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I don't always agree with Ioannides but this is spot on t.co/y7bn699UXy
It is probably just as important to spread post-Keynesian truths (e.g. MMT) among liberals as it is in the population at large.
October 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It is probably just as important to spread post-Keynesian truths (e.g. MMT) among liberals as it is in the population at large.
A truly horrible book.
Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked.
But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...
But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...
July 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A truly horrible book.
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It is abominable that the response to a deliberate campaign of starvation in Gaza has been so muted. @ryanlcooper.com calls it out today, and connects the dots: ethnic cleansing is clearly the future for the West Bank, which the Israeli Knesset this week voted to annex.
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
Israel’s Endgame Is Obliterating Palestine
Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.
prospect.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It is abominable that the response to a deliberate campaign of starvation in Gaza has been so muted. @ryanlcooper.com calls it out today, and connects the dots: ethnic cleansing is clearly the future for the West Bank, which the Israeli Knesset this week voted to annex.
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
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I grew up on this show & me & my grade school friend rolled on the floor laughing about it and then they re-aired it on TV Land and my wife had never seen it and it was a marathon & I was watching and howling and she just kept saying "these people are nuts. they are all nuts"
This is awesome: Sony has started posting full episodes of THE GONG SHOW its Classic TV Rewind channel. It’s put up four since last week; hopefully more are coming and this is a prelude to the full series landing on FAST or a subscription streamer. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Gong Show 🏆 - YouTube
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July 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I grew up on this show & me & my grade school friend rolled on the floor laughing about it and then they re-aired it on TV Land and my wife had never seen it and it was a marathon & I was watching and howling and she just kept saying "these people are nuts. they are all nuts"
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what’s the plan now that this shit has stopped working? you guys kinda seem like you’re flying blind. lying us into iraq at least had a certain nihilistic panache, now you just seem bored
July 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
what’s the plan now that this shit has stopped working? you guys kinda seem like you’re flying blind. lying us into iraq at least had a certain nihilistic panache, now you just seem bored
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“Maybe if we tie every primary result back to Mamdani we can crucify him that way!”
- the idiots at the New York Times
- the idiots at the New York Times
July 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
“Maybe if we tie every primary result back to Mamdani we can crucify him that way!”
- the idiots at the New York Times
- the idiots at the New York Times
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What on earth is this claim?
Grijalva is the daughter of an ex-CPC chair, was endorsed by AOC and Bernie, and beat the guy who ran as a moderate saying Democrats needed to move away from social issues by 60-14.
Mamdani made no mention of this race, and his biggest endorsers were for the winner.
??
Grijalva is the daughter of an ex-CPC chair, was endorsed by AOC and Bernie, and beat the guy who ran as a moderate saying Democrats needed to move away from social issues by 60-14.
Mamdani made no mention of this race, and his biggest endorsers were for the winner.
??
"Mamdani momentum withered in the deserts of southern Arizona on Tuesday night." Jack Healy on Adelita Grijalva's convincing win in Tucson against the upstarts who called for a new face and name to succeed Raul Grijalva in the House. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
A Scion of Democratic Politics Defeats the Upstarts in an Arizona Primary
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
What on earth is this claim?
Grijalva is the daughter of an ex-CPC chair, was endorsed by AOC and Bernie, and beat the guy who ran as a moderate saying Democrats needed to move away from social issues by 60-14.
Mamdani made no mention of this race, and his biggest endorsers were for the winner.
??
Grijalva is the daughter of an ex-CPC chair, was endorsed by AOC and Bernie, and beat the guy who ran as a moderate saying Democrats needed to move away from social issues by 60-14.
Mamdani made no mention of this race, and his biggest endorsers were for the winner.
??
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We’re told the UK is living beyond its means. But who exactly is living beyond them? It’s not the NHS. It’s not people in poverty. It’s the private monopolies and unchecked corporate profits. In this video, I explain why this narrative is wrong.
youtu.be/M5H3so8WUR4?...
youtu.be/M5H3so8WUR4?...
Is the UK really living beyond its means?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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July 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
We’re told the UK is living beyond its means. But who exactly is living beyond them? It’s not the NHS. It’s not people in poverty. It’s the private monopolies and unchecked corporate profits. In this video, I explain why this narrative is wrong.
youtu.be/M5H3so8WUR4?...
youtu.be/M5H3so8WUR4?...
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There's a live on air moment of Fox starting with the projected number was an increase of 95,000 and then had to report that it was actually a loss of 33,000, and then instead of talking about jobs they moved on to something else immediately.
July 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
There's a live on air moment of Fox starting with the projected number was an increase of 95,000 and then had to report that it was actually a loss of 33,000, and then instead of talking about jobs they moved on to something else immediately.
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Something everyone should know. Trump HAS the June jobs numbers. He wants Congress to vote BEFORE they see these numbers.
July 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Something everyone should know. Trump HAS the June jobs numbers. He wants Congress to vote BEFORE they see these numbers.
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Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
July 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
@atwilliams.bsky.social This looks really good www.continuousvariation.com/p/the-post-k.... Dude, you've been holding out on me!
"The Post-Keynesian Worldview in Five Principles"
a talk I gave for the Berggruen Institute on zoom
www.continuousvariation.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
@atwilliams.bsky.social This looks really good www.continuousvariation.com/p/the-post-k.... Dude, you've been holding out on me!
TB absolutely C, Liberals, DPer's, leftists who have not figured out how public finance actually works (via MMT, etc) are part of the problem, part of the reason hysteria about irrelevant things has overtaken large parts of populace put so much wind into the sails of the right.
July 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
TB absolutely C, Liberals, DPer's, leftists who have not figured out how public finance actually works (via MMT, etc) are part of the problem, part of the reason hysteria about irrelevant things has overtaken large parts of populace put so much wind into the sails of the right.
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I feel like if you are genuinely concerned about Mamdani being an antisemite you should read what his current Jewish constituents think of him. Many of them — including some Zionists! — like him! forward.com/news/733324/...
Zohran Mamdani has represented Astoria's Jews for 4 years. What do they think of him?
Before becoming the NYC mayor Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani represented Astoria in the New York State assembly, what do Jews there think?
forward.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I feel like if you are genuinely concerned about Mamdani being an antisemite you should read what his current Jewish constituents think of him. Many of them — including some Zionists! — like him! forward.com/news/733324/...
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FDA Recalls 3 Oranges To Prove They Can Juggle
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July 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
FDA Recalls 3 Oranges To Prove They Can Juggle
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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1,500+ at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
June 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
1,500+ at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
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I’ve written a short essay on the origins of the song “Madonna of the Wasps” on my Substack. Here is the link if you’d like to read it: substack.com/@robynhitchc...
Madonna of the Wasps
Some years ago I had a dream which went much as follows:
substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’ve written a short essay on the origins of the song “Madonna of the Wasps” on my Substack. Here is the link if you’d like to read it: substack.com/@robynhitchc...
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. — Molly Ivins
I miss Molly Ivins
June 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. — Molly Ivins
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With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
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This will just increase his popularity lol
Zohran Mamdani says that he doesn't believe billionaires should exist in an interview with 'Meet the Press.'
"Frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country."
"Frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country."
Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'
Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee to be the next mayor of New York City and a self-identified Democratic socialist, on Sunday said billionaires contribute to inequality.
nbcnews.to
June 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This will just increase his popularity lol
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If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.