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5 years

The wildfire in CA is closing in on the Reagan library, which is where he is buried. So the army corps of engineers is trying to dig up the coffins & corpse to move it to safety. This is the exact scenario all of punk rock historically has been an effort to summon.

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If Oppenheimer’s a hit we can get a prestige drama about the broader US-German bomb race, where in 1944 the OSS gave former White Sox catcher Moe Berg a gun and sent him to a Heiseinberg lecture in Zurich with orders to shoot him dead on the spot if the Nazis sounded close.

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If you’re a socialist I find your mental hygiene is helped by keeping this one close to the front of mind

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What are the load-bearing posts of our time? Obviously 'facing god and walking backwards into hell' and 'miette' are up there. Does Ed Balls still count? PS if you can parse this you should probably log off

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2 years

The union win at the Amazon warehouse was done in an unorthodox way. What I wonder is whether this and Starbucks are signs that we could win a lot more elections in this labor market, and the unions aren’t jumping on the opportunity.

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2 years

Comrade Biden: -Leaves Afghanistan, tells media to eat his ass -Huge stim & climate spends with 50 Senators -Aids but doesn’t enter Ukrainian defensive war -Modest debt relief, bigger reduction in payments -Best D prez midterm since, idk, FDR -420

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2 years

What was really alarming about the Bush years was this tangible feeling that society was going backwards- that there was a majoritarian traditionalist social conservatism that was getting stronger. Today, the socially conservative right seems more like a fringe freakshow

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2 years

“So what you kids believed to be ‘emo’ was in fact nothing remotely like the actual musical style of emo (emotional hardcore)”

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2 years

How about Vincent Van Go To The Polls

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7 months

Of course Biden is unpopular right now. When you have to pay $125 after tax & tip to get delivered a mere 2 lobster tails 2 bloomin onions a steak salad a chicken sandwich a salmon entree a sirloin steak platter 2 fajita trays a pie 3 burgers and a couple of corn dogs

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@KFILE I have two teenage boys! Two bloomin' onions, a steak salad, lobster tails, a filet, a chicken sandwich and a sirloin + tip + tax = $125 on Doordash right now. It's crazy.

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1 year

Retired White Sox catcher Moe Berg, who happened to speak 7 languages and was conversant with current breakthroughs in atomic science, listened to Werner Heisenbergs lecture in Zurich, concluded they were not close and so did not carry out the assassination

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3 years

Politics is about making things materially better for working people

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9 months

I have just learned some neighborhoods are doing a ‘locals’ trick or treat night *before* Halloween, to avoid having to give candy to kids from ‘other’ neighborhoods coming in on the real night. I cannot imagine a more repugnant perversion of the spirit of Halloween.

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7 months

Team Obama did Loser Fiscal bc they were scared ppl hate inflation more than unemployment, got the long recession that impoverished low wage workers, & won re-election. Team Biden did the opposite and are probably gonna lose. Inflation hawks will rule for a generation.

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2 years

I think the degree to which educational polarization and urban housing intersect is an under appreciated phenomenon. Being 42, from a white flight suburban family and having lived in only cities since I turned 18 in 1998, I feel like I kind of lived a big sea change

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1 year

The bomb race is such a rivetingly exciting moment of history because it makes you consider serious hypotheticals of Nazi victory. And then you read about the German bomb teams reactions after Hiroshima & they’re like “omg we were uh like 15-20 years from that”

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5 months

It is incredibly counterproductive for the class conflict left that so few of us understand what is depicted in this chart. Idk about the rest of you, but when my time posts a bunch of big W’s I personally like to make some noise and shout about it.

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Berg returned to his more humdrum spy missions of kidnapping Italian missile scientists and preparing Slavic-American volunteers to parachute into the partisan resistance in Yugoslavia. Before the war he had introduced baseball to Japan.

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After the great war on terror, us lefties need to wrap minds around an admin that -defied the jingo press to end the endless afghanistan war -quietly basically ended the drone bombings -is not intervening in other peoples wars, but is giving supplies to the invaded resistance

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2 years

Literally any lefty out of work & looking for something to do should put in job apps at starbucks tomorrow

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2 years

It’s not left-wing or socialist to disbelieve that housing being scarce makes it more expensive. It’s substituting fantasy for material reality. The socialist project has always been about the material reality of the distribution of wealth & necessities.

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3 years

My kid has a youtube channel. Hit 30 subscribers, he was so pumped he wants to make merch celebrating the 30 subs milestone. But someone unfollowed so he’s back to 29! Dude- the fuck?! Who unfollows an 8 year old. Whoever you are, don’t cross my path.

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2 years

Some of the left NIMBYism seems to start from a point of suspicion towards any deregulation. Which I get, but like… regulations are not inherently good! Segregation en toto was regulation! A rule that no renters are allowed in a fancy neighborhood is regulation!

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5 years

REAGANS CORPSE REAGANS CORPSE ROTTING IN THE GROUND FIRES COMING PIG BULLDOZERS FASCIST BONES BARBECUED HOW D’YA LIKE THAT, ALEXANDER HAIG

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2 years

@WaltWeberJr @niralshah No, thats another guy, I knew him

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1 year

In his later years Berg mooched off his friends. At one point he was going to write his memoir, but the ghost-writer assigned to work with him thought he was Moe Howard of the 3 Stooges, offending Berg who then quit the project.

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@helloryry Oh man I remember this ep that was supposed to be about how hard fat ppl have it. Tyra got put in a fat suit and went on a date on hidden camera. Thing was, Tyra in a moderate fat suit is... still pretty hot, and watching the date on camera, you could see the guy was into her.

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2 years

In this thread the guy is like "who are all these fucking people", ie how can we have simultaneous mass gentrification in every cities I like? Well, that's the educated middle class. And more of them want to live in cities now. So unless a lot more housing is built, we're fucked

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1 year

Six years ago today. Massively contingent moment in our recent history. The psychos really came this 🤏 close to destroying Medicaid and many tens of millions of lives.

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7 years

MCCAIN VOTES NO TO GASPS IN SENATE CHAMBER, DOOMING REPEAL BILL

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

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2 years

My own feeling is that the educated middle class committing to the city is GREAT. Lower carbon footprint, more tax base for urban social democracy, cities seem to move people left. Socioeconomic diversity is a lot better than socioeconomic segregation by municipal unit.

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2 years

Leftists being proud about being demonstrably factually wrong about their sweeping claims is actually bad for the left. Material reality is a thing!

daniel 🌹 🐌

@escargotpro_

2 years

As a person who saw virtually all of NYC upzoned in the Bloomberg era and it have no discernable positive impact on rents - negative if anything - I feel no temptation to even engage with YIMBYs and their elaborate mind palaces

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3 years

If 1000 workers at a workplace vote for a union despite a boss fight like that, then there is a union at that workplace. It's just gonna take more years.

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2 years

We'll never again have the world where in 1999 you move to Portland or West Philly or Greenpoint or Los Feliz and it's grimy but culturally vibrant and cheap despite the fact that it's the exact place on earth you want to be. The dream of the 90s is dead (especially in PDX)

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2 years

But like, housing is scarce because college educated people en masse are now competing with not college educated people for not enough urban housing. If we had a food shortage you'd want as much food as possible getting produced. Same for housing.

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5 months

Oh my god people just build the fucking nuke plants already what the fuck is wrong with everyone

David Roberts

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5 months

This is ... hilarious? Depressing? Both? A massive study -- almost 60K participants in 63 countries -- tested the efficacy of a bunch of interventions meant to change behavior in climate-positive ways. What works to change behavior? Pretty much nothing!

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2 years

Another dream that could exist is urban social democracy: enough housing & transit for anyone to come to, live in, thrive, vote for socialist city council & not burn much carbon. Many of the buildings will look new, yes. Maybe our kids will find them retro & grimy one day

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3 years

If you know a lot of lower-income parents, today you can enjoy the greatest feeling possible by just casually thinking through all the people you know whose lives are going to get so much better because of what progressive politics got done yesterday.

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1 year

ODD LOTS GUEST: About headship rates, in our view the demographics would warrant 1.2, 1.3 million household formations per annum. For the past 5 years per year you've had... *1.8* STUNNED PAUSE JOE: Wow TRACY: Wow ME (DEFINITELY KNOWS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT) Wow

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3 years

There’s an under-discussed problem right now where the left is dominant in urban politics but is doing a really bad job at housing & transit, so a bunch of economically thriving cities are getting worse & repelling working class people.

Ross Barkan

@RossBarkan

3 years

What's interesting about the left-liberal love for Kathryn Garcia is that it's totally based on competence and CV, not any kind of interest in policy or ideology. Garcia exists on a spectrum that is, at best, aligned with Eric Adams and Andrew Yang - or even further right.

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3 years

Just insane numbers. Us Biden skeptics are brutally owned. Stuffed in a locker level owned.

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1 year

Being a middle aged socialist who went to highschool in the 90s, spent the aughts in anti-war & AIDS treatment activism, & has since been an organizer in a large union of low wage workers… I am honestly shocked how much positive social progress there’s been

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2 years

Nothing to celebrate here tonight folks. If the KHive can’t be heard at the ballot box they’ll move to extralegal underground action.

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2 years

A future with substantially higher percentage of America living in cities is more sustainable and would give us a fighting chance of overcoming the far-right's dominance of our electoral quirks & educational polarization

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5 years

The scene from Newsroom where they tell the pilot the army just got Bin Laden, but its me tearfully calling my old friends to tell them “we got him, guys. We did it. At long last, it’s done”

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The YIMBY pitch is a hard sell to lefties: "the solution is for us is to replace attractive historic non-fancy structures with boxes that look like they smell like Axe Body Spray. Oh and do some horrible rich guys get rich doing this? Do they ever!"

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@rustbeltjacobin

2 years

tHeRe iS nO hOuSiNg sHoRtAgE wE hAvE aLl tHe hOuSiNg wE nEeD

Fifty Shades of Whey

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2 years

These are lines to view vacant apartments in NYC. We're witnessing the collapse of the American dream in real time.

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2 years

But a ket piece that's missing is housing abundance and transit. I sympathize with the people who look at the typical new construction in your cherished, formerly gritty neighborhood and feel disgust.

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5 years

@ChelseaClinton @IlhanMN Good job getting us here, Chelsea.

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3 years

Dems should put at top of the platform universal CHIP. Free healthcare for all kids. Mega popular, already half done, cheap, one-line explanation, & most importantly would transform the family finances of lower middle & middle class parents in a way that could actually move votes

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2 years

unionization. I have no idea why, but a preference for dense urban life correlates strongly with potential sympathy for the left project. Given this, we want to make it as possible as we can for anyone & everyone to choose the city

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In the early aughts a switch flipped & younger educated people began to strongly prefer cities. They also tended left and had bohemian tastes in food & music & lifestyle. For awhile we heard a lot about 'hipsters' and then suddenly never, bc the group was too big to be remarkable

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2 years

After what’s happened in Nevada compared to New York, the mandate of heaven clearly passes to the DSA to run Democratic state parties

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4 years

@helloryry to not even be dialed into what’s happening and just thinks the ep they are shooting requires her to reveal some pigheaded fat-shaming asshole behavior, so she keeps angrily accising him. Anyway the whole time she’s in this ‘fat suit’ that would put her at like, 20% bodyfat.

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Quite large as fringes go. Horribly dangerous and evil in a dozen similar and new ways. But crazily wound up about thing that don’t really bother the median heroic middle aged mexican american veteran dad

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@metricalfoot Is it true that fewer kids trick or treat these days? I know there are more ‘trunk or treat’ things but from what I can see lots of kids do both, and trick or treating on halloween night itself wasn’t universal in the good old days

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dense area, and a 'drive pack' of people who lived far apart in exurbs. You always wanted the walk pack not the drive pack, bc what you saw over & over in every place is, people who chose to live densely were on average more interested in doing something collective but risky like

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@kktweetshaha They don’t cc us guys with the email they apparently sent all the rest of you about candle basics

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1 year

With all the hunger for SVB content, you’d think someone could call up a few of the Democrats still in office who helped the Republicans deregulate smaller banks so this could happen, and ask them why

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2 years

For decades, most educated people wanted to avoid urban life. Some cosmopolitans chose it on purpose, but it was an against the grain choice. They tended to be culturally influential people who, by choosing the city during a time of urban decline & crisis, got housing bargains

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But there hasn't exactly been any memo that's gone around to today's Bohemians who prefer urban life more than ever. Housing is scarce now, and building abundant housing means building new structures mostly for educated upper income people so it feels 'wrong' to many

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5 years

Me, making this post

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2 years

Always surprised more lefties don’t recognize K12 schools as the unsung welfare state heroes of contemporary america but they are. Our most lefty and unionized large workforce has moved social progress forward among the young along dozens of metrics in a generation.

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2 years

As a result, the housing shortage gets worse & worse. Underemployed Bohemians lose out, but the urban working class loses out most of all, being priced into longer commutes (unless they owned a house, in which case, well they kinda won out)

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4 years

@helloryry So he’s trying to score and is trying to be charming and have a good date, but Tyra keeps freaking out & accusing him of wanting to get out of the date bc she turned out to be hideously fat. And he’s like “.... no? Seriously! Let’s... I want to get to know you” and she appears

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2 years

There is some serious brain stuff happening over on r/elonmusk

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@rustbeltjacobin

4 months

To concede that spiking housing costs is due to undersupply, but then argue that 'allowing more supply' won't alleviate the problem as much as a mega multibillion dollar injection of state money into public housing is blithely, insanely divorced from the politics of planet earth

Michael Friedrich

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The YIMBY free-market agenda can’t solve the housing crisis. But there are solutions that provide the homes we need without ceding power to the profiteers who rigged the system. I wrote for @newrepublic .

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2 years

Previous generations of Bohemians had cheap rent bc housing was abundant bc of the previous generations of urban decline. Some bought fixer uppers then, these aging hipsters have crazy housing wealth now.

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3 years

We settled a really good contract today and let me tell you: folks, a tight labor market— it’s really, really, really good.

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@rustbeltjacobin

3 years

Don’t think intra-left arguments are ever useful but one big exception is that we do need to get all of american democratic socialism to understand that increasing urban housing supply is an unambiguously good and urgent social need

DSA San Francisco

@DSA_SF

3 years

Many of these YIMBRos have never held public power, and their dreamy capitalist idealism of supply-demand curves show that they don’t understand that the root cause of housing scarcity is commodification.

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2 years

Just run hot & loose for as long as this labor market exists. Triple the number of elections, put cards & a manual in the hands of every urban low-wage high-ed person under 40 and have a call center for them, and just file everything that gets to 30%.

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@rustbeltjacobin

5 months

It’s more than this— one of the biggest specific outcomes of a new Trump trifecta will be another, likely successful, run at slashing Medicaid. They’ll do it to take away poor peoples healthcare, but it’ll also destroy the congregate care eldercare the boomers will soon need

James Medlock

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine boomers voting for anti-immigration candidates and then dying alone in poorly staffed nursing homes... forever

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Oppenheimer was a great adaptation of a good book about a pivotal person in the wartime US, and it leaves me hoping if everyone would read Nelson Lichtenstein's unmatchable book about Walter Reuther we would someday get that adapted for the big screen

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If anyone truly doubts this, just ask anyone who fought out a low wage worker union contract campaign in 2010 vs 2023 (Ie a very weak labor market vs a very tight one)

Sam Adler-Bell

@SamAdlerBell

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The QTs on this are gonna kill me. A tight labor market is good for labor. Capitalists know this and fear full employment for this reason; leftists should know it too. (Even if that makes it harder to dunk on Will Stancil in this case)

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@katewillett -middle aged socialist union negotiator who realized one day that the decade of wage gains the union had won for low wage workers were entirely eaten by increased housing costs bc his region built less than a quarter of the housing it needed, bc of greedy stuck up homeowners

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This coincided with the rise of tech as America's urban economic engine. As the migration & preferences of educated people became a mass phenomenon it created some hot urban economies... and totally changed the old housing deal

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It’s interesting looking back at what seemed like burgeoning long term trends then that later collapsed. Church attendance, middle east wars, widespread indifference to widening inequality & eroding wage & healthcare standards

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@rustbeltjacobin

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@SenatorRomney Remember when you mocked the majority of the country for not being rich enough to a crowd of your rich laughing donors and the bartender filmed it on his phone and you got humiliated in a national election

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And in this case, unlike sports fandom, owning and affirming a generational win is actually a crucial part of consolidating and continuing the gains. We have a chance to lock in full employment as the permanent policy quo of one of America’s two political parties.

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It’s hard to see stakes bc the immediate threat of Trump 2 is Medicaid being nuked, whereas the tight labor market probably chugs along for awhile on its own. But nothing decides a policy debate among Ds like a binary won/lost A/B test. They’ll never prioritize workers again.

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The spread of legal phone app gambling is terrible, and I think parents should raise the kids with an expectation of totally unalterably abstaining from it forever, like tobacco & hard drugs. We’re about to have the mother of all taxes on having even slightly poor impulse control

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1. Those hurt by negligent drivers are disproportionately lower income 2. Drivers obscuring their tags are VERY disproportionately drivers w repeated negligent driving records 3. The other group doing this are cops & their families, who don’t believe vehicle laws apply to them

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@mindyisser Your concern about your infant being harmed by second hand smoke is doing Actual Harm, To Me, The Protagonist of Reality, On Twitter. Do Better.

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Mike Davis has passed. He was my favorite writer, and through coincidence and his down to earth nature I got to know him personally. As a human being he was a hundred times what he was as a writer. Everyone dies but I long irrationally believed maybe somehow we’d never lose Mike.

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I used to be on a team of people that went town to town, split up the addresses of all the nurses in a local hospital in groups by location, and go knock on doors to try to get a union drive going. There was usually a 'walk pack' of people who were clustered near each other in a

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@MeganBitchell What DID you eat growing up tho

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YOUR 👏 THIRD 👏 GEN 👏 GENTRIFIER 👏 BRAIN 👏 WORMS 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 SOCIALISM

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@rustbeltjacobin

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Lot of room for a movement of 21st century sewer socialism, but the left has gotten weirdly hung up on allying with homeowners against legalizing apartments (& is semi-uninterested in good policy on transit, pedestrianization, parking, etc).

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2 years

Please talk to nursing home union organizers before having a dumb, reductive, overly romantic position like ‘nursing homes should be legally allowed to exist’ challenge

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@uhshanti

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urbanists please talk to SRO tenant organizers before having a dumb, reductive, and overly romantic opinion on SROs challenge

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

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@hilaryr @amyklobuchar Nothing wins my respect like a boss who makes calls to get former employees new job offers rescinded. Now that’s leadership!

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

@rustbeltjacobin

2 years

Wanted to celebrate Olof Palme’s birthday today with an ‘Olof Palmer’- a mix of ice tea, lemonade & aquavit. But none of the 3 liquor stores I went to sold aquavit. Olof’s toast thwarted by the scarcities of consumer capitalist society. Much to contemplate.

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@rustbeltjacobin

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@nilocobau Sounds like the premise for an incredible novel

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@rustbeltjacobin

2 years

@mattyglesias Yatt Mglesias

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

@rustbeltjacobin

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2016 and this website have put a lot of interesting people in my phone, but I really set Matt Christman apart. There’s nothing else like him, an actual national treasure.

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

@rustbeltjacobin

3 years

The only major problem afflicting California is a severe lack of housing. It’s the reason for the increase in both homelessness and your home value. It benefits older homeowners. How are you people unable to see this, how can we make it simpler.

Caitlin Flanagan

@CaitlinPacific

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I’m not sure who benefits from the collapse of California. It has to be intentional because it’s so thoroughgoing and happening so quickly. But I can’t figure out the true engine and the reward.

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All for good reason. But you get stuck in your ways and its hard to turn the ship around and yesterdays innovators are todays bureaucrats. Basically, I wonder if we should be facilitating lower commitment salting, blanketing cards in urban workplaces, and filing light.

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

@rustbeltjacobin

1 year

Seems like urban America had a pink wave over the past 25 years, downstream from other changes. Violent crime fell; when it did, young educated adults started moving to cities in numbers; agglomeration did its thing and we got some tech / meds & eds breakout economies.

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@rustbeltjacobin

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“I want to give out the big candy bars but ONLY to the homeowner parents kids from right here” is a sentiment so cartoonishly evil & parochial we’d laugh at it as a characterization in an 80s teen movie

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@rustbeltjacobin

2 years

INTRODUCING MYSELF TO A COUPLE DADS AT THE PLAYGROUND: What kind of work we doin to repair trauma this week, fellas? Am I right??

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

@rustbeltjacobin

2 years

Some smart unions a few decades ago adopted the mantra that new organizing & membership growth is the #1 priority, and built various systems to fund & conduct new organizing. What worked got replicated and unions are dug into their existing systems.

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rustbeltjacobin 🌹

@rustbeltjacobin

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@irene_koo Baltimore DSA shall be herewith purchasing a second drinking fountain for the meeting room. This fountain, which we will call the "Solidarity Drinking Fountain", shall be accessible only to the following races

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