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Tax policy IS public policy, and an important tool to help maintain fair and efficient markets, as well as address wealth distribution disparities.

Unpack the Court has to be the highest priority.

Edible and even tasty, reportedly.

I died so many times on that one

YES it is!

Exactly

@zzyzx.bsky.social @atlemar.bsky.social I was just counting, and realized we’ve all known each other 30+ years online. How is that possible? I dunno about you but I’m not even that old yet.

lolsob

Just saying, a Dem presidential candidate running with a “Pack The Court” policy explicitly in their platform would do pretty well for themself. And possibly scare the current court into behaving a bit less oligarch-friendly. Or heck, just get Dems to start shouting about it now.

I mean, I love me a good noodle kugel but it’s like seeing Cadbury eggs out next to candy canes.

What am I supposed to do, fry the egg noodles? Ew.

Lolwut?

So if I use 0%…?

Back to business for BLS! Watching this page daily; I notice a few announced with a data release but not a news release. Read carefully. #econsky

I think the single best thing the Democratic Party could do right now is change all of their primaries to ranked choice voting. With so much of the US districts gerrymandered all to hell and back, it’s the strongest way to bring quality candidates for those districts

You know you’re doing something wrong when all these groups align against you.

Love the Wicked theme colors on the chart.

Analysis of hypothetical RCV in 2020 Dem primary in this article is really interesting. Spoilers: Biden still wins, because more than half of Sanders supporters exhausted their ballots—they didn’t rank all of the candidates. If they had ranked Warren, she would have won in this poll.

They do that at first, yeah

Growing up you always think older people hate on the youth because they've forgotten what it's like to be young but it's actually quite the opposite, they remember vividly, which is precisely why they know you're full of shit

Does that make the opposite “scientific heresy”?

Yeah, go find the Fairies, they give armor upgrades.

Oh yeah, most of those are in places that are pretty easy to find. Just cheat and google the others you can’t. :) Someone will have a map posted somewhere.

What are you looking for this time?

Employment typically needs to rise by about 200K to keep up with new labor market entrants (ie normal population growth).

I’ve had to do similar, not here to judge! ;)

Oh, the trick to that one is to shoot him in the eye then attack his knees while he’s reeling.

via @minnpop @ipums.bsky.social OCC2010 is now available in ATUS: The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) was first fielded in 2003 and data have been collected and released annually since. Over that period, ATUS occupations have been coded using three distinct coding… blog.popdata.org/occ2010-atus/

What The Actual Fuck

It’s Monday, November 17, 2025.

This is your reminder that:

1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.

2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.