Some time series on "house affordability" for the skeptical #EconSky
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

On Peter Thiel's AntiChrist “Restrainer” Politics: Billionaire TechBro Peter Thiel, Nazi Political Philosopher-Theologian Carl Schmitt, Pacifist Christians René Girard & Wolfgang Palaver, the AntiChrist & his enemies, & J.D...

On Peter Thiel's AntiChrist
“Restrainer” Politics: Billionaire TechBro Peter Thiel, Nazi Political Philosopher-Theologian Carl Schmitt, Pacifist Christians René Girard & Wolfgang Palaver, the AntiChrist & his enemies, & J.D. Vance & the scapegoating of the…
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Trump’s AI Brain Rot Plus: Trump’s increasingly dumb, and undoubtedly painful, global tariff loop.

“Republicans will have to face up to the fact that they have nominated this lowlife three times for president…Democrats will have to face up to the fact they have twice failed to defeat him. Americans will have to face up to the fact we have twice elected him.”

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We lost a winnable election against convicted felon. WHY?

C'mon. Did average voters even know what was in the IRA, or the Chips Act, or the Infrastructure Act? They didn't know what the Biden Administration was doing for them because the Biden Administration never communicated/sold the benefits to them.

Yes BUT--we lost the last election because Joe Biden was unwilling/unable to articulate a coherent vision to median voters. And then he stubbornly refused to make way for someone who could.

Reminder: the point of the massive, lavishly funded, decades-long campaign by the right to take over media was not to make the public love Republicans, it was to make the public hate Democrats, so that no matter what Republicans did, it would be forgiven.

They know: it won't matter ...

Donald Trump and his lapdog GOP Congress are so against lowering health care costs that they're instead shutting down the federal government.

Food assistance thrown into jeopardy. Troops going without pay. Essential services shuttered.

This is how MAGA treats our country.

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.

And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

Bless Gavin Newsom For Fighting Back! It’s about Me-damn time.

LET’S FUCKING GO!!!’

Methinks you doth exagerate.

Trumponomics has been officially defined for the ages. #trumponomics #econsky #economy by the great @justinwolfers.bsky.social

Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’

Does anyone think these unspeakably evil political assassinations of Democratic lawmakers would’ve occurred without the vicious permission structure erected by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and their MAGAts?

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Is Tapper lying? Are you trying to say that the public didn't see what they thought they saw on 6/27/24? Check the polls. Our Dem brand is in the toilet. Our denial exacerbates it. Biden's selfish hubris gave us trump.

YouTube video by Annie Andrews Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.

Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me.

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Trade policy update.

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We are 4 months into trump47. It's sickening, and the public can't not see it. But still, Dem party approval is in the toilet. WHY??? If we refuse to look in the mirror, then we will fail again.

Tapper's opinion may not matter, but public opinion does--if elections matter. Why is Dem approval in the toilet?

No question, trump is a tyrant. Big question, why was Dem party approval in the toilet--before the Tapper book release?

Tapper did an investigation on a relevant subject. Did he lie in his reporting?

Whaboutism. Whataboutism. Whataboutism. trump is worse than Biden, but many millions saw a feeble old man flail on 06/27/24. We can tell them that they shouldn't believe what they saw, but good luck with that. We stuck with Biden and we own that failure. Biden's stubborn hubris is why we have trump.

The public is paying a price. A feeble, brittle Biden would be better than trump. But it doesn’t matter what I think. Even now, the polls are showing that the Dem brand is in the toilet. Until the Dems can produce a credible candidate, and craft a message that SELLS, then we will lose again.

You can say it til the cows come home. Whether you like it or not, whether like it or not, the voting public saw a stubborn feeble old man. Poll after poll showed it and Biden was incapable of changing that perception.

BS. It is possible to walk and chew bubblegum. Biden's inner circle covered up his decline. It has been, and should be reported. But we see the same media reporting on trump's lunacy every day.

So he raised the tariffs, paused that raise, paused that pause, then paused that pause of the pause. And no-one knows if it'll be paused again (and if such a pause will be unpaused) or what happens when (or if) the pause whose pause was paused concludes.

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