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Not for me fwiw
May 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Another day another completely nailed analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social.

"Abundance" (🤡) was already on the ballot *and voters didn't notice*.

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I generally try not to be one of those people saying “This is what Democrats must do,” for a couple of reasons. One is that I don’t have firm views about what works politically. Another is that all too often “what Democrats must do” just happens to reflect the speaker’s policy preferences rather than a realistic assessment of political effectiveness. But I can’t help noticing that the inverse correlation between how Americans voted in 2024 and their real interests makes it clear that two of the main factions in the intra-party debate about Democrats’ next moves are talking nonsense. On one side there are relatively conservative Democrats and Democratic-leaning pundits telling us that the party must move to the center. But when it comes to Social Security, which is really important to most Americans, Democrats — who want to preserve the program — are very much in the center, while Republicans — who want to kill it — are extremists. Yet last November, the voters who have most to lose from this extremism didn’t notice. On the other side there are progressives who argue that Democrats are in trouble because they abandoned the working class. But even if you think that Democrats have been too friendly toward globalization, or deregulation, or low corporate taxes, the Democratic Party has been far more favorable to workers than the Republicans. The Biden administration was especially pro-worker. But working-class voters didn’t notice.
March 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
March 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is a misleading and wrong take (OP's, not your piece). AfD voters are 1) less educated 2) workers, just as Republican voters.
February 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Coming from the @nytimes.com with its history of sanewashing and enabling the autocrats, this is rich
February 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social still the best paulkrugman.substack.com/p/have-we-be...

"Even if you’re one of those who describes it as 'souped-up autocorrect,' well, that could describe many white-collar jobs." (Chef's kiss)
Even if you’re one of those who describes AI as “souped-up autocorrect,” well, that could describe many white-collar jobs.
February 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Good riddance to the Nazi enablers @nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The Iliad, an epic about abandonment and isolation
A "little free library" completely empty, except for one book - Homer's The Iliad.
November 17, 2024 at 12:48 AM
I know enabling fascists is not grounds for dismissal at the NYT but this guy should be fired for circular reasoning

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November 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
*Narrator voice*: It was cars.
October 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Balance it out with this mildly amusing thought of what I saw walking to work today!
October 2, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Queen
September 25, 2024 at 11:04 PM
The appropriate headline, of course, is "How Young Men Radicalized along with the Republican Party over the Last Eight Years"
September 15, 2024 at 11:06 PM
My main question this morning is whether everyone involved in the production of Is This It knew at the time that it was going to be one of the best albums ever recorded or if they only realized it after the fact
August 11, 2024 at 2:41 PM
May 22, 2024 at 2:49 AM