The Fig Economy
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I think, for those of us on the political left, we need to address morale as a real and pressing issue that will fuck up our ability to fight if left unaddressed. We *need* to figure out a way to keep people feeling at least minimally good about things even in shitty situations.
Every one of you: post at least once a day about some small thing that makes you happy that has nothing to do with politics. This is a hard and fast rule. I won’t be keeping a spreadsheet or anything but if you don’t do it, I’ll know.
Consider too that relative to 11 months from now, today may look like the good times, economically and otherwise.
Ds don't seem to be getting what they need out of Nashville. But if the margin lands at R+3, that's a D+19 shift from 2024 -- we're not talking a wave, we're talking tsunami
again @gelliottmorris.com says behn still has a chance but damn 3 points in this district is 🦇💩
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Consider too that relative to 11 months from now, today may look like the good times, economically and otherwise.
This kind of stuff is enraging but it’s also fucking repulsive. Like it should make everyone’s skin crawl to hear someone say something like this. Nobody in their right mind should want to come within earshot of Gutfeld after hearing shit like this.
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This kind of stuff is enraging but it’s also fucking repulsive. Like it should make everyone’s skin crawl to hear someone say something like this. Nobody in their right mind should want to come within earshot of Gutfeld after hearing shit like this.
If you want to measure how good people are at taking this particular type of test rather than measuring whether they’ve mastered the material, then sure.
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If you want to measure how good people are at taking this particular type of test rather than measuring whether they’ve mastered the material, then sure.
This one in six thing is becoming more and more common, and it was never going to remain about undocumented people. If they felt they could they’d start denaturalization yesterday.
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This one in six thing is becoming more and more common, and it was never going to remain about undocumented people. If they felt they could they’d start denaturalization yesterday.
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As all politicians left and right talk "affordability", GOP commits to raising insurance premiums 200% or 300% for millions of Americans. See you in November, guys.
NEW: Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Billions of dollars in tax credits under the Affordable Care Act are poised to expire at the end of the year. Lawmakers in both parties say they're nowhere close to a deal to renew them.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
As all politicians left and right talk "affordability", GOP commits to raising insurance premiums 200% or 300% for millions of Americans. See you in November, guys.
Who needs enemies when our friends presume we can simply compel our enemies to good action but we just don’t want to?
At least the Democrats shut down the government for over a month and got absolutely nothing in return
NEW: Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Who needs enemies when our friends presume we can simply compel our enemies to good action but we just don’t want to?
One disturbing thing I see a lot (and hell, I probably do it myself sometimes) is people, even knowledgeable ones, attributing everything that happens under a president to them entirely. Obama didn’t prosecute Bush officials, FDR personally made the early New Deal racist, etc.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
One disturbing thing I see a lot (and hell, I probably do it myself sometimes) is people, even knowledgeable ones, attributing everything that happens under a president to them entirely. Obama didn’t prosecute Bush officials, FDR personally made the early New Deal racist, etc.
This may be kind of stupid of me, but I’m Just Some Guy and not a historian or something, so here goes:
We talk a lot about how in recent decades the ideological sorting of the parties basically completed. I get that. What I’ve never really gotten is what parties *were* absent that sorting, or why.
We talk a lot about how in recent decades the ideological sorting of the parties basically completed. I get that. What I’ve never really gotten is what parties *were* absent that sorting, or why.
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This may be kind of stupid of me, but I’m Just Some Guy and not a historian or something, so here goes:
We talk a lot about how in recent decades the ideological sorting of the parties basically completed. I get that. What I’ve never really gotten is what parties *were* absent that sorting, or why.
We talk a lot about how in recent decades the ideological sorting of the parties basically completed. I get that. What I’ve never really gotten is what parties *were* absent that sorting, or why.
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Yesterday we teased The Reconstruction Papers, a project we will work on if we met our funding goal. Why do we think this project is necessary? www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yesterday we teased The Reconstruction Papers, a project we will work on if we met our funding goal. Why do we think this project is necessary? www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...
If I were a supporter I’d be starting to think it was really fucking weird that he keeps going on about this.
Trump: "I took my physical. I got all As. Everything. But they said to me, 'would you like to take a cognitive test?' I said, 'Is it hard?' They said, 'yes.' I said, 'Well, I'm a very smart person. Who was the last president to take one?' 'No president has ever agreed to take one' ... I aced it."
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If I were a supporter I’d be starting to think it was really fucking weird that he keeps going on about this.
Feeling this again. So often there’s a social media post like “Person X said thing Y and I’m super pissed” and when you dig down they said Z, not Y, and Z wouldn’t have made me mad. But now that I’m already mad about Y, even if I acknowledge it wasn’t right, I’ve got to justify why Z is just as bad.
Side note: normalize admitting when you were wrong. Keeps you honest and helps keep you from getting too far out over your skis.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Feeling this again. So often there’s a social media post like “Person X said thing Y and I’m super pissed” and when you dig down they said Z, not Y, and Z wouldn’t have made me mad. But now that I’m already mad about Y, even if I acknowledge it wasn’t right, I’ve got to justify why Z is just as bad.
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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@cinenerdle2.app is the Bluesky account for a really fun movie trivia game. The main mode is kind of like a movie based version of NYT’s Connections puzzle. If you’re into movie trivia, I very much recommend it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
@cinenerdle2.app is the Bluesky account for a really fun movie trivia game. The main mode is kind of like a movie based version of NYT’s Connections puzzle. If you’re into movie trivia, I very much recommend it.
People are saying this is a later problem, and I mostly agree. But back when I thought Trump would lose in 2016, I told my friend, if you and 9 friends are choosing dinner and 6 choose pizza and 4 choose to eat the other 6, even though pizza won, you’ve still got a problem on your hands.
But it does worry me a little bit to see military officials angry about Bradley being thrown under the bus without a concurrent acknowledgement that he did in fact commit an obvious war crime.
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
People are saying this is a later problem, and I mostly agree. But back when I thought Trump would lose in 2016, I told my friend, if you and 9 friends are choosing dinner and 6 choose pizza and 4 choose to eat the other 6, even though pizza won, you’ve still got a problem on your hands.
I would think Bradley’s reputation would have been harmed by, you know, committing a war crime, not by somebody noticing he’d committed a war crime.
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I would think Bradley’s reputation would have been harmed by, you know, committing a war crime, not by somebody noticing he’d committed a war crime.
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I block people who are so fucking sure there will never be consequences for anyone.
There may or may not be but I do know it’s a lot less likely if we all accept there won’t be. That’s not wisdom it’s loserdom.
There may or may not be but I do know it’s a lot less likely if we all accept there won’t be. That’s not wisdom it’s loserdom.
December 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I block people who are so fucking sure there will never be consequences for anyone.
There may or may not be but I do know it’s a lot less likely if we all accept there won’t be. That’s not wisdom it’s loserdom.
There may or may not be but I do know it’s a lot less likely if we all accept there won’t be. That’s not wisdom it’s loserdom.
This site gets got by Axios Bullshit because they want to get got. Simple as.
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This site gets got by Axios Bullshit because they want to get got. Simple as.
I don’t mind, I can roll with it, but the problem is less that they’re older than their roles than that when the show started they were the same age, and real time progressed faster than show time.
Everyone is complaining that the cast of Stranger Things is too old for their roles but they're all, like, 21 playing 15-16 year-olds. That's just standard CW high school TV show casting.
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I don’t mind, I can roll with it, but the problem is less that they’re older than their roles than that when the show started they were the same age, and real time progressed faster than show time.
Fully in the wrong here, I’d missed the detail that the second strike incident happened three months ago in the first such boat strike. Apologies for that. Seems instead like they fully realized this was a war crime even under their bullshit premises and tried to stop/cover it up.
I think Occam’s Razor on the boat strikes is that Hegseth didn’t give the specific order to strike that specific boat a second time, but after the time that there were survivors from one strike, he made inescapably clear that he did not want any more survivors, and Bradley acted accordingly.
December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Fully in the wrong here, I’d missed the detail that the second strike incident happened three months ago in the first such boat strike. Apologies for that. Seems instead like they fully realized this was a war crime even under their bullshit premises and tried to stop/cover it up.
I think Occam’s Razor on the boat strikes is that Hegseth didn’t give the specific order to strike that specific boat a second time, but after the time that there were survivors from one strike, he made inescapably clear that he did not want any more survivors, and Bradley acted accordingly.
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I think Occam’s Razor on the boat strikes is that Hegseth didn’t give the specific order to strike that specific boat a second time, but after the time that there were survivors from one strike, he made inescapably clear that he did not want any more survivors, and Bradley acted accordingly.
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Also I think they’re trying to cover here. They’re cabining this to Bradley giving the specific order of a second strike, but leaving very very wide open that Hegseth did indeed say “kill them all” which was understood as meaning “no survivors.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Also I think they’re trying to cover here. They’re cabining this to Bradley giving the specific order of a second strike, but leaving very very wide open that Hegseth did indeed say “kill them all” which was understood as meaning “no survivors.”
Darkly funny that they’re trying to throw Bradley under the bus and *also* going on the record saying that they agree with and celebrate the war crime.
The fall guy. Though he is probably also guilty of first degree murder.
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Darkly funny that they’re trying to throw Bradley under the bus and *also* going on the record saying that they agree with and celebrate the war crime.
So…this piece is sort of interesting, but it’s got a big gaping cultural issues shaped hole in the middle of it. I’m gonna ignore all of the sneering about the Democratic Party, because HamNo, but I want to drill deeper on that gap.
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
So…this piece is sort of interesting, but it’s got a big gaping cultural issues shaped hole in the middle of it. I’m gonna ignore all of the sneering about the Democratic Party, because HamNo, but I want to drill deeper on that gap.
I’m optimistic by nature, and my own pessimistic thought lately has been that Trump has destroyed trust among marginalized communities for generations to come in ways that can’t easily be rebuilt (if at all, in the medium term).
I get accused of cockeyed optimism from time to time and it’s not totally unfair.
but I am very pessimistic about the ability of red state publics to maintain either academic integrity or academic quality while the primary concern of their boards and legislatures is culture war.
but I am very pessimistic about the ability of red state publics to maintain either academic integrity or academic quality while the primary concern of their boards and legislatures is culture war.
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’m optimistic by nature, and my own pessimistic thought lately has been that Trump has destroyed trust among marginalized communities for generations to come in ways that can’t easily be rebuilt (if at all, in the medium term).