Eric Levitz

How AI could trigger an economic doom loop (according to a financial firm's viral memo) www.vox.com/politics/480...

Why Wall Street panicked over a sci-fi blog post An AI doom scenario so compelling, it shaved billions off the stock market.

An AI doom scenario so compelling, it shaved billions off the stock market. www.vox.com/politics/480...

It's true that there are tons of rich bigots.

It's also true that more educated voters are, in the aggregate, much more progressive on social issues than non-graduates. This is reflected not only in their answers to polls, but in the parties/candidates they support nymag.com/intelligence...

A little over a year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has yet to turn America into a pure, uncut authoritarian nightmare — but not for lack of trying!

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I wrote about why Silicon Valley is convinced we're in a "February 2020" moment (and how their dire prophesies could prove mistaken) www.vox.com/politics/478...

The argument of the piece is that any attempt at interference will likely fail, in part for this reason, and that the odds of Trump even attempting it are low -- but that the administration's recent actions indicate that the odds are higher than 0 percent, which is both outrageous and concerning.

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

Tulsi Gabbard has been investigating baseless allegations that Venezuelan hackers rigged the 2020 election

That's alarming, as it could indicate that Trump is trying to establish a national security rationale for seizing voting machines in November www.vox.com/politics/478...

oh god we're doing it again aren't we

A lesson of the backlash to Pretti's murder: Video is one of the last remaining constraints on Trump's mendacity and malfeasance

And this is what made some online liberals' response to the second Pretti video - declaring it a deepfake without solid evidence - misguided
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Summary execution is not the punishment for assault on an SUV in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/477...

After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate

Gotta admit, I too fell for this.

When I first saw federal agents fire 10 shots into the back of a man they'd just senselessly beaten, I thought it was wrong.

But then I learned that the murder victim wasn't even *that* hot

The Trump administration is admitting it lied about Alex Pretti A baby-step back from the brink.

The White House has tacitly admitted that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller defamed a man who was killed by their agents.

It is a scandal that they still hold their positions

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Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

I don't know what to do with the fact that my government is giving federal officers permission to summarily execute protestors at will -- or the knowledge that thousands (if not millions) of my fellow citizens are eager to lie in service of such violence

I can't decide which is more chilling -- watching federal agents commit a murder, or seeing the government and its supporters smear the victim with *blatant* lies

You don't need to have leftwing views on immigration to oppose what ICE is doing. You just need to value your own most basic rights www.vox.com/politics/476...

Wall Street buying up single-family homes is good, actually
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Won't somebody *please* think of the landlords who own only 10-to-12 properties

* Swing voters tend to have unusually weak (or conflicted) culture war allegiances, and are therefore more likely to vote based on economic conditions/messaging than the broader public is

Imo, three things are true:

*News consumers (/social media users) are a small minority of the voting public with eccentric preferences (generally, more ideologically coherent/extreme)

*Culture war cleavages increasingly determine partisanship (/whom voters trust on the economy)

The underlying study here actually indicates that economic messaging tends to be more effective at maximizing vote-share than culture war messaging

In the 1990s, cable news networks discovered that viewers were less likely to click away from coverage of culture war issues than coverage of economic matters.

TV news started giving social issues greater priority - and caused voters to do the same, a new study suggests www.vox.com/politics/475...

In the 20th century, poor whites voted to the left of rich ones.

But that changed in 2016. And by 2024, the relationship between income and Republicanism had inverted completely: The more money a white voter made, the more likely they were to back Harris www.vox.com/politics/475...

Over the past 4 decades, the culture war's rise realigned American politics -- pushing working-class voters right and college grads left.

A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...

The president is all-but encouraging pogroms against specific Somali-owned businesses, on the grounds that they serve customers who pay in food stamps (much like countless Walmarts in heavily Republican rural areas)

Yeah, I mean, I am marginally more sympathetic to this outlook than you are. But we agree its vastly overstated (and also relies a bit on conflating political parties with ideological movements; the Democratic Party circa 1936 was not synonymous with "the left")

The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering
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