Pluralistic: Occupy the Democratic National Committee; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2) (10 Jan 2025)

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Occupy the Democratic National Committee: A deliberately weak institution that has failed us again and again.
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 2): Meet the women of Computing Freedom.
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Expert agencies and elected legislatures: Legislatures are entitled to their own (political) opinions but not their own facts.
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The true, tactical significance of Project 2025: It's a schematic for tearing apart the Republican coalition.
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Incomplete vs. overshoot: The horseshoe theory is really, really wrong.
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What Americans want: Term limits for Congress, pack the Supreme Court, abolish the Electoral College, get money out of politics.
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Conservatives are fringe outliers – and leftists could learn from them: Unhinged QGOP freaks may be completely unhinged, but they know how to use power.
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We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.
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Substituting economics for politics is a failure: The verdict is in on "economism."
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