what if he doesn’t defy the Supreme Court because this Court defers to him and gives him whatever he wants (perhaps withholding a few tokens for a fig leaf of independence). is our democracy not at risk then?
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we really need alternatives to corporate mass media that aren’t corporate social media.
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i remember when every day had a main character rather than a main catastrophe.
i haven’t read “Abundance” yet, but here’s a bit i wrote when i knew it was coming. drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/17/a...
Text: The core of an abundance agenda, I posit, would be to reshape American capitalism so that overcapacity, rather than capacity nearly fully employed, becomes the norm. At desirable overcapacity, the marginal cost of a new unit would sit approximately at the minimum of firms' marginal cost schedule, well below the level where costs meaningfully rise. Firms can't do this on their own. Under capitalism, the means of production are in private hands, but production is always a public-private partnership. That firms use public roads and rely upon public regulation does not render our economy socialist. An abundance economy should rely upon private firms competing aggressively, pursuing pricing power through quality and innovation, rather than by engineering scarcity. But if we want industries to eschew capital discipline, if we want firms to deploy capacity at levels that would undo the pricing power scarce capacity yields, the public sector will have to subsidize capital deployment.
you only press “sleep” when it is time to wake up.
when the executive has discretion over who has “the right to have rights”, then no one has any rights at all.
most of the time i like to think that i’m hysterical. then i read the news.
was it Patrick Henry who wrote “give me liberty or pay me off”?
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the way you reduce Federal interest outlays is you retire debt with wealth taxes.
i really hate the conflation of globalism and neoliberalism. neoliberal globalism was a catastrophe. but other globalisms are possible, globalism per se is a mark of freedom and taking pleasure in the variety that springs from the humanity and dignity we share.
when you strip away the everything bagel, you may find you are left with white bread.
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one thing i’d not have guessed is it’s the rich who’ve decided to burn it all down. recruiting the discontent and fanning the cynicism of the not so rich, sure. but the rich are in drivers’ seat of uprooting the foundations of their own extraordinary lives. great wealth turns people stupid.
this by @jamellebouie.net on the not merely unconstitutional but anti-constitutional nature of the Trump administration is excellent. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
Opinion | Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional (Gift Article)
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NOAA and FEMA “are being unlawfully defunded in a bid to justify privatization. Before Musk and other rentiers seize public assets, they’re deliberately breaking them to ‘prove’ the right-wing myth of public-sector ineptitude.” @kennystancil.bsky.social prospect.org/environment/...
do most American workers live “paycheck to paycheck”? maybe. it depends what that means. see @mattbruenig.bsky.social www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/h...
How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?
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my cat has obtained $44B valuation in sharp turnaround. (i don’t have a cat.)
“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally.” @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
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“free speech means i am free to control the speech.”
we can’t even solve the alignment problem between massively insured humans and the rest of us. ht @chrislay.bsky.social
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