@marick 🙁

It is very hard to affect that Israeli government actions over the past year have been conditioned by any intention to ever find peaceful means of cohabitation with the Palestinian population that currently resides on the territory it controls. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/west-bank-raids.html

“As Milanovic dismissively concludes, neoclassical models of distribution related ‘to life on Earth about as much as the theories that astrobiologists have developed about life on Mars.’” @storracinta reviews #BrankoMilanovic https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/inequality-without-class/

@LesterB99 i see you are part of the conspiracy!

has the Netanyahu government timed its escalation-to-deescalate with Hezbollah in order to deliver an October surprise that might benefit Trump?

“focus on communities, not individuals, as the unit of change.” ~Raj Chetty https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/opinion/kamala-harris-opportunity-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp&cbgrp=p&pvid=1C2437CB-C684-49E9-8335-137AF37EC420

i was more proud of the United States back when we had already won the Civil War.

“But as Keynesian economists have long understood, the most important factor in trade flows is changes in incomes, not prices. Far from being fixed, demand is the most dynamic element in the system.” @jwmason https://jwmason.org/slackwire/at-dissent-industrial-policy-without-nationalism/

do the people of missouri just not gaf?

famous people love having selfies with famous people so for a whole menagerie of famous people there’s a photograph with whatever famous sociopath is pathing the socios today.

it was just a snapshot, they say. we barely met.

our supreme court are just horrible people.

you see, it’s not that they want to execute a man who may well be entirely innocent.

it’s about states’ rights.

A storm surge warning, a tropical storm warning, and a hurricane watch walk into a sandbar.

Julius Caesar was done with politics.

“Because jailers are in the business of healthcare. They are responsible for the death of that unfortunate soul... Everything is healthcare.” @artlung https://artlung.com/blog/2024/09/24/actually-everything-is-healthcare/

it's not, in fact, unusual for a thing to be in ones own self interest despite being contrary to the greater good.

for people trained in the anglo-american economic tradition, at an intuitive level, this is surprising. these "market failures" are what's supposed to be unusual, weird, "advanced" in a curricular sense.

Lina Khan on “60 Minutes Overtime” on noncompetes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxl4XVzvuSg

"Republican primary voters have moved from voting for Trump in spite of his transgressions to rejecting anyone who doesn’t transgress. If you’re not transgressive, you’re suspicious. Decency is countercultural in the Republican Party. It’s seen as a rebuke of Trump." @davidfrenchjag https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/opinion/mark-robinson-maga-trump.html

the remarkable Lina Khan on 60 Minutes. via #ZephyrTeachout https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-chair-lina-khan-60-minutes-transcript/

it’s not a deep fake. it’s a deep fake of a deep fake.