how many major disasters before political establishments in the South East concede the urgency of global warming?

“Will Milton author ‘Paradise Lost’ for Floridians?”

so now Milton is sending a new circle of hell our way.

@hollybrewer.bsky.social hi! the decision in Trump v. United States is authored by John Roberts, not Samuel Alito. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

"Under a democratic system, we cannot know what policy will be in 3 months, 3 years, or 3 decades…but we can have confidence in how it will be decided. Recognizing the…uncertainty of the future, this view of stability is one that bakes in change." ~Leah Downey www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

“core ideas of neoliberalism were obviously simplifications, but…powerful simplifications… They told politicians and business leaders what they ought focus on, and what they could reasonably ignore. It turned out that a lot of those things ought not to have been ignored!” ht @okaytrouble.bsky.social

i've decided to move to the counterfactual. i'd love to find you there.

if Helene was caused by a Chinese hoax, how should we respond?

what if Biden just forgave the loans anyway? it’d be an official act for which he’d have at least presumptive if not absolute immunity. he can use his conclusive and preclusive pardon power the absolve all the subordinates and functionaries who would have to participate.

I’m unhappily surprised there is no provision declaring an outcome invalid + reversing trades if a candidate fails to become President by virtue of untimely death or debilitation. ForecastEx is the prediction mkt whose contracts will trade on Interactive Brokers data.forecastex.com/regulatory/P...

Is the ubiquitously paywalled media ecosystem of today more or less healthy than the media ecosystem of the early 2000s “information wants to be free” era? are the larger worlds they subsist in just too different to render a comparison meaningful?

Usually people who begin a claim with “I’m sorry, but…” aren’t actually sorry.

A key tactic of right-wing politics is identifying and then sabotaging the parts of government whose smooth functioning would prevent the crisis you want to demagogue.

"Congress needs to repeal the Federal Arbitration Act." ~Matthew Saroff 40yrs.blogspot.com/2024/10/yeah... // If you've ever clicked anything on the internet (or someone else clicked stuff on your phone) + you get injured in an Uber, you'll be going to arbitration rather than have your day in court

a thing i would not have predicted, presidential prediction markets on Interactive Brokers.

It’s a bit weird to hold up FL as example of good YIMBY policy. FL policy does help get a lot of multifamily housing built! But overwhelmingly in ways contrary to YIMBY urbanist/environmental ideals. Maybe some restriction shld attach to liberties YIMBYs recommend? www.slowboring.com/p/housing-po...

sure it can be a bit wriggly, maybe even a little bit gross, but that’s just what a healthy macrobiome looks like.

am i the only person for whom the names “vance” and “walz” code as oddly similar? i sometimes hear a claim about one and misinterpret it as referring to the other until i double-check myself.

freedom includes the right to be left alone, but that doesn’t mean being left alone should be the default.