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Interesting that the incoming administration is creating deepfake videos of their own president-elect giving policy announcements. Trump is not this articulate any more. Watch whether the new president makes any live TV appearances or interviews on non-captive (Fox) networks.

The artist actually made 40 different versions of this drawing but only this one caught on

Good, now do a public hospital

Shall we do California too?

📄 New Working Paper! Full paper: tinyurl.com/5697hzyn Household inflation expectations are key to modern macroeconomics and policymaking, yet often elicited without marginal incentives, relying instead on flat participation fees. What happens if we incentivize them? A lot:

Now do President Trump

A £15,000 tax on petrol cars seems like a pretty good government-backed incentive to me!

Part of my PhD education was in history of childhood (Anglo-American). For hundreds of years, parents were devastated when their infants and kiddos died of diphtheria, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, mumps. Or when babies were born with horrible, untreatable disabilities +

Brendan shows (or pretends) a lack of media understanding here. There was no lack of outrage over the grooming scandal. What you’re noticing is that nobody was making jokes on Twitter about it. You’ll see a lot more funny tweets about Greg because it’s easy to make fun of him.

Kind of a niche service, Monzo 🏦, but I appreciate it. They do have a habit of going missing and I’m sure it feels awkward to ask your old bosses to dig them out of the stationery cupboard

My wife was watching the city council meeting on whether to fine homeless people for sleeping in parks and a lady said, "We've gotten so caught up in helping the less fortunate that we've forgotten to help the people who _are_ fortunate," and I can't stop thinking about it.

Every smoker has a cope about “tobacco quality” just to make clear that it’s not really their fault

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A significant intervention by Andrew Norfolk, whose reporting on grooming from Jan 2011 led to the Jay inquiry in Rotherham + national attention to local grooming gang phenomenon. Captures something overlooked: national media reporting comes *after* prosecutions, 2009-10

It really is the case that Elon Musk knows absolutely fuck all about the issue of grooming, having apparently discovered it in the last fortnight Anybody giving credence to Musk's mad personal vendetta against Starmer is undermining actual public service on this terrible issue

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