The DNC finally released the full 192 page 2024 election autopsy today.

I haven't read the whole thing, but I did read "What Happened" and it's very clear why the DNC did not release it. It's not Gaza/Palestine - that is not mentioned once in any capacity.

It's just a horrible document. The most incompetent thing I've seen in a very long time. It provides essentially no information of any value. I'll give some examples in the thread. First off, it's missing the "national overview" and the introduction for the electoral review section.

Half the complaints are about capitalism are actually complaints about scarcity and the subsequent necessary rationing of resources.

Free parking is bad anyway, it imposes large negative externalities, distorts land use, and creates deadweight losses.

https://twitter.com/DonE_girlie/status/1958592484440789287

It encourages excess driving and congestion, distorts land use by dedicating valuable space to giants hunks of metal, and causes deadweight loss because drivers consume more parking than is necessary or efficient when the price is set to zero.

Everyone credits AC, but here's another reason the south started booming only post-war: it was full of malaria for centuries.

The issue was not seriously tackled until FDR established the Office of Malaria Control, which later became the CDC. They eliminated the disease in 1951. The disease seriously disturbed economic progress in the south. Sickened millions.

The discovery of quinine helped greatly, but it wasn't until a coordinated campaign armed with aerial surveillance and insecticides that the disease was truly brought under control.

Blue states tend to do better in K-12 education because they are wealthier and have higher rates of parents with tertiary education.

But if you adjust for those ingrained advantages, blue state performance diminishes, and the south broadly emerges as leaders. Obviously not universal - many blue states retain a top 20 score, two in the top 10.

But it's underwhelming to say the least.

This is just not true.

Trump voters show higher rates of physical inactivity, diabetes, drug overdoses, mortality, obesity, and being uninsured, plus lower vaccination rates and shorter life expectancy.

https://twitter.com/IterIntellectus/status/1919434174470971770

Holds when controlling for age.

The judge who blocked Trump's EO ending birthright citizenship was appointed by Ronald Reagan.

“This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. Frankly, I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state that this is a constitutional order. It boggles my mind.” "I’ve been on the bench for over four decades," Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said. "I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order."

In 1980, the median income for men employed full-time was $64,189 per year, in Nov. 2024 dollars. For women, it was $39,702.

Now, it's $66,115 for men and $54, 795 for women. I believe this might help explain much of modern politics. Not only have men's wages not gone up much, they've also lost much of their income advantage over women. Loss of privilege often invokes reactionary politics.

Studies consistently find that gay men commit very little violent crime. Possibly even less than straight women. This particular study didn't have a huge sample size, but it's also a highly replicated finding.

We are actually making progress on tackling climate change! We have managed to basically halt the previously inexorable rise of CO2 emissions. The energy of the future is solar.

https://twitter.com/AmyAHarder/status/1779875035001606444

We're still putting out far too much CO2 - but the rate of change has stopped, and will probably decelerate in the future. That's good!

People don't really seem to have internalized that $7.25 is such a low wage that the US functionally doesn't have a federal minimum anymore.

Only about 68,000 people earned the federal minimum wage in the first seven months of 2023, less than one in 1,000 workers (0.1%). That doesn't mean wwe still shouldn't raise it, of course, because lots of people make only relatively slightly more.

Honestly it’s this simple: if this were true this graph could not exist.

https://twitter.com/jake_gotta/status/1752062824682275225

Many European countries just have better infrastructure, visibly less poverty, more third spaces, more people friendly city and urban design. Wealth is an important factor in quality of life but it is not the end-all.