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Award winning political scientist, also interested in the intersection between sports and politics. Aspiring raconteur. Substack: https://jonathanweiler.substack.com/

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Mehdi was right and, also, Trump has obviously never had a problem with inflicting suffering on people. He just resents commitments. As in his personal life...

17.07.2025 14:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What is the point of inserting the word "concerns" into this headline, other than to obscure the utterly brazen corruption Trump is engaged in?

13.05.2025 15:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This whole Van Hollen trip is evidence for @joshtpm.bsky.social’s theory that one of the things limiting the effectiveness of so many people’s resistance to Trump is lack of imagination to try creative tactics.

18.04.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 912 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 12
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Corruption, Cruelty and Chaos In no particular order

It's not just the stock market. About who the tariffs harm the most...
jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/corruption...

13.04.2025 20:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Turtles All the Way Down On bottomless bad faith and a way forward

I know we're not supposed to say anything good about Europe, but we could learn a thing or two about how to be an opposition:

jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/turtles-al...

28.03.2025 00:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Where the rubber hits the road What Trumpist gaslighting on his sabotage of America's economy could look like

Gaslighting incoming - economic crackup addition. Hat tip @brianbeutler.bsky.social

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10.03.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm still here Also - Lord help us

Returning to substack. Spread the word!

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07.03.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Where the rubber hits the road What Trumpist gaslighting on his sabotage of America's economy could look like

Gaslighting incoming - economic crackup addition. Hat tip @brianbeutler.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

10.03.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm still here Also - Lord help us

Returning to substack. Spread the word!

jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/im-still-h...

07.03.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The First Amendment according to King Trump

Breaking...

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27.02.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We should start tallying Bobby's body count now. It's going to be big.

17.02.2025 15:20 πŸ‘ 1284 πŸ” 404 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 16

In light of the new regime's full scale, vicious attack on trans folks, I'd hope those liberals who deemed it necessary to spend millions of pixels explaining why we really did need to keep scrutinizing med care for trans minors now realize they were just playing into the hands of that malevolence.

17.02.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!!! Say more of this!!! It’s the most astonishingly, openly corrupt administration in US history, literally from the first day, and it’ll only get worse. They aren’t even trying to hide it. It’s a degree of corruption that could destabilize the whole country, the whole world.

26.01.2025 03:20 πŸ‘ 3653 πŸ” 670 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 16

Terrorizing undocumented immigrants, shutting down DEI efforts and demonizing trans folks should make people feel much better about their ability to pay the rent and afford groceries, amirite?

22.01.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's pretty out there, Chris.

31.12.2024 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The continuing resolution axed by Elon and co included a SNAP benefits extension. Now that it won't get passed soon, families will literally be going hungry during the holidays because of the world's richest man.

20.12.2024 22:30 πŸ‘ 2434 πŸ” 680 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 32
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I think the NYT's headline writers have just reached the pinnacle of their idiot craft:

25.11.2024 18:06 πŸ‘ 639 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 12
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Louisiana lawmakers pass income and corporate tax cuts, raising statewide sales tax to pay for it Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase.

Party of the working class, part 1,000: apnews.com/article/loui...

25.11.2024 04:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump and GOP eye new limits on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are weighing vast changes to the CFPB that could limit its powers and funding.

Trump, the tribune of the working man, is going to unleash a holy war against working class Americans, on behalf of his only true constituents- the plutocrats:

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

24.11.2024 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is curious.

22.11.2024 01:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Add this to what will be a *long* list of anti-labor moves.

21.11.2024 22:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's just keep a running tally of all the anti-labor actions carried out by Trump and his ilk.

21.11.2024 20:13 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Amazon and SpaceX aim to defang the federal labor board. Trump may help. Trump allies have discussed breaking tradition and firing opponents on the National Labor Relations Board, which also faces legal challenges from SpaceX and Amazon.

No sicker joke than the assertion that Trump/Vance would be, in any way that matters, pro labor. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

21.11.2024 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal β€œindoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

The sheer absurdity of anyone claiming Trump era Republicans are pro free speech and debate: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

21.11.2024 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Both sides....

20.11.2024 16:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Understanding Trumpism I’m reading the historian Gary Gerstle’s The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. It includes about a seven-page discussion of Trump and Trumpism that is among the most incisive and comprehensive di...

From a couple of years ago but, I hope, a useful way of understanding Trump and Trumpism as we gird for round two:
jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/understand...

20.11.2024 15:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just checking to see whether this is getting through.

14.11.2024 21:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why has Taylor Swift driven the rightwing crazy on the eve of the Super Bowl? A modest proposal :)

OK, going to try to get my act together on here. Here's my latest substack, about the sociopolitical underpinnings of the rightwing freakout over Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl:

jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/why-has-ta...

09.02.2024 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why has Taylor Swift driven the rightwing crazy on the eve of the Super Bowl? A modest proposal :)

OK, going to try to get my act together on here. Here's my latest substack, about the sociopolitical underpinnings of the rightwing freakout over Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl:

jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/why-has-ta...

09.02.2024 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0