ryan cooper
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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we have @philipchristman.bsky.social on to talk about his book Why Christians Should Be Leftists www.patreon.com/posts/139047...
somebody is going to do geoengineering, it's just a matter of time heatmap.news/climate/cop-...
The Next COP Needs to Confront ‘Overshoot’
The Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is now all but impossible. Limiting — and eventually reversing — the damage will take some thought.
heatmap.news
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
somebody is going to do geoengineering, it's just a matter of time heatmap.news/climate/cop-...
"The GOP will flinch from more than doubling health insurance premiums—at least if middle-class people and up are the most affected—but only if they can also make the insurance worse, and make poor people pay more." prospect.org/2025/11/25/t...
Trump’s Obamacare Plan Is Still Not Great - The American Prospect
The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.
prospect.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The GOP will flinch from more than doubling health insurance premiums—at least if middle-class people and up are the most affected—but only if they can also make the insurance worse, and make poor people pay more." prospect.org/2025/11/25/t...
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
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Also weird how opponents of the Mamdani plan have never heard of the Circulators in DC and Baltimore.
Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.
Well, well, well, imagine this:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Also weird how opponents of the Mamdani plan have never heard of the Circulators in DC and Baltimore.
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The Trump health care proposal that would extend ACA subsidies for 2 years has been put on hold by House Republicans who can't stand seeing people covered. But that plan had a lot of stuff in it that would worsen insurance and raise prices, @ryanlcooper.com and I write.
Trump’s Obamacare Plan Is Still Not Great - The American Prospect
The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.
prospect.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The Trump health care proposal that would extend ACA subsidies for 2 years has been put on hold by House Republicans who can't stand seeing people covered. But that plan had a lot of stuff in it that would worsen insurance and raise prices, @ryanlcooper.com and I write.
it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc
these folks aren’t 100 percent my politics (who is?) but I’m very simpatico with the overall approach. worth kicking them a couple bucks
We’ve been sharing the fundraiser today, and the rationale and what we’ll do if funded are explained there and on the site, but I thought I’d do a thread here—on the supposedly failed social media platform to which we owe so much gofund.me/197477c3a
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
these folks aren’t 100 percent my politics (who is?) but I’m very simpatico with the overall approach. worth kicking them a couple bucks
issuing a correction on this post, apparently Wikipedia is wrong and these are not the same thing. frankly I just like the word “blackstrap”
don't get me started on "treacle" instead of "blackstrap molasses," you people make me sick
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
issuing a correction on this post, apparently Wikipedia is wrong and these are not the same thing. frankly I just like the word “blackstrap”
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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...
Summers, Epstein, and Economics | Left Anchor
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November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...
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ICYMI
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus ep, we have @econmarshall.bsky.social on to talk about Larry Summers, his good pal Jeff Epstein, and Summers' noxious influence on the discipline of economics as well as Democratic Party policymaking www.patreon.com/posts/144130...
Summers, Epstein, and Economics | Left Anchor
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
ICYMI
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"Free Willy" trailers were pandemonium in UK theaters back in '93.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Free Willy" trailers were pandemonium in UK theaters back in '93.
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Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
Planned Parenthood uses a VPN so its twitter location is shown as Germany and now all of MAGA twitter thinks Planned Parenthood is a fake organization based in Europe.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
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Inspired: UK-US conflict over the word “fannie”
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Inspired: UK-US conflict over the word “fannie”
tired: UK-USA conflict over the word "biscuit"
wired: UK-USA conflict over the word "flapjack"
wired: UK-USA conflict over the word "flapjack"
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
tired: UK-USA conflict over the word "biscuit"
wired: UK-USA conflict over the word "flapjack"
wired: UK-USA conflict over the word "flapjack"
most Scottish man of all time? youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
most Scottish man of all time? youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
"Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
just read some Substack post with a maybe quarter-baked argument that the "real" poverty line is $136,000. come on
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
just read some Substack post with a maybe quarter-baked argument that the "real" poverty line is $136,000. come on
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Follow @nojusticemtg.bsky.social (and me!) bsky.app/profile/ryan...
anyway this @unlearnecon.bsky.social interview is instructive as to the state of play in UK politics. it's very well might be Green vs Reform for the top spot in the next election youtu.be/sPugXPiTuHE...
Fixing the UK Economy - with @NoJusticeMTG
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Follow @nojusticemtg.bsky.social (and me!) bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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Conservatives pushing the “unitary executive theory” have finally made the president a king. Trump looks just like a senile monarch on his last legs. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/4MKpeC0
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Conservatives pushing the “unitary executive theory” have finally made the president a king. Trump looks just like a senile monarch on his last legs. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/4MKpeC0
I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
Ermittler vermuten Russland hinter Bauschaum-Attacken auf Autos
Hunderte Autos wurden vor einem Jahr in mehreren Bundesländern mit Bauschaum beschädigt. Die Ermittler gehen derzeit davon aus, dass damit die Grünen vor der Wahl diskreditiert werden sollten.
www.n-tv.de
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
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the entire beltway media complex is rotten all the way through, I truly believe Nuzzi's just the worst at hiding it
The more Lizza writes the more he indicts himself in serious ethical lapses but there are a lot of editors and publishers who are complicit here, too.
The whole thing is just gross.
(And shout out to the serious journalists who do good work. You deserve better peers and a healthier industry.)
The whole thing is just gross.
(And shout out to the serious journalists who do good work. You deserve better peers and a healthier industry.)
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the entire beltway media complex is rotten all the way through, I truly believe Nuzzi's just the worst at hiding it
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Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
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Trump keeps propping up expensive, unreliable coal plants and your energy bills keep rising.
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...
How Trump’s Coal Plant Obsession is Making Energy More Expensive
Coal plants are dirty, expensive, and unreliable. President Trump is determined to keep them open anyway. Here's how the rest of us are paying the price.
www.lcv.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Trump keeps propping up expensive, unreliable coal plants and your energy bills keep rising.
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...
Cheap energy is clean energy. Trump’s fossil fuel obsession makes families pay more. www.lcv.org/blog/how-tru...