This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
Really starting to feel like some consultant pollster memo went out across the party saying that every candidate needs to have some kind of means tested tax cut. No other explanation makes sense.
I talk a lot about how Article I of the Constitution (Congress) is not in effect, but Articles III and VI as well as their explicit powers from Marbury v Madison (Judiciary) are also not in effect.
(Yes it was repressed in 2026 but I still found it)
Found a rare 1979 midtempo disco joint outta Ireland of all places
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Stop involving me in this bullshit
A very good way to measure people's preferences is to look at what they're willing to pay for less car-dependent neighborhoods in the urban core versus completely car-dependent neighborhoods in the exurban fringe.
Can this be a solution?
In our recent survey, 47% of men under 30 said legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society, up from 22% who said that in 2022: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Astute
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They’re doing a lot of things besides protecting and serving
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In 1996 Clinton won 48% of rural counties. In 2024 Trump won 93%. "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" explains why & what's to be done to heal the divide. I interviewed lead author @smettler.bsky.social for @barnraiser.bsky.social 1/
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WhY ArEn’t yOuNg pEoPlE PrOtEsTiNg? asks the university leader in 2026
“Unconstitutional, abhorrent.” And done in collaboration with universities, who sold their students out for exercising their free speech and got them sent to detention centers
(Yes that was more of a comment)
i.e., @jrothst.bsky.social
My question, if I get the chance to ask, is that it's not clear that the people with negative real wages were more likely to switch to Trump. I do agree it's a reason for people to be pissed off about the economy, though
.@jrothst.bsky.social is discussant, arguing that the bigger story is that wage gains during this time (which on average & at median pretty much kept up or even surpassed inflation) were unevenly distributed. It's messy: some workers get left behind by late or too small wage increases
Helps to explain why people focus so much on grocery prices specifically rather than inflation overall (or real wages)
Watching a @jaredb-econ.bsky.social here at Berkeley @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social and he's showing a very intersting point on grocery prices: in the 2010s, grocery prices inflated way less than overall inflation. In the 2020s, grocery prices inflated similarly to the rest of goods.
Worth noting that "AI reduces labor demand" and "AI increases labor demand" can both be pitched with negative valence.
Smartphones with social media have been devastating for kids and teenagers. Also for journalists and pundits.
This is stunning. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social at one point looks like he’s thinking “it’s even worse than anyone could’ve expected.” Article I of the Constitution is not in effect.
Ndoye reports from detention that Nick Shirley, himself, pointed at him during the Canal Street raid to tell them to arrest him
"ICE didn’t even try to talk to me, but then he pointed me out to ICE and they ran to me and arrested me."
A regime of influencers
www.courthousenews.com/immigrant-sa...
This one takes the cake
For real wtf is going on with this ridiculous tax revolt stuff among Dems like Booker, Hochul, and Van Hollen? Makes no economic or political sense
lol, of course the ADL is claiming that saying "Operation Epstein Fury" is antisemitic. What a joke of an organization.
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I started a substack! First piece looks at the Challenger layoff data compared to JOLTS.
Why did Challenger, but not JOLTS, show an increase in layoffs the last three years?
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because they only know chuck berry, little Richard, and the other black inventors of rock that he took from right? :)
