Richard Yeselson
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Richard Yeselson
@yeselson
Editorial Board @dissentmag. Think I started trend of labeling modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there. Also NBA/Warriors.
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@daveweigel Most impressive Maine Dem pol I’ve heard is oldster Chellie Pingree. Projects authority and competence.
Just a year younger than Collins and she doesn’t want to do it. But I suspected swamp Collins in Southern Maine and win decisively.
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Jackson may be the frontrunner now, and he is not a strong debater; in his interest to have more clock-draining candidates onstage
Nolan D. McCaskill@NolanDMcCaskill
Jackson said he, Bellows, Shah and Wood were invited. "Nobody should be shut out of a U.S. Senate debate because of an arbitrary threshold based on the results of an entirely different race," he said, advocating for Kleban, Loud, Costello and Dickerson to be on stage as well
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Richard Yeselson retweetledi
This is like when the NCAA banned dunking to stop Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sally Goldenberg@SallyGold
NEW: The push for open primaries in NYC, which @ZohranKMamdani opposes, has the support of Emma Bloomberg. Her data company is providing info to the group agitating for the change. @MikeBloomberg has long supported open primaries. W/ @JeffCMays nytimes.com/2026/07/13/nyr…
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@ZaidJilani Seriously, they’re just liars and assume that in a 24/7 social media age, the truth will never catch up to the lies. Ossoff is very skilled, so maybe not in this case, but it’s not a crazy thought.
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This is a bizarre hit because Jon Ossoff...voted for the Laken Riley Act. It's like Republicans really want to run the exact same playbook no matter who their candidate is. You can see why Mike will never touch the U.S. Senate.
Mike Collins@MikeCollinsGA
When the Senate first had a chance to protect American lives and pass the Laken Riley Act, Jon Ossoff voted no. I didn’t take that for an answer. I went door-to-door in the House and Senate to make sure Georgia's sons and daughters were protected from criminal illegal aliens and the Democrats' political games. Thanks to that one bill, over 20,000 criminals have been taken off our streets.
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@jonathanchait @daniel_dsj2110 I think procedurally neutral democratic rules and ethos too are very important. But so many people, across ideological lines, violate them that i can’t see how they could be imposed.
If we had multiple parties and proportional representation, there’d be a split. But we don’t.
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@yeselson @daniel_dsj2110 Perhaps. But I think liberals should insist upon liberal democratic values as a precondition. Bernie passes that test. Hassan Piker doesn't. (Admittedly, how you construct this test is not an easy question).
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Getting closer to 2 years since Trump has been elected, and so far his presidency has been a mess. Has he actually accomplished any of his goals? Interestingly, it’s democratic socialism that seems to benefiting, rather than lib centrism, which is even more unpopular than Trump.
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@mattyglesias @daniel_dsj2110 It’s important to underscore these outrages. But, of course, leftists still care about those things! And they can’t be restored, let alone improved, unless liberals and leftists work together.
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@yeselson @daniel_dsj2110 Trump has taken away Medicaid and nutrition assistance from millions of low-income people, which once upon a time was the kind of thing leftists and social democrats cared about.
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@jonathanchait @daniel_dsj2110 This will be tested in these states. But the dem socs have their regional/sub-class stronghold and they’re not gonna be displaced anytime soon. Nor will the liberals.
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@yeselson @daniel_dsj2110 Certainly. And mods are competitive in Iowa, Alaska, several house districts. But the party image is a drag and that needs fixing -- the left is pulling in the wrong direction.
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@daniel_dsj2110 Yeah—but the anti democratic norms stiff is real and profound. Hard to have even a very flawed democracy when 25-30% of the country thinks only one party can ever win an election fairly. Same with the racism/sexism—it’s now enabled and permitted without limitation.
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@yeselson I suppose I have in mind his positive vision--what was suppose to replace the "damage"? just seems that whatever that is hasn't be close to being realized--indeed, he's don't the exact opposite of what he said he would do, in many instances, such as waging war.
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@jonathanchait @daniel_dsj2110 harm the other, eg, make a concerted effort to defeat some of their candidates, wage an ideological struggle, and that’s just how it will go in a two party system. But neither side can decisively defeat the other. This *isn’t* the late 1940s.
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@jonathanchait @daniel_dsj2110 That’s not unfair, although that needs to expanded into even redder precincts. But figuring out the precise issues portfolio to advance is still in dispute.
And the socialist wins in cities/university areas is real and likely resilient, representing ~ 1/3 of Dems. Each side can
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@talmonsmith Yeah, with a genteel edge—although I used the “in conclusion” lines myself in Canada and, of course, credited the native son.
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@yeselson he and jamie both have that wonderful wry old new england sort of humor
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i revisit this 1977 BBC Series and visit the 80year old Galbraith summer estate in Vermont -- where much of his book collections and personal writings are still guarded by his son Jamie -- in the book 😃
sleeping in your favorite (dead) economist's house was kinda weird tho ngl
talmon joseph smith@talmonsmith
John Kenneth Galbraith: "In economics one should never be right too soon - you should wait until the parade is passing your door and then you should step bravely out in front."
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@samesfandiari No, it was Post—you must have misheard—but Post now gone, so Dubs probably doomed.
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Richard Yeselson retweetledi
Open primaries do nothing for independents other than letting them vote earlier for partisans they say they reject.
If the folks running this org actually cared about independent voters, they'd support proportional representation, which gives those voters more real choices.
Open Primaries@OpenPrimaryUSA
🚨 47% of Americans now identify as political independents—the highest level in more than a decade of CNN polling. Nearly half the country no longer identifies with either major party. When will our election system catch up? cnn.com/2026/06/16/pol… #OpenPrimaries
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@MikeMitchNH Yeah, he’s a crackpot who also particularly despises McConnell.
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A reminder that conspiracy theorists tend to believe *almost every* conspiracy theory. Their default assumption is that "they" are lying to "us".
They are also profoundly unserious people with extremely limited critical thinking skills. They're scared by their own cluelessness.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Sen. Ron Johnson on his comment yesterday that McConnell's proof of life photo isn't current: "I have no idea. Discount all that."
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Richard Yeselson retweetledi
New @wapo story today, the Trump family has secured about $3.2 billion in Pentagon contracts for firms which they are involved in. This is the tip of the iceberg in the largest corruption saga in US history.
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