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3/..but not the much more substantive points!

...Then the latter side will always be on the offensive, having the advantage, and the other side will be always on the defensive, correctly perceived as spineless, without substance, etc.

You address Morris' secondary point in that post (the effect size of moderation is dwarfed by uncertainty)

It seems like charts 2 & 3 in the quoted tweet are more pertinent, which show how malleable/fluid public opinion can be.

When one side pretends opinion is fixed + exogenous to political strategy, and the other operates with a very effective propaganda machine that shapes public opinion...

pedo state, petro state, police state

Mamdani actually has policies that focus on affordability, rather than invoking it only as an abstraction.

He never stopped talking about civil rights, equality, value and beauty of diversity (esp in NYC), while also talking about affordability.

With honesty & directness becoming incredibly rare in our degraded media ecosystem, this was an incredibly refreshing read

Imo the only path for a while now has been Doing Reconstruction Right This Time

Remarkable only because directness, integrity, honesty, have become so incredibly rare

the US is a petrostrate, and that fact shapes our politics as it shaped our physical environment

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking.

It exposes that much of the world has been cowed.

Most notable exception: the Latin American left.

That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

the industrial policy is petrostate autarky

i switched to linux

ALSO rebuilding after climate disasters!

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

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"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social.

Download this. Use this. It is so good.

I do not work there, I just think it is neat!

do you have a good source or more details on how suburban developers lobby/write/shape building codes?

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling

This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.

the data backs this sentiment up!

Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

optimism of the will pessimism of the intellect

Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.