Rory Kramer

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

It decreased inequality by squeezing the middle. It does not show any increase in low wage earning, just in low wage labor employment.

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Trump Uses Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member Out of Office Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern

Honestly this feels like a constitutional crisis.
*Powell needs to issue a quick statement pushing back.
*Will Trump try to use force to bar Cook from working?
*Assuming we get to litigation, will SCOTUS fold and go along with Trump's for "cause" rationale?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

Also, his argument doesnt make sense. If the issue is impact on fair housing laws, what does it matter what the racist says or thinks?

Another read is not that SCOTUS is shy about confronting Trump but that they're basically on board with his project but would be embarrassed about the legal arguments they'd have to make if they upheld his actions on the merits, so they find procedural means to let him get his way.

Jfc, campus shooter was a fucking hoax. Some people are not ok

"There is no grade inflation. The average grade is just under a B+"...UATX is the best dunning-Krueger ever

The aristocrats joke, but make it punditry. We call it "the argument"

But somehow worsd

I need the duet with gritty

Seeing the editor and a lot of resentment clicks together

Wait till you get to the article about how grad students need to drink more

The ways copaganda just throws stats out without any nod toward making a legitimate claim...

My dad did this and all it did was make him realize cops don't understand shit about their impact in the world, but only because I kept asking my dad leading questions about his interaction with the cop.

I knew T&S was going to be dogshit after the editorial takeover but my god....wtf

They don't need data. Crime is useful for vibes based authoritarianism and they're very good at that. Econ needs numbers to trick people into thinking its not a clusterfuck. You know this. Unsurprising Krugman doesnt.

Assumed this was satire. Disturbing to realize it isnt

The way to separate correlation from causation is to use modern research designs like RDD or diff-in-diff. When you can compare how progressives and moderates do in elections *all else equal*, you see no effect of ideology.

This is the Trump era. Ideology is not driving voting.

I remember when people treated him like this wasnt who he obviously was.

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Including Truman, lmfao

Im dying at the multiple presidents at once crisis of the 1970s

Ooooof. That was rough. Low-light had to be the statement that there are as many police shootings as there are killings in Chicago in a weekend. Super non-political and factual claim there.

Hate reading it on my flight to ASA because I like pain

Hear me out of politics: Colbert is going to have a lot of time on his hands in about a year. *note, I don't know his views that well

The moral panic over students using their free speech to express opinions conservatives disagreed with was never a genuine threat to free speech, though.

It was always about suppressing student speech because richer and more powerful people didn't like what they had to say.

One of the most infuriating interviews by Klein I've listened to. Just zero pancakes to farcical claims.

Last second reminder before ASA: I'll be there and happy to talk about our job opening, philly, villanova, or just buy people on the market coffee if they're willing to travel a little to go to a local cafe!