archimandrite.bsky.social
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An awfully charitable interpretation of their languor. Could be true.
It is probably just as important to spread post-Keynesian truths (e.g. MMT) among liberals as it is in the population at large.
A truly horrible book.
Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked.

But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...
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It is abominable that the response to a deliberate campaign of starvation in Gaza has been so muted. @ryanlcooper.com calls it out today, and connects the dots: ethnic cleansing is clearly the future for the West Bank, which the Israeli Knesset this week voted to annex.
prospect.org/world/2025-0...
Israel’s Endgame Is Obliterating Palestine
Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.
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I grew up on this show & me & my grade school friend rolled on the floor laughing about it and then they re-aired it on TV Land and my wife had never seen it and it was a marathon & I was watching and howling and she just kept saying "these people are nuts. they are all nuts"
This is awesome: Sony has started posting full episodes of THE GONG SHOW its Classic TV Rewind channel. It’s put up four since last week; hopefully more are coming and this is a prelude to the full series landing on FAST or a subscription streamer. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Gong Show 🏆 - YouTube
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what’s the plan now that this shit has stopped working? you guys kinda seem like you’re flying blind. lying us into iraq at least had a certain nihilistic panache, now you just seem bored
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“Maybe if we tie every primary result back to Mamdani we can crucify him that way!”

- the idiots at the New York Times
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What on earth is this claim?
Grijalva is the daughter of an ex-CPC chair, was endorsed by AOC and Bernie, and beat the guy who ran as a moderate saying Democrats needed to move away from social issues by 60-14.
Mamdani made no mention of this race, and his biggest endorsers were for the winner.
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"Mamdani momentum withered in the deserts of southern Arizona on Tuesday night." Jack Healy on Adelita Grijalva's convincing win in Tucson against the upstarts who called for a new face and name to succeed Raul Grijalva in the House. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
A Scion of Democratic Politics Defeats the Upstarts in an Arizona Primary
www.nytimes.com
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We’re told the UK is living beyond its means. But who exactly is living beyond them? It’s not the NHS. It’s not people in poverty. It’s the private monopolies and unchecked corporate profits. In this video, I explain why this narrative is wrong.

youtu.be/M5H3so8WUR4?...
Is the UK really living beyond its means?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Phew, we can cancel the intervention.
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There's a live on air moment of Fox starting with the projected number was an increase of 95,000 and then had to report that it was actually a loss of 33,000, and then instead of talking about jobs they moved on to something else immediately.
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Something everyone should know. Trump HAS the June jobs numbers. He wants Congress to vote BEFORE they see these numbers.
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Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
TB absolutely C, Liberals, DPer's, leftists who have not figured out how public finance actually works (via MMT, etc) are part of the problem, part of the reason hysteria about irrelevant things has overtaken large parts of populace put so much wind into the sails of the right.
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FDA Recalls 3 Oranges To Prove They Can Juggle
theonion.com/fda-rec...
The midwestern tradition of vigorous, state supported universities is a sadly decaying model that generated great cultural benefits in its time.
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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1,500+ at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.

Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up. Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
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I’ve written a short essay on the origins of the song “Madonna of the Wasps” on my Substack. Here is the link if you’d like to read it: substack.com/@robynhitchc...
Madonna of the Wasps
Some years ago I had a dream which went much as follows:
substack.com
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. — Molly Ivins
I miss Molly Ivins