This is an impressive, intellectually honest decision.
Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · last yr.Wage growth since 1979 has definitely been suppressed, but EPI has decided to stop describing the entire post-1979 period as one of “wage stagnation.” #EconSky @elisegould.bsky.social and @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social explain our reasoning: www.epi.org/blog/wage-gr...
This post specifically really doesn't tell us about *higher* turnout effects either way, instead focusing on *all registered voters*. Plus, it shows declining dem % among registered nonvoters (54.5% in '20, 53.1% in '24)! Is this a dramatic shift? No, but it points to "nonvoters getting more R"
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · last yr.Our findings using CES data strongly affirm the post-election analysis and conclusions of @mikepod.bsky.social. Non-voters, particularly registered ones, lean Dem. The "high turnout hurts Dems" narrative isn't supported by the evidence and basing strategy on flawed ideas about non-voters is risky.
If Carney wins in Canada, the case for Powell 2028 becomes unimpeachable
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
Stirring words in my inbox forwarded from a USAID staffer "This Order is Unlawful, and We Must Refuse to Comply"
For all the hand wringing about tech-world interest in Effective Altruism, it seems distinctly preferable to the currently empowered strain of Effective Sociopathy
Guy whose pro-border wall study gets rejected because he calls it a “barrier”
Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago
In a terrible news week, will take this bit of great news: Towana Looney, who received a pig kidney transplant in two months ago, seems to be doing well. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone
An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two months ago is now the longest surviving recipient of a pig organ.
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Well sure, it sounds bad when you put it like that
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2y agoNo mystery what we're seeing here: -Illegally withholding spending/nullifying contracts -Purges of law enforcement and prosecutors -Taking bribes for lenient treatment while threatening enemies with persecution -Pardoning violent/paramilitary allies -Granting vast powers to an unelected billionaire
"Free trade agreements are..." A good way to create economic growth: 58% (+17) A dangerous threat to American jobs: 13% (-20) Unsure: 29% (+3) Innovative / Jan 24, 2025 / n=1007 (% Change With 2016)
al gore is the perfect man: hard working, smart, very handsome, progressive, cripplingly autistic
Notthedarkweb@notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 2y ago
If by “imperfect” you mean “actively nonsensical and based on a fundamental ignorance of the topic” sure
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 2y agoNot a perfect analogy, but in one sense I think DeepSeek may be the solar power of computing: relatively cheap, relatively simple, and effective--and thus a huge threat to the people making huge money from the status quo. OpenAI and Meta as Exxon and Chevron.
In fairness to Sam, Trump is definitely not *neo* imperial
Samuel Moyn@samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 2y agoI teamed up with @tparsi to analyze a possible silver-lining in the next four years of foreign policy for the @latimes — rejecting the neo-imperial “rules-based international order” meme of recent years, in favor something better rather than worse. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
I don’t think people appreciate how unusual the US system of long-term fixed rate mortgages is. This isn’t a problem in most European countries because you simply cannot get a mortgage with a fixed rate, or if you can the mortgage is 15 yrs www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 2y agoThe easiest/cheapest way to boost housing affordability might be for the U.S. to adopt portable mortgages.
Got this booklet in the mail and immediately wondered which cult sent it. I was not disappointed!
"To build a whole climate policy approach around green industrial policy and then refuse to take any policy cues from the people actually running the green industries is ridiculous." www.slowboring.com/p/liberalism...
Liberalism not socialism
Democrats need to stop acting like business careers are immoral or corrupt
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I think education polarization does mean that a lot of people who are liberal or on the left generally think they're too good to be party-line hacks.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2y agoThe greatest failure of the modern Democratic Party is the apparent belief that basic elements of politics -- selling your policies to voters and reminding them what you did for them -- is somehow tacky and beneath them.
A surprising number of people are like “I can abide murdering a health insurance CEO in cold blood in midtown Manhattan at point blank range. But retweeting Andrew Huberman after that NYMag story came out is a bridge too far…”
Serial acquisitions of anesthesia practices led to price increases of 30 percent with no quality improvements, from Aslihan Asil, Paulo Ramos, Amanda Starc, and Thomas G. Wollmann https://www.nber.org/papers/w33217
But I still think it's crazy that people who need kidneys have to wait for volunteers to come along! The bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act that Congress is considering now could help by giving new donors a $50k tax credit. @dylanmatt.bsky.social has a great piece on it: www.vox.com/future-perf...
The moral case for paying kidney donors
Kidney donors save lives. Why aren’t we compensated for it?
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1 - article describes effective altruism as “the dominant way to think about charity” and worries about crowding out other giving. But EA is under 0.5% of US giving! Arts giving alone is 10-20x bigger. This is like complaining that art films are eating into Marvel's market share.
The concentration of heat-related mortality among younger people is quite disproportionate compared to other causes of death: Although just 16% of overall deaths from all causes are among under 35 year olds, 75% of heat-related deaths are among under 35 year olds
When talking impoundments, it's critical to note Nixon lost every single case in court that was decided on the merits - before the ICA was law. Some very limited historical impoundments happened - but were never challenged. As soon as they were challenged, courts said no even without the ICA.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Globally, the Healthcare Profession is Under Siege From Left and Right "Bashar A., an optomestrist in the Damascus area, says that healthcare professionals are scared - events such as the recent shooting of the UHC CEO 'have us all on edge'"
What’s the most important choice in determining the social cost of carbon (SCC)? My #EconJMP shows that because deaths from emitting CO2 are large and concentrated in poor countries, valuing lives is the most consequential choice in determining the SCC in latest-gen models, more than discounting 🧵👇
This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations
U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.
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