Jason Briggeman

@jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com

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Economics professor at Austin Community College. Managing Editor of Econ Journal Watch. Associate Editor for Liberal Currents. briggeman.org

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I wrote this five years ago and I really want it to stop being relevant www.liberalcurrents.com/stop-legitim...

The populist, working man ticket will be led by a Manhattan real estate mogul who owns a bunch of exclusive country clubs, and a Yale grad, ex-venture capitalist whose rise was funded by Bay Area billionaires.

Stop Legitimizing the Far Right’s Narratives with the Label ‘Populism’www.liberalcurrents.com Since 2016, to hear the media tell it, the world’s democracies have been faced with a deluge of ‘populism’. The word seems most commonly applied to President Donald Trump, but electoral surprises in l...

He's trying to find the guy who did this

Gun violence is bad

Here's a picture of some dying flowers

Seems uncivilized

Here is a full transcript of Jack Posobiec's alarmingly fascist speech about the war against "un-humans," which he delivered from the main stage of the National Conservatism Conference this week, immediately before a speech by a US Senator. Read it for yourself www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/jack-posob...

Jack Posobiec's Speech About "Un-Humans" at the National Conservatism Conferencewww.hamiltonnolan.com Read this for yourself, please.

I had several major reasons for drastically cutting back and changing the way I used Twitter when I did, and one was that too many people had left (completely understandably) because of bigotry. Things here had already been trending the wrong way, and if Bouie stays gone, I might quiet down here too

Great job by moderator @jacobtlevy.bsky.social but this #libcon panel rather turned into another avid search for every last thing we might possibly concede to postliberalism, quite probably an outcome related to it being a panel of all white men

Critiquing postliberalism #libcon @jacobtlevy.bsky.social

"Why does anyone vote?" Matthew Walther asked himself in the New York Times. "The answer cannot be that we believe that by doing so, we will influence the outcome of an election." Oh, my sweet summer contributing writer. That is exactly why we should vote. www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

Elections Are Purely Practicalwww.liberalcurrents.com Don’t be vain about your vote.

"Let's foster a free-flowing conversation and then slowly, slowly replace people's friends' posts with paid content" is a fair retrospective description of the Facebook and X business model

Casting a single vote for the better major candidate has a large positive net expected value for society, and you can very often tell who's a better candidate (especially this year!). Voting is humble, unselfish, and rational—a little chore that you should do. www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

Elections Are Purely Practicalwww.liberalcurrents.com Don’t be vain about your vote.

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I was a principled non-voter. I was presented many arguments for not voting (or only voting for a perfect candidate), including—prominently!—the "1 in 60 million chance" it'd matter, anyway. No one on the other side gave me the empirical case. When I saw it alluded to, no non-voters could explain.

“It’s still the case that your vote does improve our chances of not having a king, and your vote is worth much more than the time it takes to cast it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

Elections Are Purely Practicalwww.liberalcurrents.com Don’t be vain about your vote.

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“It’s still the case that your vote does improve our chances of not having a king, and your vote is worth much more than the time it takes to cast it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

Elections Are Purely Practicalwww.liberalcurrents.com Don’t be vain about your vote.

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I think it might be time to revisit this 2016 @vox.com classic from @volts.wtf to remind ourselves why this freakout is happening: The entire US political system is premised, at the atomic & subatomic level, upon 2 equally choiceworthy sides. It can't allow a clear choice, & so will *make* it even

I forget who posted it (maybe it was you, even, lol, and I paraphrase) but I can't get past the "Biden has one bad debate and no other missteps since, Trump the felon says something batshit crazy every day and the media is still on the bad debate guy"

Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton downwww.vox.com Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

Sat down to maybe write a Response to the Why I Won't Vote piece, and shortly I decided either it's too naive to be sincere, in which case replying to it on any grounds but 'this is an op' leaves you pwned, or we live in a world where epic levels of naivete don't keep you out of the NYT, which, yes

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So who all’s going to this next week? @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com and I will be there! www.ismaglobal.org/conference

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Cristiano Ronaldo, 39 years old, played all 90 minutes of regulation, 30 minutes of extra time, and made his spot kick in the penalty shootout today. 👏 Portugal lost and is out of the tournament

The seven-year-old is watching a Powerpuff Girls episode where the mayor goes "stark raving mad" and launches the missiles (!). But he'd said he was fine, anyway the girls caught the missiles

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If you've heard it's flatly irrational to vote and wonder if that's right, this short piece is for you. The math doesn't check out

"Everyone with too much sense uses breath to say 'voting is irrational' a lot every two years." www.liberalcurrents.com/if-you-see-v...

If You See Voting, Say Nothingwww.liberalcurrents.com It’s an article of faith among some anarchists and authoritarians that voting is an irrational action. There’s a proof, somewhere, in a book—was it Democracy and Decision by Geoffrey Brennan and Loren...

I vote, and you should too.

"Everyone with too much sense uses breath to say 'voting is irrational' a lot every two years." www.liberalcurrents.com/if-you-see-v...

I want to read 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦, but Amazon says they can't deliver it until July 19. Who's responsible for this

Why are hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes so hard for people to get right? Because en dashes and em dashes don't appear on the standard keyboard. That's right: In the year 2024, en dashes and em dashes don't appear on the standard keyboard

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you could not parody the media class

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We need you. www.patreon.com/liberalcurre...

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

'The fake image I made was a joke, generating a crucial portion of its comic power from the way it pulls the viewer **only at first** into a belief the image is genuine, and so the moderators paid by the owners of this site should take care to label it "joke," not "misinformation," I mean srsly lol'

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.

Al Michaels got his full-time job as a national sports broadcaster at age 32, but rather than hiring someone born in 1992 to a similar full-time job, NBC created a robot to reproduce Michaels' voice, because hearing it for almost 50 years hasn't been enough. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

NBC Brings A.I. Al Michaels to Peacock for Customized Paris Olympics Recapswww.hollywoodreporter.com The iconic voice of the sportscaster will give recaps of events for Peacock subscribers, tailored to their interests, generated by artificial intelligence.

Why in the last month do I keep hearing "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk and "The World I Know" by Collective Soul