Not at all implying identical levels of gravity, but this phenomenon -which works best when genuine belief among many, rather than mere cynicism, sustains the pillar- happens more generally with analytic frameworks that have a lot of influence on shaping the actual world.

Btw Victoria Hattam's excellent 1990 article on this cleavage w/in early labor mvmt("Economic Visions and Political Strategies: American Labor and the State,1865–1896") really deserves to be read today by interested parties. She was writing against a historiographic trend of suppressing the cleavage

Good thread

So the story made it out because the new CBS leadership couldn't be arsed to remember they had rightsholders in non-US markets? Amazing work by all involved

I don't care what the Heritage Foundation is doing. I just don't care.

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

Van Hollen, Schatz, 15 other Dems demand Trump-Vance-Rubio get press into Gaza. "The world has relied on brave Palestinian journalists…for uncensored reporting," citing 200+ Israel has killed. They add Israel only lets in controlled media "who are not permitted to freely engage with Palestinians."

A thing about the basic cleavage in the post-civil war US labor movement (between "producerists" [or "republicans"] and "trade unionists") is that *both* had a credible argument that the other was in danger of, in today's parlance, 'selling out'. There's no *structural* method to avoid that risk.

On the winter solstice, the Sun rises and shines down the length of the 5,100-year-old Newgrange passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland. Remarkable designing and implementation by the Neolithic engineers who built it.

I never experienced power outages with enough frequency to actively worry about/plan around them til I lived here. The idea of DTE taking on significant *additional* power provision obligations when it cannot manage a normal U.S. standard for basic household energy provision is truly amazing.

One thing I feel fairly confident about is that if man-made machines do attain consciousness or sentience, today's biggest AI boosters will be the least likely recognize any of the moral or ethical consequences of that

This is all so obvious that I honestly can't help but attribute intellectual dishonesty to people who pretend otherwise. Rather than argue against the specific claims and proposals in front of them, better to effectively yell “communist” and call it a day. Not great in this of all moments. (7/7)

ICE agent locked up in his own jail. Hopefully this is some Ghost-of-Christmas-future type s-t....

As long as i'm posting new papers at the worst possible time, i've also written a paper called "The basis of the labor exemption reconsidered," forthcoming in the Antitrust Law Journal. Will post a summary later. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I posted an earlier draft of this a couple of months ago, but got inspired today to post the nearly-final version. thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/p...

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

The constitution's article iii, I argued, gives the political branches a democratic override power analogous to the Notwithstanding Clause in Canada's Charter. 3/

Sam and Ryan are right. But I'd go further. It's not just the supreme court that must be replaced. We must replace the entire notion of a democratic order where courts have the final word on the meaning of the constitution. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This conference looks like being consumed by eternal hellfire and submerged in an endless sea of damp, somehow at the same time

Horrific - and also looks like substantive escalation

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Speaking of conspiracy theories, have I mentioned lately that Ben wrote a conspiracy theory book in 2014 about how bad liberal Jews took over Hollywood so they could brainwash America and then he promoted the book on a neo-Nazi’s podcast? bsky.app/profile/seth...

It’s normal for the head of CBS news to weigh in on internal squabbles inside the conservative movement, right?

Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

Though still healing from the city of ann arbor's 8-months and counting shutdown of virtually every street around my house (not an exaggeration btw), I have to say I am quite impressed with the new protected bike lane -with reflector posts- on a major artery. Credit where due.

This isn't a "hard question." It's a stupid question.

Good point. The category cannot exist without public action at every level

I'd be curious what the unproductive (or more pressingly, untrue) claims are. I can say one or two: the implicit claim that this follows inexorably from the laws of "capital," or is a simple matter of "follow the money" to tech billionaires.

Mole chicken is second only to chicken curry

Under appreciated point

He wrote a book called "the road to character"

It's 55°

So say we all

Going to turn into a latter day free silver crank.

Oh my *@$# God

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

Something i've really only started thinking about is how attitudes to "AI" fit into our collective relationship to truth and knowledge. I know we would love to blame it all on the tech billionaires, but I actually think that both left and right have contributed in this broader way.

FYI I'm reading (well listening to) a good book about the history and lore of Christmas monsters - which confirms my longstanding intuitive feeling that christmas is properly speaking a continuation of halloween.

Crowdsource question: with the Modi government restrictions, what are the best ways to give directly to grassroots or other direct aid orgs in india? Open to anything but especially: Labor and farmer orgs, basic needs provision, climate and agricultural adaptation. Please share, thanks!

Hmmm. finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...

I'm not a meteorologist (obviously) but the central point being made in the threads below that I think is important and should be brought out is this isn't an issue of "all theories are a little bit wrong"; it's dispensing with theory (explanation) altogether. That's major, and should give pause.

This is the same administration that rejected immigration applications if an applicant left a box blank, instead of putting an X in the box, if, for example, the applicant didn’t have a middle name.

y'all are talking about something and I don't want to know

It's no secret that I have no interest in football. I get that other people do, and that's fine. However, i think a lot of problems arise for a lot of human beings when one activity is elevated in a massively disproportionate way to its reasonable value. Maybe that's the deeper lesson here.

They're asking for 100-200 denaturalization cases per month. Do people understand what a literal interpretation of "mistakes on paperwork" could mean? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Sherman Silver Purchase Act passed a few months after landmark federal antitrust legislation; the express goal of former is addressing DEFLATION, with comments about low farm prices & wages --and of course the person of John Sherman & others-- connecting this to sherman (antitrust) leg history.

For @thenation.com, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretz—the last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue

Good piece!! I recommend on its own and because it captures i think, much of what animates the larger debate that this symposium was trying to capture.

I generally try to stay out of these discussions but this is a great analogy (and of course it doesn't apply only to race/gender, but we still have no broad language to talk about class in this country). As others have pointed out though, the whining has also been going on for at least 30 years