I wonder if there's any connection between socioeconomic problems created by Julian's libertarian politics and the impulse to blame them on a scapegoat instead of capitalism

Extremely mad that Olivia Nuzzi slept her way to the top. Journalists should achieve success the old-fashioned way: through cynical interpersonal networking, ideological compliance with corporate sponsors, and ruthless backchannel politicking

NEW: It looks increasingly like Trump is hoping to "freeze" the conflict in Ukraine - a non-resolution that will only guarantee more war in the future. www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-pla...

This is how they treat the NYPD in Mamdani's America....

lol

Yet another bad day for people who don't care about "kitchen table issues"

Personally I think women are worth *more* than $15,000 worth of jewelry...

Seems like Noah is anxious about something

Nuzzi's writing is pretty purple but I'm glad that she's working through her feelings. Better than keeping them locked inside.

We actually know quite a bit about how animal brains work?

Kitchen table issues drove the Latino vote against Trump www.weareequis.us/research/lat...

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Finally got some data on this and it's exactly what you would expect: Republicans are responding to the Epstein story by deciding that it isn't important

KFF provided me with a breakdown of support for the ACA by partisan alignment AND income, and the crosstabs are pretty revealing!

Women typically outperform men in elections. Harris performed 4 points worse than Biden among men, but 7 points worse among women. The cynical co-option of feminism by elites paves the way for fascism by undermining the credibility of egalitarian politics.

I keep seeing people say this and I don't get it. Trump isn't trying to make health insurance work, he's trying to do austerity

AI ludditism will fail but in the long term this will force white collar workers to challenge the way capitalism forces them to sell their labor to survive

Amazing how even liberals will signal boost this guy just because he's connected to SV capital

haha this would have been so funny

Dimes Square just ran out of juice variety.com/2025/tv/news...

NEW: Epstein's primary strategy for funding and hiding his crimes relied on tax avoidance techniques that the rich use every day. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-capita...

JB Pritzker's sister Penny gets caught hiding $80 million from the government; famed tax evader and family patriarch Tom Prtizker commiserates with Epstein, who helped rich families avoid taxes. "I warned her"

I regret to inform you that "communist" Russia is at it again

Reminder that this guy's position on pedophilia is that if we didn't stigmatize it men like Trump and Epstein would feel safe enough to ask for help

shot, chaser etc

I find the Epstein stuff as insane as everyone but again, a reminder that voters may *disapprove* of it but they also do not appear to be ranking it as a priority issue which means that it may turn out to be a minor liability

How to alienate rich pedos with one neat trick

lol

Seems pretty incriminating...

I get that no one remembers anything anymore but Sarah "Jacobin is threatening to rape me!" Kendzior getting banned for violent threats is hilarious

Good example of how data-wonkery can smuggle in ideology. Centrism isn't "ideological" but everything else is, and exposure to "extreme" far-left views is "a problem"

More confirmation that Democrats caving was absolute madness

I'm really looking forward to the book that does a deep dive comparison of how Brazil handled fascism with how the US did

Fine take credit who cares just give us healthcare

When you have never seen a single Will Stancil vs. the communists flamewar

Before you people prosecute Trump in the court of public opinion could you at least wait for the court of the federal government to absolve him of all crimes?

Love "socialists" who are so invested in party loyalty that they need me to back the anti-socialist CIA lady who predictably won by 500,000 votes

Charts on inequality are often misleading because they include income that comes from welfare, which mutes the effects. Here's what wages actually look like as a percentage of national income, adjusted for inflation, minus government transfers

Today we remember that WWI wasn’t a war for democracy — it was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come. Anti-war socialists were right to oppose it.

NEW: Medicare for All would make it much, much more difficult to defund healthcare. The liberal alternative: vote for "fighters" and hope they win every election forever. www.peoplesline.org/p/republican...

I missed this but LOL at the idea of fighting right-wing control of the media by buying a single share and filing a suit against the company making lucrative deals. That's not how capitalism works!

The short-termist harm-reduction logic that elected Democrats appealed to in this deal is 100% identical to the short-termist harm-reduction logic that vote blue no matter who relies on. They're just thinking like their base does!

When I published this paper on the need for massive government transfers from the rich world to the developing world the standard response from *liberal* NGOs was that the private sector would take care of it. That was never going to happen. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/u...

Republicans are only able to defund healthcare because some people can get by without government subsidies. This is why M4A cannot work unless private insurance is abolished. If you have a private insurance sector, you take away the stake that better-off people have in defending M4A.

As I was saying

Every piece of gossip that filters out of Dimes Square is more ridiculous than the last

There's just no political case for folding which is how you know that Democrats are eventually gonna do it