Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Haha. Nice. You guys are contemptuous assholes, but at least you’re consistent. 100
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If you can't take skepticism from people inclined to agree with you even if they don't share all of your priors, what the fuck are we even doing here? 100
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is a mid-sized American city and he's a grown up who understands that. "We should tax people who can afford it." is not economic policy from someone who has a degree in economics. That is a distributive objective. 200
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026And Counselor Green responding in the affirmative. And yes, look--his economic training is heterodox. He should, as all heterodox thinkers should, expect a higher degree of pushback and be required to clear a higher hurdle than classic theorists. And this isn't an experiment. 100
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm not moving the goalposts, and I don't expect him to answer my questions. I'm responding to you. You said you've seen him give clean economics models for his proposals. I'm saying great. Where are they? And this thread begins with one Counselor saying: Don't argue economics with Prof. Green. 200
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Really? Counselor Green has a model? Assumed cost of capital? Acquisition costs? Sensitivity to interest rates? AMI variance? Etc.? I like credentialing, and I think it's important, but I don't wave my credentials from MIT around without a model. Why are you guys so sensitive to pushback? 110
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Your dissertation was an interesting read, though. Credit where due. 6/6 000
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Making claims that cut to the heart of traditional economic theories about what an economy is in the first place without establishing a model for how Portland, not anywhere else, can apply them successfully is fun for the grad student lounge, but it's less fun for those of us stuck in your maze. 5/6 100
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026while creating supply, allocation and investment distortions elsewhere. Or your social housing proposals. Thanks for that tax bill, btw. You leave on the table a pile of empirical assumptions that have not been addressed and that you can't cover with just "I am super smart, so piss off." 4/6 100
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026But the claim is tempting. For example, your claim that Portland needs rent control. I happen to agree with that to an extent, but saying "We need rent control, and don't worry about it, I'm a PhD in economics" leaves to rot the reality that rent control bestows benefits on existing renters, 3/6 200
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The fact of the matter is that you have an academic career steeped in heterodox economic theory and a person could be tempted to think that you're treating Portland and its citizens as your own personal laboratory for testing MMT in the wild. I'm not saying you're doing that. 2/6 200
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Well, having a PhD is a wonderful achievement, but questions related to pressure-testing your claims around proposed municipal policy cannot be answered with "I have a PhD, so shut up." I don't think Fred Lee would approve of such a sneering response to your constituents. Just a guess. 1/6 300
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Indeed. Americans are many things, and stupid is one of them, if we're talking in the aggregate. 001
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 16/07/2026She's hitting on a point here that I think is maybe not the MOST important thing, but it's important as a rebuttal to the industry's claims that "socialized medicine" will "hamper innovation." For companies the size of Astra, it is typical to spend less than 10% of their operating budget on R&D. 000
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Anyone watch Dimension 20? This is straight from their most recent season. Cue the Banksy. #iykyk 000
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Nice work, NYTimes. "Created a minefield" is a hell of a way to say "takes bribes" or "commits felonies with impunity." 010
Reposted by HamletOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026i love to tell people about when i first moved to LA in 1999 and was immediately told i HAD TO get a thomas guide. it was a big old book with every highway in southern california, and you could look up addresses and figure out how to get there. you sound like an old timey prospector talking about it 1418011
Reposted by HamletAtlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with 360159413254
Reposted by HamletJesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Puppy was scared of the fireworks and went to his deaf dad for comfort. Seems like the dog could understand ASL. 🥰 249102331221
Reposted by HamletBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man. 415192774459
Reposted by HamletSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division. 15469051502
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Just another fully insane, corrupt decision from this shitheel court. 000
Reposted by HamletAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2026Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something." 14261551283
Reposted by HamletChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/06/2026He's lying. You know why we know? WE HAVE THE AGREEMENT HE SIGNED!!!! Here's the operative language: "The U.S. undertakes, together with regional partners, a comprehensive plan...for the rehabilitation and economic development of Iran...of at least $300 billion." 1256162186411
Reposted by HamletKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026EXACTLY. I’ve said this a million times but I and the rest of the Broadview 6 are still picking up the pieces of our lives emotionally and financially. This is incredibly stressful in every way possible, and there is no guarantee for a just outcome. 172677467
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I just like that they group me in with the young people. This isn't too bad. The quiz is here: www.pewresearch.org/politics/qui... And the WaPo article (which I read from behind the archive wall) is here: washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 000
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 28/05/2026White people, I'm talking to you now. Don't just send this along or retweet it, or whatever. Sit down and talk with your people on the fence (I'd not bother with actual MAGAs) and ask them to watch this clip WITH YOU. Minds are swayed one at a time through direct contact. YOU have work to do. 2/2 010
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 28/05/2026People who were going to vote for Talarico anyway will watch this and feel validated in their votes. People who were never going to vote for a Democrat under any circumstances will never see this video and they'll believe whatever they're told. 1/2 100
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Obviously we play to the final whistle and don't let a single voter go uncanvassed, but he's right: these people are going to vote for identity first, and they identify with being Republicans. There will be a poll in October that shows Talarico up by 3, and that will push Paxton over. 000
Reposted by Hamletderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century 8289811499
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I saw him live over 25 years ago. He was incredible. 010
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 21/05/2026We didn't have air conditioning when this movie launched, so my mom would take me to matinees in the middle of the week. I'd eat popcorn and watch Empire, and she'd take a mid-afternoon nap in the cool theatre. She was so exhausted, the "pew pew" sounds didn't bother her. 000
Reposted by Hamlet🐈Rex Parker🐈⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I cannot overstate how big a role illiteracy plays in Everything Wrong With The World Today. People who don’t read become people who can’t read become people who hate reading (and readers). 01279253
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I... am actually a little surprised at this. A little. But it really does cement the fact that the Republican Party, if they ever had any principles at all, currently have none. They behave essentially like cancer, destroying whatever they get their hands on. The GOP needs to be destroyed. 000
Reposted by Hamletjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa... 207110453977
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Crotchety old guy here. Thanksgiving used to be a Lions game and a Cowboys game, and that's it. And sometimes they'd play each other, and then you'd get some AFC game no one gave a shit about. Thanksgiving Eve game. Black Friday game. Nonsense. A load of hooey. (Yes, I'll watch, shut up.) 010
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Everything this person says is true. And. It is the responsibility of the revolutionary to guide people to this understanding. Revolution that doesn’t center the plight and hope of the people is doomed and only seeds more fascism. 010
Reposted by Hamletjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2026america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today. 8468801461
Reposted by HamletSuleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Saw someone “proving” they’re Gen X by name-checking some old cooking show on Food Network. Excuse me, but there was no Food Network. We were watching Yan Can Cook and Graham Kerr getting shitfaced on cooking sherry on PBS. 183258196
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 06/05/2026No shit. She was running 3rd almost the entire campaign. 000
Reposted by Hamletjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...propublica.orgBabies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at BirthA lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement. 470160056038
Reposted by HamletSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer. 157192464123
Reposted by HamletJohn Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view. 306125534599
Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This kid is a rapist? Least surprising thing I've heard today, and that includes SCOTUS' ruling on the VRA. 000
