I feel like native plant/permie type gardening is the last untapped issue that could become a culture war in this country but hasn't quite yet

Well that didn’t take long. Bondholders getting cold feet about SpaceX. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It's extremely interesting that both walras & jevons were very interested in worker cooperatives *and* that (esp for walras) the firm was foundational--effectively the device that brings the factors of production into contact with the market mechanism--but also becomes a nullity in the process

"When [unions] find it necessary to contend with a group of illiberal employers, they should do it by planting mills or works in their midst, owned and managed by workmen and their deputies. This is the way...wages may be permanently raised & the exclusive interests of capital effectually destroyed"

So funny that when some random instagram influencer uses the term "solopreneur" there is a direct genealogical connection back to Jean-Baptiste Say

Citing the Mises Institute. When they're right they're right.

Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. Good news does not get shared as much as bad news. Thank you to all who worked to shut this monstrosity down. abcnews.com/Politics/flo...

Aside from everything else, I'm genuinely surprised by the magnitude of reaction to a very small number of elections.

By the way I did actively resist assimilation from ages 5-10, which is when my parents sat me down and told me we weren't going back to India. Before that i recall being like "I'm not going to waste my time investing in this American popular music not gonna be here long"

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

This is completely insane and it needs to be a priority to free these people!

My main opinion on Brit politics is that I'm pro this guy btw

“English people have no word for ‘entrepreneur of industry’; this may have prevented them from distinguishing ... the service rendered by capital from the service rendered by the person who employs the capital by his ability and talent” --JB Say

Things are about to get even more stupid

Really cannot wait for JD Vance to commence his inevitable sled ride down from his early peak, into a deep valley from which he will never emerge into public life again

My considered opinion on the question of private property is that: A. We should have it B. At the point of magnitude where holding it is meaningless without serious coordination among multiple (many?) individual persons it fundamentally (as opposed to at the margins) implicates public interests...

My main opinion on Brit politics is that I'm pro this guy btw

Here we go

Ro khanna cycle is at the top of the wheel this week

Gross. If you want to do this pay $1 billion dollars per day to the public fisc.

Super goofy but that's better than many other political alternatives

‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries

Spreading seaweed at the base of my crops before the thunderstorm like a medieval farmer on the Isle of Man

My narrow medium-term career goal is to get people to stop using the term "labor exemption."

Honestly don't even understand what this means...

Quite closely related to this "labor is not a commodity" was a complete disaster for labor in the courts (for reasons that actually have an internal logic)

A problem for the view that the categorical exceptionality of labor (and hence labor markets) is what justifies labor coordination generally, & also legally in terms of the labor exemption, is that policing fx on "product markets" is precisely the main practical obstacle antitrust poses to unions

Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."

Across NY & MD, I'm counting 12 Democratic incumbents who lost (or, in one case, are trailing) to a challenger to their left. —2 congressmembers (both NY) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —6 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD) A thread to break this down.

RESULT: Maryland's Democratic establishment really dislikes left-wing Delegate Gabriel Acevero, and tried to oust him in today's primary—but Acevero has prevailed.

'i'm a reporter i just look at my twitter feed and copy it to the newspaper'

Btw this is why it actually practically matters that we (ironically, given social atomization etc) too often think of groups of people w/ some kind of institutional identity as unitary agents rather than lots of individual people coordinating to do stuff ... it really, genuinely confuses people.

a cool moment -- Kaitlin Collins tells Brad Lander that he won his primary live on air during an interview with him. Lander responds by saying, "I'm thrilled. I did not expect to be on air when the race was called."

Congratulations Brad Lander!!!!

also I’ll invite you all to stop using release labor staff and members, aka what you lean on in place of the volunteers “the party” allegedly has, when apparently it’s perfectly cool with you if democrats veto collective bargaining rights

Tech oligarch invests in betting market startup that will predict and recursively guide his future decisions

I'm sorry he got 30 years for *what*

Judges say and do pretty obviously unconstitutional things in sentencing all the time but this one is wild

when are institutions, government agencies --and a whole segment of the left intellegentsia-- going to leave the Musk-controlled platform?

Norman Conquest mainly

One thing that's not discussed enough is that the "labor exemption" to antitrust (once codified in Clayton Act) actually emboldened the courts' use of the law against unions. You can brush this off as courts gone wild, but they were taking a logical path opened for them by Progressive exceptionalism

This is cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyHq...

Just posted an updated version of my draft article on how student loans stabilized US higher education spending for two generations through a sort of anti-politics, but undermined its own stabilizing qualities over time, helping to open space for the current crisis papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My Juneteenth interview with Alice Jackson-Jolley at @Forbes on the magnitude of, origins of, and policies to eliminate the racial wealth gap in the United States: www.forbes.com/sites/ali-ja...

Sorry to say this but it just feels like Northern Ireland is the type of place that (qua itself) almost inevitably/structurally breeds right wing beliefs

So tired of the absolute bullshit so many of these squads are having to deal with from the US www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...

They need an Arthurian awakening, probably.

This is cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyHq...

Really messed up how a chapter or set of chapters is a weak link, so you upgrade it to the level of the rest; but now it's better than the rest, so you have to start again, and do it 6 times