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I reckon “consumer preference” here ought to have a superscript asterisk that leads to this note: Productivity has skyrocketed yet wages have plummeted and many people simply can’t afford more expensive goods.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
Ben's a good guy doing good work and you should watch his good movie.
Ben McKenzieIf you want to watch a pretty good movie and support free speech and indie film: watch.eventive.org/everyoneisly...
Every lawyer in America should read this sad story. gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...www.nytimes.com
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The VergeBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
"Trump has demonstrated these past six months that warfare, long insulated from what passes in this country for democratic control, has so hollowed out mechanisms for popular accountability that warmakers no longer need to engage in procedural fictions," writes @attackerman.bsky.social
The Markets Matter For War—You Don'tNot only has Iran controlled the escalatory ladder, it's exposed another symptom of American declinewww.forever-wars.com
Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸
For Slate's summer series By the People, I wrote about how D.C. v. Heller is both a paragon of popular constitutionalism and its own dark mirror. Progressives can learn real lessons from how it was won—if they ignore its bogus originalism and look at what really went down. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Conservatives Perfected the Ideal Legal Tactic. It’s Time for Liberals to Use It.While Heller was built on phony history, it reflected a genuine, hard-fought shift in public understanding.slate.comProbably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
@GottaLaffABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
ANOTHER death in ICE custody, this time at the controversial Delaney Hall facility. This makes 54 deaths since Trump took office; 1 every 8 days in 2026. His mother says he was denied adequate medical care for chronic conditions, a common accusation ICE has strenuously denied.
Luca MigoBreaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup
There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
I don't think Markwayne Mullin understands just how dangerous a heresy he committed by suggesting that immigrants can help the US economy. He undermined the entire core mythology of MAGA. Final thoughts on all this here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Greg Abbott is going to respond to this poll by reminding the voters of Texas what he's the absolute best at -- killing their children. Lots of different ways to make it happen, but rest assured: He will kill your kids. That's a promise.
Ana Marie CoxFrom a Fox Poll out 7/31: Talarico-Paxton is the marquee race down here but check out the dead heat btw Abbott and Hinojosa for governor. This contest isn't even on the radar for the national Dems, AFAIK. She's has $3m cash on hand--Abbott has *$67m*. Some more highlights from the poll... /1
#Juneteenth requires recognition of our country's injustices. Part of that recognition has to be our own education of the past to prevent the repetition. Here's a powerful musical rendition of The Ballad of Birmingham, a 1965 poem written by Dudley Randall. youtu.be/cHxG2b4rAlA?...
The IRGC is launching projectiles at ships while Trump is saying they are negotiating.
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Telltale DNA: First direct evidence found that the Spanish brought smallpox to the Inca www.cidrap.umn.edu/telltale-dna...
Telltale DNA: First direct evidence found that the Spanish brought smallpox to the Incawww.cidrap.umn.edu
Marc Elias knows how to beat Trump in court. “But there’s a lot of other cases percolating up through the system, including those 17 losses the DOJ has racked up so far.” We will continue to fight. Will you join us? https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...www.nytimes.comThe Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar.
SamI love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...