i also think they just didn’t have any cards to play earlier in the year, and schumer gambled — correctly — that republicans wouldn’t be able to get it together on SNAP and ACA premiums once he accepted that both johnson and thune have surrendered themselves entirely to the white house

police refusal to act on stuff like this - stolen phones in central london, buried in a known location daily to be retrieved later - is really corrosive to any sense of public trust.

people? you mean americans? you mean you think americans are going to think “i should pay much more for something i was paying far less for last month?” americans who live in the united states?

Workers earning minimum wages typically show stronger future careers, and state minimum wage policies do not significantly alter these relative trajectories, from Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, and Louis J. Maiden www.nber.org/papers/w34405

I say this as a huge Tolkien fan, but we are currently being governed by a bunch of “lol Sportsball” saying nerds and it’s bad for the country

It's the clean air act/deleaded gas/lack of smoking. Millenials aged better/slower than the prior two gens, and the trend's continued for zoomers.

Oh and a lack of smoking. That one's huge. One of my siblings has so many wrinkles due to it while the other two of us have zilch.

deleaded gas/clean air act/etc. have made young people look a lot younger. Millenials were noticably younger looking than similarly aged Gen X/Boomers and trend's continued. (see: cast of Taxi/Cheers)

One thing this definitely impacts unconciously? Age gap dating discourse and norms.

But that's just variance. Everyone wants to know about average bias. Here it is. Polls in the last two weeks of the campaign overstated Democratic margins by 2.7 points across all offices—smaller than the 4.6-point overestimate in 2020 and 3.1 points in 2016. But that's a Dem bias 3 cycles in a row.

Resuming nuclear testing is a massive giveaway to China and Russia because we basically have the supercomputers to simulate them (look into why the DOE owns so many….) no and they don’t, so physical nuclear tests would give them a lot of data that they currently don’t have access to.

A better world is possible if we dare to imagine it.

Leftists: Get rid of old people! Gerontocracy!

Also leftists: Being a Nazi is better than being old!

Somehow also leftists: But 84 year old Bernie is okay for uh reasons

These people have civilian jobs. It's one thing to mobilize them for an emergency or a legitimate war, another thing to send them to American cities to stand around and mill about. You're messing with people's careers to further a hostile and idiotic agenda.

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Another liberal supporting liberal Graham Platner's liberal campaign liberally as liberals liberal liberal liberal

Cool story the outrage about this from the Anti-War people will never rise above the intensity of a wet fart because it can't be blamed on a Democrat

it's a 180 from the campaign, this + the ballroom + bruising = he knows hes sick

everyone who keeps freaking out about him running for a third term has not actually watched him on video less than one year into this one

was trying to work out why people were posting their passwords and then I realized it was potential Dutch electoral coalitions

A great piece from the 20th Anniversary issue of @prospect.org back in 2010, arguing that the rise of more rich progressive donors had not stopped Democrats from talking about inequality but HAD caused Democrats to trend left on environmental and social issues.

prospect.org/2010/07/29/r...

Biggest issue on the left in terms of the bubble: text-based mediums self-select in a specific group of people and leave out a looooooot of people.

I personally think this attack is landing because of the asylum backlog loophole, same as the hotels situation.

The cross border->apply for asylum->become eligible for benefits/work while waiting years for a decision was both a real policy problem and a political nightmare.

The UK/Europe are pretty instructive in how voters absolutely do not put up with nomadic behavior.

again, none of this would be disqualifying - politicians almost by nature have to pose as more salt-of-the-earth than they are - if not for HAVING A FUCKING NAZI TATTOO FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS.

I missed the 'to access higher ed' part, his grandfather was one of the most famous architects/designers in the United States, his dad is a lawyer, his mom owns the restaurants he sells his oysters to - I'm pretty certain he could afford to go to college.

One thing about shutdowns is that the submerged state becomes a lot more visible when the tide goes out

"You can just support moderate fiscal and crime/immigration policies while not abandoning gay marriage?"

A lot of Pop Leftism is not actually leftism, it is Discontent at the Status Quo and a key lesson from this past decade is that you need more than just general discontent, because it can and will be channeled to reactionary causes.

Reagan ultimately pushed the asylums to the state level

The pervasive 'liberal is the worst thing you can be' vibes of social media have created a load of people who embrace more and more radical labels to seem 'with it' without really changing their underlying beliefs