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from Sartre's essay, which could easily be a review of MAGA or today's extreme left, with a few minor updates. Replace "anti-semite" with "immigrant" (or not) and nothing much has changed. People who think our discourse has coarsened simply haven't been alive or aware very long.

What were the numbers four years ago? How do you know it's not just a shift of blue votes from election day voting to early voting that exceeds the red shift? How do you go from this very partial evidence to any broader conclusion? Answer: you can't, based just on this.

Tweet of the day!

There is no Democrat who can go on Fox News, make his points, and come out unscathed any better than Mayor Pete: threads.net/@aaron.rupar/p…

Yeah, I needed this ...

For everyone over here who has an interest in education economics and policy, try this starter pack over ... there. bsky.app/starter-pack/d…

I participated on an NSF "Committee of Visitors" earlier this month. I posted about it .... over there. bsky.app/profile/dhfeld…

Just thought I would come over here again to drop this spot on cartoon. ajc.com/resizer/v2/RAA…

I don't post over here any more, but reposting this is hard to resist. Thank you to Peterson Institute for giving me my say on the kleptocratic power grab by Donald Trump. You can find me at the other place, however. David H. Feldman.bsky.social

Had a chat with Breanne Deppisch about Trump's insane gutting of the world trading system. Good reporting on economists' thinking about the consequences. Nice to be quoted along side Justin Wolfers! I don't really come over here much. Mostly over at bsky. foxnews.com/politics/trump…

I offer a different take on Memorial Day than what our unhinged Republican president says. You'll have to go over to Bluesky to see it, however. bsky.app/profile/dhfeld…

The Newsom team is having way too much fun.

Sometimes, AI can be helpful. Many outright lies by the bullshitter in chief. He lies about the Baker-Carter commission and none of the "journalists" sitting with him corrects him. That's because they are NOT journalists. They are ignorant bootlicking shills.