Liberal leftwinger muttering grumpily into the void. Wrote about politics and economic policy in ages long past. Sometimes still do.
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Jeff Spross retweeted
A lot of pundits are going to write a bunch of convoluted things about the election results in Israel, but the situation is simple: the opposition could IMMEDIATELY form a non-Netanyahu government with a clear majority, if - and only if - they invite the Arab-led parties to join.
Jeff Spross retweeted
What a line:
"Most Israeli Jews now see the world the way Netanyahu has long seen it. That is Netanyahu’s great victory. But it is matched by his great loss: Much of the world now sees Israel the way Gazans see it." nytimes.com/2026/10/25/opini…
Jeff Spross retweeted
Please Jesus let this be true
Nicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House Staffers tmz.com/2026/10/25/nicki-min…
Jeff Spross retweeted
Out of touch liberal elites don’t understand that for the average American the Cheesecake Factory is the nicest place they can imagine. For these people, sweatpants are like tuxedos. They think of Tweety Bird as a kind of God. Don’t you dare condescend to them.
America, at some point you have to recognize that your friend is blind drunk and crazed with rage, and your job *as a good friend* is to take the fucking keys away from him.
Jeff Spross retweeted
We’re like one hack away from me finally being able to get my medical records easily
I’m not someone who insists that total victory for Ukraine is the only acceptable outcome here. But what makes this so gross is the underhandedness. If you want to kneecap Ukraine to force them to accept terms, then stand up and do it publicly.
A senior Ukrainian commander told me he lost more than $1 million in drones the first night StarShield went out. The next 3 days, speeds remained so unstable they canceled almost all ops striking RU logistics to protect Ukrainian infantry in the kill zone nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world…
Jeff Spross retweeted
"Don't you dare build your own European satellite network. You must use the American one that can be shut off by a single deranged billionaire."
Quite the pitch from the US ambassador to the EU
I’d bet that, of all the constitutional amendments you could float, creating a wealth tax would be the easiest to actually pass.
My take on wealth taxes is they won't work well at the local or state level, because you're targeting the people with the greatest means and motivation to just pick up and move somewhere, and they won't work well at the national level, because they'd almost certainly require a constitutional amendment, just as federal income taxes did (the 16th Amendment), so in both cases you're creating a levy that is basically designed to disappear.
A country can certainly fail to assimilate its immigrants. Which can result in violence and unrest. But that failure results from bad policy choices. (Generally of the economic variety.) Not because of mismatches in any sort of fixed or essentialist “cultural” attributes.
The great strength of market capitalism is how it allocates resources to their most productive uses.
Half a Scaramucci! Is that a new record?
Katie Zacharia Is Ousted After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…
Jeff Spross retweeted
“.. Nearly three-quarters said they struggled to pay for food, housing, medical care or daily transportation in the past year compared with 13 percent of upper-income adults.”
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