Gil
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Constitutional Designer. Also follow me over there: https://t.co/a6MzEQVsoE
United States
Joined March 2019
My constitutional design series is complete! If you've ever wondered anything like "which is the best voting system, taking into account practical concerns?", read it! 20 posts, most 10-15 min read Here is a thread with all the posts here, starting from highlights
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Guy who illegally casts 2 ballots and votes for the two opposing candidates
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Don’t get me wrong, things are still bad, but it’s important to acknowledge progress
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Law firms and universities are fighting back against Trump, federal science funding has been restored
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Things are looking significantly less scary than 6 months ago. I haven’t seen a holy fuck headline from DOGE in a while, the tariffs look like they’re going to be overturned, Trump’s approval is at -13, redistricting is sort of TBD but looking not as bad, RFK hasn’t been too bad
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Does anyone have a good timeline of the SCOTUS redistricting stuff? Like how many states will still have time to redistrict if SCOTUS strikes down VRA?
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LETSGOOOO. All eyes on SCOTUS
BREAKING: Sen. Rodric Bray announces after another Senate Republican caucus there are not enough votes for redistricting and the Senate will not convene in December.
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I'll tag some more peeople who may be interested @StatsLime @PoliticalKiwi @SemioticRivalry @flaminhottweets @brunosaurustext
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Good to see. Blocking reps form being seated is one of those really dark powers that is a huge red line, and good to see that they're not crossing it (yet, even if they did refuse to seat her for an outrageously long time)
BREAKING: Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva has finally been sworn in after a 7-week delay.
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I spent like all of 2018-2024 pretty annoyed at the low quality of constitutional design thought I was seeing online. Then I decided to write all of my thoughts down, which was very gratifying and now I can point to posts in arguments. Write down your thoughts!
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Wikipedia has a different assessment of the redistricting that leads them to evaluate it as +1D +8R -9 Competitive. Anyone looked into this themselves that wants to explain the difference / say which is right?
If you score remap shifts between safe/competitive seats as +/-0.5, here's how the count looks today, to my eye: CA: Dem +4.5 MO: GOP +1 NC: GOP +0.5 OH: GOP +0.5 TX: GOP +4 UT: Dem +1 That leaves Republicans ahead by half a seat, w/ FL, IN & VA the biggest remaining variables.
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THIS IS NOT TRUE. IT'S JUST TWO DIFFERENT MODELS OF DEMOCRACY. See post in next tweet.
The key subtext to the filibuster debate is democracy. Anti-filibuster folks like me and chait accept that if our side loses an election the other party gets to write laws w/o our imput. The pro-filibuster side is secretly very democracy skeptical.
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