this is the “You’re fired!” presidency.
@lori you’re in my reader!
the feed for blog i’m writing on most now (politics and economics-ish) is https://drafts.interfluidity.com/feed/index.rss
for all my blogs (including a tech notebook and a rarely updated “main” blog as well as drafts), it’s https://www.interfluidity.com/unify-rss/all-blogs.rss
@lori i still build my world around RSS! (you can subscribe by mail if you want.)
we are pioneering a new economic system: casino feudalism
i think all social media posts should begin with a land acknowledgment that blogs were here first and sincere expressions of contrition for colonizing the place and destroying the culture.
reagan: peace through strength
trump: peace through perfidy
this administration just DGAF about derelictions of commitments the United States had previously taken on, even when such derelictions are literally and quite immediately deadly. USAID stop-works, ending intelligence sharing with Ukraine including air defense assistance, all have body counts.
@relentless_eduardo it doesn’t use taxpayer money. it’s a private organization.
i’ve had my issues with ActBlue, but debilitating Democratic fundraising infrastructure would be an obvious “competitive authoritarian” play. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/politics/actblue-democrat-fundraising-resignations.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“If you do not recognize that mass destruction of fundamental concepts of democracy and the US Constitution happening right now, you are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid. I can’t put it any clearer than that.” @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/ ht @inthehands
i feel like if they fire me and then decide they want me back they should beg my forgiveness and lure me with a nice raise.
“The reality we're seeing unfold is policy that's likely to hurt…workers while primarily benefiting those with enough money to weather the storm and capitalize on distressed assets afterward.“ @kylascan https://kyla.substack.com/p/an-orchestrated-recession-trumps
@realcaseyrollins i’m sure the question is academic because you have better taste than that.
if you don’t want to be shunned for your cybertruck, just write FUCK ELON in maximal block letters on its rump hood and gigantic backside.
from @jbouie https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opinion/trump-revenge-american-people.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k4.tMFy.S4Y0L8lOygBN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare ht @rickywlmsbong
Text: Under the cover of an audit, he has empowered Elon Musk, his de facto co-president, to take an ax to any and every program that helps ordinary Americans. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency has stripped funds or personnel or both from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Park Service, the National Weather Service, FEMA, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration, among others. It has degraded the federal government's ability to deliver critical services to tens of millions of Americans and is endangering direct payments to millions more. There is no apparent rhyme or reason to these cuts, only a nihilistic drive to cause as much damage and to make it as irreparable as possible.
@GuerillaOntologist if they ever showed you a graph of supply and demand shaded with producer and consumer surplus, they were making welfare claims and defying their so-called positive-not-normative stance.
i agree that econ professors have typically been more snowed than cynical in their ideological blind spots.
@GuerillaOntologist you can be charitable and describe them as blinded by epistemological caution, or be more accurate and describe them as handmaidens for the ideology that conferred prestige upon their discipline.
@GuerillaOntologist only growth is not an answer to that critique. not in the least. it’s a non sequitur, a diversion.
@GuerillaOntologist ( there is no answer without positing a social welfare function, that is without copping to a set of normative views. please read my thousands-words five-part series on the subject! https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5149.html )
fascists are learning that women are unreliable appointees to the Supreme Court even if they have impeccable pedigree from a Federalist Society whose core intent is to prevent deprogramming. https://hls.harvard.edu/bibliography/the-drifters-why-supreme-court-justices-drift-left/
“popularists” describe the median voter as a kind of idiot whose prejudices must be catered to.
real voters are not that, are capable of detecting the condescension in the strategy, and flee those motherfuckers every chance they can.