just deleted an instagram account i never really used. still, it felt good.

i’m not sure whether it’s state-owned media or state-owning media, but whichever of those, that’s what X is now.

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i mean, who was born on April 20? just a coincidence? observer.com/2024/04/elon...

Congress. Impeachment in general is a broken procedure under our two-party system, since every action gets coded for or against a party which can block conviction. I’m not saying it’s easy or practical or sufficient. I’m just saying it would be a good, wise precedent to set.

he’ll hire someone to put him at the top of the sieg heil league tables.

😂😢

an important precedent to set will be impeaching a Supreme Court justice for false and tendentious readings of the Constitution. it’s one of the few checks we have on them, since they arrogated the power of judicial review.

vibes are confected and promoted by pundits. they only shift in right-wing directions. they serve to promote preference falsification. just don’t. will it ever be a vibecession under Trump? (no shade to @kyla.bsky.social of whom i am very fond. it’s just how the vibes of vibes have shaken out.)

it’s not so hard. the Billionaires of the East and West are wicked. they are green and wear pointy hats and weird socks. the Billionaires of the North and South are good. they wear crowns and very puffy dresses.

i’d feel more secure about Amendment 14, Section 1 if they hadn’t substantially nullified Amendment 14, Section 3, with very little pushback or complaint because even though their decision defied the text’s clear intent (Congress is supposed to cure, not find), it seemed advisable politically.

it was the mister donut motto! “as you wander through life, brother, wherever you may roam, keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole” when i went to the college desantis destroyed i’d pull allnighters there and draw hope from that, posted on the wall.

donut holes are all around us, all the time. the making of a donut simply reveals one.

melania is like david bowie incognito today.

shittiest mt rushmore.

there was a loophole in the FDR rates for oil wealth. i’ve forgotten the details, but see Sam Pizzigati “The Rich Don’t Always Win” www.sevenstories.com/books/3727-t... oilmen, still embittered plutocrats despite good fortune, deployed their wealth as influence, financing the politics of reaction.

they didn’t like it! but we came closer to building a civilized middle class society than at any time in our history. rolling back FDR’s tax rates — explicitly intended to limit wealth accumulation, he’d lobbied for an income CAP — was one of the most destructive little bits of technocracy ever.

“Trump bizarrely orders things he has no power to compel. Here’s what happened when King Canute tried that.”

yes. “optimal” is always with respect to some goal, and we’ve learned goals economists have taken as conventional are maybe not in fact what we are after.