i wonder a lot what the experience is like in the world of military-to-military contacts, people who perhaps have worked in close cooperation with one another for years.

why is the new administration destroying USAID’s documents? to make it much more difficult to reconstitute programs? https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-burn-order-shred-classified-documents-f042a51c0a9f74c96b0259b51a0d4a83#

“if you install egalitarian economic institutions that result in a compressed distribution of income and wealth, the precise regional and sectoral composition of the economy becomes much less important.” #MattBruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2025/03/11/yglesias-on-the-politics-of-nafta/

So is the Khalil case going to end up at the Supreme Court on the whether a Secretary of State's statutory authorization to declare a noncitizen deportable can be Constitutionally exercised based primarily on 1A protected speech?

(Will Khalil have any opportunity to see the sun in the meantime?)

"Overall, we find that gains associated with ideological moderation are relatively modest and likely secondary to turnout effects."

// a bit sad from a persuasionist perspective, but seems consistent with recent experience, e.g. relentlessly moderating Kamala Harris damned by turnout more than swing

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5172049

i wonder a lot what the experience is like in the world of military-to-military contacts, people who perhaps have worked in close cooperation with one another for years.

i ❤️ canada.

as an independent friend and partner.

as any american should.

i am grateful they remain a voice of sanity through our lunacy, even at great cost.

i hope we recover ourselves soon, and apologize and thank them properly.

occasionally they tell the truth just to throw you off.

historically it's been great when a perception emerges that elites in government accord jews special protection, even at cost of other people's rights.

heckuva job ADL.

A year ago on March 7 my dear friend Kristine died. This year on March 7 Kevin Drum died. I wasn’t friends with Kevin, we corresponded a bit, argued a lot, I read him pretty religiously. They are both Orange County people. I claim not to be superstitious (or solipsistic) but it’s spooky to me.

democracy dies in oligarchy. https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114140043656141887

I've sent a note (via webform rather than postal mail, because time feels of the essence) to my Congressional delegation re the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. https://notes.interfluidity.com/PQ4yA2l3QmmUcNZNaJVpqA?view

Even when you're already heartbroken, the world breaks your heart. https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/

are we all Keynesians in a foxhole this time, or are our leaders determined liquidationists?

x.com down again.

you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing.

(a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)

https://X.com down again.

you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing.

(a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

can ghosts read our minds?

Musk's management style creates pain in the short term, but in the long term the pain recedes with the calm surrender of collapse.

X.com is down for me again, second outage today. Not a great sign for the American state.

pretty soon the only allies we’ll have left are israel and rhodesia.