how many of the things that were described to you as “unforgettable” can you remember?

suppose, hypothetically of course, that the owner of a key military supplier, upon whose products national security depends, is himself a grave security risk. is there nothing in American law that could force the security risk to divest?

so, i guess it’s settled then.

seen in Daytona Beach, FL.

@LesterB99 doesn’t all the world follow American news? it is here, after all, that the great controversies of the day are being hashed out.

from “concerned that so sharp an immigration wave might pose challenges to a community” to “they’re eating the cats” is the ultimate motte and bailey.

rewatched “The Warriors” forty years later. found myself nostalgic for a lost dystopia.

if crypto weren’t so sexist, they’d mint some tobarbies too.

who in your life has succumbed to the Vump Trance?

you’d think Vance would be supportive of cat-eating on pro-natalist grounds.

“Congress simply doesn’t legislate much anymore, focusing on confirming judges, who are now perceived…as super-legislators… the Biden [Administration] made an aggressive argument to limit judicial reaching” @matthewstoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/justice-department-moves-to-roll

@BackFromTheDud ah! Got it. a bit thick i am!

@BackFromTheDud thanks! but i’m still missing it?

“It is often alleged that means-testing proponents actually like the fact that the administrative burdens of the tests exclude some poor people because that saves money. But rarely do you ever see it laid out this explicitly.” #MattBruenig on the now means-tested UK “Winter Fuel Payment” https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2024/09/13/the-comedy-of-the-winter-fuel-payment-means-test/

“The lesson of history is that it does not matter where you draw the lines on the map. What matters is what kind of society lies on each side of that line. Liberal democracy is the only thing yet discovered that offers a chance for climbing out of the bloody river. Until Palestinians and Israelis both choose liberal democracy, there will be no peace. I do not know how to get there. I only know it is where we must go.” @sjshancoxli https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-bloody-river/

perhaps laura loomer is an antibody, an apparatus to which a threat is drawn, rendering it visible and visibly noxious to the larger system.

“the right to interstate travel is a lot like the right to abortion once was: a core freedom that is grounded in our Constitution but does not appear in the text of the document” @andyreports and Lisa Needham https://www.publicnotice.co/p/texas-medical-records-abortion ht @memeorandum

“social housing development can impose competitive discipline on private rivals. As a public option in the housing market, it can rein in the pricing power of private landlords and pressure them to raise standards of habitability for poor, working, and middle-class families.” #BrianCallaci #SandeepVaheesan https://hbr.org/2024/09/the-market-alone-cant-fix-the-u-s-housing-crisis ht @jwmason

This (apocryphal) practice that has overtaken the national debate, I think I have a name for it — fidophagia.

@akkartik Yes. Certainly. Saying that a state's formal fiscal footprint tends to correlate with social democracy in some sense doesn't say anything about the character of a government that might, for example, persecute minorities or worse even as it implements a comfy herenvolk Keynesianism. States are not inherently good. They are inherently powerful. So capable of great good, and also great evil, and usually both.

@akkartik Not perhaps the strongest endorsement of my (duly chastened!) argument.

It does sound like "intention" maps to the laws the somewhat accountable central state formally enacts, but that a pretty complete lack of accountability of those charged to execute those intentions undo them?