crucial links in the supply chain, has been for years, built on the premise that some workers would provide labor for free.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 years

Daily reminder that, in functioning democracies, major political parties do not make restricting suffrage a central pillar of their policy platform

Chuck Lindell

@chucklindell

4 years

In new petition, GOP candidates and state Rep. Toth ask Texas Supreme Court to REJECT Harris County votes cast in drive-thru lanes (100,000+ so far), calling it illegal curbside voting reserved for sick/disabled. A new argument after earlier bid to end drive-thru voting failed.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 years

If your party can’t survive voting by mail, the problem is not the mail.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

MAIL-IN VOTING WILL LEAD TO MASSIVE FRAUD AND ABUSE. IT WILL ALSO LEAD TO THE END OF OUR GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS TRAGEDY BEFALL OUR NATION. BIG MAIL-IN VICTORY IN TEXAS COURT TODAY. CONGRATS!!!

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

Today’s reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in American politics - dating back at least Iran-Contra, but really to 1865 - is because there are never any actual consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in American politics

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 year

New in PN: If you want to see how attorneys who participated in Trump's coup attempt aren't being held accountable and in some cases are even being rewarded, just look to Wisconsin and what the conservative majority on the state's Supreme Court is up to.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

4 years

Again, this is mostly a category mistake. The problem is our political institutions, not American individualism. Supermajorities of Americans favor the economic & public health policies we need to crush COVID. But our electoral & legislative institutions empower the other third.

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦

@ASlavitt

4 years

We are asking Americans to defy how we’ve been trained. We bestow everyone here with the belief that if we look out for ourselves, capitalism & individualism will somehow benefit society. While that strategy has created great wealth, it has made for a selfish nation.5/

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

The signal amidst the inflation hysteria noise (). It's nearly impossible to overstate how good this news is, or how insane the obsession over modest inflation that may last two years is for such a remarkable & total labor market recovery this time around.

David Beckworth

@DavidBeckworth

2 years

The Gross Labor Income Gap is almost closed!

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

New update of the Inflation/Recession Hysteria media coverage chart. In case you thought the balance might improve as inflation ebbs & the job market keeps hammering on all cylinders, well...no wHy dOeS eVeRyOnE tHiNk ThE eCoNoMy iS TeRriBLe? Verily, it's a total mystery 🧐🤷‍♂️

Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

1 year

Why does everyone think the economy is so terrible, amidst an unprecedentedly rapid & total recovery, historically low unemployment, & no decline in real income since 2020? Verily, it's a complete conundrum. A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

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@mcopelov

1 month

Once again, the central cleavage in American politics in 2024 seems to be over the answer to the question, "Who was actually president in 2020?"

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 month

the unemployment rate four years ago was over 13 percent. it's now under 4 percent.

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@mcopelov

11 months

Your regular reminder that this absolute & egregiously anti-democratic nonsense doesn’t happen in an actual democracy/republic anywhere else in the world. It raises serious & deeply uncomfortable questions about whether 🇺🇸 should even be described by these terms.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

Counterpoint: this is literally everything wrong w/ modern 🇺🇸 journalism. The frame. The focus on personalities. It’s all ~5th-order & does ~nothing to inform readers about the 🇺🇦 situation. Totally bereft of policy details. We desperately need something different from the media.

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@mcopelov

2 years

22 months later, & he’s out here actively participating in nat’l politics days before another election, w/o any consequence at all. Just a total failure of institutions Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Acyn

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2 years

Trump: That means Mike Pence should have sent it back to the legislature, he should have done that, a good man but he should have done it. He made a mistake. He had bad advice

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 months

No. Stop it. He withdrew from the JCPOA, which was disastrous for multiple reasons, including the fact that it has directly contributed to <gestures at everything>

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

What if I told you... 1. That somewhere between 650K & 850K people died during an incomparably stupid war of secession, launched to preserve chattel slavery, in the 1860s? 2. That other, perfectly functional, actual democracies also have social media?

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@mcopelov

1 month

At some point, we’ll find out in full detail about the Biden administration’s nonstop behind-the-scenes work to resolve this crisis & prevent a wider Middle Eastern war bw 🇮🇱 & 🇮🇷, & the “Joe Biden is doing a genocide” crowd is going to look even more ridiculous than they do now.

Steven Mazie

@stevenmazie

1 month

Cease-fire deal w hostage release reportedly imminent

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

10 months

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, and the law professors who enable them

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

10 months

Jonathan Turley claims that when Trump asked Georgia officials to find votes for him, he was just making a case for a recount. A disgrace to George Washington University.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

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Just going to keep RT this chart all day long while we puzzle over this Great Mystery of Our Age The average voter, if they’ve heard anything at all about the economy since Joe Biden took office, has heard ~nothing at all about unemployment/jobs or the rapid recovery 🧐🤷‍♂️🤔

Nicholas Grossman

@NGrossman81

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56% of Americans say the US is in recession, which it isn't, but that's a technical term, and maybe some mean "things are expensive." But 49% thinking the stock market is down when it's way up, and 49% that unemployment is at a 50-year high when it's near a 50-year low, is crazy.

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@mcopelov

11 months

I could have sworn we were deeply concerned about free speech and viewpoint diversity on college campuses 🤔🤷‍♂️

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn

11 months

Here is a basic chronology of what happened in the Texas A&M case, where the Lt Governor Dan Patrick contacted the Chancellor to demand action over comments a professor made in a lecture.

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@mcopelov

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A drama in two acts

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@mcopelov

1 year

Aside from the obvious cruelty, the other point of the reactionary hysteria is to destroy public education.

Catherine Rampell

@crampell

1 year

“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” a Florida teacher told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”

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It’s almost impossible to overstate the shocking contempt these tweets show for college students. The idea that they might think for themselves, arrive at different political/policy views, & choose on their own to vote seems not to even cross his mind.

Scott Walker

@ScottWalker

1 year

Money helped the liberal candidate get & build an early lead in the WI Supreme Court race. But look how Dane Co - home of @UWMadison - had more votes cast than the larger Milwaukee Co. Plus, look at the margins. Liberals are indoctrinating young people & turning them out to vote.

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

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Democracy, per Przeworski's classic definition, "is a system in which parties lose elections." Once that is no longer accepted by all parties, we're no longer a democracy. That's where we're headed, w/o either a massive GOP reversal, a new center-right party, or major reform.

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@mcopelov

2 years

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Jamison Foser

@jamisonfoser

2 years

This is an article about a bunch of Republican insurrectionists running for congress — and the New York Times headline & subhead portray them as “remarkable” military heroes “challenging old ideas.” Absolutely disgusting.

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@mcopelov

3 years

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

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@mcopelov

1 year

One key component of the case for having more actual politicians & non-judges on the Court, as regularly happened in past eras of 🇺🇸 history, is that those people were far more aware of & honest about their inescapable role as inherently political actors in our political system.

b-boy bouiebaisse

@jbouie

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supreme court brain is a bipartisan affliction. decades of isolation on top of decades in law offices and legal academia is a recipe for a warped sense of perspective

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@mcopelov

2 years

This website is free

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@mcopelov

4 years

My view on the Bari Weiss resignation is that we need immediate European-style wage/firm subsidies & massive federal aid for state/local governments/higher education, so people can stay home, schools can eventually reopen, & we can finally get the raging pandemic under control.

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@mcopelov

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👇🎯 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

9 days

4 years ago when Trump wouldn't commit to accepting the election results, it was a big scandal that dominated headlines. Now, Republicans are saying "we'll see" about accepting the results on a daily basis and are met with shrugs. This is how authoritarianism becomes normalized.

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@mcopelov

2 years

"JoE BiDeN hOlDs a TrUmP rALLy" Actual journalists at one of the country's premier newspapers actually wrote this. We're doomed.

Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

2 years

No, really, congrats everyone, on our National Conversation™️ about whether Joe Biden misspoke re: the nature of the threat to our democracy & whether his speech was too political. Truly, well done. A banner week for media outlets across the nation. iS tHiS sEmI-fAsCiSm? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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@mcopelov

2 years

Counterpoint: Exactly as with the last two hearings, this one, too, symbolized the shocking decay of an American institution: a once-great center-right pro-democracy party that has completely and utterly collapsed into far right authoritarianism.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

The hearings for Trump’s last 2 SCOTUS nominees were huge media spectacles that, for different reasons, symbolized the shocking decay of American institutions under his watch. Blessedly, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing has not been that.

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@mcopelov

2 years

Today in “we can be a republic of laws and rights for all, or we can be a Christian theocracy, but we can’t be both.”

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn

2 years

The "pornographic" books included Ta-Nehisi Coates "Between the World and Me" which takes the form of a letter written to his child. Lesson #1 : The book banners are zealots who think they are reasonable.

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@mcopelov

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🇺🇸 living standards literally <never> recovered from the GFC over 14 years of a Lost Decade+ (). We've now completely recovered & passed pre-COVID levels in ~two years. And the national conversation about the economy is that there is 7% inflation 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

The average American lost a lifetime income value of $70,000 due to the austerity of the Lost Decade, but do enjoy this article about slightly higher turkey & foil pan prices, which buries the actual lead that this is reversion after last year’s declines:

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@mcopelov

4 years

Periodic reminder that, in functioning democracies, major political parties do not make restricting suffrage a central pillar of their policy platform, and all of the ballots are counted.

WMTV 15 News

@wmtv15news

4 years

JUST IN: A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin.

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@mcopelov

1 year

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

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@mcopelov

3 years

A GOP official's term has expired. He refuses to step down & the legislature refuses to approve the Democratic governor's nominees. You don't have to ask <if> or <when> American democracy will backslide. This sort of absolute nonsense doesn't happen in actual democracies.

Nick Fleisher

@nickfleisher

3 years

In other words, there is no legal remedy for nullification via personal intransigence (Prehn) and weaponized delay (senate). Wisconsin is a shitshow.

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@mcopelov

4 years

In functioning democracies, the chief executive does not remain in office when saying things like this after 200,000 people have died.

Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla

4 years

“The virus affects virtually nobody. It’s an amazing thing.” (via @TPMLiveWire )

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@mcopelov

3 years

CNN: "The hangup right now [to calling in the National Guard] involves the Department of Defense, because this is a change of mission order." And now you understand why the purge in the last few weeks involving DOD staff occurred.

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@mcopelov

7 years

For all those times you heard about how a president undermined US national security: This is what it actually looks like in practice.

Daniel W. Drezner

@dandrezner

7 years

I didn't think Trump's NATO visit could have gone worse. I was wrong.

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4 years

Daily reminder that, in functioning democracies, major political parties do not make restricting suffrage a central pillar of their policy platform

Texas Tribune

@TexasTribune

4 years

In the latest GOP effort to restrict voting options in Harris County, a largely Democratic county that is Texas' most populous, the Texas Republican Party filed a lawsuit asking a court to limit curbside voting and halt drive-thru voting programs.

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@mcopelov

2 months

👇🎯 Today in "Joe Biden is good at politics"

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 months

aside from everything else off putting going on here, the notion that it's possible to defeat an incumbent POTUS who pulled out all the stops to win (including a coup attempt) without any political talent is so transparently absurd that it's discrediting for all parties involved

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1 year

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Michael Hobbes

@RottenInDenmark

1 year

are we seriously still doing this shit

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@mcopelov

2 years

Strange how we never discussed fairness when cutting the UW System budget by $500M, passing billions in regressive tax cuts, or giving FoxConn all that money to do ~nothing 🤷‍♂️

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@mcopelov

2 years

No, really, congrats everyone, on our National Conversation™️ about whether Joe Biden misspoke re: the nature of the threat to our democracy & whether his speech was too political. Truly, well done. A banner week for media outlets across the nation. iS tHiS sEmI-fAsCiSm? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

Trump says Republicans should be "ashamed of themselves" for not helping him overturn the 2020 election, then calls for Mitch McConnell to be "scorned"

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@mcopelov

2 years

Large majorities (2/3-3/4) support policies broadly in line w/ mainstream Democrats' positions, on nearly every issue. But our institutions systematically enable the 1/4-1/3 to rule. We'll only get better policies when we fix the broken institutions.

Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov

3 years

Reminder that Bernie Sanders’ policy positions, on almost every issue, are far closer to the median voter’s than Nikki Haley’s.

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@mcopelov

2 years

Today's reminder that the failure to complete Reconstruction is the through line of American history and politics, from 1877 to the present. More please.

NBC News

@NBCNews

2 years

U.S. Army base Fort Hood, named for a Confederate major general who led troops into battle against the United States during the Civil War, will be renamed for a Latino postwar four-star Army general.

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@mcopelov

2 years

Some personal news: Grateful to @EU_Commission for this opportunity & delighted to build on the JMC legacy of my friend @nilsringe @ESatUWMadison . So many vital questions to explore in the years ahead, as both 🇪🇺 & the global economy face huge challenges

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@mcopelov

2 years

A reminder, again, of how important it is not to overlook the critical importance of perfectly normal behavior from our current administration, given the nonsense that we normalized and tolerated for the last four years.

Norman Ornstein

@NormOrnstein

2 years

Watching Joe Biden in Kentucky, introducing a young woman about to graduate from U Kentucky, w a young child at his side. The contrast with Trump throwing paper towels in Puerto Rico, trashing California with its disastrous fires, could not be greater. Compassion vs sociopathy.

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@mcopelov

3 years

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

The Good Liars

@TheGoodLiars

3 years

This guy says Critical Race Theory is the most important issue in the Virginia Election. He also says he has no idea what Critical Race Theory is.

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@mcopelov

2 years

"Parties divergent realities challenge Biden's defense of democracy." This is complete word salad. We're doomed.

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@mcopelov

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👇🎯 Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

28 days

I don’t know what’s more insane: That this is a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court, or that this story was buried for over three years

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@mcopelov

2 years

Yes, because unlike Obama he didn’t listen to Larry Summers and actually fixed the economy.

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

2 years

Shhh don’t tell anyone but Joe Biden outperformed Barack Obama for a midterm election.

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@mcopelov

2 years

"Besides making the trains run on time, Mussolini also made Rome's turbulent traffic run smoothly" (Time Magazine, 1/17/49)

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@mcopelov

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The news is that 0% of 262 GOP in Congress are supporting any of these hugely popular policies, not that only 99.3% of the 270 Democrats are, yes? B/c it sure seems like the <narrative> is “Dems in disarray” & not “far right authoritarian party unanimously opposes everything.”

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@mcopelov

2 years

Somehow @nytimes looked at this chart & decided the lede was not “the GOP has collapsed into far right authoritarianism,” but rather that the problem is Democrats & independents.

Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛

@leedrutman

2 years

71% of voters say democracy is at risk. Majorities in both parties call the opposing party a “major threat to democracy.” Democracy requires legitimate opposition. The major threat is coming from inside the house.

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@mcopelov

1 month

Once again, “Who was actually president in 2020?” is proving to be the central cleavage in American politics in 2024

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 month

GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez on Trump's strong polling: "They're answering the question, 'are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?' Not only are they answering 'no,' they're answering 'hell no, we're not better off.'" We were quarantining amid mass death 4 years ago.