beautiful galaxy, deadly hurricane, strange cousins.

does FEMA have to resources to manage a recovery simultaneously of Western NC / East TN and the much more populous Tampa Bay metro area?

“but how will the complete destruction of my community affect the election?”

how many major disasters before political establishments in the South East concede the urgency of global warming?

“Will Milton author ‘Paradise Lost’ for Floridians?”

so now Milton is sending a new circle of hell our way.

@hollybrewer.bsky.social hi! the decision in Trump v. United States is authored by John Roberts, not Samuel Alito. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

"Under a democratic system, we cannot know what policy will be in 3 months, 3 years, or 3 decades…but we can have confidence in how it will be decided. Recognizing the…uncertainty of the future, this view of stability is one that bakes in change." ~Leah Downey www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

“core ideas of neoliberalism were obviously simplifications, but…powerful simplifications… They told politicians and business leaders what they ought focus on, and what they could reasonably ignore. It turned out that a lot of those things ought not to have been ignored!” ht @okaytrouble.bsky.social

i've decided to move to the counterfactual. i'd love to find you there.

best domestic policy president of my lifetime. a rough tenure on international affairs.

Biden managed quite extraordinarily to overcome Congressional obstructionism by ordinary negotiation. he was unwilling to mint the coin, still somehow negotiated past the “ransom” Rs demanded for the debt ceiling, got the rescue plan, CHIPs, IRA, and infrastructure through Congress. wow.

(they likely would have blocked attempts at the expansionary fiscal policy that the times called for.)

if Helene was caused by a Chinese hoax, how should we respond?

what if Biden just forgave the loans anyway? it’d be an official act for which he’d have at least presumptive if not absolute immunity. he can use his conclusive and preclusive pardon power the absolve all the subordinates and functionaries who would have to participate.

I’m unhappily surprised there is no provision declaring an outcome invalid + reversing trades if a candidate fails to become President by virtue of untimely death or debilitation. ForecastEx is the prediction mkt whose contracts will trade on Interactive Brokers data.forecastex.com/regulatory/P...

i'd love to learn more about the institutional differences between US and e.g. European unions that renders automation resistance (and featherbedding generally) much more prominent in the US than in other, more unionized, economies. does sectoral bargaining somehow diminish these aspects?