“You cannot restrict unfreedom to a particular class of people. It will metastasize to consume the entire society.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o... ht @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Opinion | America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny
Link Preview: Opinion | America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should not be in prison. Especially not in El Salvador.
just called my Florida Congressional delegation to express my CECOT outrage. one human picked up (on behalf of Rep Luna), two voicemails (Sens Scott and Moody).
the right time to throw the ring of power into the volcano is when it is you who holds it. we forgot that, tried to wield it, now look who we’ve become.
in the kingdom of lies, honesty is treason.
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“nobody can be trusted w/absolute power, least of all the demagogues who seek it. The one good thing Trump’s trade policies are achieving is to demonstrate this yet again. They are harbingers of chaos. The world’s challenge is to survive the folly. The US’s is to end it.” www.ft.com/content/a3e6...
The economic consequences of a mad king
Link Preview: The economic consequences of a mad king: Trump’s delight in doing whatever he wishes in the moment is incompatible with stability and sustained dynamism
hey, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Prime. instead of $40M for a documentary on Melania (really?), how about a fraction of that for a documentary on the life of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, his wife and the two children he is helping to raise?
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“It’s a great idea, if…done right. Federal lands are a national resource, and the nation needs more housing… What cities like St. George need most—and what they mostly refuse to allow—are modest homes and apartments for…workers and families.” @bcappelbaum.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...
Opinion | Federal Lands Are a Resource. America Needs More Housing. What’s the Problem?
Link Preview: Opinion | Federal Lands Are a Resource. America Needs More Housing. What’s the Problem?: Public land is a promising place to build what Western cities need most and mostly don’t allow: homes and apartments for low-wage workers.
(may i suggest microcities? www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html or just the sort if districts @holz-bau.bsky.social would design and propose?)
some people think it was a kind of ennui that left us open to fascism, citing perhaps Fukyama’s “last man” and a predicted rebellion against that status by those with “megalothymia”. 1/
i think it was not ennui but annoyance that left us vulnerable. people were just annoyed by pronouns and what one might call the microincriminations of “wokeness”. These seemed real, even pressing, while words like “fascism” or “tyranny” or “extermination camps” seemed hypothetical, overwrought. 2/
oops. /fin
“Deep understanding of reality is intrinsically dual use.” @michaelnielsen.bsky.social
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the only way it's true Bukele does not have the power to produce him is if they've killed him. have they killed him?
i wonder if people have done any polling across the multiracial "tattooed" demographic.
is there no 8th Amendment, cruel-and-unusual-punishment challenge to CECOT?
jfc.
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bring back Nightline, “America Held Hostage”, where is Ted Koppel when we need him?
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yes, but they scolded me for not wearing a mask, and made me endure frequent nasal swabs because i refused the vaccine.
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have we considered a tariff on imprisonment, enslavement, and torture? can't have hard working american torturers competing with sadists making third world wages.
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i wonder if instead of oscillating between "risk-on" (stocks up, Treasury prices down) and "risk-off" (stocks down, Treasury prices up), we're going have shifts between "normalization" (stocks up, Treasury prices up, dollar up) and "de-dollarization" (stocks down, Treasury prices down, dollar down).
there are better ways to do industrial policy than tariffs, but if you were using tariffs to do industrial policy they would be sectoral, and certainly wouldn’t be incoherently targeting bilateral trade deficits.
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Word of the day — “soteriology”, a doctrine or theology of salvation from @quinnae.com via @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
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