Matt Darling
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We did it! After years of work, our Downtown for All zoning reform plan has passed the New Haven Board of Alders!
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We did it! After years of work, our Downtown for All zoning reform plan has passed the New Haven Board of Alders!
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
Our legislation significantly expands how much housing can be built in our city's core, and it will make a real difference for New Haven families.
🧵More details:
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“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism.
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberals: Stop the Masochism
Why liberalism romanticizes the Forgotten Man and is reluctant to take its own side in the fight against authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism.
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
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I would say these are Adams two biggest accomplishments.
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I would say these are Adams two biggest accomplishments.
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EIG’s @benglasner.bsky.social joins Money with Katie to discuss how a wage subsidy can improve the lives of low-wage workers nationwide.
Check it out! 🎧
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Check it out! 🎧
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
How to End Low Wage Work—Forever
Podcast Episode · The Money with Katie Show · 12/03/2025 · 1h 19m
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December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
EIG’s @benglasner.bsky.social joins Money with Katie to discuss how a wage subsidy can improve the lives of low-wage workers nationwide.
Check it out! 🎧
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Check it out! 🎧
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
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This is one of those things that seems like it should already be the law because it's so incredibly stupid that it isn't.
My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
December 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is one of those things that seems like it should already be the law because it's so incredibly stupid that it isn't.
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Sounds like we are in officially in a bubble as defined by economics then.
Sounds like we are in officially in a bubble as defined by economics then.
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Sounds like we are in officially in a bubble as defined by economics then.
Sounds like we are in officially in a bubble as defined by economics then.
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One thing I learned over the weekend from talking to finance people is that they assume the AI bubble is going to burst and their issue is figuring out when so they can time their trades right.
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One thing I learned over the weekend from talking to finance people is that they assume the AI bubble is going to burst and their issue is figuring out when so they can time their trades right.
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The Robots series by Asimov is about white flight and how suburbanism and contempt for urban cores destroys dynamism
There is basically zero YIMBY literature and sci-fi other than Toni Morrison's Jazz and The Expanse.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Robots series by Asimov is about white flight and how suburbanism and contempt for urban cores destroys dynamism
"My political opponents have not expressed <abhorrent views>. However, what this tweet presupposes...."
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"My political opponents have not expressed <abhorrent views>. However, what this tweet presupposes...."
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Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.
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Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds
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Sea people? Why don't they 'see' the advantages of our extensive trade networks! 😂😂😂😂😂
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Sea people? Why don't they 'see' the advantages of our extensive trade networks! 😂😂😂😂😂
That Washington gave quarter presumably played a big role in 25% of the Hessian forces deciding to become Americans after the war.
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
That Washington gave quarter presumably played a big role in 25% of the Hessian forces deciding to become Americans after the war.
I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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The residential mortgage market was simply like 2 orders of magnitude bigger than the tech debt right now.
Like people are talking about 3 trillion in tech debt by 2028. There was 10 trillion in MBS in 2008 (not including the private insurer issues, weird derivatives).
Like people are talking about 3 trillion in tech debt by 2028. There was 10 trillion in MBS in 2008 (not including the private insurer issues, weird derivatives).
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The residential mortgage market was simply like 2 orders of magnitude bigger than the tech debt right now.
Like people are talking about 3 trillion in tech debt by 2028. There was 10 trillion in MBS in 2008 (not including the private insurer issues, weird derivatives).
Like people are talking about 3 trillion in tech debt by 2028. There was 10 trillion in MBS in 2008 (not including the private insurer issues, weird derivatives).
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big short was a net negative for literacy on markets
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
big short was a net negative for literacy on markets
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
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What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun
Pope Leo XIV embarked on his first international trip as pontiff on Thursday, traveling to Turkey to start a six-day tour that will also include Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun
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thankful the BLS is back!
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
thankful the BLS is back!
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness