if this one passes, @mattlevine.bsky.social might need to revise his mantra "everything is securities fraud" to "there's no such thing as securities fraud".

historically it's been great when a perception emerges that elites in government accord jews special protection, even at cost of other people's rights. heckuva job ADL.

A year ago on March 7 my dear friend Kristine died. This year on March 7 Kevin Drum died. I wasn’t friends with Kevin, we corresponded a bit, argued a lot, I read him pretty religiously. They are both Orange County people. I claim not to be superstitious (or solipsistic) but it’s spooky to me.

Thread on Kevin Drum.

democracy dies in oligarchy. cf @parkermolloy.com www.readtpa.com/p/another-da... ht William Lindsey

I've sent a note (via webform rather than postal mail, because time feels of the essence) to my Congressional delegation re the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. notes.interfluidity.com/PQ4yA2l3QmmU...

sometimes labor productivity is when you get customers to do more of the work. it's not clear if that's a net increase in prosperity, or just a transfer of burden. cf @goolsbee.bsky.social et al www.nber.org/papers/w33555 ht @mattgrossmann.bsky.social

Even when you're already heartbroken, the world breaks your heart. jabberwocking.com/health-updat...

are we all Keynesians in a foxhole this time, or are our leaders determined liquidationists?

i think "looming depression" might soon outweigh "trump take egg" even for antipolitical, low-information voters.

X.com down again. you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing. (a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

can ghosts read our minds?

there's a certain irony to the people championing stablecoins simultaneously championing the people destabilizing their most prominent backing currency.

Musk's management style creates pain in the short term, but in the long term the pain recedes with the calm surrender of collapse. X.com is down for me again, second outage today. Not a great sign for the American state.

pretty soon the only allies we’ll have left are israel and rhodesia.

the Venn diagram between what i take from the Jewish tradition and what ADL takes from it is just two circles, very very very far away from each other.

is Khalil alleged to have violated any laws?

when “deep research” surfs the web for you, does it do the CAPTCHAs?

people with idiotic politics demand we deport people for having idiotic politics.