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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
more evidence that this is entirely about regulatory capture
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This one seems to tell a slightly different story though, no?
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I feel like this has gotta be Troy Jackson's best poll of the cycle right? Maybe all those susan collins is a corrupt criminal stories are sinking in.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine how mad Jonathan Greenblatt got when he saw this lol
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think entrusting the state of Tennessee to carry on any weighty task is risky business. These people are doing good just to dress themselves in the morning and sometimes even that is hit or miss!
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is insane www.thetrafalgargroup.org/wp-content/u...
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
yup. Its an ugly picture with astonishingly poor returns for what we are spending.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Or we could pay for it with 75% of everyones premiums, deductibles and employer contributions and give everyone a pay raise. The inconvenient truth for centrists is that aggregate national health spending already exceeds what is needed for single payer health insurance.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Glad to see the so-called “liberal” zionists on this website go mask off. They are really just anti-muslim bigots.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Miriam, have you considered that you are delusional about Israel? jewishcurrents.org/support-for-...
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
thats really not how I read their legal analysis on this particular incident in the report, but maybe I'm missing something.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
True but the boom-bust cycle is also very well attested in US economic history, with the great moderation era being the only real exception. If we're entering a period of higher growth, there could be greater volatility in the macroeconomy.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What if I told you you could defuse this entire issue with one easy trick
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This seems like an important point re: the data center debate, given that they are projected to contribute nearly 10% of all US emissions by 2030.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Fixed the national debt while providing a public option, paid family leave, universal child care and universal pre-k. People claiming that we can’t reduce the debt without raising middle class taxes or cutting benefits programs are lying to you :) www.crfb.org/debtfixer
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yeah you’ll have to raise payroll taxes but workers will still see gains in take home pay and family budgets.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No it won’t
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Memo to pundits: throw your conventional wisdom about politics in the dumpster and then set the dumpster on fire
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
if you aren't for medicare for all, then you aren't serious about affordability. Your affordability agenda is a scam!
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just because congress passed a budget doesn’t mean the money was spent well. Contractors commit fraud, pentagon bureaucrats authorize wasteful or duplicative spends, projects get delayed, costs get overrun. People ignore congress and break the law lol
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Luckily for propublica, the government accountability office has already done a lot of the work for them! They sent a friendly reminder to Pete about the Pentagon’s inability to pass an audit just a few weeks ago. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
DOD doesn’t even have a complete list of all the accounting software they use to generate their financial statements! files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-...
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Screenshot of a post by Theodore Schleifer discussing campaign ad spending based on AdImpact data, highlighting that Alex Vindman spent $2.2 million (36 times more) and lost, while winner Angie Nixon spent $60,000 with zero spent on broadcast or cable.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who needs carriers bring back the big guns!
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
universally applicable rn
Black-and-white photograph of President Harry S. Truman smiling broadly while holding up an incorrect front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune featuring the bold headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN."
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Literally on his website! You’re also welcome to find my many, many posts about how Elon Musk has committed crimes against humanity and should be sent to the Hague!
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
First Wayne county dump just dropped
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Still in the denial stage of grief I see
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
much of the critique of SCOTUS in that opinion was written using AI apparently 😬
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
She is inevitable
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The working class
Farm machinery in a wheat field
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The white house:
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Among the pollutants emitted by data centers that rely on gas turbines are: -NO4, linked to higher asthma rates and chronic bronchitis -PM2.5, linked to premature death, heart attack and stroke. -formaldehyde, linked to cancer with longterm exposure.
A line of mobile natural gas turbines deployed at the xAI Colossus data center site, shown behind a fence next to an overgrown grassy field. Large curved exhaust vents line the top of the units, with visible heat distortion blurring the background trees and cloudy sky above them.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Will, there is a famous book you should read. It is called “How the Other Half Lives.” Or perhaps you could look into the UNHRC’s report on extreme poverty in the us. Its from 2017, but still quite illuminating and relevant imo. digitallibrary.un.org/record/16295...
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wealth inequality in prior decades doesn’t even come close to the divergence we’ve experienced since 2020, but even so, thats not quite my argument. The argument is that the positive macro stats are distorted by extreme wealth inequality and that is what is creating the sentiment divergence.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I think the x-axis is too narrow to show the longer run trends and wealth cohorts not granular enough to show whats really going on.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Its inequality, Will. The Macro data seems fine because it is an illusion created by the concentration of wealth among the already ultra wealthy, while everyone else has been largely stagnant.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Crazy what happens to the trends when you zoom out, not thar anything about the wealth distribution since 1990 is acceptable.
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The economy is doing fine!
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Why is everyone so negative all the time????
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madkingupdates.bsky.social @madkingupdates.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I don’t understand why you think that. Just because some rich kids are getting into homes with help from their parents doesn’t mean young people are doing well. The point of the article is that examining economics by generational labels rather than class makes no sense.
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