‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points’ Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are on.ft.com/4qMMkJd

What is Thune’s end game?

Remember when Joe Rogan freaked out because he thought Biden was going to get us in a nuclear war by standing up to Russia?

we're all looking for the guy who introduced unprecedented coarseness, vulgarity, and flippant violence into national politics

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

A key charge the media leveled against Biden was that people around him were running the country. That's happening in a much more obvious way right now and I see no news about it.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

Governments in the U.S. give Equifax $800 million *every year* to verify Americans' income. For a tiny fraction of that amount, we could build and run a government income-verification system in perpetuity.

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

I had my political differences with Dick Cheney, but in person I found him warm, funny, a gracious host and surprisingly knowledgeable about music. Seeing The Jesus Lizard with him in 2009 was a blast, and he didn't hesitate to wade into the pit despite a few sidelong glances.

Why are rich elites so pathetically spineless

People watch 3 hours of YouTube *per day*????

We should run candidates that local voters like, except when local voters are really blue, in which case we should run candidates that they like in Alabama.

Baltimore doing the YIMBY dream. From: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

I think this impulse is bad. The whole point of Hamilton is to reinvents founding father myths. All nations have done evil things. Hamilton exalts the timeless virtues of liberalism that were present at the founding that remain important today.

I think this kind of thing could actually make a dent if Ds could get aligned on the set of policies and hammer them all the time. Trump saying the same 3 slogans all the time really did break through and let people know what he was about.

The complete inversion of morals on the right is not surprising but it's still shocking. Imagine being on the side of intentionally starving children.

I KNEW IT I knew Fred Hiatt did this. It was obvious! It is, in fact, the Bennett Business Model for neutral news in the internet age, co-developed by Hiatt & James Bennet (at the Atlantic) around the same time. Today we say “int diversity” but it’s just using reactionaries as trolls, for clicks.

Just a reminder that the press absolutely flipped out when they felt Biden wasn't doing enough to get US allies out of Afghanistan.

Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives. All on the taxpayer’s dime. trib.al/TBvPo7A

Maybe this is obvious but: even if the new replacement rate for jobs is 50k, if the economy goes from 150k a month to 50k a month without a big rise in wages (which we are not seeing) that indicates a very weak labor market. Employers couldn't hire 150k if supply existed.

I'm mostly Italian. Would anyone blink an eye if I'd studied the Italian Renaissance in college and taken mainly positive things away regarding its influence on my modern culture? Would anyone take it as a sign of out-of-touch elitism? Of course not. Why is it different with Mamdani? You know why.

BTW last I checked Spotify pays artists a smaller cut than any other streaming service.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

lol. Do these people follow politics?

Very frustrating that early this year it felt like maybe the D establishment had finally decided they have to do something about the media and now they're ditching it (?) for the same dumb shit they always peddle out after losses.

The hill I will die on is that everyone is wrong about Requiem for Dream, including Aronofosky. An old lady is scammed and then prescribed illegal drugs. A man needs medical care but is instead abused by racist police. This movie is about failures of the state, not the people living in it.

U.S Army officer Col. Steve Gabavics has gone public on his participation in the Biden Administration's "investigation" into the Israeli assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, alleging that the USG softened its conclusions about the murder of the Palestinian American journalist to please Israel.

France (and the Nordic) is what happens when you equalize the distribution of income but not wealth -- you freeze the wealth distribution in place

No due process for poor people, but hey billionaires, do whatever the fuck you want.

Old tweets

One of the things that really gives me hope right now is that despite elites and the media still being awful on Israel, normal people understand that you shouldn't kill kids and stuff. Very heartening that 77% of Dems are clear-eyed about Israel.

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair. What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

Didn't Platner position himself as the more progressive candidate? So do I have it right that centrists were kind of ambivalent about this race or on the Mills side until they found out Platner has a Nazi tattoo and now they're writing takes defending him?

A guy spent 3 months seeding the internet with enough material to make Google AI respond 'yes' if you ask whether GTA 6 will have a dedicated twerk button. Countdown to the whole internet being full of misinformation because bad actors are trying to manipulate AI.

This thing would be more credible if the NYT was capable of calling out extremism on the right, but they're not.

Hating the ACA is similar to hating on vaccines. It's a luxury borne of not really appreciating what existed before. The fix wasn't perfect, and there is a lot more that we could do to make it better. But the "ACA Was Bad" Discourse is just untethered from reality.

Every small victory should be felt in a big way. This woman's story should be shared nationally. It was a crime to detain her after being victimized for so long. www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

In America.

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride. You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

Absolute banger of a blog post from Dallas Fed economist Anton Cheremukhin who estimates breakeven payrolls have fallen to *30k* thanks to rapid declines in population growth. www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...

Ezra Klein should be really into Kat's candidacy right? Going on News Nation, doing politics the right way.

If you ever run into Elon Musk, please spit on him for me.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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This coming Monday, October 6th, I'm doing a 1 hour event talking about @equitablegrowth.bsky.social's inequality tracker and new gov data on inequality. Anyone can join, come check it out! (registration link in the next skeet)

NEW from me: In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...