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Zohran is leading so many pundits to say so many weird things lol. “Do you like capitalism?”

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm gonna say this and I mean it: All these white women claiming they are "afraid" of Zohran are today's Carolyn Bryant Donhams. They will get people killed by endangering people by claiming they are afraid when they are at risk of nothing.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

As Chris Cuomo loses his shit over his brother’s L and brings up his dad for the millionth time, here’s the guy who profiled his dad saying Zohran is a lot like Mario was: “you can’t leave it to the rich to do the right thing” newrepublic.com/article/1972...

submitted 9 hours ago • 35 comments

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

submitted 8 hours ago • 205 comments

Zohran: Imagine a city where you can pay your rent, buy groceries, and treat yourself to dinner once in a while—without spiraling into anxiety. Eric Adams: Imagine a mutant platypus with laser eyes tearing through Manhattan. That’s why we need more cops.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Stephen Kinnock is lying. People don't lose PIP when they get a job, its not an out of work benefit & plenty of people on PIP work Kinnock knows this. What he's doing is part of a wider govt strategy to paint disabled people as shirkers & scroungers stealing from working people

submitted 7 hours ago • 41 comments

No, no, not Fox News explaining to people that Zohran is dangerous because he wants the government to make parenting affordable and the billionaires rallying to Adams to stop him. Yes you heard me the billionaires don’t like him so they’re backing Adams. That’s right. How terrible!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“Zohran won because he was a charismatic messenger for policies voters support and credibly communicated his commitment to shared fundamental principles.” YES YOU FOOLS WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN TRYING INSTEAD

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Technocratic incrementalists have got to understand that their political message increasingly sounds both conservative and defeatist in a way that is failing to inspire - not least because the track record is not exactly one of delivering a trajectory of steady, incremental improvements.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I find it extraordinary that this @financialtimes.com long read on systemic climate shocks says nothing about central banks' experiments with decarbonising monetary policy, the single most important monetary climate action ever www.ft.com/content/9e5d...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"I am a proud Democrat who fights for people and thinks Republicans are bad and we should stand up to them": actually a very popular message, which should be a lesson both to the reactionary centrist crowd and to other leftists hoping for similar success

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

White supremacists been saying this same shit about NYC at least since the Irish began arriving in droves ~200 years ago. A century+ ago when my grandparents arrived—part of torrent of Jews who settled in the Lower East Side—they said the exact same thing about us. Up to them, Miller wouldn't exist!

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

David Leonhardt apparently wrote the awful Times hit piece non endorsement and I wonder how he can "report" on anything related to Zohran from here on out.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Heroic thread by a conscientious journalist - I wasn't sure we still had those in the UK. Thank you, Andy Bruce!👍👍👍

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It was one of the key attractions on the "Manchester's Surprisingly Flammable Historic Buildings On Valuable Development Sites" walking tour

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Just to put this in a public place so it can be linked to in the future; I actually went to the trouble of asking Natural England if they had ever said "no bat death is acceptable" or anything of similar meaning and this was their reply:

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The economic implications of the UK-EU reset deal: @anandmenon.bsky.social & me for Economics Observatory. economicsobservatory.com/what-are-the...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Two brothers, ages 8 and 10, stared nervously into news cameras on June 19, speaking with quiet determination to a group of onlookers much older than themselves. “We need our dad back home,” the 8-year-old said. ICE took custody of their father, Kerlin Moreno-Orellana, that morning.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Good folks are generating a lot a smart analyses and numbers re the big, bad budget bill. Here's a collection of some I find particularly compelling, along with a highly relevant observation about the false promise of trickledown from...1516. econjared.substack.com/p/there-are-...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Yesterday, Hannah Katch and I had this letter to the ed in the WSJ, critiquing an oped by John Cogan arguing that Mcaid must be cut because it has grown. That's it. Zero reference to decades of quality research, much by folks up here... www.wsj.com/opinion/what...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Who wins/who loses from tax changes in the budget is an important question. But a more important question is who wins/loses from the full tax agenda, including tariffs, a highly regressive tax. Here’s the answer from the Budget Lab. Answer: everyone except the wealthy.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

No question, these are confusing econ times. But I still think one can pull an intelligible signal from the dataflow, especially re inflation and the labor market. econjared.substack.com/p/data_note-...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Though I know it's late in the game for me, I want to be @bbkogan.bsky.social when I grow up. PLS listen to him answering budget questions today on Let's Do Lunch (Tues@noon ET) at the Contrarian. He encapsulates the perfect combination of heart and head. contrarian.substack.com/p/lets-do-lu...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

#EconSky Does anybody have DHS data for Bangladesh? Or is there a webpage where somebody managed to save previously available DHS data? Thank you for your help!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is why renewable energy transition is an achievable goal. We have the labor, expertise, & materials to make it happen. What's left are questions of ownership, management, & distribution. I think recent history has shown the public must take the lead in all three. #EconSky #ClimateSky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

After WW1, older architects had to adapt to new styles to survive. Léon Govaerts, born 1860 co-signed this 1926 café with 1899-born art-deco native Antoine Courtens. I wrote about the younger man in the new Brussels Times Magazine, out now.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Journalists at the Farage press conference repeating Reform's framing of this policy as "robin hood" because the non-dom fee will be redistributed to poorer workers, whilst missing the fact that it hands tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts to the wealthiest people already living in the UK

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

With Trump in full military adventurism mode, its never been more important to understand the next item on his invasion list. Don't miss this week's ❄️Greenland❄️ double bill: From the mysterious disappearance of the Norse settlers to the return of the Danes to the island centuries later.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

If you want to understand the background to the conflict in Iran, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the history of Iran & the Iranian Revolution. From the rise of Cyrus... podcasts.apple.com/az/podcast/9... ... to the Fall of the Shah: podcasts.apple.com/az/podcast/1...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Bishop Michael Pham, Pope Leo XIV’s first appointment, and first Vietnamese American to lead an American diocese, is calling on people of faith to stand with immigrants. He joined immigrants at the San Diego courthouse today in solidarity, and ICE left empty handed. Via @pslsandiego

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

Research by IMF economists shows that the rise and fall of inflation in advanced economies since 2020 has mostly been driven by supply shocks (energy, food, supply chains). Macroeconomic conditions "played a secondary role".

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Centrism worldwide here: a regular get-along gang when we’re blowing people up or funnelling more public money to squillionaires, but watch how apeshit feral they go the moment it looks like any of their number might not get the important job they want. A threat to one is a threat to all.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

David Goodhart complains that everyone on Bluesky was mean about his Standard piece on race in London last night. One of his major complaints is people weren’t brave enough to post their criticism of him on Twitter. It’s no fun owning the libs if they’re not there to squeal!

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments