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In 2024 (and now apparently) there was an interesting debate over "cheapflation." A study found the price of generic-brand food increased faster than premium, as more affluent customers substituted into generic.
Standard to assume this is a welfare loss.
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
Standard to assume this is a welfare loss.
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In 2024 (and now apparently) there was an interesting debate over "cheapflation." A study found the price of generic-brand food increased faster than premium, as more affluent customers substituted into generic.
Standard to assume this is a welfare loss.
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
Standard to assume this is a welfare loss.
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
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They cancel Liberal writers (who've been right about the Right all along) while promoting recently-former Republicans (who built the monster machine that created Trump) because the legacy media and the Rick Wilsons of the world have a shared common interest in never talking about the Before Time.
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
They cancel Liberal writers (who've been right about the Right all along) while promoting recently-former Republicans (who built the monster machine that created Trump) because the legacy media and the Rick Wilsons of the world have a shared common interest in never talking about the Before Time.
NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED.
youtu.be/KW067woSxws
youtu.be/KW067woSxws
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED.
youtu.be/KW067woSxws
youtu.be/KW067woSxws
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the Great Pumpkin, Chuck, at least it's an ethos!
That rug really tied the room together, Charlie Brown.
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the Great Pumpkin, Chuck, at least it's an ethos!
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Charlie Brown: Then, by implication, you think you're smarter than I am, since it was you who tricked me.
Lucy: No, I know I'm not smarter than you.
Charlie Brown: Then how did you trick me?
Lucy: You had... disadvantages.
Charlie Brown: What disadvantages?
Lucy: You're a blockhead.
Lucy: No, I know I'm not smarter than you.
Charlie Brown: Then how did you trick me?
Lucy: You had... disadvantages.
Charlie Brown: What disadvantages?
Lucy: You're a blockhead.
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Charlie Brown: Then, by implication, you think you're smarter than I am, since it was you who tricked me.
Lucy: No, I know I'm not smarter than you.
Charlie Brown: Then how did you trick me?
Lucy: You had... disadvantages.
Charlie Brown: What disadvantages?
Lucy: You're a blockhead.
Lucy: No, I know I'm not smarter than you.
Charlie Brown: Then how did you trick me?
Lucy: You had... disadvantages.
Charlie Brown: What disadvantages?
Lucy: You're a blockhead.
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I am always surprised to hear that people pay for people like Alex Trembath to put words to screen.
I'm not surprised to see that Alex is getting work from Chris Rufo's outfit at the Manhattan Institute. He fits in there.
www.city-journal.org/person/alex-...
I'm not surprised to see that Alex is getting work from Chris Rufo's outfit at the Manhattan Institute. He fits in there.
www.city-journal.org/person/alex-...
Alex Trembath Archives
www.city-journal.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I am always surprised to hear that people pay for people like Alex Trembath to put words to screen.
I'm not surprised to see that Alex is getting work from Chris Rufo's outfit at the Manhattan Institute. He fits in there.
www.city-journal.org/person/alex-...
I'm not surprised to see that Alex is getting work from Chris Rufo's outfit at the Manhattan Institute. He fits in there.
www.city-journal.org/person/alex-...
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It has always been the case that you can find success by telling billionaires what they want to hear, but the dynamic has never been more explicit and out in the open than today.
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It has always been the case that you can find success by telling billionaires what they want to hear, but the dynamic has never been more explicit and out in the open than today.
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These guys have been telling billionaires what they want to hear about climate change for decades now, and finally culture has caught up to them. Congrats I guess.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These guys have been telling billionaires what they want to hear about climate change for decades now, and finally culture has caught up to them. Congrats I guess.
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Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana.
Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airborne.
By @natlash.bsky.social
Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airborne.
By @natlash.bsky.social
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana.
Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airborne.
By @natlash.bsky.social
Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airborne.
By @natlash.bsky.social
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AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in, and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in, and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in, and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in, and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
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@mattyglesias.bsky.social in a nutshell.
"The left went too left, the right went too right, probably because of the left, and I weep for the center."
Oh and dumps taken on a bunch of policies that matter because polls say they don't matter on a public opinion scale. QeD.
"The left went too left, the right went too right, probably because of the left, and I weep for the center."
Oh and dumps taken on a bunch of policies that matter because polls say they don't matter on a public opinion scale. QeD.
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
@mattyglesias.bsky.social in a nutshell.
"The left went too left, the right went too right, probably because of the left, and I weep for the center."
Oh and dumps taken on a bunch of policies that matter because polls say they don't matter on a public opinion scale. QeD.
"The left went too left, the right went too right, probably because of the left, and I weep for the center."
Oh and dumps taken on a bunch of policies that matter because polls say they don't matter on a public opinion scale. QeD.
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Yes. The question is not why Biden's debate performance generated a lot of negative coverage -- he was legitimately bad and was right to drop out -- but why Trump faring so badly against Harris that he turtled from any further debates generated so little
The polls of people who actually watched the debate showed Biden losing badly... by the exact same margin that Trump lost the Harris debate. But Trump by contrast didn't have weeks of drumbeat, full-court-press news afterwards about his debate failure - media instead dropped the story
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yes. The question is not why Biden's debate performance generated a lot of negative coverage -- he was legitimately bad and was right to drop out -- but why Trump faring so badly against Harris that he turtled from any further debates generated so little
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WA resident dies from bird flu variant never before seen in humans
WA resident dies from bird flu variant never before seen in humans
The death was the second from bird flu recorded in the U.S. since 2022. It was the first human case in the state this year.
www.seattletimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
WA resident dies from bird flu variant never before seen in humans
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Fuck normalizing hateful politics and fuck playing nice for access.
This isn’t a game!
This isn’t a game!
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Fuck normalizing hateful politics and fuck playing nice for access.
This isn’t a game!
This isn’t a game!
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Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
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"We don’t need to be getting our policy insights from a pedophile-adjacent, ethically conflicted nepo baby."
Don’t Let Larry Summers Back Into Polite Society
While Larry Summers’s “association” with Jeffrey Epstein was already known, this newest batch of emails reveals their relationship ran deep.
interc.pt
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"We don’t need to be getting our policy insights from a pedophile-adjacent, ethically conflicted nepo baby."
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If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
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These people were/are idiots. Everything was just a vibe or a sound bite and they never bothered to ask people who might have known better.
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
These people were/are idiots. Everything was just a vibe or a sound bite and they never bothered to ask people who might have known better.
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Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.
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“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties
The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president’s enormous network and clout kept him immune from past Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But this time was just too much.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
Speaking of Charlie:
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"Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count."
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"Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count."
"Pleased to see so many Republicans coming out..."
{resume snark}
And so soon, just after they righteously lambasted us all for our imagined lapses in civility that played, in their telling, a direct hand in Charlie Kirk's death.
They are a real inspiration*.
{resume snark}
And so soon, just after they righteously lambasted us all for our imagined lapses in civility that played, in their telling, a direct hand in Charlie Kirk's death.
They are a real inspiration*.
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Speaking of Charlie:
bsky.app/profile/raph...
"Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count."
bsky.app/profile/raph...
"Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count."
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Greg Bonino's job is to create a fog of violence and lies to create an excuse for the dictator to invoke the Insurrection Act, so people like you and me can be shot.
This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Greg Bonino's job is to create a fog of violence and lies to create an excuse for the dictator to invoke the Insurrection Act, so people like you and me can be shot.
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Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com