Steve Randy WaldmanAug 13, 2024

There’s a genre of public affairs writing I call “Taking out the trash.” It becomes necessary when prominent, respected people say, as they very often do, tendentious and ill-considered stuff. Suddenly there’s garbage that might rot in the ears of people in power. A taking-out-the-trash piece debunks it.

It’s thankless work. Countering bullshit-in-a-fancy-suit is no one's idea of a good time. But it’s God’s work.

#MaxMoran and #HenryBurke respond to #MattYglesias https://prospect.org/power/2024-08-13-what-we-talk-about-revolving-door/

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Revolving Door

Bringing tech and finance executives into government because they are ‘the country’s smartest and hardest-working people’ is faintly ridiculous.

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Steve Randy WaldmanJun 21, 2024
“reaching full employment is a key first step, but you then need to use the leverage it provides to actually change the terms of working life in America.” #MaxMoran https://prospect.org/power/2024-06-20-capital-wont-love-you-back-mr-president/
Capital Won’t Love You Back, Mr. President

Billionaire chief of staff Jeffrey Zients epitomizes a campaign that has been less than forceful about the rally of capital to Donald Trump’s side.

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Show threadCory DoctorowNov 17, 2023

It's...not good. As #MaxMoran writes for #TheAmericanProspect and #TheRevolvingDoorProject, the proposed code amounts to #SecurityTheater, a set of trivially bypassed strictures that would not have prevented any of the scandals to date and will permit far worse once in the years to come:

https://prospect.org/justice/2023-11-17-supreme-court-objectivity-theater/

The security framing is a very useful tool for evaluating the Supremes' proposal.

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The Supreme Court’s Objectivity Theater

The Court wrote a new ethics code for itself. It’s all but meaningless.

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