Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

just deleted an instagram account i never really used. still, it felt good.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i’m not sure whether it’s state-owned media or state-owning media, but whichever of those, that’s what X is now.

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i mean, who was born on April 20? just a coincidence? observer.com/2024/04/elon...

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

an important precedent to set will be impeaching a Supreme Court justice for false and tendentious readings of the Constitution. it’s one of the few checks we have on them, since they arrogated the power of judicial review.

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vibes are confected and promoted by pundits. they only shift in right-wing directions. they serve to promote preference falsification. just don’t. will it ever be a vibecession under Trump? (no shade to @kyla.bsky.social of whom i am very fond. it’s just how the vibes of vibes have shaken out.)

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

it’s not so hard. the Billionaires of the East and West are wicked. they are green and wear pointy hats and weird socks. the Billionaires of the North and South are good. they wear crowns and very puffy dresses.

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i’d feel more secure about Amendment 14, Section 1 if they hadn’t substantially nullified Amendment 14, Section 3, with very little pushback or complaint because even though their decision defied the text’s clear intent (Congress is supposed to cure, not find), it seemed advisable politically.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

donut holes are all around us, all the time. the making of a donut simply reveals one.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

melania is like david bowie incognito today.

Steve Randy Waldman
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shittiest mt rushmore.

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“Trump bizarrely orders things he has no power to compel. Here’s what happened when King Canute tried that.”

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acceptance of a preemptive pardon is a confession of original sin.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

what it is is if you funnel the tariff revenue directly into $TRUMP, it expands to $1T. just never try to sell it.

Steve Randy Waldman
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the price dynamics of $TRUMP / $MELANIA basically track Trump supporters' theory of gender dynamics.

Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

i can respect people who supported the ban. i can respect people who opposed it. i can respect people who want Congress to rescind the ban. what i can't respect are people who supported the ban but now want to see the law ignored.

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if you are a feminist the trade is long $MELANIA / short $TRUMP.

Steve Randy Waldman
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i'd really like some $DONJR in my wallet.

Steve Randy Waldman
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you remember how the goose that lays the golden eggs dies when they get greedy and, um, try to clone it?

Steve Randy Waldman
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This is amazing. I'm so glad that somebody is finally bringing dignity back to the White House.

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ht @stephenjudkins.bsky.social! sorry to have skipped that in my mania!

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Steve Randy Waldman
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@dylanmatt.bsky.social it's, um, not so great you used a 2022 analysis near US peak inflation to claim "economists…attributed abt 3 percentage points of inflation to excessive stimulus", when from 2021-01 to 2024-11 the US experience was about the same as the EU and Eurozone on OECD numbers. 1/

Steve Randy Waldman
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"overall price increases could have been reduced, perhaps even halved." is also misleading, since the peak you claim might have halved was quite narrow. again, given global experience since 2022, this analysis on which your diagnosis of Biden's failure largely hangs, strikes me as tendentious. 2/

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Steve Randy Waldman
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Re www.vox.com/politics/394... ht @akkartik.name My OECD numbers from data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?lc=en&pg... accessed 2025-01-19 (Overall OECD inflation, and OECD Europe, were much higher than the US, but that's largely Turkey, less comparable.) /fin

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