Graeme Edgeler

@graemeedgeler.bsky.social

566

Followers

106

Following

265

Posts

Check on the Executive

Reposted by

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

Have (hopefully temporarily) lost access to my twitter account (it wants me to use a 2FA that isn't set up to reset my password). If anyone can see my account and let me know if anything weird is going on with it over there, please let me know!

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Reply to

Keith Ng

There's dumb shit like dual key, which are just massive waste of space to create the fiction of one unit for bank loan purposes. Like, how does this make sense at all??

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

I like that the UK seems to have, like, three people with an actual shot at the seat, then another three people who have Bits.

There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee, issued a nationwide Title IX rule injunction covering all children of "Moms for Liberty" members this week. That's bad enough, but the procedural/notice mess he made of it is also really absurd: www.lawdork.com/i/146289012/...

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

When 36% is a landslide, and a 4% increase in vote share gives you 200 more seats (and twice as many as last time), something is fucked with your electoral system. And then the media establishment paints this is _voters_ being volatile. The UK needs proportional representation.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

It’s here! The day Britain pretends proportional representation is a dumb idea but voter ID is aces

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

New post up, on how there was never an actual bipartisan push for decarceration. It's true that red and blue states alike saw prison populations decline. But within those red states, the work was done by the blue counties. The politics of punishment are local, not state, not federal.

The Local, Mono-Partisan Nature of Our Current Decarcerationjohnfpfaff.com While state-level data suggests that red and blue states alike saw prisons declines, county-level numbers indicate that this seeming bipartisanship is deceptive. Even in the red states, the declines a...

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

The classic text on this by @chrislhayes.bsky.social is still jaw-dropping to read 20 years later archive.is/V3sbx

swing voters and undecided voters basically by definition think about and engage with politics differently than anyone on this site, anyone who writes for the ny times, and the vast majority of the times’ subscribers. otherwise they wouldn’t be undecided/swing voters.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

The Court’s last case today, Fischer, sees Chief Justice Roberts limit the application of the 1512(c)(2) obstruction statute to Jan 6 insurrectionists’ conduct, joined by 4 other conservatives and Justice Jackson. It inspired a pithy dissent from Justice Barrett. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

all polls are bad but some polls are special

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Strongly agree with this. I *loved* one of the earliest examples which was a bunch of dudes competing to draw the most perfect circle.

The "dudes rock" meme is a genuinely blessed addition to gender discourse. We've managed to make our positive model of masculinity something brand new. Overenthusiastic, enterprising, goofy, joyful, carefree, boisterous, camaraderie, all the qualities that we got scolded for in school.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Proposed rule: it doesn't count as *universal* basic income unless it funds at least 1% of the population in the target area.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

A convention centre not meeting the projections in its business case? But that never happens! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Wellington's $180m Takina convention centre makes lower than expected revenuewww.rnz.co.nz Wellington's $180 million Takina convention centre is not achieving the targets set out in its business case.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

My latest is up now in Slate. It’s an election year where crime is an issue, so essential to raise this issue sooner than later: THE 1994 CRIME BILL DID NOT CAUSE MASS INCARCERATION. It didn’t. It. Just. Did. Not.

Joe Biden’s Most Infamous Law Still Haunts Him. For All the Wrong Reasons.slate.com Thirty years after it passed, it’s still totally misunderstood.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Reply to

b-boy bouiebaisse

A few weeks back there was a worst colonizers thread in which i was pitching the Dutch and the Belgians, and then someone mentioned the Japanese and i withdrew all consideration for European powers, as awful as they were For obvious and indefensible reasons i wasn't thinking of them, but the worst

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

What a gorgeous story. It’s not just that this adventurous burro is (to borrow the perfect malapropism our parkour-mad younger child once came up with to describe himself) an “adrenaline donkey”… …it’s that he’s found himself a home amongst others of the same elk.🥹 www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...

Owners of pet donkey lost 5 years ago near Auburn discover where he's beenwww.cbsnews.com We first told you about Diesel when he went missing in 2019 and volunteers searched for weeks but never found him. Now, a new video has surfaced with a clue as to where he's been all this time.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Reply to

Radley Balko

two things stand out in the court's turn toward "originalism." the first is that it really is demonstrating the extent to which the "clarence thomas is a lightweight" critique is actually true, and the second is it has revealed barrett to be a genuinely interesting justice

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

All drugs have two names, the generic and the brand, like paracetamol and Panadol. Whenever there's a "grass roots" campaign for drug funding, it's always for a brand, Keytruda not pembrolizumab. This is the difference between saying the govt should fund vacuums and saying they should fund Dysons

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Am sure this will get all sorts of dunks for seeming inconsistency, but important to stress what this makes clear. “Back the Blue” backers aren’t (have never) backed police per se. They back authoritarian social control, and see police as way to do that. Police who don’t back that aren’t covered.

Twenty-four states tell Judge Cannon that they want to file an amicus brief opposing the special counsel's request to modify Trump's conditions of release to stop him from inciting threats against law enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

14% of ppl in US prisons are there for drugs, over 55% for violence. Only ~10% of ppl in prison are in private prisons; every economic or moral flaw w privates exists in the publics. Prison pops are driven far more by admits than long sentences; almost every long sentence is for murder or rape.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Reply to

Not kidding; wish I was

this isn’t the article i was reading (that one had interesting details about what Minnesota educational corp was all about), but here’s another interesting one

The 'Oregon Trail' Studio Made a Game About Slavery. Then Parents Saw Itwww.vice.com 'Freedom!' tried to show the horrors of antebellum slavery and the courage of escaping slaves. But neither schools nor audiences were ready for it.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

been thinking about this. a lot of people are going to learn about the absurd range of things that felons are barred from doing. is trump a fiduciary for any ERISA covered employee benefit plans? guess we'll find out but an enterprising person could start searching 5500s.

NEW: "Trump’s Liquor Licenses Under Scrutiny After Felony Conviction" me, for @forbes.com

Trump’s Liquor Licenses Under Scrutiny After Felony Convictionwww.forbes.com States across the country have laws restricting felons from selling alcohol. What does that mean for Donald Trump, who does not drink but sells plenty of booze?

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Pharmac says there are no plans to change eligibility criteria for free Covid-19 vaccination. There's a false screenshot going around suggesting that Pharmac is ending free Covid-19 vaccination for a wide range of people beginning July 1. Again, it's false.

Reposted by

Graeme Edgeler

Reply to

Sage Anastasi

Found this in papers past