leaves most of the country well above sea level.

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does Israel attack Iran directly (perhaps strikes on facilities related to their nuclear program) before November 5?

are campaign rallies an effective form of campaigning?

i feel like Israel’s strategy at this point is to try to mow a really, really big lawn.

if Gavin Newsom is ever in a Democratic primary contest, just haul out a list of all the bills he’s vetoed as governor.

when you’re young, you want to thrill yourself. when you’re old, you want to calm yourself.

a contemporary variant of “drown the truth in a sea of lies” is “cry wolf so loud and often that when the wolf arrives no one will listen”

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but rents are down, and people have been putting apartments on the rental market they hadn't put on the market previously. it must be the repeal of rent controls incentivizing new supply!

“compelling account of democracy today…will describe…at least two important requirements…the polity’s collective capacity…to achieve common goals…[and] a measure of material equality that enables citizens to make credible claims abt what those goals ought to be” democracyjournal.org/arguments/in...

it’s not the quantity of news that overwhelms me, but the direction.

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“Speech may be free, but in practice political speech is beyond the buying-power of…majority of citizens… social media [offers] appearance of free speech but ensur[es]…the clamour of the crowd (or the occult working of the algorithm) muffles most of it.” fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/09/mone...

people are like project 2025 blah blah he’s gonna eliminate NOAA blah blah. it’s like they forget he has a Sharpie.

“A dictatorship doesn't give the government greater power over the wealthy, it gives the government greater power over the poor, because the wealthy always have power.” ~Vivek Chibber www.bloomberg.com/news/article... // explaining Elon. explaining all of them, really.

i don’t know if “the networked state” will ever be a thing, but network diasporas plainly are.

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no group kisses up more than the people who already fancy themselves top of the heap.

We visted Medellin, Columbia recently. I was impressed by how much development in the upscale neighborhood where we stayed was very appealing high-rise.