you know you haven’t been brainwashed as long as you have a dirty mind.

Eula sounds like a very old-fashioned name for a girl.

the unthinkable has become very ordinary. there’s a lesson in that.

“The ‘Third Way’ in liberal politics involves saying things that working people love, but doing things that sociopathic plutocrats love.” @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/05/30/r...

“the ‘unitary executive’ is, quite simply, incompatible with a theory of checks and balances.” @asharangappa.bsky.social // she proposes a fourth branch under which the “independent agencies” would sit. lots of details to think about, but a useful idea. ht @hcrichardson.bsky.social

i have an answer to this. drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/04/i...

@steveroth.bsky.social's work on wealth accumulation and concentration is amazing and you should all check it out. wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/the-magnum...

“within the supplemental poverty metric, the poorest people each year are overwhelmingly people who got hit with a catastrophic medical bill… …Creating independent welfare bureaucracies within each corporation is redundant and inefficient and pulls business managers away from actual production.”

external “powerbank” batteries should have old-school headphone jacks and drive them via bluetooth. bluetooth headphones can’t replace the old-school kind because bluetooth headphones need to be charged. but you already keep an external battery charged at levels that’d power headphones like forever.

you should always trust what they say. no one is smarter, or more candid and impartial when speaking to the public, than a CEO.

and Elon will complain about the deficit, whose growing contribution to aggregate profit is necessary to prevent a collapse in the share prices of profitable businesses, let alone combustible-gas filled zeppelins like SpaceX which would surely ignite during any broad crash.

“What Democrats should be seeking to do is better fund state legislatures and Congress. Just as we are the side defending the vision of a competent and well-staffed civil service, we need to be the side defending the role of legislatures.” @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

“for my friends, everything. for my enemies, the law.”

“for my friends, everything. for my enemies, the law.”

if u were living in the US during the Jim Crow 1950s, it would simultaneously have been true that u were living in a technologically and socially miraculous society, a pinnacle, and that u were participating in or enduring a social and moral catastrophe beyond redemption. today is not so different.

we need to recover Popeye masculinity.

@gabrielu.bsky.social offers fascinating, surprising history of Peronism, coups, and complexities of actual organization and activism in Argentina that didn’t fall neatly along ideological or social-class lines.

promote aspirational versions of efficient lifestyles.

“That is the logic of virtuous violence. Violence comes to feel not merely expedient but righteous because it is cast as protecting one’s own side, restoring order, and ending chaos. In doing so, however, it denies the humanity of those being attacked.”

efficient markets.