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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

What "The Wage Standard," a new book by @arindube.bsky.social, does best is highlight the great discretion we have to increase wages and the wisdom of bold steps to reduce inequality, reviewer @cobblog.bsky.social writes.

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The Affordability Crisis Is a Wage Crisis

A new book reframes the affordability debate: the problem isn’t just prices alone, but persistently low wages.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/01/2026

We don’t know how many people have been killed or injured by ICE — and the government doesn’t have to tell us. While ICE’s scope and power expand, accountability is nowhere to be seen. From Jacob Fuller: trib.al/HhqyFNi

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We Don’t Know How Many People Have Been Harmed by ICE - The American Prospect

How decades of inaction on police reform paved the road for ICE’s lack of transparency

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

As Jacob Fuller notes, there is no compulsory database for law enforcement use-of-force incidents, and we mainly rely on news reporting for any comprehensive account. For 30 years Congress has failed to require use-of-force statistics, & the only thing that exists is voluntary.

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We Don’t Know How Many People Have Been Harmed by ICE - The American Prospect

How decades of inaction on police reform paved the road for ICE’s lack of transparency

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It’s insane because I don’t want to diminish the suffering of others but twice as many people were killed by cows last year (22) than on the MTA (11) out of 1.5 billion individual rides

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

As someone who actively works in politics and has done so for a minute, I think the public generally lacks the knowledge that most politicians and especially guys like Gavin are total morons. Like in regard to national politics or identifying ideological trends they are sub your average voter

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Finally finished my piece for Substack. It's an essay on the rise in addiction and homelessness related crackdowns, and how an attempt to better understand these issues may have had unintended consequences for how we approach treating it. Check it out!

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The War on Visible Poverty, and Addiction as Metaphor

Contemporary crackdowns on America's poorest may be informed by our better understanding of addiction- but that may be making them worse.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨PA POLITICAL PEOPLE🚨 If you worked on or adjacent to the 2024 Democratic campaign, please reach out to us! We’re digging into voter shifts, campaign strategy, and factors that led to the loss. If you worked on the election in the state, we want to hear from you.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I don’t want to hear shit about my milk consumption from ppl who’s bones are 50% these

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Actually this constitutes as winning

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Did you have this on you or did you make it?? It’s such a specific thing

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Anyone who has ever been described as a “wonk” needs to be launched into space. For people who self-describe themselves as that we cannot risk failure, and need to ship them immediately to the closest volcano. It’s the only way

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

RIP Bernie Madoff, you would’ve loved the criminal press tour

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

There’s remarkably little data on the efficacy of political outreach texts, and no evidence of them discouraging voters. Regarding fundraising texts, they are a pretty ok source of revenue on the aggregate, and don’t seem to impact voter opinions. Most ppl are not that fickle on the issues

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Inverse world where the Democratic Party is paralyzed by socialists who keep winning all the time and force all the centrist dems in line

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Dems: We need the person who responds to the address to represent the new Democratic Party. Sen Slotkin: before we start, I just want you all to know I probably knew about Abu Ghraib

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Shout out Al Green for literally standing up to this

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Yum! brands the owner of Taco Bell was one of the only stocks that rallied today based on expectations of increased sales revenue for this quarter. Screw everything else that happened in the market today, this is the biggest recession indicator.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

-risk getting name dropped by Trump/Musk to an audience of extremely aggressive people who literally tried to kill them all at once 4 years ago at the direction of Trump who has since freed those people. At risk of humanizing these clowns, in some sense they are literally being held at gunpoint.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

For people wondering why every Republican is acting like they live in the deepest red district in Kentucky rn- worth noting is that the GOP consensus machine is stronger than its maybe ever been. Republicans face an immediate primary challenger bankrolled by Musk but also-

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Like a lot. Every day. Famously. Do you read the Times?

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Uh they did. Like every day. For months.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

And his win. Criticism of Kamala Harris and the campaign (which by the way i participated in and can attest to it being a shitshow) is not an endorsement of Trump, nor is pointing out that Biden who was obviously unwell and not fit to serve 4 more years.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’m sorry this is silly, the Times editorial team put a full page out saying Trump is a threat to democracy, and routinely occupied the editorial page on the run up to the election with articles on how dangerous he was to democracy. It is a ridiculous to suggest that the times is responsible for him

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I love going on Reels cause half the time it’s just a video of someone getting murdered followed by a Peter Griffin account explaining Scientology. Im not sure how they’re gonna include that in the upcoming The Social Network sequel but it’s gotta be somewhere.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Now I know everyone is very scared about everything going on right now, but I’ve been speaking to a group of democratic consultants and they’ve assured me that if we simply toss a few hundred trans people and student protesters into a volcano, we might have a chance at squeaking out the midterms

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

and it’s not even that complicated of a pattern!!!

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Rereading Sontag for a piece I’m writing, and came across this incredible section. Denying access to ideas is as much about group/identity formation as it is an attempt to punish others. A lot of parallels here in the harm reduction/food assistance space.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Least favorite journalistic tic is when we get 100 articles saying, "Trump is threatening to break things- but some Democrats think some things should be broken sometimes." Like yeah, ideology exists.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Twitter beef with Lew Blum towing rn. Might be fucked.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

On the note of talking about the Philly music scene, been compiling some of my favorite flyers from past events. Here are some from the last few months

Assorted photos of flyers for events arranged in a grid

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Philly DIY/Underground music is criminally undercovered. Arrest the culture writers.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

finally! Someone talking about the rise of casual sadism

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It's a real catastrophe for the Western left that so many people let themselves be convinced the Maidan was a CIA ruse. people were melting police tanks to the street with Molotov catapults built into their Ice Fortress. you call yourself an anarchist and don't find that hot as fuck?

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Very much not looking forward to the right wing Lysenko

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Wrote this piece on social media and political discussion last year for the Inquirer and never imagined that platforms like Bluesky would be the solution. Pretty happy about it.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

For all the (possibly) good Twitter did, the total brain poison that it was for writers and journalists was undeniably awful. Talking with a few writer friends of mine who are still on it it’s amazing to see how they guage ideas based on how the X-right will react to it

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

the pattern isn't even that complicated, Dan Flashes has shirts with WAY more complicated patterns

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Great video! I would recommend the Internet of Us, by Micheal Patrick Lynch, as a great next step for people who are interested in learning more about the internet and epistemology, and how we know what we know and engage with information

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I feel like this is based on a broader misconception of what C-suite business ppl actually do. Historically a lot of the current executive crop come from or were mentored by Jack-Welsch era 80s types who believed in broad cuts to boost stock prices at the expense of actual business

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

for the record, the last thing i said i dont believe. i just said it to say it

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

style guides telling people how to act with class like rich people do. but the joke is that its entirely based on misunderstanding that rich people doing whatever they want, it's just that they aren't really ambitious

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

yeah but he got really popular off his mainstream stuff let's not pretend that folk are vibing with TPAB. his biggest songs rn are him calling drake a pedophile, and MUSTAAAAARD

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

literally no one knows what's going on. everyone is on twitter, and learns everything from twitter. Billion dollar campaign, not a single person with a grad degree.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

like I have had full conversations with high up officials in the Harris campaign where they seriously were asking aloud whether or not young people are influenced by social media campaigns. and when I told them there's research on this, they looked at me like I shot their dog.

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Jacob Fuller @cobblog.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

my primary concern with a lot of political discourse is that people have this idea that commentators, campaign officials, and even political staffers have any knowledge of political science, philosophy, or any real background at all. Literally none of them do. No one knows anything.

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