Matthew Yglesias

Real "rain on your wedding day" vibe to Pakistan's problems here.

I'm not implying anything other than that a politician who wants to succeed in Texas and other pivotal states is probably going to end up saying a lot of things that most Bluesky users disagree with.

It's very satisfying to see Noem get fired even though there's no reason to believe the replacement will be any better.

I'm glad to see you say that. And in Texas "what is necessary to win elections" means adopting positions that are ... more progressive than those of most college professors and bluesky users? Or something else?

If you care about this race at all, you should take ten minutes to focus on how awful you think I am. Then consider that I am a Clinton-Biden-Harris voters and Talarico meeds the votes of lots of people who think I am way too left-wing. Sit with it for a moment. That's the Texas electorate.

I know this is a controversial take on political science BlueSky, but rather than conforming to *my* preference I think that if he wants to win Talarico should try to court the voters of Texas — a state that backed Trump three times and where public opinion is way to the right my views.

Thanks to backloaded compensation and high cost of living, lots of blue states with high average teacher salaries are actually pretty unattractive places for *entry-level* teachers.

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Solar in poor countries is creating a huge lead hazard Off-grid systems use cheap old-fashioned batteries that aren’t recycled properly.

Unsafe lead acid battery recycling is a huge problem in environmental problem in poor countries and the growing popularity of off-grid solar in Africa is making it worse.

www.slowboring.com/p/solar-in-p...

Very election should be special

Everyone loves "authentic" politicians until they say or do something they disagree with.

If I'm translating correctly, the "shitty right wing rag" in question here is The New York Times?

You can look at party trust numbers and see pretty durable public views plus shifts in response to high-profile events.

Opinion | The Great Capitulation Is Over. What Will Take Its Place?

Surprised by how much I appreciated this op-ed from Chrystia Freeland, arguing liberals should go once more unto the breach: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

The anti-antisemitism movement is failing More “calling out” by the same leaders of the same institutions isn’t going to work.

Jonathan Greenblatt and other institutional leaders in the anti-antisemitism movement have been failing badly to reduce antisemitism.

It’s worth asking if their tactics, strategy, and diagnosis aren’t fundamentally bad.

www.slowboring.com/p/the-anti-a...

Fascinating crash out

Having not even bothered to try to sell this war in advance they are now cooking up the most laughable ex post justifications imaginable.

I don’t think Jamelle Bouie is a Nazi collaborator

The phrase “the socialism of fools” comes to mind these days.

AI replacing all work isn’t a “doomer” scenario, it’s a utopian vision of a post-scarcity world in which it would finally be possible to enact every socialist dream where everyone has high living standards and freedom from want or oppressive toil.

Some people have a mental disorder where their reaction to Republicans doing something bad is to get mad at Democrats.

“By British standards” is a terrifying turn of phrase

Carney moved to the center in but without producing a revolt on the left of the sort we’re seeing in the UK, perhaps helped by the perception of an external threat from Trump.

I mean, yes. Australia in particular seems like a great model for sustained high immigration. I’m always saying this. Trudeau seems to have lost the plot a little with student visas, but I think they are course-correcting.

No take from me, but Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese are both doing great as leaders of Anglophone center-left parties.

Today's news is a shocking betrayal of the FIFA Peace Prize and everything it stands for.

N.H.L. players are Republicans The politics of professional athletes are a clear reflection of league demographics.

The politics of pro sports leagues tracks their basic demographics very closely.

www.slowboring.com/p/nhl-player...

"Most off-grid solar systems in sub-Saharan Africa use lead-acid batteries for energy storage, which can create severe risks of environmental lead pollution and human lead exposure in the
absence of safe disposal and recycling." 😬

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To an extent, the Emerging Democratic Majority we were promised did in fact emerge.

But Republicans dropped a lot of their mid-aughts policy stances while embracing a different set of insane conspiracies and authoritarian urges so here we are.

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Will it only hurt him with the Bluesky audience if I endorse this campaign? He's right!!