is “cringe” cringe now?
the Republicans are so concerned about election integrity, except where it’s actually threatened.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/trump-loomer-haugh-cyberattacks-elections.html
ht @Noupside @thinkyparts.bsky.social
look, now that we’ve shaken off the woke and we’re all smoking again, we can just replace all those “lattes” and “cappuccinos” with American-burnt ash dissolved in American-boiled water.
the new Americano.
@admitsWrongIfProven @VeroniqueB99 we’re mutuals! we’ve not chatted directly, but i love her posts.
@admitsWrongIfProven it’s the name given the 30 years from roughly 1945 to 1975 when WWII shattered Western European countries built strong, prosperous social democracies. a miraculous, joyful rise from the ashes, an era of progress rather than stagnation or regression.
@Harald_Korneliussen “bots or people who've turned themselves into bots” is a very perceptive turn of phrase.
what the fuck is wrong with this world? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html
promises made. promises kept.
Paul Noth New Yorker cartoon showing a political billboard with a wolf as candidate saying “I am going to eat you” while sheep mill about. The caption is “He tells it like it is.”
On the AMLO/Sheinbaum “Fourth Transformation” of Mexico https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-fourth-transformation/
maybe the plan is to have fascism collapse itself into a smoking crater without a single shot fired and then enjoy the new trente glorieuses.
does anybody else find a prison no one is ever released from just prima facie suss?
no release, no contact with family, no evidence any given detainee is still alive. no one to describe what goes on.
@dvgmacdonald @bun not sure i count, and not sure i know, but i've used convenient sectoral series on FRED, derived from the same BLS data you point to. you can look up CPI for rent of primary residence, shelter (more broadly i guess?), new vehicles, food at home, food away from home, gasoline, medical care, electricity, apparel, airline fares, probably more.
FRED is convenient, a delight to use: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
@dvgmacdonald @bun PPI, one step remove from consumer prices, what producers pay for their inputs, offers series disaggregrated by industry.
@dvgmacdonald @bun pricestats, which is a commercialization of MIT's Billion Prices Project, is an independent collector of pricing data, which can serve as a check on government series. They too offer sectoral disaggregations, Apparel, Food & Beverages, Furnishing & Household Equipment, Health & Beauty, Energy & Transportation, and Recreation & Electronics. But I suspect access is expensive. https://www.pricestats.com/inflation-series
@dvgmacdonald @bun I don't know how fine grained BLS data would let you go, if you really want to trace the price evolution of a single, reasonably constant, product.
@astonc Make America Great Again!
if they want to onshore manufacturing and remain remotely cost-competitive, you'd think they'd be promoting their new guest worker programs rather than turning the US into an arbitrary detention and perhaps permanent rendition hellhole for our most inexpensive labor pool.
@karlbode.com writes the best precis of the great broadband / bureaucracy / abundance kerfuffle.
(note! i misattributed this excellent piece to @mmasnick earlier. sorry to you both!)
instead of taking sides and tossing molatovs between left and liberal, be a left liberal.
if you render a place completely uninhabitable, population transfer becomes as sad necessity rather than a crime against humanity.
what happens when the quasi-world-government just glitches out and goes haywire?