Five years ago I would have been excited about this. Hayek deserves engagement from the left and progressives. Unfortunately, I think Sunstein has gotten less interesting in recent years.

When this is all over and we’ve had the trials and the sentencing this sacred bit of cardboard should be framed and mounted in the National Gallery of Art

Ah yes. I forgot to share this yesterday.

I noticed that in Walnut Creek, too. Carloads of retirees “cruising” N Main, waving signs and hooting and hollering. Having so much fun.

LFG! ❌👑 #NoKings

At least along El Camino Real in the lower peninsula, cars passing by with signs are a much bigger part of the protest than I have seen previously. Those people will be hard to count, but they matter too.

I know that Americans have the collective memory of goldfish but I the second I saw Minnesotans in Family Guy pajama pants telling federal agents to eat shit to their faces I knew something had shifted

This.

✊No Kings: Bruce Springsteen continued to bash Donald Trump on his tour last night in Liverpool, calling him “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” @marcofoster.bsky.social

The Thomas Paine Star Trek starship: The U.S.S. Thomas Paine NCC-65530. A New Orleans-class Federation starship. First mentioned in Star Trek TNG episode "Conspiracy", it would go on to appear in okudagrams in 4 other ST:TNG episodes. @StarTrek

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Wellington's woke. He won't take the shot.

Laughing. Crying. Throwing up. Begging people to please believe the empirical fact that making political arguments over time changes what people think.

If I were a vast imperial power I would simply not become so hubristic about my military might that I become embroiled in a prolonged asymmetrical war with a weaker power who's fundamental willingness to stick it out means that they can bear not losing for longer than I can afford to not win.

So ... anyone else going to #NoKings in the Mountain View/Sunnyvale area tomorrow?

Reminder. Same cadence as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

No Kings.

Honestly full marks to Trump for calling out the absurdity of "military operations."

I think even for the very first debates, it should be winnowed to a single digit number of candidates at most. More than a half-dozen or so and it's a useless exercise, they each get like one or two chances to talk for 30 seconds. Nobody's going to be a serious breakout star from that.

They just need to cut it way down so it's no more than the genuine top five or so, which you can do with polling, and accept that means not every governor or senator is gonna make it. Not when there are fifteen of them running and a dozen of those are flatlining at effectively 0%.

Vigeland: You could pay for college for all for Americans in a week with what we're spending in Iran.

First drafts of the essays will be heading to our designer soon. I'm working with printers but would like to get a gut check on the scale of the print run. This isn't a pre-order, just a way to help us with our estimates. Thanks in advance!

Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago. ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week. Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"

Welcome to American politics, where you can be part of "the next generation" well into your 60s.

heh

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying https://theonion.com/rising-conservative-star-just-guy-wearing-nazi-armband-1849855062/

Lady Gaga was so fucking heroic for this.

Thread. I really do not understand why people insist on rigid definitions for either liberalism or socialism. These are families of ideas spanning centuries and continents. They contain multitudes. Anyway, Adam Smith himself was an egalitarian, suspicious of capitalists.

The anti-birthright pseudo-scholarship has been rife with dishonesty. Not error, not mistakes. Bad-faith dishonesty. They are lying and know they're lying. They're lying because it suits their political goals. Denouncing them in those terms is not incidental, it is the essential heart of the matter.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

The Silicon Valley Techno-Rationalist-Fascists gotta be, like, the stupidest people in world history, right?

Class-warfare and Social Disorder in Wealth of Nations With shout outs to @aoprea.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Nithya Raman is still criminally under-followed! All good YIMBYs, liberals, and democratic socialists should be following her. @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social

One thing you learn from intellectual history is that there are always alternative views (not to mention women & minorities) who get lost as History coalesces. It could be that Matt Yglesias will have always been the canonical liberal intellectual of the early 21st century.

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

I'm expecting a wheelbarrow-full of pardons for insider trading on January 19, 2029. Note that the prospect of those pardons helps to keep subordinates in line. Corrupt-cop style, make sure that lots of people get a little taste, then make clear that the pardon depends on continued loyalty.

YIMBYism has won the battle for the heart of the Democratic Party. there are still some holdouts (looking at you, Karen Bass), but Democrats are finally becoming the party of building more housing, transit, and clean energy

This is a very important phenomenon that’s happening across organizing spaces. People haven’t stopped political work, mass demonstrations have become a less central tactic.Given that we know diversity of tactics&building parallel institutions is what makes movements powerful, this is a good thing.

Listen, I bet my other bundle-ees that we would sell 300 subs on our first day. Plz help me win this non-monetary and extremely friendly bet!!!

More seriously, I completely agree with @aselrod.bsky.social here. Earnestness is a forgotten virtue that we badly need to recover. I spent all of college and a lot of grad school as an irony-poisoned New Atheist libertarian, and there's an adjacent timeline where I ended up on the far side of IDW.

You know who was really earnest? Vladimir Lenin.

Day 26 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British mathematician Ada Lovelace! Lovelace rethought the potential of symbolic thinking, creating programming techniques that led to what we now call software. She is now the namesake of a programming language and a cryptocurrency! #herstory #womeninSTEM

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Idolaters and blasphemers, the lot of them.

In Palo Alto today: Regular Gasoline $6.19 Plus Gasoline $6.49 V-Power Gasoline $6.69 Diesel #2 $7.79 Even though CA has a higher gas tax than other states this is all because Trump decided to bomb Iran with Israel when they posed no threat to the US.

Elizabeth Banks

Trump 2 started with companies paying corrupt bribes to Trump by “settling” totally frivolous lawsuits. Now Trump will order his DOJ to “settle” a series of frivolous lawsuits by his cronies as a mechanism for stealing your money straight from the federal treasury.

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

I support gender and sexual liberation so that no human being will ever be Assigned Cop At Birth.