Kyle
@bigfiscalstan.bsky.social
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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we should do it
Examining what it would cost to end extreme poverty using direct income transfers finds an estimate of 0.3 percent of global GDP, from Roshni Sahoo, Joshua Blumenstock, Paul Niehaus, Leo Selker, and Stefan Wager www.nber.org/papers/w34583
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
we should do it
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Like, the Jim Crow South was fascist, and that element never *really* went away, and then it got concentrated in the Republican Party and then the Republican Party turned fascist
What else would be the outcome of that process
What else would be the outcome of that process
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Like, the Jim Crow South was fascist, and that element never *really* went away, and then it got concentrated in the Republican Party and then the Republican Party turned fascist
What else would be the outcome of that process
What else would be the outcome of that process
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this version's gone, i assume it will get spiked from anywhere with fast moderation. 404's article has a good chunk of options for where you can download it www.404media.co/archivists-p...
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
this version's gone, i assume it will get spiked from anywhere with fast moderation. 404's article has a good chunk of options for where you can download it www.404media.co/archivists-p...
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I honestly think that the antideficiency act is the solution here. These people, spent money, that was not appropriate by Congress, to put a new name on the building. That is a violation of the antideficiency act
Rep. Jeffries signaled it is illegal for Trump to rename the Kennedy Center without “legislative action.”
“The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action."
Read more:
https://go.govbrief.today/kennedy-center-trump-signage
“The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action."
Read more:
https://go.govbrief.today/kennedy-center-trump-signage
December 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I honestly think that the antideficiency act is the solution here. These people, spent money, that was not appropriate by Congress, to put a new name on the building. That is a violation of the antideficiency act
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3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.
December 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.
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21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
December 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!
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20. So this goes back to point 10. When we are a net exporter, decisions to produce more help producers and hurt consumers. And in this case, are ALSO bad for the climate. It's lose / lose all around.
December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
20. So this goes back to point 10. When we are a net exporter, decisions to produce more help producers and hurt consumers. And in this case, are ALSO bad for the climate. It's lose / lose all around.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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New: The Trump administration had a 4-part plan for the labor market in 2025. None of it worked.
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
A Year In, the MAGA Labor Market Story Has Fallen Apart
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and a gendered theory of growth. The data say otherwise.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
New: The Trump administration had a 4-part plan for the labor market in 2025. None of it worked.
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
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This dialogue is making me crazy--the same is NOT true for the much better measured Conference Board index so we can just settle down a bit with all these takes...
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This dialogue is making me crazy--the same is NOT true for the much better measured Conference Board index so we can just settle down a bit with all these takes...
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i know it’s been a week packed with bad news, but the widespread apathy to this is a really bad sign. this isn’t about saving votes. if it was, the geriatric leadership of this party would stop dying in office
so naturally, democrats just reinstated cuellar into *leadership*
not just his seat, but one of the most powerful posts in the party
not just his seat, but one of the most powerful posts in the party
Maybe Democrats would do well not to fucking dilute anti-corruption messaging, eh?
"66% disapprove and 15% approve of the pardon of Texas Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife, who had been charged with accepting $600,000 in bribes."
"66% disapprove and 15% approve of the pardon of Texas Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife, who had been charged with accepting $600,000 in bribes."
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
i know it’s been a week packed with bad news, but the widespread apathy to this is a really bad sign. this isn’t about saving votes. if it was, the geriatric leadership of this party would stop dying in office
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Everyone knows Hakeem Jeffries is poised to waltz into the speakership. What this piece presupposes is: maybe he shouldn’t? www.offmessage.net/p/crisis-of-...
Crisis Of Confidence
Hakeem Jeffries will almost certainly become House speaker. Should he, though?
www.offmessage.net
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Everyone knows Hakeem Jeffries is poised to waltz into the speakership. What this piece presupposes is: maybe he shouldn’t? www.offmessage.net/p/crisis-of-...
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so naturally, democrats just reinstated cuellar into *leadership*
not just his seat, but one of the most powerful posts in the party
not just his seat, but one of the most powerful posts in the party
Maybe Democrats would do well not to fucking dilute anti-corruption messaging, eh?
"66% disapprove and 15% approve of the pardon of Texas Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife, who had been charged with accepting $600,000 in bribes."
"66% disapprove and 15% approve of the pardon of Texas Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife, who had been charged with accepting $600,000 in bribes."
Majorities of Americans say Donald Trump gives out too many pardons and want to limit pardon power | YouGov
A majority of Americans think that Trump uses the presidential pardon power too frequently and most Americans are in favor of placing constitutional limits on the president's ability to pardon
today.yougov.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
so naturally, democrats just reinstated cuellar into *leadership*
not just his seat, but one of the most powerful posts in the party
not just his seat, but one of the most powerful posts in the party
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public opinion is simply more nuanced than what can be expressed in issue polls. and voters think about broad issues in a number of different ways. there are ways to fight on immigration that do help trump. but there are also ways to fight on it that hurt him.
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
public opinion is simply more nuanced than what can be expressed in issue polls. and voters think about broad issues in a number of different ways. there are ways to fight on immigration that do help trump. but there are also ways to fight on it that hurt him.
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"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon
“We got ratified,” Cuellar told reporters after the vote.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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The city hall is packed. People are standing. I doubt this is fire code compliant lol.
Today, 6PM, at Leavenworth KS town hall. Help stop and delay the expansion of the internment camp system.
CoreCivic is dropping their failing lawsuit and is attempting to get their internment camp in Leavenworth via a SUP via a city council meeting tomorrow at 6PM.
I am told this is an “all hands on deck” moment by locals and activists if you can make it.
100 N 5th Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048
I am told this is an “all hands on deck” moment by locals and activists if you can make it.
100 N 5th Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The city hall is packed. People are standing. I doubt this is fire code compliant lol.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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Listen, we need to recognize the back to office push as part of the revolt to reestablish hierarchies that has given us everything bad that has happened in the world since roughly May 2023. Liberals should not be aiding nor abetting this revolt in any way.
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Listen, we need to recognize the back to office push as part of the revolt to reestablish hierarchies that has given us everything bad that has happened in the world since roughly May 2023. Liberals should not be aiding nor abetting this revolt in any way.
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One of those things where there’s just no way to spin out a cohesive argument against aggressive YIMBY upzoning that isn’t predicated on a form of social utopianism
Seizing the community input system to be racist? In America? It’s more common than you might think.
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One of those things where there’s just no way to spin out a cohesive argument against aggressive YIMBY upzoning that isn’t predicated on a form of social utopianism
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Seizing the community input system to be racist? In America? It’s more common than you might think.
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Seizing the community input system to be racist? In America? It’s more common than you might think.
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Not an exaggeration, btw. I’ve lived here nearly 1/2 my life & it’s the same shit from the same commercial lots. It‘s one giant conspiracy by neo-confederate business segregationists. I guarantee you this isn’t unique to Westport. It’s a rare preview into the unspoken law of American small business.
December 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Not an exaggeration, btw. I’ve lived here nearly 1/2 my life & it’s the same shit from the same commercial lots. It‘s one giant conspiracy by neo-confederate business segregationists. I guarantee you this isn’t unique to Westport. It’s a rare preview into the unspoken law of American small business.