Shawn Fremstad
@ShawnFremstad
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For the many, not the few. Labor, social security, families, disability. Born in Fargo. Director, Law & Political Economy.
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Joined October 2008
The piece Richard Reeves calls "excellent" says elementary teaching is now "dominated by an ethos from a particular kind of female" and decries "the spiritual dominance of women."
Scott I call out your excellent piece on feminization of elementary education here:
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Mamdani tonight, “We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears not the appeasement it craves”
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no one is prepared for what's coming
.@NBCNews exit polling on young men (18-29) in VA, NJ and NYC VA: Spanberger +14 NJ: Sherrill: +10 NYC: Mamdani +40
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In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.
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"the past fifty years have seen the debacles of two universalist ideologies: communism and neoliberalism. Both were defeated by the real world. The new ideologies will not be universal: they will not claim to apply to the entire world"
My today's Substack Defeated by the real world Why did neoliberalism, in its domestic and international components, fail? https://t.co/yFW3TTTMY2
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Nice thing is you don't really need to have this debate because the usefulness (if any) will be revealed. I personally use it in every thing I do, legal work, NLRB Edge/Research, statistical coding for PPP data analysis. Make money on all of it.
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Today's @marxistsoc blog post is a banger from Linus Westheuser & Linda Beck based on their @CritSoc article. It examines how actual workers think about class and class politics. Against ideas that they are either irrelevant or "lost to the right," 1/ https://t.co/JiqxKqgvAT
marxistsociology.org
A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politi...
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Would be very good if the Economist covered America's schlerotic, century-old labor regulations (such as experience rating) which result in the US having a *worse* prime age employment population ratio than most European countries!
Very good piece from The Economist on how Europe's sclerotic, century-old labor regulations throttle innovation and fuel broader economic stagnation: https://t.co/YHR626CpEC
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WWE is low-key pretty interesting culturally right now. It's basically bucking every hyper-masculine, anti-woke trend, elevating the women into equal stars with the men, and letting wrestlers sometimes talk about actual feelings? Take AJ Lee's return...
"My name is AJ Lee and I'm your favorite wrestler's favorite wrestler." For those of you who are too young to know... ⬆️
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marketing "self-care" as spending money on ourselves or being alone and not helping others was a big self own — but it’s not too late to change course https://t.co/KTozQgGMWf
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My generation was taught to change the system. That lesson came at a cost.
New RCT finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with befits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness. https://t.co/1GJYjzYnj0
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Here is the new Supreme Court bench in Mexico: Mexico's first elected Supreme Court.
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Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." Per Nadler: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to
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Make sure you especially do it to white boomers, who absolutely loathe telling people about their 23 and me results and latest ancestry dot com findings. Absolutely hate it.
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.@RichardvReeves are we sure that boy's sports participation has falling? According to this chart, about 1 million more boys were participating in sports in 2023 than in 1990 (and that increase, about 38% looks higher than the increase in male secondary school attendance).
Institutions supporting boys have withered—many went co-ed and now serve more girls, male volunteers are scarce, and sports participation is falling. Read my recent op-ed in @nytimes with @robertdputnam:
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Bruenig-Greenstein tag team, we love to see it!!!
@MattBruenig & I have had our share of policy disagreements over the years, and @KelseyTuoc raises some important issues, but this thread focuses on what I see as some gaps and misinterpretations in her article & response to Matt, including the issue @jdcmedlock raised here🧵1/12
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“The medical expenses incurred by the overwhelming majority of people in their 20s and 30s are as affordable as clothing. Of course there are exceptions.” Let me introduce you to the concept of insurance
I'm fascinated by the obsession with benefits, not raw dollar income, in the responses to my scenario for a young married working-class couple. I can understand it for a 50-year-old looking for a job. Not for a 25-year-old. The medical expenses incurred by the overwhelming
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Note to Zohran
The Mexican government introduces its new chocolate bar, priced at less than $1USD. An equivalent bar from a foreign multinational is about $6USD. Made of 50% cocoa, cane sugar, cocoa butter, powdered milk, vanilla. No refined sugar, no artificial flavourings or colouring
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