@atomenthusiast.bsky.social
This is who Senate Democrats just lost a battle of wits to
Electrical Engineer Trump: Copper wire into glass wire into other types of wire, if you knew anything you'd know copper wire doesn't work with glass, glass doesn't work with other substances.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is who Senate Democrats just lost a battle of wits to
This bitch thinks I’m as dumb as his imaginary friends
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This bitch thinks I’m as dumb as his imaginary friends
The chart you’re referencing shows a pretty clear derivative spike around 2021 in healthcare, housing, childcare, food, transport, and furnishings, which I think pretty reasonably some might consider “things they need”
I’m sorry, but this doesn’t really explain why everyone is suddenly fixated on the economy being terrible and thinks nothing is affordable. It’s true that services+housing are increasing in cost relative to goods.
BUT this is a long-term trend, and until 2021ish, everyone seemed pretty optimistic!
BUT this is a long-term trend, and until 2021ish, everyone seemed pretty optimistic!
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The chart you’re referencing shows a pretty clear derivative spike around 2021 in healthcare, housing, childcare, food, transport, and furnishings, which I think pretty reasonably some might consider “things they need”
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
Trump instituted a bunch of horrible policies that caused widespread sticker shock, and in parallel his economic approval cratered. This happened despite conservatives having nearly unified control of social media and broadcast media. I can see why this is hard to stomach.
Obviously I think Trump’s economic policies are a hellish disaster - the tariffs, the cuts, the weird state capitalism. But it’s important to separate the acute harms from this sort of miasmatic nostalgic discontent that people like to spread online, which is at least partially RESPONSIBLE for Trump
it's important we reach these voters and explain to them that the economy is Actually Good and there's no reason to be upset with the status quo
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Trump instituted a bunch of horrible policies that caused widespread sticker shock, and in parallel his economic approval cratered. This happened despite conservatives having nearly unified control of social media and broadcast media. I can see why this is hard to stomach.
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They had to work the weekend and got worried their flight might be delayed.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
They had to work the weekend and got worried their flight might be delayed.
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the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
This seems significant
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
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Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
My pet theory when this started was that the FAA stuff was specifically to make Senators terrified of not getting home on time for their multi-week vacation and that sure looks like a good guess.
there is no force on earth, not even the grandest wealth and state power over others, that is more of an influence on senate dems thinking than vacation plans
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My pet theory when this started was that the FAA stuff was specifically to make Senators terrified of not getting home on time for their multi-week vacation and that sure looks like a good guess.
You see people do this a lot, simply implying anyone dealing with high metro home prices is ultra wealthy, and it falls apart completely if you think about it even momentarily.
telling on yourself a little bro
The median home price in my neighborhood is $760k. The average teacher salary at the local school is $65k. A family w/ two full time teachers cannot afford a home where they teach.
This is why my kid’s math teacher also teaches part time at the college & why his writing teacher is also a waitress.
This is why my kid’s math teacher also teaches part time at the college & why his writing teacher is also a waitress.
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
You see people do this a lot, simply implying anyone dealing with high metro home prices is ultra wealthy, and it falls apart completely if you think about it even momentarily.
Will, why do consumers think inflation is increasing? Is this due to Trump policies that are affecting goods (e.g. beef), or is it a social media effect? If the latter, how is this possible when right wing reactionaries have a uniform grip on social media diets, a subject you constantly opine on.
No we’re not. Neither of these charts is of inflation
During Biden you loved to claim that economic sentiment had detached from inflation, but now we’re seeing them moving in unison despite a completely supplicant media and social media landscape. You’re just completely disinterested in evidence that contradicts your thesis.
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Will, why do consumers think inflation is increasing? Is this due to Trump policies that are affecting goods (e.g. beef), or is it a social media effect? If the latter, how is this possible when right wing reactionaries have a uniform grip on social media diets, a subject you constantly opine on.
During Biden you loved to claim that economic sentiment had detached from inflation, but now we’re seeing them moving in unison despite a completely supplicant media and social media landscape. You’re just completely disinterested in evidence that contradicts your thesis.
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
During Biden you loved to claim that economic sentiment had detached from inflation, but now we’re seeing them moving in unison despite a completely supplicant media and social media landscape. You’re just completely disinterested in evidence that contradicts your thesis.
How could this possibly happen? I thought this number was completely detached from the material world, and in the online world Republicans control all the algorithmic feeds.
54% of Americans say the U.S. economy is getting worse, up from 37% at the start of President Trump's second term.
(Economist/@today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251105-top...
(Economist/@today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251105-top...
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How could this possibly happen? I thought this number was completely detached from the material world, and in the online world Republicans control all the algorithmic feeds.
A minor point in a huge news day, but I can’t get over Matt Yglesias thinking the Democratic Party is against algebra and that this a highly polarizing issue to toddler brained swing voters.
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A minor point in a huge news day, but I can’t get over Matt Yglesias thinking the Democratic Party is against algebra and that this a highly polarizing issue to toddler brained swing voters.
Desperately need shots from Cuomo’s campaign headquarters
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Desperately need shots from Cuomo’s campaign headquarters
This is the way Republicans talk about attention on school shootings.
Okay, so you deny that Palestine and Gaza emerged as a cause celebre for the young in 2023 and 2024, widely talked about by people who were otherwise not closely engaged in politics, drowning out most other youth activism? Because I certainly saw that happen and think social media played a big role
Nobody is actually giving you a good answer so here's why she's wrong: the negative trendline against Israel in public opinion predates TikTok's emergence by nearly seven years. Also, the largest shift in opinion on Israel in a single demo since 2023 has been among Democrats aged 50yrs and older.
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is the way Republicans talk about attention on school shootings.
Approximately 3 in 4 republicans have believed climate change is a hoax dating back 15 years.
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Approximately 3 in 4 republicans have believed climate change is a hoax dating back 15 years.
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the way I have come to think about this is that he essentially does not believe in representative democracy. the electorate of California or Massachusetts does not have a right to candidates who reflect their values, they must strategically vote for people Kansas can tolerate a coalition with
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
the way I have come to think about this is that he essentially does not believe in representative democracy. the electorate of California or Massachusetts does not have a right to candidates who reflect their values, they must strategically vote for people Kansas can tolerate a coalition with
Tough to parse this all Matt, let’s go to the tape.
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Tough to parse this all Matt, let’s go to the tape.
Matt’s extremely specific and pundit brained definition of “issues” here is so load bearing it’s currently got a 737 balanced on it.
Some prominent people on this website have talked themselves into a model of how democracy works — where issues don’t matter to voters and voter preferences are irrelevant to election outcomes — that’s so bleak and nihilistic that I sincerely don’t know why they’d find it worth trying to preserve.
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Matt’s extremely specific and pundit brained definition of “issues” here is so load bearing it’s currently got a 737 balanced on it.
At least we know Hilary is reading @whstancil.bsky.social
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
At least we know Hilary is reading @whstancil.bsky.social
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When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
The thing encouraging the enthusiasm around Mandami is the worst in the nation machine party. In a world where the NY Dems were functional and excised Cuomo, Adams, Paladino, Jeffries, etc. you probably just get a run of the mill good governance candidate like Lander.
It’s cult-of-personality politics, the internet encourages it, just as much on the left as on the right. Obama was older and more experienced than him and was still pretty green when he entered office, with serious political consequences. Let’s be realistic here please
Feel a real rise of people just really loving the vibes of specific politicians so they just make up their own version of them in their heads.
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The thing encouraging the enthusiasm around Mandami is the worst in the nation machine party. In a world where the NY Dems were functional and excised Cuomo, Adams, Paladino, Jeffries, etc. you probably just get a run of the mill good governance candidate like Lander.
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Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
Imagine not even having a law degree and doing this level of groveling towards lawyers.
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Imagine not even having a law degree and doing this level of groveling towards lawyers.