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Elon Musk floats strategy for new political party (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/04/elon-musk-new-political-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p49#a250704p49

"They Roll Right Over"
Why millions of #voters are fully fed up with the lackadaisical losers and kiss asses known as #Democrat party...

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats think their party is weak, AP-NORC poll finds
Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks. Republicans are more complimentary of their party, although a small but significant share describe the GOP as “greedy” or say it is generally "bad."

Correcting Misperceptions at a Glance: Using Data Visualizations to Reduce Political Sectarianism
Douglas Markant, Subham Sah, Alireza Karduni, Milad Rogha, My Thai, Wenwen Dou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00233

Correcting Misperceptions at a Glance: Using Data Visualizations to Reduce Political Sectarianism
Political sectarianism is fueled in part by misperceptions of political opponents: People commonly overestimate the support for extreme policies among members of the other party. Research suggests that correcting partisan misperceptions by informing people about the actual views of outparty members may reduce one's own expressed support for political extremism, including partisan violence and anti-democratic actions. The present study investigated how correction effects depend on different repr…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term
that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates.

The national Republican senatorial and congressional committees,
then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)
and then-Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) filed suit over the limits…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Republicans who sued are asking the Supreme Court to lift restrictions on how much political parties can spend on candidates, saying they violate free-speech protections.

An affinity based opinion dynamics model for the evolving pattern of political polarization
Zhang Xiaoming, Hu Yuzhong, Zhang Yiming
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01244 https://

An affinity based opinion dynamics model for the evolving pattern of political polarization
Political polarization has been a subject that has attracted many studies in recent years. We have developed an opinion dynamics model with affective homophily effect and national social norm effect to describe this phenomenon. The time evolution of the polarization between the two parties and the spread of opinions within each party are affected by three factors: the repulsive effect between the two parties, the attractive and repulsive effects between the members in each party, and the nation…

This is what a real President sounds like. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, President Barack Obama showed care and respect for all Americans—not just one political party. Happy 4th of July! : r/usa
https://www.reddit.com/r/usa/comments/1lru8pa/this_is_what_a_real_president_sounds_like_unlike/

I’m an anarcho-syndicalist through and through, and I’m unapologetic about it. I reject all forms of authoritarianism, including Marxism-Leninism with its centralized, hierarchical party structure. Anarcho-syndicalism demands direct, horizontal worker control through federated assemblies with binding, recallable mandates as the only true path to emancipation.
If you intend to dispute this, I suggest thoroughly engaging with the relevant political theory first, because Marxism-Leninism,…

A still-forming thought:
Perhaps we might usefully view this pathetic situation as a major political party realignment in the US that has been left half-finished. When Nixon adopted Goldwater’s Southern Strategy and won, the Republican Party effectively became a fascist party — but the Democrats never became an anti-fascist party.
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One thing that's great about living in #Japan is that it's one of the few countries where the main hard-left party both has some power, and is critical of the pseudo-#fascist, ethno-#nationalist party tha…

The Japanese Communist Party’s Feud with Beijing: Will the Global Left Take Note? | New Bloom Magazine
On July 1st, 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its hundredth anniversary, and duly received congratulatory messages from political leaders and parties around the world.

"Trump was a Democrat when I reported him. So when he says it's a partisan attack, it's not.
This is p*d*philia. Anyone can be a p*d*phile. Unfortunately, it just happens to be a lot of Republicans."
- Maria Farmer, Epstein survivor

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/30/supreme-court-campaign-finance-party-donor-limits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p70#a250630p70

I am quite sick and tired of the D-party doing little more than useless posturing (such as writing letters to El Cheeto) or simply asking for money. (The purpose of that money is almost never sufficiently described, if the purpose is described at all.)
So it is good to hear that new candidates are arising who will challenge the fuddy-duddy-crats of the D-party. (My own Congress Critter included.)
Note to others: We need good, fresh faces filling elective posts at *all* levels -…

After Elon Musk announced a US political party called the America Party, Donald Trump called Musk a "TRAIN WRECK" fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/elon-musk-…

Hours after Trump's Tax and Spending bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty
went viral on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.
“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – a…

@… @… Political parties in an electoral system that enables a party to win a majority is the traditional means of overcoming this. The US currently has a system of one disciplined political party and one party composed of individual…

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, talking out of my ass]
For the two parties are going to divide up the electorate, if one is the fascist party, maybe the other •has• to be the anti-fascist party — not just philosophically, but for practical reasons. Maybe you just can’t maintain a viable coalition to oppose a fascist party without bringing everyone who opposes fascism into your coalition. Sure feels that way now.
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The biggest political row over the heat erupted in France, where the National Rally figurehead, Marine Le Pen, called for a “major” air conditioning plan – one week after the party failed in its parliamentary push to halt new wind and solar projects. In an opinion article in Le Figaro on Thursday, the interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, a conservative, called to stop support for renewable energy and expand France’s nuclear energy sector.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/europe-heatwaves-failing-support-climate-action?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump slams Musk’s third party plan as ‘ridiculous,’ calls Musk ‘train wreck’: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/trump-slams-musks-third-party.html

Not sure if I should make merch for this party, but it does seem really popular.
#FaceEatingLeopards #FaceEatingLeopardsParty #politics

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/17/clive-palmer-united-australia-party-trumpet-of-patriots-data-breach-documents/
I don’t know enough about Australian politics but it sounds like the country’s version of the MAG…

Clive Palmer’s political parties suffer data breach affecting ‘all emails … documents and records’
Identical statements from both parties say a ransomware attack has obtained ‘email address, phone number, identity records, banking records, employment history, documents (including those provided subject to confidentiality arrangements)'.

Interesting that while Abundant SF's head is taking shots at Zohran, Abundance New York endorsed him.
(Fifth, but they still favored him over Cuomo. They said "Zohran Mamdani is more likely to prioritize the central crises facing New Yorkers.")

Elon is as fragile as the orange turd? Shocker.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/elon-musk-new-party-poll-trump

Musk floats new party in signal he could torch GOP
"Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?"

Elon Musk's new political party isn't happening - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/20/elon-musks-new-political-party-isnt-happening/

Elon Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump's Policy Bill (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p162#a250630p162

Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-m

Identity isn't everything -- how far do demographics take us towards self-identified party ID?
Sabina Tomkins, David Rothschild, Alex Liu, Alexander Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06193

Identity isn't everything -- how far do demographics take us towards self-identified party ID?
How well do demographics explain party identification? Demographics are related to party identification in political polls, news articles, and academic publications. Yet, there is a diversity of party identification even within demographic groups which have historically been attached to one party. And some groups lack a clear connection to either party. It may be that demographics on their own fail to account for the fact that people generally belong to a variety of groups. They must select the…

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, just riffing here]
Plurality voting forces a two-party system. There will always be two parties (or if a third forms, the system will rapidly collapse back to two; this happened twice in US history).
The role of the two parties can change, however. Parties are coalitions, and coalitions are heterogeneous. There are lots of ways to draw lines through the myriad political interests to form two coalitions of roughly equal size. And those lines can shift.
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How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
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#uspol #democracy

"The Conservative party has collectively decided that the threat of Farage is best met by copying him, so the idea that Badenoch could act towards Jenrick the way Heath did to Powell seems impossible. More extraordinary is that the Labour government is also under the misapprehension that the best way to combat Farage is to sound like him, a mistake that will seem incomprehensible in a few years time."
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite

Following dismal results in Japan’s parliamentary elections,
there is a broad consensus among Japanese lawmakers and political analysts that
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s days are numbered.
No one, however, seems to have said that directly to Ishiba, who has vowed to stay on.
The current political crisis is the result of a July 20 election in Japan’s upper house -- the less-powerful chamber in parliament.
It has no direct role in determining the prime minister …

Japan’s LDP Is Teetering as Far-Right Challenger Emerges
The ruling party may not be ready for the social media age.

A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party (Liam Stack/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/democratic-party-zohran-mamdani.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p4#a250625p4

I’m rambling, and struggling to figure out the heart of what I’m getting at.
It’s something about how maybe we should view the fecklessness of Democratic politicians the OP laments not as the •source• of the problem, but as the inevitable result of failing to form anti-fascist coalition, and to make that coalition into the other major political party in this country.
I feel like there’s something useful in there, something maybe strategically helpful that gives us a sense of agency. And man do I hate grand political cynicisms that rob us of our sense of agency.
/end

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At some point I expect Canada’s Liberal Party to regress like Labour is doing in the UK. Our political class still look to both the UK and USA for direction, like meek children.
#canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #transrights #lgbtq2s
https://tech.lgbt/@grayface_ghost/114772720087665845

Does the Democratic Party need to register a $45 million in-kind political donation for today’s fiasco?
#ArmyParade #TrumpParade

🧵 https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/114864376228330562

Trump’s appeal isn’t rooted in policy;
it’s rooted in style.
I He uses delusional bravado to cosplay as a rebel against a broken system that both parties helped to rig.
The Democratic establishment’s timid, survivalist politics can’t compete with that.
You can’t beat an immoral agent of chaos with risk aversion.
You beat him with moral clarity
— the kind that’s willing to sacrifice corporate donations, political comfort and maybe even your own career for t…

Opinion | This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years
The party establishment is missing its chance to prove there is more to it than just outrage and opposition.

This is very good. #Israel #Palestine #antisemitism

I am surprised that this article has not received much mention.
I agree with its message, which is that the maga regime is creating a legal, political, and social ratchet in which the goals of the r-party (to destroy the Federal government) will continue even if the D's were to somehow regain authority in all three branches of the Federal government.
It is not an optimistic point of view, but it makes a lot of sense.

What a Democrat Could Do With Trump’s Power
America is entering an age of retributive governing cycles.

Elon Musk reportedly eyeing JD Vance for 2028 as he hits the brakes on plans for a new political party (Patrick Reilly/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/us-news/elon-musk-pledges-to-start-new-political-party/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p97#a250820p97

There’s another name for that…
Analysis | The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AX_EJXTACTMSc4TPv3huykQ

Analysis | The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics — The Wall Street Journal
President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into economy

To my mind, the struggle for liberty is too great and the few steps we have gained have been won at too great a sacrifice, for the great mass of the people of this 20th century to consent to turn over to any political party the management of our social and industrial affairs.
---- - Lucy Parsons - ----

Musk Tweets Call For New Political Party To Sink GOP And Claims That Trump Is "Named In The Epstein Files" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/musk-tweets-call-for-new-political-party-to-sink-gop-and-claims-that-trump-is-named-in-the-epstein-files/

Shut Down Andgar Piggery and Demand Justice for the Surviving Pigs #AnimalRights

Shut Down Andgar Piggery and Demand Justice for the Surviving Pigs
The Animal Justice Party has been formed as a response to growing public concern about the neglect of animals and animal protection issues by political parties. It gives a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.

Elon Musk Pledged to Start a Political Party. He Is Already Pumping the Brakes. (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-third-political-party-69bf9bd8?st=rwQXkq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p144#a250819p144

Suddenly the political outlook looks very grim in Spain as the majority coalition party, Sšnchez's PSOE is mired in a corruption scandal.
Sšnchez himself not implicated but his judgement in appointing ministers is.
Minority parties could withdraw.
Election not due til 2027 but how long can he hold on?
Alliance of post Franco PP and neofascist Vox is the nightmare scenario.
El día en que colapsó la legislatura

El día en que colapsó la legislatura
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang
said he’s reached out to Elon Musk
in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party,
Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders. ($$$$)
When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”

Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party...

Voting in the UK Green party elections is half over. Too late to join the party and vote, and sounds like Zack is very likely to win.
Which is good. I voted for him.
I think the job-share rule is important and that any job should be possible to share between workers. But in the case of the "leader", which is literally the face of the party, having two faces is difficult in the public hive mind. Even with a united front, it's litterally two faced.
But mostly my vote was just for Zack, and would have likely voted for him in a job-share too.
He's very personable and seems to know how to talk to the public and express not just environmental issues but other green issues like inequality and war and how your enemy is not a boat of refugees but the concentration of power in the hands of maniacs both political and corporate.
I confess I gave up trying to read anything about the candidates and cast a vote about half way down all the other jobs being elected. I'm just adding noise. I dunno who any of these people are or even what the job entails most of the time and there's too many all at once. Should stagger them weekly or something.
Anyway here's Zack on Mark Steel's sweary podcast being brilliant on the issues and how to explain them better than I can.
I love Mark Steel too. Miss the sketches things it used to have in the newish revised entirely-an-interview format.
🤞
In two parts
#podcast #green #uk #ZackPolanski #listening

Nombre Effectif de Partis Politiques en Afrique: Une Nouvelle M\'ethode pour un Calcul Objectif et Institutionnellement Neutre
Adama Nouboukpo, Kodzo Michel Aladji, Muktar Bappa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04279

Nombre Effectif de Partis Politiques en Afrique: Une Nouvelle Méthode pour un Calcul Objectif et Institutionnellement Neutre
Political fragmentation in Africa poses to a significant challenge to effective governance and stability. Traditional measures of party system fragmentation, such as the Effective Number of Parties (ENP) index, often fail to capture the nuanced realities of African political landscapes, particularly the influence of dominant parties, fluid party affiliations, and the impact of ethnic and regional cleavages. To address these limitations, this paper introduces two novel "apolitical" or "instituti…

Musk forms new political party after split with Trump over president's signature tax cuts law (Michelle L. Price/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-political-party-92353942308fee929a937b17113e077e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p35#a250706p35

If you want to know why a Democratic Senator and Representative in Minnesota were shot...
It might have something to do with the fact that their deaths would end the Democratic majorities in both chambers.

"Reform UK backs plan to put swift bricks in every new home in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds #Animals

"Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" (Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-copelovitch-interview-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p17#a250621p17

"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."
The announcement from Musk comes after Trump signed a tax-cut and spending bill into law on Friday, which the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla fiercely opposed.
Musk said previously that he would start a new political party and spend money to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill.

6 of the biggest challenges facing Musk's new political party (Maegan Vazquez/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/05/msuk-america-party/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p19#a250706p19

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

“You can’t begin to understand why one party would pass a bill that is unbelievably unpopular for stripping health care from poor people unless you understand Citizens United,”
said Robert Weissman, co-president of the watchdog group Public Citizen, in an interview.
The case that the Supreme Court agreed to hear calls on the First Amendment in an attempt to dismantle one of the last remaining pillars of campaign finance law.
With Trump appointees among a solid conservative …

A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power
A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”…

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.