“Beneath his facade of talking about healthy living and wellness, Kennedy is actually a eugenicist. He insists that viruses and bacteria only kill people who don’t eat healthy and exercise by his lights—essentially rejecting the germ theory of disease.”
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remember when we were a confident, generous, hopeful country?
under bukele it is starting to seem like "el salvador" was ironically named.
so, we are living under a fascist administration, but at least this is legal.
Sandwich board advertising “THC SLUSHY”
"since JFK and especially since Carter/Reagan…US has been losing its ability to tax the rich. It has increasingly chosen to tax the rest of the world, moving industry…to other countries [who] made what the US needed, and sold it to them in USD" @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/the-proximat...
The Proximate Cause Of Revolutions Is Inability To Tax & The US Is Well Down The Road
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“People are, in my opinion, usually sincere. That doesn’t mean right. It doesn’t mean praiseworthy, or good, or admirable. But people–even politicians–are not usually pursuing some deep, complex cynical scheme. When it seems like they are, it might just mean that they disagree with you.”
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every accusation is a confession, the early years.
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existence is inconceivable, but so is its alternative.
i think the late for coffee metaphor here is really good.
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it would be better if the stock market crashes us into a consensus to impeach and remove before the dollar and US Treasuries are permanently discredited.
it’s true a “deep state” means the ship of state turns slowly, acts as a kind of low-pass filter on the effect of political decision making and remaking, and therefore in a certain sense “restrains democracy”. 1/
but it also helps immunize the polity from the consequences of political noise, short-lived passions, momentary errors, accidentally electing a mad king. 2/
genuine democracies don’t naively presume that popular passions are always perfect. they build institutions that give effect to values and interests durably expressed by the public, but frustrate controversial sharp turns unless they persist and recruit broad consensus. 3/
with apologies to Mencken, democracy is not when the people get what they want good and hard, but when government is responsive to the people but able to distinguish signal from noise, without any king or higher authority arrogating the role of deciding what’s signal. 4/
it’s the institution. /fin
normally you might think inflation due to abrupt and ill-targeted tariffs might be offset by disinflation of domestic prices, due to the recession they provoke. but perhaps not if the immigration crackdown craters supply of even domestically produced goods.
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if AI writes the law, what was the legislative intent?
[new draft post] Keynesian compromise https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/20/keynesian-compromise/index.html
it's weird that about the same time of year jews and christians celebrate the unrisen and risen respectively.
what if we just promoted him to the next James Bond?
“The phenomenon of induced demand is as real for transit as it is for highways: If you provide a more attractive service, more people will use it. If you cut service, riders will disappear.” @jonathanenglish.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?
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Delaware, like Columbia, is learning that you just can’t appease these people. i mean, they tried www.commondreams.org/opinion/elon...
Screenshot of a tweet in which Elon Musk writes “At this point, any lawyer recommending incorporation in Delaware is committing malpractice”
“Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It” @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...
Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It
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On how the Great Depression hit Romania. Let's not do this shit again, anywhere. by Balutescu Marius Petrisor blogulluibalutescu.blogspot.com/2025/03/mare... (in Romanian, Google Translate will get you there if Romanian isn't your thing.)