Fast forward a few cycles and we see things that totally belie pundit and consultant conventional wisdom about how to message to a supposedly low information electorate, like the many yard signs I saw in rural areas last year emphasizing the importance of “Protecting Title IX.”
The magnetism point made by ASO finally engages with something frustrating about popularism prescriptions: they never acknowledge that what they’re recommending resembles the post-2012 RNC autopsy approach on immigration that so clearly was not the key to subsequent R electoral success.
Also echoes the point made here about the supposed necessity of running anti-abortion candidates in states that have passed referenda supporting reproductive rights degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
“You cannot occasionally tell Americans the truth that this regime is veering into dictatorship while also promising to meet and negotiate in good faith with it.”
“From WelcomeFest to Third Way to Searchlight, Democrats who claim to be concerned that voters reject their party for being too “woke” keep publicizing these accusations, seemingly to ensure voters hear them.”
As our fossil fueled insurance crisis continues to escalate, FAIR plans should be considered an important plank of public policy. They should truly become “state run” rather than being operated for and by insurance companies. player.captivate.fm/episode/475c...
As insurance prices balloon & companies refuse renewals, state “insurers of last resort” (FAIR plans) are often the only coverage option left for many homeowners. Our new report explains how they often prioritize cost savings for companies, not affordability for families.
“And then Nordhaus and Schelling wrote….sweet talk [that] reframed the dangerous-sounding reports from scientists into an excuse to look away. Their narrative contributions may be among the most influential paragraphs in human history.”
📣 Launching the Public Renewables Project! 📣 1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power. 🔗 www.publicrenewables.org
Very well put by @nathantankus.bsky.social: “Powell must do everything in his power to compel the conventional wisdom of market traders to more adequately “price in” the degradation of the rule of law.”
The fossil fueled insurance crisis is not just a coastal problem. I went on KUNM to discuss climate and insurance in New Mexico, the state with the nation’s highest rate of uninsurance
“At a military history museum, origami cranes from Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park are recycled into paper fans emblazoned with the Yamato, Japan’s “unsinkable” World War II battleship…”
The Abundance/Effective Altruist crowd doesnt care about the role of finance in housing. In fact, they don’t even want to examine the role of finance within…the Federal Reserve! www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abundan...
👀”We understand how difficult it has been for homeowners who lost coverage when certain insurers that Demotech rated became insolvent.” The failures…were driven by “complex and fast-moving pressures” that developed faster than most people in the industry expected.”
The Illinois Insurance Association acknowledges it has been a hard market for several years, but not to worry, it’s just a natural cycle. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/s...
