super interesting & important
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super interesting & important
I thought this moment during the Ezra Klein-Chris Hayes podcast was particularly profound
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base SEAN KATES, ERIC MANNING, TALI MENDELBERG and OMAR WASOW Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy are also said to play an important role in American campaign finance. Studies of Donald Trump, however, found that he drew significant support from white Americans with less education and privilege. We evaluate wealthy and non-wealthy Americans’ financial support for Trump, compared to other candidates, by constructing a comprehensive dataset of property values matched to contributions and voter files. We find Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors. Our results support an alternative, “plutopopulist” model of Trump’s financial base.
A recent @nytimes.com analysis found that over the last three presidential elections "Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains in working-class counties. Democrats are improving almost exclusively in wealthier areas." Our research shows similar patterns among donors. 🧵 cup.org/4cfm0Az
“Half of Americans are broke from healthcare… but maybe AI can make healthcare cheaper and more accessible to all, and therefore at least people won’t be saddled w/ as much healthcare debt” via @dens.nyc teendrama.substack.com/p/teendrama-...
Don’t let our youth go to waste
What a bio
"the teens that appear least impacted by the mental health crisis tend to be religious, conservative, and live in less individualistic cultures" www.afterbabel.com/p/community-...
The 2 guests on Colbert: Bernie Sanders & Pavement: Caring & not caring: Dug-in & ambivalence: 60s & 90s: Real & real: Not cool & too cool
"Beyond Bob..abundance of these imaginative possibilities..dont just need to 'join'..need to imagine diff ways of being when we show up..dont just need to 'start clubs'..need to imagine new approaches to organizing &gathering" via @petedavis.bsky.social connectivetissue.substack.com/p/beyond-bob...
"The good life had to happen in real life. And with that realization, small groups of Americans across the country have begun to sow the seeds of community renewal" www.afterbabel.com/p/new-americ... via @eli.bsky.social @petedavis.bsky.social
yesterday: chatgpt > google
today: chatgpt > apple notes
Use AI only to be more human, beware AI eating your humanity
The New News - I’ve got news alerts/notifs off so this is how I got the breaking news - in my AirPod from @dens.nyc
REMINDER:
They turn us against each other so that we won’t notice they are robbing us blind.
eww
i'm actually starting to offload more & more of my *thinking* - like actual thinking (ideas, decisions, thinking thru things, etc)
but seriously - I wanted so bad to be excited about this. classic web3/crypto: why will >10% ppl care at all about this? most successful things in the past had a compelling answer to that question
smart
Remember when breathless exciting tech demos were about something exciting you wanted that took your breath away? What the hell is this youtu.be/1x8tACHbyjg?...
machines thinking like humans
humans thinking like machines
“Steve once told a group of students, ‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear.’” Laurene Powell Jobs
Brooklyn bubble
