If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
I oftentimes understand why Athens felt it necessary to have a political mechanism to permanently expel people from their polity.
June 30, 2026 at 12:48 AM
I oftentimes understand why Athens felt it necessary to have a political mechanism to permanently expel people from their polity.
Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.
Trump's commencement message to Coast Guard cadets: "I'm gonna be here in '28. Maybe I'll be here in '32 too. I don't know. Maybe I will."
May 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.
One polity in the Americas has a constitution with bottom.
September 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
One polity in the Americas has a constitution with bottom.
Skill issue, I would simply have cultivated civic virtue in my polity
March 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Skill issue, I would simply have cultivated civic virtue in my polity
Defying Polity
if you went to a 10am screening of Wicked you missed an entire coup
December 3, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Defying Polity
Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
Head empty just vibes but for an entire polity
April 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Head empty just vibes but for an entire polity
A polity governed by a nine-member unelected super-legislature is neither a republic nor a democracy
June 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A polity governed by a nine-member unelected super-legislature is neither a republic nor a democracy
Remember when the US polity ruptured and erupted when Biden got names wrong on set-piece occasions?
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
January 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Remember when the US polity ruptured and erupted when Biden got names wrong on set-piece occasions?
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
when you're here, you're polity
March 28, 2026 at 10:12 PM
when you're here, you're polity
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
holy moly we’re a 0 on Polity now
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
holy moly we’re a 0 on Polity now
This is an outstanding and important piece on a legal-political struggle at the heart of the uK polity. A must-read.
One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly.
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...
April 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is an outstanding and important piece on a legal-political struggle at the heart of the uK polity. A must-read.
Wobbuffet ass polity.
March 9, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Wobbuffet ass polity.
Would require a mature polity and media, though.
April 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Would require a mature polity and media, though.
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
america is such a fascinating polity
October 28, 2024 at 11:02 AM
america is such a fascinating polity
In a sensible polity Trump would be impeached and removed from office for this act alone.
But, yes, we know.
But, yes, we know.
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 AM
In a sensible polity Trump would be impeached and removed from office for this act alone.
But, yes, we know.
But, yes, we know.
I posit that this is not a sign of a healthy polity.
September 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I posit that this is not a sign of a healthy polity.
you telling me a single party dominant polity tends toward status quoist conservatism?
June 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
you telling me a single party dominant polity tends toward status quoist conservatism?
If your polity is so corrupt, so broken, that - say - approximately one in every three people want to murder the other two, you need a polity that is 2/3rds its current size not one that has 'healed' by appealing to the murderers.
September 21, 2026 at 9:28 AM
If your polity is so corrupt, so broken, that - say - approximately one in every three people want to murder the other two, you need a polity that is 2/3rds its current size not one that has 'healed' by appealing to the murderers.
the idea that a polity cannot be a composite of multiple nations and yet a valid polity in its own right is really stupid and i say that as a scottish nationalist
July 7, 2026 at 8:55 AM
the idea that a polity cannot be a composite of multiple nations and yet a valid polity in its own right is really stupid and i say that as a scottish nationalist