Paul Blumenthal

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What time is it, and what does it mean for American politics? Did a little blogging about Biden and the Skowronek "political time" framework. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/checking-i...

Checking in on Biden and political timegoodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com When Biden took office, there were questions among presidency scholars about where he would fall in the political time cycle. A prominent theory, advanced by Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek...

Speaker Mike Johnson is a young earth creationist who called a museum showing dinosaurs living with people on Noah's Ark "one way to bring people to this recognition of the truth, that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events." www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is 'Pointing People To The Truth'www.huffpost.com An ark replica with dinosaurs "is one way to bring people to this recognition ... that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Mike Johnson said.

To understand what the hell is going on with the Republican Party right now I spoke with @daschloz.bsky.social, whose forthcoming book explores the hollowing out of the political parties and the role of the New Right in the GOP www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...

What The Hell Is Going On With House Republicans?www.huffpost.com One speaker dethroned. Two candidates derailed. An expert on our modern political parties explains what’s behind the Republican Party chaos in Congress.

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For our series on industrial policy, we went to Pueblo, Colorado, an epicenter of the global energy transition with the world's largest solar-powered steel mill,a giant wind turbine manufacturing plant, and more. But it doesn’t feel like a boomtown, reports Chase Woodruff:

Low-Key Greenprospect.org Pueblo is a world-class model for the clean-energy economy envisioned in the Inflation Reduction Act. But its residents may not feel it.

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“The whole secret of politics,” he told the journalist Garry Wills during the 1968 presidential campaign, “is knowing who hates who.” www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/u...

Kevin Phillips, 82, Dies; Political Analyst Predicted G.O.P. Resurgencewww.nytimes.com A conservative mastermind of the race-based “Southern strategy,” he later, as a writer, had second thoughts after assessing income inequality under three Republican presidents.

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case involving the racial gerrymander of South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace's congressional district. Read more about it here: www.huffpost.com/entry/south-...

New Racial Gerrymandering Case Before Supreme Court, Months After Last One Decidedwww.huffpost.com The case is the latest in a string of redistricting cases making their way through the federal courts following the 2020 census.

Biden's cancellation of public service student loan debt is happening because of his administration's larger effort to reduce burdens to access government benefits. Read more about it here: www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

Biden Is Getting Rid Of One Thing Most People Hate About The Governmentwww.huffpost.com The effort to reduce the “time tax” spent on accessing government benefits aims to make them more accessible and reduce inequality.

If they want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make a change www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-...

How Kevin McCarthy’s Embrace Of Trump Sealed His Fatewww.huffpost.com McCarthy’s decision to accept Trump-backed candidates in House elections shrunk his margin for survival as speaker.

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how's that debate going with the lefty academics who insist that Trump isn't a fascist. are they still at it www.snopes.com/news/2023/10...

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I am very late to this, but it's a smart little dive into what people actually mean when they say they're concerned about "threats to democracy": ssrs.com/news/public-...

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Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Support for Pregnancies & Births. Since SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.

Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.www.propublica.org Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down ...

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case brought by payday lenders who want to eviscerate the federal agency that keeps them from preying on the American people. Their argument has no basis in history, text or court precedent. More here: www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The Supreme Court May Soon Eviscerate The Consumer Financial Protection Bureauwww.huffpost.com Payday lenders’ challenge to the constitutionality of the agency’s funding has no basis in history and would have chaotic real-world ramifications.

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Elon Musk wants to get rid of this headlinefortune.com Tweets containing news article links will be stripped of headlines and other metadata (like this very sentence). Instead, X, formerly Twitter, plans to display only an image and a URL.

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Hard to summarize what I wrote today, but I kept seeing so many developments this week of dominant corporations honoring the profit motive in ways at odds with American law and basic morality. We have lots of challenges but really one fight:

It’s All the Same Fightprospect.org Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power

Ignore the talk about the court's supposed moderation this term. It has continued its work finishing the conservative realignment that began with Reagan's election https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-2023-term_n_649f25b7e4b030efa12065d4?hut

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