Middle aged white dudes love to point at graphs of busted ass CPI data and go “the economy is actually awesome for the average person”
December 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Middle aged white dudes love to point at graphs of busted ass CPI data and go “the economy is actually awesome for the average person”
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Being an economist seems fun. When ppl say the material reality of their lives has gotten worse you get to chuckle and say “sounds like you’ve come down with a bad case of the vibes” before pointing to the real economy, a theoretical set of abstract values aggressively massaged for max positivity
I think this strengthens the case for Stancilism.
Immediate post pandemic economy was *weird* in a way that made it hard to compare it to similar years.
But we've got low unemployment and low inflation now. Very hard to make the case that now is worse than the Volcker shock.
Immediate post pandemic economy was *weird* in a way that made it hard to compare it to similar years.
But we've got low unemployment and low inflation now. Very hard to make the case that now is worse than the Volcker shock.
UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.
December 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Being an economist seems fun. When ppl say the material reality of their lives has gotten worse you get to chuckle and say “sounds like you’ve come down with a bad case of the vibes” before pointing to the real economy, a theoretical set of abstract values aggressively massaged for max positivity
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“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest but, compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
– Aaron Bushnell
– Aaron Bushnell
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest but, compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
– Aaron Bushnell
– Aaron Bushnell
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The number of people the U.S. has declared killing since September in strikes on small boats allegedly smuggling drugs has risen above 100, following attacks on six vessels in the past week.
See our interactive tracker here: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
See our interactive tracker here: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The number of people the U.S. has declared killing since September in strikes on small boats allegedly smuggling drugs has risen above 100, following attacks on six vessels in the past week.
See our interactive tracker here: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
See our interactive tracker here: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...
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It really is the same. Extrajudicial killings shouldn't be a partisan issue. Obama had kill lists he signed off on, innocent people including children were killed.
Trump allies liken the bombing of alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific to Obama’s drone killing campaign.
‘War on terror' defence of Trump boat strikes doesn't hold water: Experts
Trump allies liken the bombing of alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific to Obama's drone killing campaign.
www.aljazeera.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It really is the same. Extrajudicial killings shouldn't be a partisan issue. Obama had kill lists he signed off on, innocent people including children were killed.
The fact that entire accounts on this website can be labelled as "Rude" should tell you everything you need to know about how serious this place is.
December 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The fact that entire accounts on this website can be labelled as "Rude" should tell you everything you need to know about how serious this place is.
It's likely the unstated position is accelerationism. I assume that in the long term, they're expecting some kind of never before seen super majority to emerge after letting these freaks do the maximum amount of harm possible. Nevermind that their political projects aren't all that distinct anyways.
Really, really wish some news outlet would directly ask what the strategy or calculus is behind just giving Trump the nominees he wants. What's the fucking point? What's the strategy of just letting every freak into govt when we see what happens?
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It's likely the unstated position is accelerationism. I assume that in the long term, they're expecting some kind of never before seen super majority to emerge after letting these freaks do the maximum amount of harm possible. Nevermind that their political projects aren't all that distinct anyways.
On the positive, the ubiquity of things like wrapped highlights that metadata has widespread use value to regular people. Using it for the purpose of entertainment is preferable to what it's usually used for (advertising, surveillance), and it says something interesting about us as creatures.
December 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
On the positive, the ubiquity of things like wrapped highlights that metadata has widespread use value to regular people. Using it for the purpose of entertainment is preferable to what it's usually used for (advertising, surveillance), and it says something interesting about us as creatures.
There should be an alternative word for "enshittification" that makes it very clear that the phenomenon is specifically resultant of capitalism. Systems can certainly degrade from scope creep and poor planning, but the way most experience it is specifically as an externality of the profit incentive.
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There should be an alternative word for "enshittification" that makes it very clear that the phenomenon is specifically resultant of capitalism. Systems can certainly degrade from scope creep and poor planning, but the way most experience it is specifically as an externality of the profit incentive.
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And tens of millions of you still believe you can sort this out if we only we could just elect a couple more thirtysometnings who lie about being progressive.
Yesterday, Trump ordered a naval blockade of Venezuela, an act of war. Today, nearly 8 in 10 senators voted to authorize $901 billion in military spending, $8 billion more than Trump asked for.
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
And tens of millions of you still believe you can sort this out if we only we could just elect a couple more thirtysometnings who lie about being progressive.
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[The Purpose of a System is What it Does]
Bluesky's most recent features:
- "Give me your Driver's License forever"
- "Can I see every contact in your phone?"
Purpose; Extraction of data.
Bluesky's most recent features:
- "Give me your Driver's License forever"
- "Can I see every contact in your phone?"
Purpose; Extraction of data.
v1.112 is live!
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
[The Purpose of a System is What it Does]
Bluesky's most recent features:
- "Give me your Driver's License forever"
- "Can I see every contact in your phone?"
Purpose; Extraction of data.
Bluesky's most recent features:
- "Give me your Driver's License forever"
- "Can I see every contact in your phone?"
Purpose; Extraction of data.
This vote was destined to fail before the Democrats voted to further abuse our trans folk. You might wonder why there’s a recurrent proliferation of malicious, corrupt and out of touch officials in govt. Simply, the issue is systemic. Our class interest isn’t represented by this govt of the rich.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This vote was destined to fail before the Democrats voted to further abuse our trans folk. You might wonder why there’s a recurrent proliferation of malicious, corrupt and out of touch officials in govt. Simply, the issue is systemic. Our class interest isn’t represented by this govt of the rich.
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me when it happens
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
me when it happens
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There is violence all over the world. People are murdered every minute somewhere in the world. There is injustice everywhere. It should be recognized outside of whatever the mainstream media is pushing for you to be concerned about at any given time. Sudan been bleeding, very little attention.
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
There is violence all over the world. People are murdered every minute somewhere in the world. There is injustice everywhere. It should be recognized outside of whatever the mainstream media is pushing for you to be concerned about at any given time. Sudan been bleeding, very little attention.
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Can you explain how the genocidal, pro-regime change, pro-capitalist, pro-ecocide Democrats who don’t want to give any of us poors healthcare or living wages or housing or education plan to adequately address inequality, Bernie?
Asking for ~342,000,000 citizens.
Asking for ~342,000,000 citizens.
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Can you explain how the genocidal, pro-regime change, pro-capitalist, pro-ecocide Democrats who don’t want to give any of us poors healthcare or living wages or housing or education plan to adequately address inequality, Bernie?
Asking for ~342,000,000 citizens.
Asking for ~342,000,000 citizens.
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The Rules-Based International Order (RBIO) used the blockade and seizure of ships as justification for bombing Yemen.
Yemeni forces were trying to halt a genocide.
The US is trying to do regime change on behalf of capital.
The RBIO is violating international law to enforce unilateral sanctions.
Yemeni forces were trying to halt a genocide.
The US is trying to do regime change on behalf of capital.
The RBIO is violating international law to enforce unilateral sanctions.
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Rules-Based International Order (RBIO) used the blockade and seizure of ships as justification for bombing Yemen.
Yemeni forces were trying to halt a genocide.
The US is trying to do regime change on behalf of capital.
The RBIO is violating international law to enforce unilateral sanctions.
Yemeni forces were trying to halt a genocide.
The US is trying to do regime change on behalf of capital.
The RBIO is violating international law to enforce unilateral sanctions.
Me after an being subject to an hour straight of pro war with Venezuela propaganda on NPR
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Me after an being subject to an hour straight of pro war with Venezuela propaganda on NPR
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As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
That’s because they’re complicit. 48 House Democrats and 13 Senate Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act, which gave ICE/LE the necessary legal framework for this insanity. The Democrats took no unified party stance on this issue and routinely increase the funding for LE across the country.
This is Gestapo behavior and Democrats in Congress continue to do far too little to stop it.
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
That’s because they’re complicit. 48 House Democrats and 13 Senate Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act, which gave ICE/LE the necessary legal framework for this insanity. The Democrats took no unified party stance on this issue and routinely increase the funding for LE across the country.
The empire knows that no populace will allow a system of such cruelty to stand for very long and it’s exactly why they’re building up NPSM-7 lists.
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The empire knows that no populace will allow a system of such cruelty to stand for very long and it’s exactly why they’re building up NPSM-7 lists.
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Please invite me to the 7 Up ad
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Please invite me to the 7 Up ad
A party that claims to be working class, but whose primary project is ethnic cleansing and privatization. Where else in history have we heard this before? Oh wait...
New -- Sen. Hawley says GOP is in danger of losing election without more economic populist legislation: “If they do, then they’ll lose … If we want to be a majority party, our future is to be a working-class party"
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
Hawley warns Republicans: Do more for working class or we’ll lose
The Missouri senator told Semafor that his party’s populist wing is in danger of being ignored, with consequences likely in the midterms.
www.semafor.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A party that claims to be working class, but whose primary project is ethnic cleansing and privatization. Where else in history have we heard this before? Oh wait...
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damn really makes you reflect on the numerous other times the US government and its proxies have said "terrorists" were using "human shields"
It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”
December 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
damn really makes you reflect on the numerous other times the US government and its proxies have said "terrorists" were using "human shields"
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love reading on the internet
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
love reading on the internet