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Current Econ PhD Student at University of Virginia
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
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ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
Rep. Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene quit Congress because all her racist fascist friends are racist and fascist for clout and she is, mistakenly, a true believer.
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene quit Congress because all her racist fascist friends are racist and fascist for clout and she is, mistakenly, a true believer.
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I think part of why this is so galling is that Labour have *so obviously* been obsessive about trying to court favour over and above doing what they think will be good. Part of the criticism of them is that with a huge majority they have been ultra-cautious about doing unpopular things.
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 15-17 November 2025
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I think part of why this is so galling is that Labour have *so obviously* been obsessive about trying to court favour over and above doing what they think will be good. Part of the criticism of them is that with a huge majority they have been ultra-cautious about doing unpopular things.
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summers is such a uniquely corrosive force in democratic politics. it beggars belief that he has been so central to left-of-center economic policy for such a long time given his absolutely rancid beliefs and conduct
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
summers is such a uniquely corrosive force in democratic politics. it beggars belief that he has been so central to left-of-center economic policy for such a long time given his absolutely rancid beliefs and conduct
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When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened?
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened?
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.
Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
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I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
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I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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1-manufacture low-cost generic medicine
2-trigger price-gouging rules with a state of emergency on grocery costs
3-investigate unfair pricing
4-hire a deputy mayor for affordability
5-enforce shrinkflation and misleading unit prices
6-disqualify city contractors that use deceptive pricing
2-trigger price-gouging rules with a state of emergency on grocery costs
3-investigate unfair pricing
4-hire a deputy mayor for affordability
5-enforce shrinkflation and misleading unit prices
6-disqualify city contractors that use deceptive pricing
Six Ways Zohran Mamdani Can Make New York City Affordable Again - The American Prospect
Mamdani begins his term with something few mayors ever have: an energized following and an international megaphone. His administration could launch a 100-day affordability sprint, using executive and ...
prospect.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
1-manufacture low-cost generic medicine
2-trigger price-gouging rules with a state of emergency on grocery costs
3-investigate unfair pricing
4-hire a deputy mayor for affordability
5-enforce shrinkflation and misleading unit prices
6-disqualify city contractors that use deceptive pricing
2-trigger price-gouging rules with a state of emergency on grocery costs
3-investigate unfair pricing
4-hire a deputy mayor for affordability
5-enforce shrinkflation and misleading unit prices
6-disqualify city contractors that use deceptive pricing
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Like, if your concrete analysis is "um, stocks seem overvalued" (with which I agree!), then why have you forced so many graduate students to work through all those Euler equations?
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Like, if your concrete analysis is "um, stocks seem overvalued" (with which I agree!), then why have you forced so many graduate students to work through all those Euler equations?
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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This is the entire thing. They ended up with nothing on their PR point and nothing on the real discussion which was submerged. The way they shut down RIFs showed they understood how to stop the power grab and chose not to.
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is the entire thing. They ended up with nothing on their PR point and nothing on the real discussion which was submerged. The way they shut down RIFs showed they understood how to stop the power grab and chose not to.
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
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The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
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If the rest don’t oust Schumer immediately, then the entire U.S. Senate sold us out. They think we’re stupid. It’s insulting.
These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If the rest don’t oust Schumer immediately, then the entire U.S. Senate sold us out. They think we’re stupid. It’s insulting.
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Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
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The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
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If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)
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Abundance types get very worked up about left Nimbys, anti-gentrification activists, etc. But this is deeply misleading when it comes to the actual politics of housing, at least in New York. Opposition to new housing comes overwhelmingly from the Right.
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Abundance types get very worked up about left Nimbys, anti-gentrification activists, etc. But this is deeply misleading when it comes to the actual politics of housing, at least in New York. Opposition to new housing comes overwhelmingly from the Right.
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In light of the stunning size of the blue wave, I’m also thinking of all the important races that Dems left on the table by not running a candidate:
Now 8 days to go before the deadline fully passes for local candidates to run in Virginia — and there still only are Republican candidates running for sheriff in the state's two biggest cities, as sheriffs ramp up their cooperation with ICE and federal immigration authorities.
Background:
Background:
“It Blows My Mind That There’s No Opposition”: When ICE Allies Run Unchallenged - Bolts
In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” faces a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No Democra...
boltsmag.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In light of the stunning size of the blue wave, I’m also thinking of all the important races that Dems left on the table by not running a candidate:
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they know they're supposed to be blaming the Democrats for the shutdown making people's lives worse, but they're so passionate about the concept of making people's lives worse that they can't stop themselves from talking about how they think people's lives should be worse
Brooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
they know they're supposed to be blaming the Democrats for the shutdown making people's lives worse, but they're so passionate about the concept of making people's lives worse that they can't stop themselves from talking about how they think people's lives should be worse
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If I were a betting man—like Nate is—I’d put my money on Grumbach and Bonica every time. Bonica is famously a very modest guy, so he won’t say this, but it’s wild he still has to explain basic stats to people who think they’re his equals and then they still speak w/ such certainty. Just crazy stuff.
If you had told me in college that Nate Silver, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2009, would eventually be reduced to cursing me and a coauthor out on a podcast and writing a whole angry article about us, I woulda been like damn, poor guy, sending love and support
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If I were a betting man—like Nate is—I’d put my money on Grumbach and Bonica every time. Bonica is famously a very modest guy, so he won’t say this, but it’s wild he still has to explain basic stats to people who think they’re his equals and then they still speak w/ such certainty. Just crazy stuff.
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A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
Spin this out a bit?
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
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As economists- and those goes for heterodox as well as mainstream- we tend to assume that one firm equals one production process. But as in the case of Starbucks stores, the lines of corporate authority and ownership sometimes cut across the organization of production in unpredictable ways.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
As economists- and those goes for heterodox as well as mainstream- we tend to assume that one firm equals one production process. But as in the case of Starbucks stores, the lines of corporate authority and ownership sometimes cut across the organization of production in unpredictable ways.
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to this i would add a good amount of self-loathing stemming from a belief that liberal political views are somehow “inauthentic” or an affectation of “elites”
I agree with whoever said a rather under-appreciated dynamic is the extent to which Professional Politics Opinion Havers flat out just find the left interpersonally irritating in a way they do not find the right so, and I think a lot of the talk of a vibe shift was wish-casting their irritants away.
October 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
to this i would add a good amount of self-loathing stemming from a belief that liberal political views are somehow “inauthentic” or an affectation of “elites”