Austin Clemens
@austinclemens2.bsky.social
Formerly Washington Center for Equitable Growth, now freelance visualizing the economy
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Which political events does media focus on most?
Categorizing every political article the WaPo and NYT wrote in 2024 and 2025 to-date to see how newspapers choose to focus coverage.
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So people on here are always talking about how newspapers over/under-cover certain events. For example, that important Trump scandals are under-covered bc they jump to the next scandal. But is it true? I investigated! austinclemens.com/austinclemen...
Maybe look up what a “right” is Batya? How did these dumb-as-rocks dipshits get so much cultural power?
Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Maybe look up what a “right” is Batya? How did these dumb-as-rocks dipshits get so much cultural power?
This should read “automakers cheer for policy change that will probably eliminate all American automakers by 2040”
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This should read “automakers cheer for policy change that will probably eliminate all American automakers by 2040”
Ok look I can explain - for my wife’s birthday I rewrote the lyrics to “Mermaid Party” and sang it to her and I had to listen to the song a lot
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ok look I can explain - for my wife’s birthday I rewrote the lyrics to “Mermaid Party” and sang it to her and I had to listen to the song a lot
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Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.
The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.
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we're seeing a reduction in labor demand driven by small businesses
in aggregate this is mostly but not entirely being matched by falling labor supply due to lower net immigration
but vulnerable groups of workers are bearing the brunt: unemployment is much higher for Black and young workers
in aggregate this is mostly but not entirely being matched by falling labor supply due to lower net immigration
but vulnerable groups of workers are bearing the brunt: unemployment is much higher for Black and young workers
ADP shows private hiring has essentially ground to a halt overall in recent months led by job losses among small firms
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
we're seeing a reduction in labor demand driven by small businesses
in aggregate this is mostly but not entirely being matched by falling labor supply due to lower net immigration
but vulnerable groups of workers are bearing the brunt: unemployment is much higher for Black and young workers
in aggregate this is mostly but not entirely being matched by falling labor supply due to lower net immigration
but vulnerable groups of workers are bearing the brunt: unemployment is much higher for Black and young workers
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
If the early excerpts are anything to go by, it seems unreadable even for hate reasons?
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
If the early excerpts are anything to go by, it seems unreadable even for hate reasons?
Just finished watching season 1 of the The Chair Company. Really simple question I hope someone can provide some clarity on: what is this show about?
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just finished watching season 1 of the The Chair Company. Really simple question I hope someone can provide some clarity on: what is this show about?
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"The strength of these [social insurance] programs is salient in moments of broad economic uncertainty, such as the one many Americans are currently facing."
NEW from Megan Rivera on the benefits of social insurance programs to the U.S. economy and its workers ⬇️
NEW from Megan Rivera on the benefits of social insurance programs to the U.S. economy and its workers ⬇️
U.S. social insurance programs support workers and economic growth
Rather than cut funding for social insurance programs that help low-income families and individuals, policymakers should tap into proven policy solutions.
equitablegrowth.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"The strength of these [social insurance] programs is salient in moments of broad economic uncertainty, such as the one many Americans are currently facing."
NEW from Megan Rivera on the benefits of social insurance programs to the U.S. economy and its workers ⬇️
NEW from Megan Rivera on the benefits of social insurance programs to the U.S. economy and its workers ⬇️
The rumor that Kevin Hassett might be fed chair should shave 10% off the markets.
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The rumor that Kevin Hassett might be fed chair should shave 10% off the markets.
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Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/
Elon Musk is all the evidence you need that we should have ceilings. The existence of mega-constituents with the power to buy and corrupt democratic institutions is a threat to the entire project of democracy.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Elon Musk is all the evidence you need that we should have ceilings. The existence of mega-constituents with the power to buy and corrupt democratic institutions is a threat to the entire project of democracy.
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i have also contacted senators’ alsobrooks & van hollen offices directly & ask other marylanders to do the same @indivisiblemd.bsky.social
all of the disappeared need our voices to rise up
all of the disappeared need our voices to rise up
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
i have also contacted senators’ alsobrooks & van hollen offices directly & ask other marylanders to do the same @indivisiblemd.bsky.social
all of the disappeared need our voices to rise up
all of the disappeared need our voices to rise up
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Closing the airspace over a foreign country is a de facto declaration of war but we’ve pushed so far into “let’s conspicuously underreact so everyone knows we’re savvy people not overreacting to Trump” that his de facto declaration of war is literally not even being reported on the news
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Closing the airspace over a foreign country is a de facto declaration of war but we’ve pushed so far into “let’s conspicuously underreact so everyone knows we’re savvy people not overreacting to Trump” that his de facto declaration of war is literally not even being reported on the news
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Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
Home for the Holidays is the essential Thanksgiving movie, and the turkey scene will be lodged in your brain for days.
Name a film with a Turkey.
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Home for the Holidays is the essential Thanksgiving movie, and the turkey scene will be lodged in your brain for days.
I might be in trouble.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I might be in trouble.
please put in the newspaper that I got mad
Unintentionally revealing
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
please put in the newspaper that I got mad
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Hey, #EconSky!
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is here @usbls.bsky.social!
bsky.app/profile/usbl...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is here @usbls.bsky.social!
bsky.app/profile/usbl...
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hey, #EconSky!
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is here @usbls.bsky.social!
bsky.app/profile/usbl...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is here @usbls.bsky.social!
bsky.app/profile/usbl...
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Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
One of the finest albums ever made.
The Replacements' landmark Let It Be gets a triple-disc Super Deluxe Edition. My review is in my latest newsletter:
The Replacements, Let It Be [Super Deluxe]
The band's 1984 landmark gets a triple-disc Super Deluxe Edition.
sterlewine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
One of the finest albums ever made.
The appropriation stuff is an area of woke that really was pretty stupid and bad.
Its an indication of how many of them somehow manage to reinvent small c conservative (or even regressive) beliefs from first principles. I had a student argue in a media studies class the other week that a director adapting a foreign film was "stealing" and just like...
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The appropriation stuff is an area of woke that really was pretty stupid and bad.
”And I pledge to invest one…
HUNDRED…”
(looking at Trump for approval)
“mill… BAJILLION dollars!”
HUNDRED…”
(looking at Trump for approval)
“mill… BAJILLION dollars!”
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
”And I pledge to invest one…
HUNDRED…”
(looking at Trump for approval)
“mill… BAJILLION dollars!”
HUNDRED…”
(looking at Trump for approval)
“mill… BAJILLION dollars!”
Really novel idea in media - just describe what’s happening in clear normal english
I don’t know why, and I don’t want to make a big hairy deal out it so ICE’s Special Media Prosecutor Division doesn’t notice, but People Magazine has been incredibly straightforward with their Trump headlines when he’s being a weird old asshole.
They’re a quiet Facebook behemoth, so this is good.
They’re a quiet Facebook behemoth, so this is good.
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Really novel idea in media - just describe what’s happening in clear normal english
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I heard this in the moment and frankly thought Trump said "Peggy" and assumed there was a reporter there with that name. A completely shocking comment.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I heard this in the moment and frankly thought Trump said "Peggy" and assumed there was a reporter there with that name. A completely shocking comment.