Inflation has affected the world, not just the US

The main cause of inflation around the world is simple: energy supply shocks.

And I know this really hurts the GOP narrative, but: the U.S. has seen less inflation than its peers because it is far more energy independent and producing more oil and gas than anyone else. https://t.co/8hGEtLTLJb
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 23, 2022

Inflation rates around the world:

Turkey: 83.45%
Argentina: 83%
Netherlands: 14.5%
Russia: 13.7%
UK: 10.1%
Germany: 10%
Europe: 9.9%
Spain: 8.9%
Italy: 8.9%
Mexico: 8.7%
United States: 8.2%

(per @tEconomics)
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) October 23, 2022

Excellent point on GOP polls

Republicans will use this as a reason not to accept election results.

They’re flooding the zone with GOP polls so they can game the polling averages and claim election was stolen if Dems do better than expected. RCP and @NateSilver538 are getting played. https://t.co/OK0PidqxNw
— Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) October 30, 2022

We need to start talking about the flood of GOP-aligned polls in the poll averages.

In national polling there are 5-6 GOP polls for every Dem aligned poll.

In PA 3 of 5 public polls we have from Oct are from GOP aligned firms.

Become too much of a thing to ignore.
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) October 24, 2022

NYT/Siena finds stronger results for Dems than the current poll averages (which are largely driven now by GOP pollsters like Trafalgar) across the four most critical Senate races.

The 49-44 Fetterman lead only *partly* after the debate. https://t.co/fBSn2CNQeC pic.twitter.com/tiCPBXXEy1
— Taniel (@Taniel) October 31, 2022

GOP polls have really been flooding the zone in Georgia. There have been five GOP polls of GA-SEN released this week. Zero nonpartisan polls. Last week ECU released a poll showing Warnock up 49-47. Only nonpartisan poll we've had.
— Drew Savicki 👻👻🦇🦇🎃🎃 (@DrewSav) October 28, 2022

After a flood of GOP outlier polls in all of these races designed to create stories about an impending red wave and digging into why Dems are losing ("is it crime/inflation?"), NYT/Siena suggests not much has changed in these races in the past two weeks. https://t.co/NexzmALJcf
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 31, 2022

More on antisemitism

I am 69 and Jewish. I think there is more public antisemitism than at any point in my life. I blame Trump for making it acceptable for his cult. It’s right there with their anti-Asian and Anti-Black hatred.

"For Jews, just 2 percent of the population but the targets of 55 percent of reported religiously motivated hate crimes, the trend revives centuries-old fears."https://t.co/iXE7wX0bk4
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 29, 2022

Totally normal stuff from the GOP in 2022. It’s all unleashed now – the antisemitism, the anti-Black racism, the incitement to violence. https://t.co/cPNse2NCzt
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 29, 2022

The voters of Nevada have a choice. Please, reject this.👇

"A Twitter account connected to former Laxalt staffer Michael Pecjak has compared abortion to the Holocaust and claimed that 'Jews are not a religious sect and are a cult,' among other comments."https://t.co/yrjxsQ80DR
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 31, 2022

As a Jew who grew up in the heartland, I remember my friends’ parents casually telling me how sad it was that my family was going to hell.

So when a gentile says they love Israel more than a lot of Jews do, I hear:

“We need Jews to housesit Israel until the rapture arrives.” https://t.co/IIqPd5kTIq
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) October 30, 2022

It was displayed on outside of stadium at UF/UGA game in Jacksonville earlier tonight and now on outside of other Jacksonville buildings like this one. pic.twitter.com/EZ9XH7fIrU
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) October 30, 2022

At Chaffee and I-10 in Jacksonville. #AntiSemitism on another American overpass. This is horrifying. pic.twitter.com/3ICenqPR4P
— Melissa Ross (@MelissainJax) October 28, 2022

On the rise of an ever more open antisemitic discourse in the US – it strikes me that our schools should not just focus on the Holocaust, but also teach something about the many century long often brutal Christian oppression and subjugation of Jews in Europe.
— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) October 25, 2022

A week ago Donald Trump threatened American Jews to "get their act together" "before it is too late" on his social media website.

The right-wing media has turned up the volume on antisemitism considerably.

A non-exhaustive thread of examples: 🧵
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) October 23, 2022

Covers: Theme from New York, New York

“Theme from New York, New York” is famous because of Frank Sinatra’s version. It was originally recorded by Liza Minnelli in the film New York, New York. Read this Twitter thread for some history.

The song New York, New York, only existing because Martin Scorsese decided to make a musical called New York, New York, and it needed a titular theme, one of Marty's most underrated cultural flexes considering the life it's had since
— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 31, 2022

Terrible New York Times column

Blaming Biden for lack of media coverage is ridiculous! The media has to take responsibility for their excessive coverage of Trump and inadequate coverage of Biden.

In Opinion

"Biden has not been a strong enough communicator or presence to make Trump seem irrelevant," @ezraklein writes. https://t.co/RTRr5qeg8e
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2022

Do you ever see regular people on TV who say the election was fair and Biden won? No. All you see is interviews with right-wing extremists spewing conspiracy theories. I guess basic facts would be boring TV by comparison. I’ve stopped watching cable news. /2
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 31, 2022

TV coverage of Biden’s bills focused on the Manchin/Sinema politics, not the substance of the legislation. Coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post was much better. People don’t appreciate what Biden has accomplished because TV covered political intrigue instead.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 31, 2022

Wisconsin’s extreme Republican gerrymandering

Obama cites chilling stat from my new article on impact of extreme gerrymandering in Wisconsin: "Democrats have to win statewide vote by 12 points just to get to 50 seats in the assembly, while Republicans could garner a majority with just 44% of votes" https://t.co/aZYAbyXasY https://t.co/YYJPAxAIvk
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 30, 2022

How Wisconsin became ground zero for American polarization: Once a true swing state, election results show Wisconsin’s political divides have become more calcified along county lines as the country has polarized. (@Dchinni @chucktodd) Details: https://t.co/nyTGOg0pgP pic.twitter.com/S8YbOodvOq
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) October 16, 2022

In the WI competitive authoritarian state the gerrymandered legislature and the supreme court are unwilling to accept the risk that the voters might disagree with them. And so they have established a political system where it’s heads I win, tails you lose. https://t.co/ec2VVPjc0s
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) October 13, 2022

Wisconsin is two races away from becoming a totalitarian state. How the hell did that happen? https://t.co/LKUPC4Z6Ce
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) August 15, 2022

Wisconsin is not a democracy. Given gerrymandering, the outcome of the midterms for the Wisconsin legislature is pre-ordained, despite the fact it is a purple state. It’s been that way for a decade and it will be that way for at least another decade. https://t.co/mIzV1lizCD
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 14, 2022

Other than the US Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the most partisan and corrupt in America. Today's blatantly partisan decision to ban dropboxes confirms that. Outrageous and despicable.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) July 8, 2022

More on poor coverage of the attack on Paul Pelosi by the Times

Is it just me, or is my former employer the @nytimes working very hard to avoid connecting the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi to right-wing extremism, years of GOP hate-mongering, and the attacker’s full-throated embrace of Trump and his lies? https://t.co/NPHIftEHA2
— James Gleick (@JamesGleick) October 30, 2022

How to take the politics out of it so as to protect the right. As though this is not a continuation of J6 domestic terrorism https://t.co/0n4h8upChF
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) October 29, 2022

If you thought perhaps NYT is saving its front page coverage of the attempted assassination of the speaker and the damage done to her husband for the Sunday edition, I fear that was mistaken. https://t.co/XPUK1Z2jy0 pic.twitter.com/OmwttQ4DfW
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 30, 2022

How numb the media has become.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 30, 2022

What is going on? At the very least we know this was no garden variety burglary. It was targeted against a political leader and it was violent. And what does Boudin’s recall have to do with this attack? Nothing. @nytimes, really, what is going on? https://t.co/2zARQvFTHB
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) October 29, 2022

Influential newspaper that published 5 A1 stories in 2 days about James Comey finding some emails that were immaterial to a trivial pseudoscandal puts single story about attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House below the fold https://t.co/8LogsFF97o
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 29, 2022

LEFT: The New York Times front page when a left-winter shoots a Republican congressman.

RIGHT: The New York Times front page when a right-winger attempts to assassinate the Democratic speaker of the House and brutally beats her husband with a hammer in their own home. https://t.co/9GOeIQExOh pic.twitter.com/j4Mr0XNxuk
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 29, 2022

Republicans “both sides” attack on Paul Pelosi and the media is helping them

Great point here https://t.co/C8gsCMSB07
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 30, 2022

Nearly 2/3 of Republicans don’t trust the 2022 election results

I expect violence, lawsuits, recounts, and all kinds of stuff to sabotage the election results. I blame Trump.

NEW Brace for Nov. 9: Nearly two-thirds of Republican voters in the @USATODAY @Suffolk_U Poll say they don't trust the midterm election count to be fair and accurate. https://t.co/6zyzjwNkpk
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) October 30, 2022

Voter intimidation in Arizona

A Trump judge is allowing this to continue.

Breaking News: Activists can stake out ballot boxes in Arizona, a federal judge ruled. Voting rights groups have called the tactic voter intimidation. https://t.co/h8BtXVJoW8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 28, 2022

JUST IN: Emergency motion filed at 9th Circuit to bar armed guards at Ariz. ballot boxes. Doc: https://t.co/l3jGTGDLxK
— Josh Gorestein (@joshgerstein) October 29, 2022

Election deniers win in court:

PHOENIX (AP) — US judge in Arizona declines to bar group from monitoring ballot drop boxes, saying it would violate constitution.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 28, 2022