@BenBurgis Is that a full and accurate description of Cuomo's status: "a big-name Democrat"?
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Bruce Stenhouse
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Bruce Stenhouse
@b_stenhouse
Retired lawyer, before that, taught school in New York City in the early 1980's. Concerned about the broken US health system and our too many foreign wars.
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Neither of them had to run against a big-name Democrat who ran as an independent after losing the primary.
Getting more than the *combined* vote total of that guy and the Republican, and doing it without the support of most establishment Democrats, is incredible.
Liam Kerr 🍍@liamkerr
Mamdani got 51% in NYC. Adams got 67% four years earlier. Kamala got 68% the year before. “Big Tent” meaning has changed. Which is fine, that happens. But we prob need a new word or phrase for what we used to mean when we said “Big Tent”.
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@Noahpinion Agree it is a problem. Are Americans worried about it? Does not seem like it. They continue to elect representatives who either cut taxes, or spend more, or, more usually, do both.
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One issue I don't hear people talking about is the national debt. But it's a HUGE problem, and Americans are worried about it!
noahpinion.blog/p/america-is-h…
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@AliceFromQueens Thinking that the way to improve education is to spend more money shows a lack of understanding that pedantic references to Baumol cannot disguise.
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@b_stenhouse You have no idea what I know and don't know.
Whereas I know that you don't understand Baumol's Cost Disease. Your reply made that obvious
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Baumol's cost disease would be fine if everyone understood its inevitability, and stopped blaming boogeymen for the rising cost of labor in an improving economy.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
Baumol's cost disease is so devastating. It drives up the price of major, necessary services (education, childcare, eldercare, healthcare), there's no solution, and it makes people SO mad and discontent. They just require too much human labor atm. No productivity gains in sight.
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@billiceberg @_rotimia And he barely got 50% of the vote in one of, if not the most, liberal places in the US, even though his principal opponent was a disgraced lech.
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I think if you’ve publicly supported abolishing the police/prisons, I’m skeptical of your ability to win a statewide race in a swing state. Also I think it’s frankly both terrible public policy and deeply alienating to all independent voters.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Asked directly if she still supported abolishing police, Francesca Hong said in a statement: “While I envision a world where public safety is not synonymous with law enforcement, I recognize that this paradigm shift is a very long term vision and my focus is building systems of care for now and for our future.” #WisconsinGovernor
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@AliceFromQueens Perhaps, or maybe you should read more about the dysfunctional New York City Department of Education and the billions it spends for a less than mediocre product.
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@ZaidJilani You are looking for paradigm shifts in all the wrong places.
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Why do so many American leftists talk like they’re trying to win a scrabble game — the longer and more indecipherable the language, the better?
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Asked directly if she still supported abolishing police, Francesca Hong said in a statement: “While I envision a world where public safety is not synonymous with law enforcement, I recognize that this paradigm shift is a very long term vision and my focus is building systems of care for now and for our future.” #WisconsinGovernor
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@AliceFromQueens Yes, as society spends more on hiring and paying education administrators, we get better educated children. Nearly a one-to-one correlation.
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@jasonfurman When doing these sort of calculations, is it normal to subtract the benefits from the tax burden? So subtract the cost of maintaining libraries from the local property taxes, since the libraries are a benefit that the taxes finance?
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And BTW, even if you had a rationale for including Social Security payroll taxes but ignoring the benefits they finance, it's still quite progressive.
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I'll see you and raise you Social Security benefits, health benefits, nutrition benefits and more.
Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers
If you only count the progressive taxes the U.S. levies, then the U.S. system is quite progressive. But if you also count regressive taxes (payroll taxes, sales taxes, etc), it's not very progressive.
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@MattBruenig Grocery stores in New York City don't compete with each other?
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Key thing to emerge from the Mamdani city-owned grocery store coverage is just how much small business despises competition and is organized against it nytimes.com/2026/05/18/nyr…
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Ever wonder whether the real question is: what is wrong with the Democratic Party that it cannot mount an alternative vision that will generate enthusiasm?
Ellen Barkin@EllenBarkin
If trump’s popularity is in the toilet, if his own party is finally fed up with his overt criminality, if he tells us he does not give one fuck about how his constituency feels or eats, or lives, how are they still winning elections? why?
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@katewillett Particularly so given the dangerous conditions that LIRR employees endure. The % of LIRR workers who get disability benefits is incredibly high.
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Definitely disturbing to see one the past couple days that the yimby urbanists have brought their anti union sentiments to DSA.
Still a very minority tendency, but 3 years ago pre yimby entryism, you’d never see someone against unions in a DSA chat.
Spectra@spectraimsim
LIRR strike lasted a whopping 3 days, just enough time for hoards of tech guys and ""urbanists"" to scream bloody murder about how union members are all mendacious blood suckers. Talk about showing your whole ass
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@ScottGreenfield Deal will arrive on the same day Trump releases his plan for the US health system.
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If, when she was speaker, Pelosi could not enforce a safe environment for young women working as Congressional staffers, how are we supposed to think she can fix healthcare? nytimes.com/2026/05/16/us/…
Nancy Pelosi@TeamPelosi
Healthcare is everything to patients and their loved ones. But Trump is slashing care — which is why millions of Americans oppose how he’s handling the economy & the affordability crisis. Democrats will keep mobilizing to save our healthcare and WIN THE HOUSE! #MondayMotivation
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@WaywardRabbler Here is the quote:
"the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
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@WaywardRabbler Read Middlemarch. Terrence Malick, in A Hidden Life, ends that solemn film with a quotation from Middlemarch. A quiet beautifully written novel.
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you know in the abstract it would seem that just polling like 140 people would have the obvious impact of putting the lowest common denominators high on the list
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A long and disturbing article on what awaits young women who go to Capitol Hill as Congressional staffers. A complete failure by Congressional leadership. In a heroic effort of omission, the reporters, in an article that takes 15 minutes to play, do not mention Nancy Pelosi once. @anniekarni nytimes.com/2026/05/16/us/…
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@jwilcox79 Must have been a brave guy to threaten a man who had a gun.
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@Natural_Fallacy @dilanesper I think you are right. I asked Chatgpt, and it agreed with you,
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@b_stenhouse @dilanesper Eh. I can see why that would sound plausible, but probably not.
You would need to annualize Vietnam deaths against troop strength, then compare that to annualized motor vehicle death rates for young men. The latter would not be close to surpassing the former.
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I had acquaintences in both high school and college who were killed in drunk driving accidents.
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@Samandavery2019 @LeahLibresco At the very least, there is a sense that many problems will fall to others to resolve.
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@LeahLibresco I wouldn't pay any attention to that. The older you get, the less connected you feel to the world around you. At least, that's what the other old people (I'm 70) tell me.
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Unusually explicit connection from the rejection of children to the death drive at the end of this reader roundup in the NYT.
Begins with the usual “Who would want to bring children into a world…” and ends, well…
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