Mike Goodman

themlg.bsky.social

22 October 2026 12:43

Me venturing out to suggest that actually we’re not living in greater collective economic precarity than during the great financial crisis.

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias.bsky.social

21 October 2026 15:50

There is a clear "revealed preference" to do less of basically everything and spend more time home alone going online, but I'm convinced a lot of the anger and misery in contemporary America is downstream of this rather than conventional economic problems. www.slowboring.com/p/americans-...

Michael Caley

michaelcaley.bsky.social

21 October 2026 14:32

there is perhaps no more powerful force in left-lib influencer circles than Audience Capture Miserablism

William B. Fuckley

opinionhaver.bsky.social

20 October 2026 13:05

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

Ned Resnikoff

resnikoff.bsky.social

19 October 2026 15:51

This piece, which fails to even gesture at the possibility that high cost European cities might have a shortage of housing, is inadvertently in object lesson in why the global housing crisis is hitting Europe so hard www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...