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[new draft post] Keynesian compromise https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/20/keynesian-compromise/index.html
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(we were at a Greek Orthodox church last night. i'm not in communion, alas, but the wife and kid got what looked almost like white cornbread, little squares of bread but definitely leavened.)
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it's weird that about the same time of year jews and christians celebrate the unrisen and risen respectively.
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i mean, just because he's a Nazi doesn't mean he has to play one on teevee. and better play anything on teevee than, um, control our armed forces.
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what if we just promoted him to the next James Bond?
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“The phenomenon of induced demand is as real for transit as it is for highways: If you provide a more attractive service, more people will use it. If you cut service, riders will disappear.” @jonathanenglish.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?
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yes.
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Delaware, like Columbia, is learning that you just can’t appease these people. i mean, they tried www.commondreams.org/opinion/elon...
Screenshot of a tweet in which Elon Musk writes “At this point, any lawyer recommending incorporation in Delaware is committing malpractice”
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“Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It” @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...
Section 230: We Really Should Talk About It
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Steve Randy Waldman
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i think health care might be a low hanging fruit. it’s expensive — any intervention from a health-care “safety net” to full universal care will cost a lot of money, so create a lot of income and therefore domestic demand. 1/
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but it’s not “welfarist” in the sense it enables people to opt out of work, become complacent or decadent or whatever people like Xi misproject on Western social democracy. it’s a complement to labor, never a substitute. 2/
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right now, China is still hoping it can ride through the turbulence and continue to rely on global demand to pull out of stagnation. but if the US remains chaotically cold turkey and Europe refuses to take on much of its role, i think China will get there… 3/
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with “there” defined as domestic demand stimulus, not necessarily through health care, but for the reasons above, maybe health care is a good bet. /fin
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grassley as caretaker.
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Grassley
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On how the Great Depression hit Romania. Let's not do this shit again, anywhere. by Balutescu Marius Petrisor blogulluibalutescu.blogspot.com/2025/03/mare... (in Romanian, Google Translate will get you there if Romanian isn't your thing.)
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Great paragraphs from @jamellebouie.net to have on hand next time you find yourself conversing with the MAGA-pilled. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Text: Vance begins with a lie. “Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country.” That is a load-bearing “approximately,” to say the least. The U.S.-Mexico border is where the greatest number of immigrants enter the country. But according to an analysis by FactCheck.org, from 2021 to 2024 Customs and Border Patrol officers stationed there released 2.5 million people into the United States, with notices to report to immigration authorities for further hearings and processing, out of 6.5 million “encounters” across the U.S.-Mexico border and legal ports of entry. In addition, an estimated 1.6 million people evaded law enforcement to enter the country, for a total of 4.1 million people. You may think that’s still too many. But it’s nowhere near what Vance says it is. Vance goes on to assert that this imaginary horde of “20 million illegal aliens” placed “extraordinary burdens on our country” and “committed violent crimes, or facilitated fentanyl and sex trafficking.” It’s been shown again and again that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens do. Stating otherwise is demagogic innuendo meant to short-circuit the rational mind and inflame prejudice.
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the article i linked to suggests that’s a mischaracterization. before Jan 6, same day (Jan 5) as the remark taken to suggest that, Grassley’s spokesperson clarified that Grassley had referred to the Senate-only convening, not the joint session, and that Grassley expected Pence at the joint session.
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he’s been a coward, like nearly all Republicans still electeds. but “in on Jan 6” strikes me as mistaken, and cowardice superior to malice. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
Democrats have criticized Chuck Grassley's record on Jan. 6. Here's what we found:
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if we can make it that long without a serious rupture or interventions that undermine the elections.
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i’m not going to argue with whichever path gets us to a survivable shoreline. 2026 seems a lifetime away, though, given the pace of the vandalism and arson. maybe it slows and we can make it ‘til then.