Austin Clemens
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Formerly Washington Center for Equitable Growth, now freelance visualizing the economy
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So people on here are always talking about how newspapers over/under-cover certain events. For example, that important Trump scandals are under-covered bc they jump to the next scandal. But is it true? I investigated!
austinclemens.com/austinclemen...
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Which political events does media focus on most?
Categorizing every political article the WaPo and NYT wrote in 2024 and 2025 to-date to see how newspapers choose to focus coverage.
https://austinclemens.com/austinclemens/media_attention/media_coverage.html
6 months ago
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Sharon
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Hetan Shah
about 22 hours ago
‘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
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What is Thune’s end game?
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Remember when Joe Rogan freaked out because he thought Biden was going to get us in a nuclear war by standing up to Russia?
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2 days ago
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ryan cooper
2 days ago
we're all looking for the guy who introduced unprecedented coarseness, vulgarity, and flippant violence into national politics
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Moira Donegan
2 days ago
Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.
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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.
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Adam Serwer
3 days ago
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
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David Roberts
4 days ago
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.
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Waldo Jaquith
4 days ago
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.
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Bree
4 days ago
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.
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arr
4 days ago
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.
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Why are rich elites so pathetically spineless
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4 days ago
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People watch 3 hours of YouTube *per day*????
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4 days ago
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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.
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4 days ago
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Baltimore doing the YIMBY dream. From:
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5 days ago
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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.
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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.
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8 days ago
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Alejandra Caraballo
8 days ago
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.
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Eric Blair
9 days ago
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.
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Just a reminder that the press absolutely flipped out when they felt Biden wasn't doing enough to get US allies out of Afghanistan.
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9 days ago
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The New Republic
10 days ago
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.
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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.
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Evan Urquhart
10 days ago
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.
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BTW last I checked Spotify pays artists a smaller cut than any other streaming service.
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11 days ago
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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad
12 days ago
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.
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lol. Do these people follow politics?
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11 days ago
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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.
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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.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
12 days ago
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.
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U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/middleeast/shooting-palestinian-american-journalist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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John Voorheis
14 days ago
France (and the Nordic) is what happens when you equalize the distribution of income but not wealth -- you freeze the wealth distribution in place
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No due process for poor people, but hey billionaires, do whatever the fuck you want.
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16 days ago
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Blue sky nice ghost
16 days ago
Old tweets
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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.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
16 days ago
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.
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Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed
From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-israel-buttigieg-booker/
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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?
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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.
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The ‘inventor’ of the GTA 6 twerk button never meant for it to get this far
“I didn’t even try to make anything with substantial or convincing evidence.”
https://www.polygon.com/gta-6-twerk-button-meme-rumor-interview/
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This thing would be more credible if the NYT was capable of calling out extremism on the right, but they're not.
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19 days ago
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John Pfaff
19 days ago
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.
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26 days ago
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...
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Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody
Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...
https://www.thebanner.com/western-maryland/melissa-tran-hagerstown-ice-custody-ZZLUF4V2RNHY3OVQZGGKIMIZ3E/#comments-header
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In America.
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28 days ago
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
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.
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George Pearkes
about 1 month ago
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...
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Ezra Klein should be really into Kat's candidacy right? Going on News Nation, doing politics the right way.
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about 1 month ago
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If you ever run into Elon Musk, please spit on him for me.
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Daniel Knowles
about 1 month ago
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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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
https://southsideweekly.com/federal-agents-storm-south-shore-building-detaining-families-and-children/
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Anya Chalina
6 months ago
It's time for a new pinned post with some of my recent work. Hi! I'm Anya! I draw fantasy illustrations like these. I am open for work and also accept private commissions. 📩:
[email protected]
prints:
www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya...
portfolio:
anyachalina.myportfolio.com
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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)
about 1 month ago
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
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...
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The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom
Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?
https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff-exemption-behind-the-ai
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