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Eric Levitz retweeted
From @dwallacewells, teen mental health on upswing. Add this to rapidly falling overdose rates, homicide rates that will finish 2026 at their all-time low in the US + many N. American cities, falling suicide rates. Many positive trends in the world! Avoid having Reddit Brain...
The permitting reform bill's biggest flaw has been fixed. (Wrote about both the problem and why Congress should pass the bill here: vox.com/politics/508196/perm…)
Eric Levitz retweeted
Class populism was common in Democratic campaigns before 2016, including increasingly negative references to the rich:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
People are confusing a correct & specific critique of 2016 Clinton campaign with the incorrect claim the Sanders initiated this rhetoric
El-Sayed may not be an exceptional electoral performer, but he is unusually intelligent for a senator
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
Eric Levitz retweeted
The US continues to lose jobs in the arts sector amidst the rise of AI
54k total jobs have been lost in movies, TV, publishing, graphic design, and other creative industries over the last year, with 203k jobs lost since ChatGPT's launch in 2022
Eric Levitz retweeted
“Unionize ICE” is an amazing take, seemingly designed in a lab to anger the entire American political spectrum
Eric Levitz retweeted
Here's a wild idea in politics: what if the nice guys win, and the mean guys lose? (gift link below).
@voxdotcom
Eric Levitz retweeted
I busted my ass on this story and think it's pretty interesting (and not paywalled)!!!!
vox.com/future-perfect/50902…
loved this smart, wide-ranging @mbolotnikova piece on what we can learn from Sweden's factory-built housing
vox.com/future-perfect/50902…
"We should make it hard for the government to build anything because otherwise it might build bad things" isn't an especially progressive governing philosophy imo
Eric Levitz retweeted
Feels premature to say that the Trump Era is over. But the Nothing Matters Era is. The political arena really has shifted, not just in the last year but the last ten. We have agency. We can work, we can strategize, and we can build. We aren't helpless, many things are possible.
Eric Levitz retweeted
I am marveling at the level of turnout effects this election. I am a known turnout skeptic, but Republicans do seem to have lived the nightmare of "your base just straight up stays home"!! Obvi we'll know more as more data comes in, but wow.
According to @davidshor, it's less important for candidates to be perceived as "moderate" than for them to be perceived as in touch with -- and focused on -- ordinary people's economic concerns.
(Though being seen as "moderate" also helps)
vox.com/politics/509476/midt…
Democratic pollster David Shor's take on why AI has become so unpopular vox.com/politics/509476/midt…
Eric Levitz retweeted
"The day before the Iran war, Donald Trump had a 49% approval rating on gas prices. Within a week, it was 33%."
According to @davidshor, Republicans were on track for a normal-sized midterm defeat --- right until Trump launched the Iran War. vox.com/politics/509476/midt…
Eric Levitz retweeted
Here's a fun one.
Based on the count so far, Democratic candidates for Senate did nearly 5 points better (in margin) relative to 2024 in counties where Trump held a rally in Oct/Nov, compared to directly adjacent counties in the same state.
