that you support a thing doesn’t mean you support every implication of the thing. i support highway speeds faster than 40 mph, which may well imply more traffic fatalities. but that doesn’t mean i am for traffic fatalities.

“They seem to have confused masculinity with childishness — petulance, aggression and self-obsession being their idea of maleness.” @edwardluce.bsky.social

An amazingly rich and thorough long read on rent control as an institution and the importance of security of tenure to the formation of public goods like vibrant and secure neighborhoods, by @filipamv.bsky.social. One of the best things I’ve ever read on rent control and the issues surrounding it.

patronage, partisanship, and misgovernment. a talented person who devotes his talents to resentment, ego, and the purchase of political support. a tale too small to be tragic, too destructive to be comedic. ht @dianabhenriques.bsky.social

i guess one way to concisely state the theory of Trumpism is that money is meritocracy.

i for one think we should bring the second best available evidence to the problem.

or, will the Supreme Court, reveling in extratextuality and with an irony they’d find delicious, claim that the 14th Amendment nationalized the Presidential pardon?

look, if your wife is mad at you it’s fine, Donald Trump can just issue a pardon.

"the public sector ought to have, and in practice generally does have, a much lower discount rate than the private sector. This used to be a big part of debates on the economics of climate change. But it’s also relevant to housing." (see also CA Prop 13) an excellent post by @jwmason.bsky.social

(the party is unusually fortunate at the moment.)

“You can’t libel entire ethnicities and then cry about decaying standards. You are the lower standard, you cheap thug.”

bill 🤝 bernie brave new world.

instead, one way to understand the antivax movement is as a red herring to distract from the financial inconveniences of environmental causes.

what if our republic were a multilevel marketing company? 🤔

we so often see the first person where there is no person.

“History is clear: countries escape debt traps through growth” @arjunjayadev.bsky.social @jwmason.bsky.social & Ahilan Kardirgamar jwmason.substack.com/p/sri-lankas...

what distinguishes Elon Musk from his peers is an incapacity to keep his work — on projects they often share — discreet.