Office Hours with Karpf and Loge

In the first episode of season two, Karpf and Loge talk about what it would take to pass meaningful, or any, gun control legislation. Plus it's good news the White House is paying its interns, but the rest of the news is bad and Paris Hilton wants to be Queen of the Metaverse.

Links to support for Karpf and Loge’s arguments (and links to other miscellany) are below.

Guns

Karpf’s Substack piece on the gun debate.

Loge’s Medium piece on the gun debate.

The N.R.A.s Lobbyist Behind Florida’s Pro-Gun Policies from The New Yorker.

Polling can be misleading and a critique of that position.

A Republican Congressman in New York who supported assault weapon ban is being chased out of Congress (NYT).

A thoughtful “yes/and” take by Isaac Saul.

Not Guns

The White House is paying interns — this is a big deal.

DeSantis vs the Special Olympics. Having successfully raised taxes on Florida homeowners by beating a pretend mouse, the Florida governor bravely put kids’ health at risk by tackling the Special Olympics.

Christian Pulisic on US fans and here ($80 tickets didn’t help). His comments pale in comparison to French officials and UEFA after the Champions League final.

The House January 6 Commission hearings are starting(Just Security).

Paris Hilton wants to be the queen of the metaverse.

In the final episode of the first season, Karpf and Loge look back at some of season one's topics, talk about what advocates can learn from Facebook's DC efforts, and point out democracy is on the ballot in Pennsylvania.

Footnotes – Links to some what we referenced in the podcast, and to other readings listeners might find interesting.

New York Times remembrance of Donald Ross, public interest advocate and co-founder of M+R Strategic Services.

More Common Sense, Less Ideology: Modern Communications Lessons from the Critical Race Theory Debates – Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of Frameworks, on smart messaging.

Alvaro Bedoya confirmed at the Federal Trade Commission.

Facebook as a case study in strategic communication and policy advocacy, via The Washington Post.

An insurrectionist could be the next governor of Pennsylvania, from The New Yorker:

Dave Karpf and Peter Loge talk about responding to the Supreme Court probably overturning Roe v. Wade and America's political trailer park of doom. Plus Loge urges journalists to ignore the squirrels, and Karpf mocks Loge for still having an AOL account. 

Footnotes: Links to some of what we referenced in the podcast, and to other readings our listeners might find interesting.

Abortion

The Stanford Social Innovation Review has a terrific piece worth checking out – How Should the Social Sector Respond to an Abortion Upheaval?

Decoding Abortion Rhetoric by Celeste Condit is an important scholarly work on abortion politics. Her work is worth checking out in general.

Advice for advocates

Protest

Why Civil Resistance Works: The strategic logic of non-violent protest by Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan makes a compelling case for the power of non-violent protest. A shorter version from International Security is here.

Minority Rule

Bailing Out

Karpf and Loge talk about Earth Day and challenges of climate messaging and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis jacking up property taxes so he can get on TV by picking a fight with a pretend mouse. Plus Karpf thinks more politicians will try to score points by attacking children and wants Democrats to go on the culture war offensive, Loge talks FCC and FTC confirmation votes while working in several gratuitous references to a Joy Division - Teletubbies video. As always, links supporting the hot takes are at https://www.peterloge.com/podcast/.

Karpf and Loge talk about how Democrats should talk about the economy and inflation, and the limits even the best messaging has on who people vote for. Loge warns against releasing 66-million-year-old space spores and makes a pitch for a crypto company sponsor the pod (if they pay in cash).

In this episode Dave Karpf and Peter Loge talk about the strategic communications around Judge Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, and Karpf both warns about the “shadow docket” and makes a play for a mattress sponsor.

Footnotes – Some of the sources we referenced in the discussion.

The Pew Research Center on public opinion of the Supreme Cour

Professor Rachel Shelden in the Washington Post – “The Supreme Court used to be openly political

Ilya Shapiro for the Cato Institute – “Just Accept It: The Supreme Court Has Always Been Political

Robert Dahl “The Concept of Power

Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent in the Washington Post – “The Supreme Court isn’t bothering to hide its designs on our democracy” (discusses the “shadow docket”

SCOTUS Blog forum on “the shadow docket

Remembering Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the GIF, and John Roach who brought the TRS-80 to market.

Predictions:

Dave and Peter: The US Senate will confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to the US Supreme Court.

Dave: The story over the next two weeks will be the economy.

Peter: The US men’s national team will qualify for the World Cup.

In this episode Dave Karpf and Peter Loge talk about how to talk about something other than Ukraine and the mask as the message. Their hot takes are supported by the following footnotes:

KidSave in Ukraine

Airbnb offering free short term housing, and people paying for Airbnbs they won't use

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information by Frank Pasquale

"Snazzy solidarity: is celebrity and fashion support for Ukraine crass?" The Guardian

Stealth Democracy by John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

Counties that went for Trump in 2016 had lower levels of mask wearing - National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

The shifting politics of mask mandates - The Washington Post

Axios-Ipsos poll: Media habits defined the COVID culture war, Axios - "By the end of last month, just 16% of those who said they get most of their news from Fox or other conservative outlets still said they trust the CDC, compared to 77% of those who favor network news and major national newspapers and 87% of those who primarily watch CNN or MSNBC."

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