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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1h

I see recipes for sausage and peppers that do not include tomatoes (e.g. a can of fire roasted tomatoes) and I find that very weird.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1h

We can't know without an RCT.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 3h

I also highly recommend this excellent short video by @jamellebouie.net on the current intra-right party spat this ad set off (and the power of narrtives) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_vD...

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The White Man as "Welfare Queen"

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 4h

Recently Sarah Huckabee Sanders did an advertisement featuring the "lazy couch potato video game player welfare receipt" trope (and stepped in it with her racist base). So it's a good time to reup my work on this harmful narrative with my colleague Noa Rosinplotz rooseveltforward.org/2025/09/04/a...

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ABAWDs are Workers, Caregivers, and Neighbors, Not Political Punching Bags - Roosevelt Forward

After spending the summer being heckled by constituents who are angry about the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” GOP lawmakers are being advised by the White House to instead focus on the bill’s im...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 5h

We are barbarians in this country.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

The more desperate he gets, the more ludicrous he sounds.

Donald J. Trump O+
@realDonaldTrump
I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night! The rest of the time is just to make sure it stays that way. President
DONALD J. TRUMP

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 6h

White America has been confronted with the reality that most welfare recipients are in fact white.

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Ric Flair's Iconic WOOOOO! Learn To Love It!

ALT: Ric Flair's Iconic WOOOOO! Learn To Love It!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 7h

"The overall product is a factually accurate portrayal of American politics that misses the big story: The Republican Party is a far-right entity at war with democracy; the Democrats are a normal party in a liberal democracy. "

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12h

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 9h

Trade-offs work both ways. So forgive me if I find your focus on a single direction suspect. Or question the magnitude you present.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 9h

This not to say that there are no trade-offs but it's interesting "raise taxes" gets "millions unemployed" extreme estimates & "make millions of exhausted "disabled" manual workers who we already are trying to create "bridge benefit for wait another 3 years for relief" never gets the same coverage.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 9h

I am beginning to see "tax hikes to shore up social security could cost jobs" stories/commentary popping up. It's not yet a counter narratives. But it means folks are pulling out and dusting off their preferred substitution elasticities again.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10h

This has to be among the saddest spectacles I have seen. Chance this guy spends 20 minutes in a darkened bathroom staring into the mirror and crying every night is roughly 100 percent.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

Trump and Hegseth have killed 230+ people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific with no proof they did anything wrong, no congressional approval, no nothing. Just 2 unhinged fascists ordering our military to commit murder. Vote against all Republicans for the sake of all that is decent.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

irony is dead -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders is on Fox & Friends decrying "manufactured" conservative outrage

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h

This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms

Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12h

"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky

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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax

There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know, I like to think if I were one of the six people who cleared the way for this debacle I might take some time to reflect on it. And maybe even consider changing my position on the constitutionality of capital punishment.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This isn't even a racist trope? What?

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's Tony Stark but from a different universe where Tony Stark is bad. ::waves hands:: "oooooooohh"

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is false. I provide neither financial news nor analysis. I don't know anything about finance by choice.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's important to note that this is a real thing that is actually happening. You are not having a dream or in a coma.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing actually play into this or is it just an amusing sidebar? Because the more I look at "the evidence" the more it seems like the logic was: "Jack Smith went to a game on this day" "Only NBA game on that day was Hawks game" "Ergo he went to an NIBA game in Atlanta"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...

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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I am not immortal through remembrance because everyone dies all at once in an apocalypse that is ok because there is no one left to remember. But if there are people who could remember me throughout the ages but don't then....

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have answered so many of these questions dozens of times. Sometimes in giant multimillion dollar studies and politicians just refuse to listen.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is this annoying thing when stats people in different disciplines (in this case education and economics) don't talk to each other. Sometimes it means they don't know about a model. Sometimes it means they all use separate terms for the same thing. Sometimes using the same words differently.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the assault on federal research grants and contracts/contractors) came just as the contracts/contractors starting taking racial and gender equality seriously both in research and in hiring and organizational culture.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Luv too have life-changing surgery to relieve the pressure from a herniated disc in my lower back and then 6 months later herniate a disc in my neck.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I....did not get the joke until now.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you see the madness the DIDoheads have unleashed? We have strayed too far from the light of the RCT.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"More money for us; fuck you." Which is always what they do. My entire life.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 28/09/2026

Two-thirds of real income growth in NYC has gone to the top 1% since 2019. In @nydailynews.com, Noa Rosinplotz shows why policymakers shouldn’t fear taxing the rich. “Instead, they should focus on raising the tax revenue we need to invest in affordability for everyone else.”

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NYC doesn’t need to fear taxing the rich

While some New Yorkers see their fortunes rise, most aren’t getting a cut, as the cost of food, rent, and other necessities climbs faster than their salaries can keep up. City Comptroller Mark Levine ...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's wild to me that people like Rufo and Salam can promote fascistic framing like this and not imagine that it might come for them or their families. But whatever guys...good luck with all of those debates about "the Indian Question" or "the Jewish Question" or "the Thai Question" or whatever.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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