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Jason Briggeman
Профиль VivelySenior editor for Liberal Currents. Former (?) economist. Pacers fan. briggeman.org
"Few of us draw much meaning out of large numbers. … If we can improve our facility with large numbers, we can be more confident and thus effective in speaking about the worthiness of public investments." www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-divid...
How to Divide Large Numbers in Your HeadWe need to get our minds around our millions, billions, and trillions.www.liberalcurrents.comCiaranIt seems very very bad that as an aging society the entire political and media landscape has decided that across all areas of policy: large number = fraud
It so happens that Neon Liberalism #1 was @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and I dissecting and rejecting several popular theories of why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 U.S. Presidential election: www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
MattI desperately need someone to the write a “Clinton/Harris did not lose because they are women” article. Maybe @liberalcurrents.com already has. I’m dying with these democrats scared to run a woman.
Only a mastermind like Tony Fauci could pull this off
Mike RothschildThe overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
⟳ Репост от Jason Briggeman
"I want to consider the idea…that forms this article's header image: 'Great evils require great remedies.' It's a good phrase. But it reflects a moralistic or even aesthetic way of thinking about practical problems. This essay takes a different tack: great evils require effective remedies."
Prairieland: A Tactical and Strategic AnalysisGreat evils require effective remedies.www.liberalcurrents.com⟳ Репост от Jason Briggeman
Sweeping government measures to control and combat the covid virus were genuinely justified, which is why antigovernment people are spending the rest of their days trying to find some way, any way, to make that not be true.
John TimmerKey theme here: everybody is still angry about the pandemic control measures.
Recording Academy: How about we'll create a very special "best Asian pop music performance" award so that we can deign to name you as lesser Grammy(tm) winners? BTS: Nah, actually "we hope our music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language."
K-pop powerhouse BTS say they will not submit music for 2027 GrammysK-pop powerhouse BTS say they will not submit their music for consideration at the forthcoming Grammys.apnews.comI continue to believe that "centibillionaire" sounds like someone who has a fraction of a billion dollars, and recommend instead the more menacing, if temporarily unfamiliar, "hectobillionaire."
Quinn SlobodianFor clarity in journalism, the go-to identifier should be "Elon Musk, centibillionaire tech CEO and leading far right agitator."
Jesse Watters as an avatar of manliness, with any level of maturity whatsoever, has always been the funniest thing to me, so I enjoyed this bit
Adam SerwerManosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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New York Times Opinion“I know for sure that what Mamdani is doing is just minting voters for Netanyahu among Israelis who think Bibi is their only protector, his hard-line stance their only salvation,” our columnist Thomas Friedman writes.