"if #Reform is claiming, as it is, to be a party capable of #governing this country, then the #media must subject it to the same kind of scrutiny applied to #Labour or the #Conservatives."
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/06/11/far-right-populism-reform-reporting/
#mediabias
#criticalthinking
#journalism
#UKpol
#Politics
#investigativejournalism
The 'commons' are any shared public resource. Ostrom's book says we can share them to everyone's benefit. Can we apply this to software development?
#minnesota #minn #mn #minnesotans #minneapolis #mpls #saintpau #stpaul #saintpaul #twincities #megasota #timwalz #walz #govwalz #governorwalz #federal #grants #trump #us #congress #funding #usa #budget #cuts #uspol #politics #uspolitics #politics #states #north #midwest #greatlakes #health #northstarstate #dems #democrats #liberal #liberals #governing #government #guvwalz #us #usa #border #province
"It is absolutely right to emphasize the importance of respecting #voters, and try to understand them, rather than assuming that those who disagree with you are stupid or racist. But voters are not going to tell you how to #govern the country. It is not their job. Relying on their opinions to try to deduce what to do leads not only to incoherence, but to a negative loop."
#UKpol
#MorganMcSweeney
#keirstarmer
#polling
#governing
#PoliticalLeadership
#politicalbeliefs
There's an old western adage, "Give a dog a bad name and hang it. " Here #DOGE is #demonizing #USAID which is an instrument of #softdiplomacy that actually adds to #nationalsecurity. But what do these #egotistical #sociopaths know about #government and #governing? Sad state of #USPol.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-state-dept-officials-sign-145941445.html
In less than 48 hours new passport is manufactured and done, ready for collection.
Less 48 hours since I visited the passport office.
It is nice to live in a steady democracy with a well and quickly functioning governing system. No interrogation, no bribing, not even a single question besides a nice "please sign here" instruction at the counter.
How you’ll know if we descend into a ‘presidential dictatorship’ - “…if Trump successfully defies the courts, the only remaining obstacle to dictatorship will be public revulsion, national popular protest, and the hope that such a reaction would cause Trump to retreat and, at long last, recall some fraction of the Republican Party to its constitutional duty.” Via SLATE. #Coup #AmericanCoup #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Democracy #BalanceOfPower #Government #Governing #Politics #USPolitics
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-news-are-we-in-dictatorship-yet.html
My dear friends, I want to quickly put up a note here of #apology regarding what #trump and the #usa are up to in their first Month back in #governing.
I'm not #narcissistic to think that I single-handedly am #responsible for any of these things, but just because it's not my specific fault doesn't mean I'm not sorry for the haywire #costs, ricocheting #availability, and the general #destabilization of things which are both important and were previously sanely handled and managed.
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Based on the Following #Governing Styles, Which Do You Think Best Represents the #UnitedStates Currently?
#FoundingFathers Documents Say We Are a #DemocraticRepublic. But is This a True Description for #MAGA #America in 2025?
https://open.substack.com/pub/dustcircle/p/based-on-the-following-governing
#dictatorship #tyranny #imperialism #socialism #communism #empire #totalitarianism #corporatacracy #plutocracy #autocracy #libertarianism #politics #government #USA
Based on the Following #Governing Styles, Which Do You Think Best Represents the #UnitedStates Currently?
#FoundingFathers Documents Say We Are a #DemocraticRepublic. But is This a True Description for #MAGA #America in 2025?
https://open.substack.com/pub/dustcircle/p/based-on-the-following-governing
#dictatorship #tyranny #imperialism #socialism #communism #empire #totalitarianism #corporatacracy #plutocracy #autocracy #libertarianism #politics #government #USA
Same here.
Marina Hyde: "The very regrettable lesson of the past few years in UK politics is that no matter how bad things seem, they can always take on a rosy glow in light of what comes after." …
"For at least the last two years of the previous Conservative government, whenever I did public events with a Q&A, people would always ask: what on earth will you write about when Labour comes to power? You can’t give specific spoilers, of course. But given the political inheritance and perhaps more ominously the political calibre of the prospective personnel, my answer was always a version of: this."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/uk-politics-fiscal-crisis-corruption-legal-threats
“As we launch ourselves into 2025, one of the key issues of the new year will be whether Americans care that the U.S. government does the hard, slow work of governing and, if it does, who benefits.”
#Politics #USPolitics #History #Y2K25 #Technology #Governing #LettersFromAnAmerican
Liberals: They often excel at #governing because they rely on evidence-based policies but struggle with the "messaging war." Their nuanced approaches and long-term solutions lack the immediate #emotional payoff voters crave.
Conservatives: While their policies often exacerbate #inequality or harm #governance (e.g., tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation), they excel at keeping voters emotionally engaged, even while in power.
Trump's billionaires set to take government by storm - Yeah, we’ll see how that goes. #USGovernment #Governing #Republicans #Capitalism https://www.axios.com/2024/12/06/trump-billionaires-cabinet-elon-musk
Harry Enten: "The GOP's House Majority looks to be the smallest after any election since 1930 with current results. With resignations (e.g. Gaetz), it may be the smallest majority during a House session in 100+ years. Just 1 GOP defection + all Democrats could sink a bill." #politics #governing
If you want a wealthy country encourage value creation, not value extraction. Good institutions matter. #Governing
Further to this disgraceful story, Politico’s Scott Waldman & Thomas Frank write in their recent article that “Trump initially refused to give California wildfire aid because it’s a blue state, ex-aide says” (1).
I repeat, for the benefit of #American readers, our experience of this kind of #politicisation of #disasters in Australia: we had a #conservative prime minister that in 2022 was faced with massive #floods and #politicised the response to them: #funding his party’s seats and states but not the other party’s seats and states (2). What happened to that prime minister is instructive: he led his party to the next #election and was soundly #defeated: recording the worst result for Australia’s #centre-right #governing parties in seventy years. The state #government that benefited most from the disaster funding also lost office.
When the election results begin to come in on Tuesday #Nov5 and the former #POTUS inevitably starts #lying about another ‘stolen election’, spare a thought for those in states affected by #Helene who #flipped their #vote #blue after Trump’s disgusting behaviour following the #hurricane: it will be these #voters, amongst many others, that he will be trying to #disenfranchise.
(2) https://www.sstuwa.org.au/WesternTeacher/20/volume-513-april-2022/man-who-should-not-be-pm
#2024Election #uspol #uspolitics #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 #HarrisWalzLandslide2024 #HarrisWalzBringHope #WereNotGoingBack #ANewWayForward #VoteKamala #Harris #KamalaHarris
