Dean Baker
@deanbaker13.bsky.social
Economist at the Center for Economic Research. Father to two dogs.
4) He's a long-shot, but puts a supposedly safe rural Red state Senate seat at least possibly in play. Together, all 4 of these developments signal a profound shift away from the politics of the recent past—not just Trump and MAGA, but the neoliberal order that preceded and helped produce him. 5/5
3) He's the latest in a wave of similar candidates—pastors and seminarians—whose emergence challenges conservative Christians’ efforts to claim they alone speak for all of Christianity. 4/5
3/4) In Kansas, Adam Hamilton, founding pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in America, won the Democratic US Senate nomination, reflecting two converging dynamics. 3/5
2) In Kansas and Missouri, conservative GOP power-grabs went down to landslide defeats. (A reverse Robin Hood amendment also got crushed in Missouri.) 2/5
I see 4 major developments manifest in yesterday's elections: 1) El-Sayed's victory, along with multiple downballot victories shows a significant expansion of DSA/Sanders/AOC-aligned power in the heartland, where we've been told it just couldn't reach. 1/5
Rare credit where it’s due. This is the correct headline.
RIP: My Dear Helen I'm so very distraught that I can't respond to posts right now. Hug your dog (or kitty) tonight and tell them that you have it from a credible source, that Helen was the very best pup in the whole world.
Story of many many Americans lives.. the medical stuff shouldn’t be political But somehow that has become Toxic too????
Assholes who make fun of people eulogizing their dogs: There aren't many places for folks to do that, and it's a big moment in some people's lives they weren't exactly ready for. So shut the hell up and let them do it.
The Cutest First Dog Snow Reaction You'll See Today ❤️ ❤️ funnyvia.com/video-this-p...
VIDEO: This Puppy Just Discovered Snow For The First Time and Lost All Control - FunnyVia
A Bernese Mountain Dog puppy named Kya is winning hearts online after a video captured her absolute delight in winter. Surrounded
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it does when the winning candidate wouldn’t have gotten 1 percent a decade ago.
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 17h agoMy ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Awww….That idiot (aka Putain de Merde) in the White House missed the legal deadline for screwing up birthright citizenship. I liked the cartoon. I don’t care who boots him out of our country.
It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Another GOP incumbent not seeking re-election. They’re all panicking about the midterms.
A hard situation deep into the Thai Jungle today after we got a tip off. Nobody lives here. Managed to get the first boy saved (more soon we hope) and medical care. I've never seen a dog go from scared to happy to be rescued so quick
Trump: "Everybody saw the vandalism. All you have to do is look at the tape." (There is no tape. Trump is nuts.)
The OpEd also reinforced the Ellison agenda to Bari Weiss/TheFreePress-ify CNN. While simultaneously attempting to deceive readers of the OpEd that the partisan demolition of CBS News, CBS Radio, 60 Min, installation of a Government-approved content regulator “ombudsman” are a positive thing. 2/
Because of the hard work by countless orgs, individuals and courageous state AGs, a hostile takeover that was thought to be inevitable +“too big to fail” is now being recognized as broadly harmful to the media ecosystem. Not only those in filmmaking & news gathering - but to the general public. 4/n
MAD wholeheartedly opposes the Ellison’s Paramount-Skydance corrupt takeover of Warner Brothers in any form. Please continue to support orgs and individuals who are fighting to #BlockTheMerger to #StopTheCorruptTakeover It’s not a “done deal” but it’s also still very much alive. 5/5
David Ellison uses his NYT column to tell the world he's a Trumper. Just as the Trumpers say we need to change our electoral system because people have lost trust in it after they lied about it for decades, Ellison says the same about the news media www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN.
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Krugman puts the big numbers in context; tells readers Trump's ballroom cost 300,000 foodstamp person years paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-explosi...
An Explosion of Misery
Making American hungry and uninsured again
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