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June 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Average summer temps in Massachusetts have risen by 2.75 degrees Fahrenheit in past 55 years, according to new data commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/...
Average summer temps in Massachusetts have risen by 2.75 degrees Fahrenheit in past 55 years, according to new data commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/...
Average summer temps in Massachusetts have risen by 2.75 degrees Fahrenheit in past 55 years, according to new data
The 2.75 degrees Fahrenheit might sound like a small change in a state where temperatures can vary from below zero to around 100 degrees, but it is a very significant rise over the time period given historical...
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June 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Average summer temps in Massachusetts have risen by 2.75 degrees Fahrenheit in past 55 years, according to new data commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/...
Average summer temps in Massachusetts have risen by 2.75 degrees Fahrenheit in past 55 years, according to new data commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/...
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President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR. This is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.
Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change.
Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change.
May 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR. This is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.
Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change.
Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change.
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just one more administrative burden bro. I promise bro Just one more means test and it'll fix everything bro. bro. Just one more administrative burden. One more means test and we can fix this whole problem bro. Bro cmon just give me one more administrative burden I promise. bro
April 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
just one more administrative burden bro. I promise bro Just one more means test and it'll fix everything bro. bro. Just one more administrative burden. One more means test and we can fix this whole problem bro. Bro cmon just give me one more administrative burden I promise. bro
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The key chart right now:
Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.
This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.
This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
April 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The key chart right now:
Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.
This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.
This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
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Bluesky needs more ideological diversity, a thread:
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
I like posting on BlueSky because I think I’m the most right-wing person who uses this service.
April 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Bluesky needs more ideological diversity, a thread:
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
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The Trump administration’s revealed belief is that American workers & businesses are so economically inept that not only can they not compete against China, but they cannot compete against unionized European autoworkers or Canadian steelworkers or Korean chipmakers. I have more faith in Americans.
April 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Trump administration’s revealed belief is that American workers & businesses are so economically inept that not only can they not compete against China, but they cannot compete against unionized European autoworkers or Canadian steelworkers or Korean chipmakers. I have more faith in Americans.
We really need more viewpoints like Yglesias on this platform, this is too much a progressive echo chamber. As he says, if people can't engage with contrasting viewpoints then it's more an indictment of their intellectual humility.
If people find my extremely tepid centrist takes to be “rage bait,” I think that says more about them than about me.
Your posts are lazy, trolling rage bait and you offer nothing of value so thank you for sparing us all. If I never heard your name again the rest of my life because you finally fell into deserved irrelevance it would be the greatest of blessings.
April 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We really need more viewpoints like Yglesias on this platform, this is too much a progressive echo chamber. As he says, if people can't engage with contrasting viewpoints then it's more an indictment of their intellectual humility.
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I don’t post here that much because on its good days it’s a left-wing echo chamber and on bad days it’s a bunch of death threats.
Bluesky needs more ideological diversity, a thread:
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
1/8: I think the question of why commentators like Matt Yglesias, Lakshya Jain, Noah Smith, Nate Silver and Richard Hanania don’t post more, or at all on Bluesky is important.
This would be a better platform if they did.
I like posting on BlueSky because I think I’m the most right-wing person who uses this service.
April 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I don’t post here that much because on its good days it’s a left-wing echo chamber and on bad days it’s a bunch of death threats.
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I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
April 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
Everyone wants to claim that #49ers are terrible at drafting but you can see a clear, consistent improvement once KS was hired #FTTB
A nice image here made by @samhoppen.bsky.social from the data I just generated:
April 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Great example from Mr. Beast of how insane it was for Trump to hit raw food with tariffs
Ingredients that grow abroad are getting more expensive—a Feastables bar has sugar (hit by a 10% tariff), chocolate (6-15%), cocoa butter (21%), & vanilla (41%)—and those tariffs also hit coffee, fish, etc
Ingredients that grow abroad are getting more expensive—a Feastables bar has sugar (hit by a 10% tariff), chocolate (6-15%), cocoa butter (21%), & vanilla (41%)—and those tariffs also hit coffee, fish, etc
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Great example from Mr. Beast of how insane it was for Trump to hit raw food with tariffs
Ingredients that grow abroad are getting more expensive—a Feastables bar has sugar (hit by a 10% tariff), chocolate (6-15%), cocoa butter (21%), & vanilla (41%)—and those tariffs also hit coffee, fish, etc
Ingredients that grow abroad are getting more expensive—a Feastables bar has sugar (hit by a 10% tariff), chocolate (6-15%), cocoa butter (21%), & vanilla (41%)—and those tariffs also hit coffee, fish, etc
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ChatGPT ass presidency
Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
ChatGPT ass presidency
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Trumpists want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the tariffs create a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
April 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Trumpists want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the tariffs create a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Maybe something to add to the Overton Window discourse is if you shift a little, the American people might come along, but if you go BIG then you get blowback and people decide they want the opposite:
April 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Maybe something to add to the Overton Window discourse is if you shift a little, the American people might come along, but if you go BIG then you get blowback and people decide they want the opposite:
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DOGE has closed IRS’s IT modernization office, which was funded by the IRA.
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
IRS to Close Modernization Office | Tax Notes
Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.
www.taxnotes.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
DOGE has closed IRS’s IT modernization office, which was funded by the IRA.
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
Beyond moronic.
www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
theatln.tc
April 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
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Your DNA is for sale.
This is the danger of all personal data. As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
This is the danger of all personal data. As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...
oag.ca.gov
March 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Your DNA is for sale.
This is the danger of all personal data. As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
This is the danger of all personal data. As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
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This seems roughly correct to me in terms of 80-20 issues where one party is on the wrong side of public opinion.
That's not to say the public is *right* just that the party's stance is misaligned with public opinion.
That's not to say the public is *right* just that the party's stance is misaligned with public opinion.
March 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This seems roughly correct to me in terms of 80-20 issues where one party is on the wrong side of public opinion.
That's not to say the public is *right* just that the party's stance is misaligned with public opinion.
That's not to say the public is *right* just that the party's stance is misaligned with public opinion.
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Trump's net job approval rounds to -1 now, per my average.* Compared to other presidents Trump's rating is higher only than his number at this point in his 1st term.
*I wrote this model from scratch based on the public 538 methodology and academic papers. Sub @ gelliottmorris.substack.com 4 more TK
*I wrote this model from scratch based on the public 538 methodology and academic papers. Sub @ gelliottmorris.substack.com 4 more TK
March 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Trump's net job approval rounds to -1 now, per my average.* Compared to other presidents Trump's rating is higher only than his number at this point in his 1st term.
*I wrote this model from scratch based on the public 538 methodology and academic papers. Sub @ gelliottmorris.substack.com 4 more TK
*I wrote this model from scratch based on the public 538 methodology and academic papers. Sub @ gelliottmorris.substack.com 4 more TK
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There is always a team or two every year that jettisons a bunch of veteran players, and people assume those teams are about to take a massive step back.
But the reality is that talent cores age a lot faster than you think, and sometimes it's really addition by subtraction.
But the reality is that talent cores age a lot faster than you think, and sometimes it's really addition by subtraction.
March 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
There is always a team or two every year that jettisons a bunch of veteran players, and people assume those teams are about to take a massive step back.
But the reality is that talent cores age a lot faster than you think, and sometimes it's really addition by subtraction.
But the reality is that talent cores age a lot faster than you think, and sometimes it's really addition by subtraction.
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Here's the DOGE mistake, beautifully visualized: If you don't go where the money is, you don't save much money.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Here's the DOGE mistake, beautifully visualized: If you don't go where the money is, you don't save much money.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
March 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.
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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.
February 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.