why is the new administration destroying USAID’s documents? to make it much more difficult to reconstitute programs? apnews.com/article/usai...

“if you install egalitarian economic institutions that result in a compressed distribution of income and wealth, the precise regional and sectoral composition of the economy becomes much less important.” @mattbruenig.bsky.social mattbruenig.com/2025/03/11/y...

So is the Khalil case going to end up at the Supreme Court on the whether a Secretary of State's statutory authorization to declare a noncitizen deportable can be Constitutionally exercised based primarily on 1A protected speech? (Will Khalil have any opportunity to see the sun in the meantime?)

"Overall, we find that gains associated with ideological moderation are relatively modest and likely secondary to turnout effects." // a bit sad from persuasionist perspective, but seems consistent with recent experience, e.g. relentlessly moderating Kamala Harris damned by turnout more than swing

i wonder a lot what the experience is like in the world of military-to-military contacts, people who perhaps have worked in close cooperation with one another for years.

i ❤️ canada. as an independent friend and partner. as any american should. i am grateful they remain a voice of sanity through our lunacy, even at great cost. i hope we recover ourselves soon, and apologize and thank them properly.

Great news. ht @gottalaff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

occasionally they tell the truth just to throw you off.

well, a generous native speaker! i know from my 30-something-brained Romanian i'll never be mistaken for a native speaker, but i can pretty fully participate in Romanian life. i really hope eventually to achieve that with Spanish.

cc @steveroth.bsky.social ht @buddyyakov.bsky.social

Hai vino la mine, sa bem si sa aruncam o tesla… i mean, if drunken axe throwing is a thing in America, why not? next time we meet.

i'm trying to learn Spanish now.

i speak Romanian but never knew this word.

"There's a big difference between being demanding and being demeaning…Unfortunately…what seems to be in vogue right now is a more demeaning approach to leadership." @adamgrant.bsky.social via Aki Ito www.businessinsider.com/low-performe...

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.