Mandami is doing more in his first few months in office to help working people than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries have done in their entire political careers.

Not sure how Starmer will survive after watching Ollie Robbins' testimony. He's come off as almost superhumanly professional while Starmer comes off as a lying, deceitful, and incompetent bore.

Modernism hadn't come along to destroy architects' brains into thinking that concrete or glass boxes were beautiful.

Also, there was mass production of ornamentation, cheap immigrant labor, and building codes were much less strict (though ironically building quality was probably much better).

There was no income tax at all in the US until 1913, so no. The rich were not effectively taxed until the 1950s-70s during which time architecture had descended into modernist slop.

The primary political project of liberalism in the last 10+ years has been to prevent the left from obtaining power, even if this has come at the expense of fascism taking hold, so yes, they deserve much of the blame.

Nobody except Latin rock fans will get the title (great piece though) 👍

Amazing you can stand upright despite lacking a spine.

As much as I think he needs to go, the fact that the longer he stays helps the Greens means I really don't care. Labour is dead as Britain's party of the left.

I have an econ degree

Honestly would have been way cooler and more impactful if he had signed this off as Aquaman

The whole "Britain is poorer than Mississippi" thing never seems to die but this is a very good rebuttal.

The funny thing is that if you've listened to any Danny Bones song, he sounds... well... black. 🙃

That and the fact that using a primarily non-white music genre to push a white supremacist agenda is peak hypocrisy.

This comment could have been made any month since November 2024 and yet here we are, with Schumer surviving like a cockroach in a nuclear apocalypse. 🫤

There is zero chance Porky will catch up, since Sánchez has huge rural support and most of the remaining votes to be counted are rural. HUGE upset as this election was Porky's to lose. And he lost.

Now watch him and his supporters pull a Trump 2020 and cry fraud (which he already did on Monday).

Holy upset Batman, leftist Roberto Sánchez just overtook Rafael "Porky" Lopez-Aliaga (a.k.a. Peruvian Trump) for the second ticket to the second round of Peru's election. Porky had been leading the polls for months and Sánchez barely figured even last week. Wildest election I've ever covered. 🇵🇪

Wild that they think the weight of oil prices in the consumer price index is 100%.

100%. Supporting Ukraine and Palestine has always been the morally consistent choice, regardless of what so many centrist NAFO brains and "anti-war/anti-imperialist" leftists thought.

Guess I am insane, then.

Why is the Guardian publishing this centrist trash?

Hope it finally dawns on some of the pro-Ukraine crowd that Israel is the Russia of the Middle East.

Jason Furman perchance?

Objectively funny that Hungary's new Prime Minister is basically called Peter Hungarian.

Peruvian election is going to go down to the wire. Fujimori is a shoo-in for the 2nd round but Aliaga could slip and lose that coveted second slot.

Also launches an unprepared, poorly planned crusade into the Middle East at the behest of Jerusalem.

"ThErEs nO DaTa To SuPpOrT tEh ViBeZ"

Data:

It's wild that a tweet with less than 50K likes literally defined the name of a music genre that plagued us for a decade.

Really would love it if people in my field, when faced with contradictory public perceptions and data, didn't automatically assume the perceptions are wrong but rather what data they are missing in their analysis. Otherwise this is Steven Pinker shit.

Just curious why you think things would have been better if Prospect gets sued into bankruptcy for slander, because that's exactly what it would be when there was no actual evidence before the victims spoke out.

You do realize that the grand majority of collateral attacks are due to either bad targeting info or faulty weapon CEP? Please tell me you do.

You also realize that sending a B-1 instead of a standard fighter vastly increases those odds? Please also tell me you do.

Why on earth would you send an aircraft that costs 5x more per flight hour and with 5x more the capability to cause collateral damage for that?