i want to vomit.
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i keep reading inequality is over, like it was a 2010s thing but it got fixed.
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where's DOGE when you need 'em? by @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea
Link Preview: Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea: Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border.”people for whom sincerity and consistency are entirely orthogonal.
from an excellent essay by @williamcb.bsky.social williamcullernebown.substack.com/p/between-ru...
Text: This darkness is a fear that both liberals and social democrats share. However, it is only the social democrats who have the capacity to reach out to the force likely to ultimately tip the balance in this contest - the working class. Thus the basic political arrangement that friends of freedom and democracy should adopt is a broad front led by social democrats.
“there’s just no getting around the fact that a lot of people around the world are going to suffer and die in order to save the typical American taxpayer a negligible sum.” @dkthomp.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
[new draft post] A few simple points https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/22/a-few-simple-points/index.html
you'd expect up if inflation gets bad. but if they really held short term rates low, if "no matter what" was treated as ironclad, than maybe not? maybe a decade-ish would be too long for any commitment to be taken seriously?
if Trump bullies the Fed into cutting and offering forward guidance with high commitment to keep rates low no matter what, do long-term rates go down or up?
running the government on the management principles that built the 737 MAX.
Next e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management… SUBJECT: What R U Wearing?