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"This is how it hurts Democrats" @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🍊: I declare cease fire!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Also nobody’s nationalism really “goes back five millennia” because nationalism is a pretty recent idea. But even talking in terms of perceived historical inheritance what are they referring to here? Achaemenids are like 6th century BC.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

submitted 11 days ago • 117 comments

Congress does not function, it's the root cause of much that is wrong with our politics, and that is partly because of poor design but also because members have been shirking responsibility for decades now

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

Allow me to invite you to go back & consider how the NYT & the entire national media treated this level of monthly & annualized inflation in 2024 when Joe Biden was still president. “Muted” was not in the vocabulary.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Fight the Empire.

submitted 18 days ago • 247 comments

George III’s power was limited by a constitution, established laws and conventions and in actuality, Parliament held significant power, controlling the budget & having the right to pass laws, which the King could not unilaterally override. So… congratulations, America. You’ve out-kinged yourself!

submitted 18 days ago • 42 comments

The word you're looking for is "lie"

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Thread recapping this very illuminating Yarvin piece, by Ava Kofman in @newyorker.com (Previous posts removed for tech reasons.) —If you've lived in a small town, you know the character of the "barroom savant." Knows the inside story on everything. Knows what "they" are covering up.... 1/n

submitted 24 days ago • 33 comments

As a Latin American, it’s so cute that people in this country now think they have experienced inflation…

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

*spit take*

submitted 28 days ago • 150 comments

A MASSIVE ruling. Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose every tariff you’ve read about on a whole country/group of countries: Canada, Mexico, China (og+retaliatory), Liberation Day, etc. The judge just struck them all down www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

A major new study on online campaign ads is out. Guess what: they have basically ZERO impact. So, the Dem playbook is: 1️⃣ Sell out party brand for mega-donor cash. 2️⃣ Spam the rest of with texts/emails. 3️⃣ Pay consultants $$$ to buy those ads. 4️⃣ Get basically NOTHING in return. 5️⃣ Repeat.

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

The Legislative Branch is different from the Executive branch and uses a constellation of offices and agencies to perform similar functions while keeping its independence. I put together a handy cheat-sheet.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments