I would describe this genre as “I thought that artist was dead”-core

Absolutely saw this in my hometown.

America's first research university (of which I am sort of an allumna ie of SAIS) is lucky to get @mclem.org.

expand public transit so you can go down to the bars with the boys more

This is huge, right?

legend has it no tex user really knows what htbp means and no one ever will

🆕 The East Asian miracle revisited: Industrial policy, shared prosperity, and lessons for today 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @nbirdsall.bsky.social (@cgdev.org) revisits the World Bank's landmark 1993 East Asian Miracle report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kgg...

genuine Hubert H. Humphrey Thought (True story: HHH was VP before there was an official VP residence, and moved into a new apartment in 1966. He said that, if elected, he wouldn't move into the White House but instead open it as a museum.)

It's running with ads from Philip Morris.

One of the best gifts you can give your children is modeling an adulthood that is worth looking forward to. Have fun, be interesting. Martyring yourself to your kids is bad for you and them.

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

[after getting thrown out of your friend's dinner party for saying stupid shit and pissing everyone off] the problem is that you people want to be ensconced in a bubble,

Come on man, keep up! The left is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey out of solidarity with the Polisario Front, not cuz of some HS English class bullshit.

You could build half a semester of an intermediate economics course off of this post

Exactly this. The right — and the “centrist” — narrative is that woke pronoun people evilly colonized science which now must be rescued. In reality it was science people who wanted to occasionally have pronouns and then the right was like “oh well in that case we don’t want your cancer research”

A common trope in carbrain is "we can't make US cities more like Europe because Europe wasn't built for cars." There was this thing called "World War II," after which many EU cities *were rebuilt for cars* -- with help from U.S. carbrained planners! But within a few decades, they hated it.

this company told me launches keep rapidly disassembling its starships so i ask how many starships it has and it said it just goes to US taxpayer subsidies and builds a new starship afterwards so i say it sounds like it’s just feeding starships to rapid disassemblies and then its ceo started crying

The people yearn for trains! Give the people more and better trains!

generally think that if your response to "this is loser shit" is "are you triggered?!?!?" then you're just demonstrating the truth of "this is loser shit"

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"nobody wants to work anymore" oh wow maybe cause it's illegal??

Breaking into Popeyes and cooking shrimp rather than chicken is a sign of a truly deranged mind. This person needs to be apprehended ASAP

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

JFK completes mostly successful Dallas parade.

if i'm locked in a dungeon i'd pretend the chained up skeleton is always roasting the guards. HAha careful dude, Paul is RIGHT there! then i don't have to come up with material but i'm still preying on their insecurities. if they remove the skeleton i know i've won. i made you believe. THAT'S power

“A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.” [beyondplastics.org]

This is so rad

When Batman says this, do NOT do it!

Re-upping this!

Give Kilmar Abrego Garcia the whole $1.776 billion and we'll call it good.

What, exactly, is the point of the Labour Party?

Not sure about their PMs but Labour’s Mayors are getting the job done

Companies asking employees to donate sick days is forever nasty work

Almodovar is old enough to remember Spain under fascism. We need much more of his kind of urgency

This loomed large in my life circa 1989

Finally, a talking point I can use when the local seniors NIMBY stuff with "well, what about me?"

“Up to 70% of rooms reserved by Fifa in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been cancelled, the AHLA said” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

"US employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance" www.epi.org/publication/... New from @epi.org and @laborlab.bsky.social.

Coupling advances in AI with an appropriate macroeconomic policy mix is crucial to ensure that it benefits workers and leads to shared prosperity, argue @lucafornaro.bsky.social & Martin Wolf. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Phenomenal new dataset from a fantastic team at the IMF

"Indonesia’s finance minister has promised to spend an additional $5.9bn on energy subsidies this year, on top of $22.5bn allocated last September, which was already almost 10 per cent of the 2026 budget." Indonesia's really been smoked by this war, even compared to other vulnerable markets.

City Cast D.C. also polled the D.C. delegate race and found Robert White with a comfortable lead over Brooke Pinto.

👀 “the autumn 2024 and spring 2025 WEOs respectively projected a 2025 Chinese current account surplus of 1.6 per cent and 1.9 per cent of GDP, vs the 3.7 per cent that actually happened” 😭

Yeah, @bhgreeley.bsky.social’s book *The Almighty Dollar* has arrived! You know I’m excited about a book when I preorder it twice!

Sobel, Setser and Brooks talk yuan as.ft.com/r/3f489286-d...

From @cnbc.com: "Foreign governments cut U.S. Treasurys in March as the Middle East war forced central banks to liquidate dollar reserves, defending local currencies against an energy shock that sent exchange rates tumbling." #economy #markets #bonds

📢JOB ALERT🚨 Come work with me in the Global Financial Flows team at the Fed! Modestly aside, we are at the cutting edge of measurement & analysis of cross border capital flows. A great opportunity for someone with a strong interest & great programming skills! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

This really is Columbus in a nutshell - even the guy whose job is to help people get around without a car says, “even in Columbus I haven't really considered transit as an option."

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