wouldn’t it be more bigly to go for the American Ocean?

it’s just hard to reconcile the FX market and the bond market right now.

crazy like a fox taking on a whole new meaning.

i wonder what the chatter is like among servicemen and attachés stationed abroad, working among allies in NATO roles.

At a basic level, USD's special status has been anchored by a security arrangement. Allied governments (except sometimes France) don't try to diversify out of it in part bc it finances the US military umbrella. Change the arrangement, and others might become curious abt say what the BRICs are up to.

"The ultimate function of the entrepreneurial ethic was (and is) to reconcile workers to precarity." ~Becca Rothfeld reviewing @erikmbaker.bsky.social's "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0... ht @steveroth.bsky.social

the genius move would be to use the anti-Denmark animus he is ginning up to justify compulsory licensing of Ozempic / Wegovy at generic prices. he'd become the most popular President in history.

from Fiona Hill, just after the start of the Ukraine war www.politico.com/news/magazin...

i'd be more positively disposed if the plan was to divide Canada into states, each with the population of Wyoming. Republicans like small states, right?

people act like Trump is trying to strong-arm Canada or something, but actually he's offering them a sweetheart deal with two whole senators.

democracy depends upon collective cognition, and we cannot cogitate well or sanely while dopamine machines owned and manipulated by Musk and Zuckerberg constitute the public and coordinate the effort.

billionaires are pathetic.

and fascism! from @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/power/2025-0...

“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which, um, advises the government on Medicare payments, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage cost taxpayers $83 billion (!) more than those enrolled would have cost under traditional Medicare.”

“A sensible politics needs to ask: how can we create constituencies of countervailing power to the regressive rich?” @chrisdillow.bsky.social stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

au contraire checks and balances are stronger than they have ever been in American government. Elon writes checks, and they flow into balances.

“prioritize dense, mixed-use, and car-light ecodistricts… a number of wonderful examples [are] in planning throughout the world… the most visionary are so far removed from our status quo in the US—we lack the ability to even comprehend how much higher quality of life in these neighborhoods could be”

peaceful transfer of power vs peaceful surrender of power

you get angry at a group of people, then you get incurious about what they say and write, then you have a blind spot.