This view of things is supported by a new analysis from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
theatlantic.com
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
[extremely Dave Wasserman voice] I’ve seen enough. It’s time for many of you to go to bed.
looking forward to the centrists declaring a massive victory if Stevens lands anywhere from +.01% to -10% and immediately pivoting to Khive nonsense. looking forward to the left declaring they have received the mandate of heaven if they maintain a 3% edge. no one's happy and everyone's mad
guys is it normal for majority Hispanic districts in Texas to swing 24 points left in a year and a half
Joel Wertheimer@wertwhile.bsky.social · 2d agoOssoff Pulido 2028.
More are wondering: Is the DSA the party of the PMC despite the objections of the loudest DSA members?
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d agoDSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
incredible how many smart people can still buy into “a watch implies a watchmaker” type arguments and not see the obvious problem with that thinking
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d agocontinental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
All nerd hobbies can have the social structure of their communities quantitatively measured with the Q:N (Queer to Nazi) ratio. Pokémon is 8:1. Warhammer is 1:1. Paradox Games are 1:1 but different from Warhammer because the queers and Nazis are the same people.
I continue to hope that the California left will one day realize that housing scarcity is toxic to the causes they care about.
Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · 5d agoProgressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...
A whole lotta moneys about to get flushed down the drain
Noah Lanard@nlanard.bsky.social · 5d agoMichigan's Democratic Senate primary now has more super PAC spending than any Dem congressional primary on record. It's hard to overstate just how lopsided the spending has been in favor of Haley Stevens. Article here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Look I don’t mind a bit of Glonzo on data centers but I want to make one thing clear: anyone campaigning against transmission is a climate denialist and/or a wrecker.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last wk.1. Two country music legends, Willie Nelson and Tanya Tucker, are speaking out about different pieces of the same enormous industrial buildout in Texas. Tanya Tucker is speaking out against the massive transmission lines crossing private land to accommodate the state’s surging electricity demand.
NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.
made this into a meme for you
three generations of conservative intelletcual decline, from a guy who made jokes about chiang kai-shek on a regular basis to his sons who vaguely knew who he was from a guy who thinks he's chinese goku
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo agoi still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP
PARIS: Um. So like… when I make a decision, will you be mad at me? ATHENA: I am the goddess of wisdom and warfare, favored of Zeus. The frivolities of lesser women are beneath me. PARIS: Oh good. I wasn’t choosing you. *LATER* ATHENA: Odysseus. Kill them all. I’m not horsing around.
A solar eclipse. On Saturn. By Titan. Photographed from Earth. 📷: AJ Smadi (StardustAstro/Correct_Presence_936)
apparently i have incredibly similar politics to george pearkes. i shall take this as a good omen.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2w agoFelt a bit goofy about this result until I saw how close my other top matches were to it.
i remember the professor in my university arguing this was the case, as part of a broader argument in favor of abortion. while i am pro-choice, that argument never really struck me as convincing. most people would not consider watching a man drown and not lending a hand as moral behavior.
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · 2w ago"Just because i withheld aids medication and that 2 year old died of aids doesnt mean i killed them smh" "Just because I took an axe to this firehose, that doesn't mean I killed the people who burned to death in that building." bsky.app/profile/hamm...
