the fact that plutocrats and the Nazis are allied renders donor-dependent organizations particularly likely to cave to unlawful state coercion, alas. financing public goods via philanthropy means we’ve been governed substantially by plutocrats for a while.

we blame government for being inefficient when it is under-resourced, so we strip it of resources to make it more efficient.

you aut not.

i love canada and wish my own country hadn’t turned sociopathic.

we’re eliminating TPS for Ukrainians, potentially forcing them back to a war zone, but throwing down a red carpet for South African farmers. make it make sense, even taking for granted this administration’s racism.

“Democrats are going to have a hard time saving the republic if they’re spending their time convincing people it doesn’t need saving.”

Killing Pax Americana means killing nuclear nonproliferation. Thank Donald Trump.

don’t forget your index fund is a means of maintaining a DIVERSIFIED exposure to EQUITY markets, INCLUSIVE of every stock in a broad index.

so if my personal item is oversize they might charge me $100. what’s the fee for shutting down whole airports and making planes turn around midflight? does SpaceX cover it? are travelers compensated?

perhaps this novel we play bit parts in is called “Biden Shrugged”.

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“I think Trump is modeling himself to be our Caesar, ending the Republic and creating an Empire. He would be far better off, as would we all, if he modeled himself after Solon, the forgiver of debt.” econcrit.blogspot.com/2025/03/trum...

i don’t think it’s so much short-term survival as @schwarz.bsky.social’ “iron law of institutions”. if the party tanks from its divisions but they end up captaining the sinking ship, they prefer that to being irrelevant, a bankbencher who is whipped rather than whips, in a winning party.

this is the view that breaks the brains of people i know.

“and only i can fix it.” it’s not Dems’ group self-interest that is operative here.

without comment.

you'd think Visa would have trademark concerns about that…

the unfair part is, if you want to raise a lot of revenue from tariffs, it means people will have to pay a lot, and markets won't like that. surely there's a way to raise a lot of tariff revenue without making anybody pay it. back to the drawing board! where's Elon?!

it's not correct yet.

and you wonder why they're hostile to canada.