Today in "The reason we are here (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no senior officials went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra" bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The broader fallacy is perpetuated by moralizing people that claim that national output belongs to those that "work hard" and "take risks". Science tells us very clearly that this kind of thinking is incoherent. National output is a product of the sum total of **society**.

I feel we could talk more about the scope of the AI/robotics fantasy; it represent's Capital's ambition to dispense with Labor entirely. I don't think it will work, ultimately, but ultimately is a long time (see Keynes: in the long run etc) and in the meantime it will do a lot of human damage.

It's not just MAGA that is on the wrong side of history. Something else is changing in Washington and world beyond; alcohol fueled parties are no longer where deals are made. Democrats that try to play the old game will lose.

There hasn't been a French comeback like this since Napoleon returned from exile.

That shot of Cherki on the sidelines having to watch his side turning supernova the minute he got subbed : absolute cinema.

Sweden and evolutionary biology disagrees

Culture is a product of institutional design. Scandinavians enjoy greater individual freedoms and healthier and longer lives than we do in America precisely because they have focused on institutions and process for well over 400 years.

Things I want to understand. 1. Why do people believe that stopping people at national borders and "checking papers" are a good thing? 2. Why do people believe that the private sector will ever build so much housing that housing becomes affordable for everyone except the poor?

Sunkara: you need profitability to have something to redistribute. From 1952 to 1988 that described the world. Redistribution ran through the wage bargain. Not the tax code. Labor's share rose. Then it reversed. He's 4 decades out of touch with how the economy and finance works.

Are these guys who have looked at gas station boner pills for too long while pretending to scan the magazines? probably

My wife and I are not codependent. We are coenabled.

Cabo Verde, Egypt, and Norway give their teams parades for champions. 🇨🇻 🇪🇬 🇳🇴 As one Norwegian put it: "It's nice to be a country that celebrates how far you've come. Not just where you finish." 🏆⚽️ When it concerns FIFA, that's not just a principle of self-love. It's pragmatic survival. 👀 🙃

There is nothing more American than freedom of movement and immigrants. There is nothing more un-American than a government killing immigrants simply for living in America.

Corporate American culture reflects our dysfunctional 18th century institutional structure and fiscal federalism. A structure that elevates anti-social men and selects against normal men and women.

Seems really bad to pay tribute to someone with a long history of amorality

The acting by Jessie Buckley and Jacobi Jupe in Hamnet out of this world. Literally. The film is a masterpiece of the art.

Certain individuals will never hit a bump in the road and it means they race to the top of the economy. Others hit a snag and stumble, maybe break a bone—and that’s curtains for their aspirations; off to the glue factory with you.

We are many. Some learn to manage "the team". Most do not. humanjourney.us/our-subperso...

Of course moral character matters. The fallacy is the belief that you and I, humans, are good judges of moral character; we are not. Never trust people who claim that they are. Functional societies build structures that make it irrelevant if someone has a bad tattoo or a bad reputation.

Graham Platner is not the problem. Donald Trump is not the problem. Bill Clinton is not the problem. Functional democracies do not depend on the moral character of the holders of power; they hold everyone accountable. Automatically. Sex pest bullies just don't make it very far in such systems.

Some economists just cannot distinguish between political opinions and knowledge. (Open borders are in fact as close to an economic silver bullet as there is.)

Feels like maybe progressive politics has finally reached a tipping point where predators like Julian Assange that traveled the world for years exploiting idealistic young women until he got busted in Sweden where women have a voice, and rape accusations are taken seriously, are persona non grata?

The more I think about it, the crazier it becomes: we need a manly man man to run because voters don’t want old, definitely don’t want a white lady; it’s the only way to defeat the .. old white establishment lady who keeps winning and winning and winning. It’s a bizarre narrative going unquestioned.

Again; we need more female representation in this deeply patriarchal country. I am just sick of finding out that another privileged man is just another bully that never learned to relate to people as real embodied human beings.

I think way more people are lonely and feel profoundly insecure than when I was young. It clearly has nothing to do with just money.

The marginal American voter has quit believing the system will provide financial security and has started sourcing it from whoever seems proximate and credible. That's why a trustworthy candidate with a plausible security story (Mamdani) beats a distrusted political party with a better white paper.

The median voter is a statistical artifact that the dipshits in the Democratic Party design policy around

This is strategy for smart Democrats: do not associate with the DSA but do stand firm on a platform of universal healthcare, childcare, education, housing and transportation. Centrist Dems just don't comprehend that Neoliberalism is the greatest market failure in history, but educated people do.

The problem with VAR is that it puts our values at risk

Andrea is a superb candidate for higher office. Where is the Democratic Party when we need it?

FIFA is an instrument of exploitation that should be eliminated and replaced with a democratic organization www.batimes.com.ar/news/argenti...

There is an ancient saying that translates to: strong peoples do not need strong leaders.

Short version: we don't want or need Kings! 😅

In functional human societies, no leader, at no level of authority is permitted to make unilateral decisions. The fact that this is still not common knowledge explains much of the dysfunctional politics that dominate in every single country built on owned-seat hierarchies.

Trump's bullying of FIFA is the perfect example of consensus cultures and dominance cultures. Let's take our country back from the bullies.

We know how to minimize corruption. Maximize institutional trust by means of a constitutional ban on political interference with the independent agencies; exactly the opposite of what the Supreme Court decreed last Monday. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Happy no unitary executive day to all egalitarians

If anything, this is now THE key game to bring up whenever an imbecile tries to argue that penalty kicks is a terrible way to decide ties. What do you mean, you are rooting against a process that was ten minutes away from giving you a 50:50 chance at the funniest result in the history of sports?

This Cape Verde dude just full tilt running into the stands after he scored is perhaps the best thing ever. The ref is clearly beside himself with indignation. I DONT CARE IF YOU TIED MESSI AGAIN. WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY.

Never stutter step. In life or on the field.

We have rowed together long before Viking (an activity, not a people or culture) was a thing. Our institutional and social structure in Scandinavia is largely derived from cooperative boat building, maintenance and use for defense, exploration, trade and war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

There is in fact no practical reason to stop people, capital or goods from moving freely across national borders. But the border debate isn't about clear thinking at all. It's about fear.

Swedish being a very concrete language, I am still, after many years in America a little disturbed by "self-storage".

A lot of people try to recreate Jesus is Fake from first principles, then find out that almost all scholarship recognizes the existence of a historical person, and they turn to iconoclasm and go back into their hole ("Historians have been duped by society, not wise like me")

The anti-institutionalist Republican Party is really weird. Does anyone even understand what these people think will happen if institutional trust is non-existent?

Great read. The social bargain and national finance reality that has existed for the past 90 years ended on Monday. Protecting the Fed from political interference show us the factionalism. Capitalism begins and end with social relations. Social relations at scale depend on institutional trust.

I see lonely people talking to lonely people, yet loneliness grows and grows.

Most Americans are natural egalitarians