Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
@rodaimonia.bsky.social
Economist. Author. Former Chatham House and Economist Intelligence Unit. Democratic Socialist. Diogenes Mindset. Currently writing a book about Mexican elites.
Clearly the faction of the Democratic Party that we have heard of the least.
A nonprofit group aligned with the House’s Blue Dog Coalition of Democrats is launching a new podcast to highlight the party’s centrist side.
www.notus.org/democrats/bl...
www.notus.org/democrats/bl...
Blue Dog Democrats Launch a Podcast to Highlight Party’s Centrist Side
The number of moderate and centrist Democrats has waned significantly over the years.
www.notus.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Clearly the faction of the Democratic Party that we have heard of the least.
I sometimes feel the NYT Pitchbot is less extremist than the actual newspaper.
Less than 24 hours after the actual journalists at the NY Times published a story about Trump dismantling the federal climate agency, the NY Times opinion page decided it was time to blast out a Matt Ygelsias rant demanding liberals show more fealty to the fossil fuel industry.
December 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I sometimes feel the NYT Pitchbot is less extremist than the actual newspaper.
Am I the only one who saw the lampshade of skin scene in IT: Welcome to Derry and thought it was a certain Orange POTUS? 🙃
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Am I the only one who saw the lampshade of skin scene in IT: Welcome to Derry and thought it was a certain Orange POTUS? 🙃
This is all fine and dandy but the real problem regarding excess wealth isn't CEO's: it's owners. You can drop CEO pay to 20-1 and it'll barely make a dent in wealth accumulation because its main driver isn't the CEO's paycheck, it's the dividends given to shareholders.
Tax dividends.
Tax dividends.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
What can we do about this? Here's one good idea.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/want-to-know-the-real-problem-with
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
What can we do about this? Here's one good idea.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/want-to-know-the-real-problem-with
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is all fine and dandy but the real problem regarding excess wealth isn't CEO's: it's owners. You can drop CEO pay to 20-1 and it'll barely make a dent in wealth accumulation because its main driver isn't the CEO's paycheck, it's the dividends given to shareholders.
Tax dividends.
Tax dividends.
You know it's bad when even Bill friggin' Kristol thinks the Democratic leadership is spineless.
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
You know it's bad when even Bill friggin' Kristol thinks the Democratic leadership is spineless.
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana's leadership abilities are so dismal that if they had to lead a herd of lemmings off a cliff, they'd all survive.
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Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism? | Novara Media
Your Party members voted for collective leadership. But between the two co-founders, there was really only one winner, writes Steven Methven.
novaramedia.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana's leadership abilities are so dismal that if they had to lead a herd of lemmings off a cliff, they'd all survive.
novaramedia.com/2025/12/01/i...
novaramedia.com/2025/12/01/i...
If aliens came to Earth and asked to sum up the NYT's editorial line in one sentence, it would be this 👇
Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If aliens came to Earth and asked to sum up the NYT's editorial line in one sentence, it would be this 👇
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the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
What socialism can do to fascism in one picture. 🌹
November 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
What socialism can do to fascism in one picture. 🌹
The privilege of being a white neoliberal.
Larry Summers’ name quietly disappeared from the websites of the firms he advised. “Summers is allowed to fade quietly into the background,” giving him the chance to salvage his reputation. From: @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @henryburke.bsky.social: trib.al/HeRbpu5
Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers - The American Prospect
Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.
trib.al
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The privilege of being a white neoliberal.
We had one crisis during the post-war welfare state (the 1973 oil crisis) which wasn't even caused by anything related to the welfare state and it was enough to throw the greatest economic system in human history out the window. Meanwhile we have this 👇 and the solution is more predatory capitalism.
I once again remind people that basically nobody under 40!!! has actually seen sustained economic growth in their adult lives
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
We had one crisis during the post-war welfare state (the 1973 oil crisis) which wasn't even caused by anything related to the welfare state and it was enough to throw the greatest economic system in human history out the window. Meanwhile we have this 👇 and the solution is more predatory capitalism.
This btw, includes Liz Cheney.
1/6 Democrats need to be more inclusive, especially with voters.
But inclusivity does not mean whitewashing far-right pro-Russian conspiracy theorists like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She is not backstabbing Trump to help Democrats but to help Vance, Musk and Thiel, who are worse
But inclusivity does not mean whitewashing far-right pro-Russian conspiracy theorists like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She is not backstabbing Trump to help Democrats but to help Vance, Musk and Thiel, who are worse
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
This btw, includes Liz Cheney.
I love the centrist obsession with thinking that Manchin is better than no Manchin when 1) he and Sinema buried the most transformative elements of Biden's agenda and 2) why one seat in a red state is so much more sacred than all the purple seats they lose or the 100m people that don't vote.
I’m haunted by a prominent NYC left organizer telling me that Joe Manchin should be primaried and that advocacy groups - with enough budget - could easily elect a progressive in his place.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I love the centrist obsession with thinking that Manchin is better than no Manchin when 1) he and Sinema buried the most transformative elements of Biden's agenda and 2) why one seat in a red state is so much more sacred than all the purple seats they lose or the 100m people that don't vote.
If you think life in the US or UK is better than Europe (especially Germany where she is from) just because EuRoPe HaS no AI FiRmS, your brain is full of matter that is a vastly different color than gray.
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If you think life in the US or UK is better than Europe (especially Germany where she is from) just because EuRoPe HaS no AI FiRmS, your brain is full of matter that is a vastly different color than gray.
The people who hate pronouns and anything over two genders really love inventing identities for their own benefit.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The people who hate pronouns and anything over two genders really love inventing identities for their own benefit.
I feel every YouTube thumbnail now has to have a combination of 1) thirst trap, 2) unnecessary arrows pointing at the obvious, and 3) the host of the video looking confused despite the fact that they should presumably know what they are talking about.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I feel every YouTube thumbnail now has to have a combination of 1) thirst trap, 2) unnecessary arrows pointing at the obvious, and 3) the host of the video looking confused despite the fact that they should presumably know what they are talking about.
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If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.
Today on Starbucks boycott day, a hilarious reminder of how much money Starbucks has probably lost in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world from people ordering a "Grande" (which means Large in Spanish) and getting served a Medium because of their stupid Tall/Grande/Venti sizes. 🤡
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Today on Starbucks boycott day, a hilarious reminder of how much money Starbucks has probably lost in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world from people ordering a "Grande" (which means Large in Spanish) and getting served a Medium because of their stupid Tall/Grande/Venti sizes. 🤡
Funny that someone who just recently tweeted how important economic history is to know conveniently forgets (to make a Steven Pinker-like left-bashing point) that starvation was never a real threat to the US post-independence (which at the time had much higher nutrition outcomes than Europe). /1
people have no conception of "and then you starved to death" being an outcome you had to worry about almost constantly
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Funny that someone who just recently tweeted how important economic history is to know conveniently forgets (to make a Steven Pinker-like left-bashing point) that starvation was never a real threat to the US post-independence (which at the time had much higher nutrition outcomes than Europe). /1
You can save word count by simply saying that capitalism is authoritarian by nature.
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
You can save word count by simply saying that capitalism is authoritarian by nature.
Kind of unsurprising that as Trump's GOP becomes the political establishment, and a highly despised one at that, it's biggest nutters are now going to try and outflank it from an even more populist angle.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has confided to colleagues that she wants to run for president, according to four sources familiar with the matter, including one who has spoken with her directly about it.
www.notus.org/2028-electio...
www.notus.org/2028-electio...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Telling People She Wants to Run for President
One source told NOTUS Greene believes she has “the national donor network to win the primary.”
www.notus.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Kind of unsurprising that as Trump's GOP becomes the political establishment, and a highly despised one at that, it's biggest nutters are now going to try and outflank it from an even more populist angle.
Mossad totally not hacking my phone (see bottom of the pic below. FYI I'm in Mexico)
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mossad totally not hacking my phone (see bottom of the pic below. FYI I'm in Mexico)
Your friendly reminder that they never have this same requirement for the progressive left.
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Your friendly reminder that they never have this same requirement for the progressive left.
Best political campaign I've ever seen in my lifetime. 👍
Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!
Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Best political campaign I've ever seen in my lifetime. 👍
Randomly found this piece from February 24th, 2022 which aged like fine milk (which proves that amateurish "hot take" military analysis is usually trash). militarywatchmagazine.com/article/850-...
850 Obsolete Tanks Can’t Stop Russia: Ukraine Chose Sheer Numbers Over Modernisation and Suffered
Following the launching of large scale strikes by the Russian Military against targets across Ukraine on the morning of February 24, questions long raised regarding the
militarywatchmagazine.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Randomly found this piece from February 24th, 2022 which aged like fine milk (which proves that amateurish "hot take" military analysis is usually trash). militarywatchmagazine.com/article/850-...