@Canevecchio (i’m not sure that one, “concentration camp” in translation, would meet CNN’s high standards of journalistic neutrality, given its well-known history.)

US FY 2025 deficit?

what would CNN’s euphemism, in the name of journalistic neutrality, be for extermination camps?

there would be a lot less rationing relative to medical need if what was rationed was inexpensive and abundant.

which is why, while rationing in some form of course is everywhere, it is much less contentious, less big a deal, everywhere else.

@dpp @eARCwelder how do we know you do not actually live in Providence Plantations?

really a fascinating meditation on the freedoms and burdens fragmented political spheres vs centralist attempts to order and rationalize them and then decentralist romanticizations in reaction. balance it strikes me is the thing, but balance so often is just a nice name for conflict. https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/the-cult-of-the-patchwork-chinese-modernity-1978-2012-and-the-holy-roman-empire/ ht @guan

if we were better at housing, they would welcome us as liberators.

@eyesquash but currents aren’t agents. they don’t choose themselves. we don’t pretend we can hold molecules accountable for them.

one way to describe donald trump is he likes to be a dick to friends and a friend to dicks.

the career paths now are health insurance ceo, only fans, and uber driver.

@gooser3000 "taxpayers" also are not a coherent agent.

"voters" are not a coherent agent, have radically diverse interests, no means of being held accountable in common. constituted as "voters" we are a phenomenon, not an agent, no more constructive to blame than a lightning strike. if our behavior should change, then our institutions must.

if luigi had been convicted some time ago and was on federal death row, would biden have commuted his sentence today?

tired: peace through strength

wired: peace through conquest

are there no rare earths in Antarctica?

“I cannot escape the sense that those pundits who really believed that Donald Trump was going to embrace restraint in foreign policy have been played for fools.” @dandrezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-trump-american-imperialist

@realcaseyrollins because we mutually insure one another and the Federal government has far more capable and flexible financial tools than the states.

@farah look into pneumonia. antibiotics might help. (i’m still recovering from a rough month.)

@akkartik i’m sorry. i’m a vector.

@akkartik very few checks. there’s the war powers act, a custom at best honored in the breach. i wonder how resistant the military would be to some bizarre adventure, and whether Trump would have the energy to knock heads in order to insist.