“no presidents” is good

they’ll bring back DDT next www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the donor class realized their private planes would have to go

flying rodent's Noticing Things view has been helpful

bill gates takes two jets everywhere he goes because he doesn’t want all his servants on the same plane as him

ok vanguard, time for US total market ex-musk index

Always remember that Fernand Braudel just wanted to write about the longue duree but then introduced volume 3 of The Mediterranean basically saying "listen I don't like it myself but the next three hundred pages will be solely about Philip II and his correspondence because he was very important"

a shortcut

you can tell these antisocial losers don't have friends because this is about as complicated as organizing a potluck or a carpool

also marx wasn’t translated into swedish until after universal suffrage

It pains me to inform you that the $100 million of U.S. Treasuries the Danish teachers and academics pension fund has announced it will sell are about all the U.S. bonds held by the country’s pension fund sector. Turns out Denmark’s pension funds have been staying away from U.S. bonds all along.

We ran a progressive slate for the Akademikerpension board elections 10 years ago (and won), because we wanted fossil fuel divestment. I don’t think we ever imagined we might one day help trigger a margin call on U.S. Treasuries.

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THREAD. The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside. 1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.

who are the sickos who write in pen in library books?

the key to understanding politics

you should be able to mute people based on their bios

New working paper with @jakobmolinder.bsky.social, we examine the role of unions in the Great Leveling by comparing two contrasting countries: Sweden and the US. Unions in both countries raised wages and lowered inequality, however, unions were more aggressive in the US where they were much smaller.

elite institutions aren’t trying to be good, they want to be elite

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud

there’s no coming back from this. you just gotta start over as a new country called south canada or whatever.

maybe we should amend the Constitution to repeal Article 2, and leave it to the legislature to establish executive agencies.

I might be writing a thing about a composer soon. What's the best book you've ever read about a composer?

this is the kind of stuff they should teach in economics classes instead of deadweight loss and pareto efficiency

the next banking crisis is on the way

china should do this and make countries buy solar panels instead of oil

very good overview

Personnel is policy is politics: the skills needed to become a senior Democrat, and the life experiences associated with being one, furnish neither the tools to respond to an authoritarian takeover nor a sufficiently visceral understanding of the stakes. via @jmberger.com

(the skill is sucking up to rich people)

the problem is this aspirational baloney appeals mainly to people who are rich or got good grades in school. everyone else hears “try harder next time, loser”

@jemgilbert.bsky.social if you’re taking requests, please do a culture power politics episode about the your party situation

Great comparative research from @joshgoddard98.bsky.social . Highly intuitive from a UK pov, too:

“healthy young men should be working on building sites rather than running over pedestrians in city centres”

this is why I keep an “interesting” playlist separate from liked songs

look we’ve all been there

the test will be if they can resist burning people out with fundraising appeals

the best bit is at the end

ok but knope was incredibly corrupt and cared more about promoting friends than achieving political goals

it would be interesting if mamdani and his team used his volunteer list for continued volunteer activity and resisted the urge to ask people for cash constantly until they unsubscribe and regret ever signing up in the first place

I truly think this is an underappreciated point that much of the "rising far right" polisci literature has missed. We have n->inf findings that bad stuff leads to far right voting. But why _doesn't_ bad stuff lead to far left (or center left) voting? One big answer: A failure of political supply.

World Liberty Financial, the president's crypto scam company, has the name you'd expect from a life annuity scam company

I wonder if mamdani deliberately does things cuomo can’t do (walking the length of manhattan, riding a bike, being normal)

I think I found the weirdest team in the history of american professional sports en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oorang_...

a conscientiousness test or whatever shouldn’t cost $120,000

Why I'm done with Hamilton and Jefferson, and with engaging with mainstream scholarship on them, and am instead writing a romp about Burr: open.substack.com/pub/williamh...

“the ways in which” is the new “in a very real sense”