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Michigan Republicans, funded by Musk and other billionaires, have no answers to the struggles facing working families.
Instead they are resorting to Islamophobia and are running the most racist campaign in recent history.
Together, let's defeat bigotry and elect Abdul El-Sayed.
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Talked to @CurtisSliwa today at the bodega he said, “I used to debate who was better Trotsky or Stalin, I’m a Trotsky guy”
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The thing is. And this was a major 🔑 for me several years ago, in thinking about the podcast, is that communists are obsessed with capitalism. Some of them are so obsessed that they might even secretly love it. Whereas capitalists rarely spend any time thinking about it.
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NEW ODD LOTS:
Jacobin founder @sunraysunray tells me and @tracyalloway that after the socialists take over, we don’t have to worry. Markets will still have a major role to play in the economy open.spotify.com/episode/1cv…
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A comment from Mainstream's Interim Council and SERA on the approval of the Jackdaw Gas Field 👇
ALT On the decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field We want a future we can actually plan for: secure, well-paid jobs, thriving communities and a liveable climate. The Government must show communities that these are not competing ambitions. They are the foundations of a prosperous country, and delivering them requires a government prepared to build. Scientists have warned time and time again: that we already have enough fossil fuel projects planned globally to meet our energy needs - but burning it all would blow us past 'safe' climate limits of 1.5C. The transition is an absolute certainty if we want a liveable future. But successive UK governments have prioritised propping up the dying oil and gas industry. In the last decade, jobs supported by the industry in the UK have halved – a loss of nearly 450 jobs a week over ten years. The approval of Jackdaw must not be followed by approval of Rosebank. The UK’s growing green economy is booming, already worth over £100bn per year, and
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Guy who votes straight democrat in the midterms because the Trump administration cancels an Umamusume concert:
During preparation for the 7th EVENT: THE STAGE in LOS ANGELES concerts planned for Oct 22–23, 2026, we received notice that the visas for entry into the US had yet to be approved.
In response, we are coordinating with all parties concerned to explore every possible option to get the visas approved and make the concerts happen.
Our final decision on whether or not it will be possible to hold the concerts will be announced by 10:00 p.m., Oct 19 (PT), so we ask for your patience until then.
To all the Trainers who have been eagerly looking forward to the show, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and concern this causes, and for announcing this so close to the event date.
Please check the notice for details.
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It is unambiguously true that the international perception of the UK being particularly broken or in decline compared to the rest of Europe is almost exclusively down to countries like France or Germany cunningly disguising their insanity by writing the news in French or German
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I asked an Austrian economist to estimate a parameter and he accused me of central planning.
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The algorithm now shows me a lot of the German economists' pearl clutching at @IsabellaMWeber price controls and dear God, how I've underestimated the dark powers of ordoliberalism.
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What a "free market" does is not to rationally coordinate resources through the price mechanism. What it does is mediate decisions about what social resources ought to be used for through rituals of the capital market so that political order can avoid being responsible for them
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Trust in other people in the UK is slightly higher than it was 25 years ago. And there's little convincing evidence of decline since the 1990s.
I'm surprised by that and it's a useful counterpoint to my broad impression that the country has deteriorated socially.
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Switzerland has run current account (trade) surpluses for decades. France went into deficit in the 2000s, roughly when the lines diverge. A fiscal surplus works when the foreign sector supplies net flows. When the fgn sector is net saving instead, the govt deficit mirrors that.
🇫🇷🇨🇭 France is now widely described as the sick man of Europe, yet Switzerland is rarely mentioned as a compelling counterfactual. The two countries followed almost identical fiscal paths between 1990 and 2000, with Switzerland also carrying substantial public debt by the standards of the time and facing a rising debt trajectory. In 2001, however, Switzerland enshrined an optimal fiscal rule in its constitution and subsequently implemented it to the letter, with extraordinary results. The question remains the same, why does the economics profession not study the Swiss case more thoroughly?
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British billionaires just sit on piles of land and watch the rent trickle in. Oi, Duke of Westminster, where's the teleporter?
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The prospect of Flintshire People's Voice forming the next UK government seems under-discussed.
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So we couldnt get cheap wind so had to use expensive gas and this is an argument for less wind power and more gas?
