What a shitshow. The legislature obviously screwed up, but it's not the job of the State Elections Board to second-guess a legislative session that hasn't happened yet

The Ottomans armed Morisco rebels (Muslims converted to Catholicism) in Habsburg Spain, encouraged ties between Protestants and Moroccans, organized Mediterranean naval support of uprisings, allied themselves with Calvinists in Hungary, and promised military aid to Lutherans in the Netherlands

Trying to figure out if I should dump my Vanguard target date funds and wait to see what happens with the Musk IPO

FWIW, I have NEVER heard a reporter/editor give a reason for not putting huge budget numbers in a context that make them meaningful. This isn't a major research project; it takes 10 seconds.

I have finally had a chance to read @masnick.com's bonkers writeup of the bonkers LEGO Bricks and Minifig theft story and my god is it worth your time if you haven't read it already

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

socialism is so dead in america that we are basically printing stories like "We're perhaps approaching post-scarcity, from classic Marxist text The Fragment on Machines, and the primary obstacle to universal happiness is the capitalists who own the machines" and then trying to ban the machines

People's actual spending habits aren't matching up with consumer surveys (i.e. spending is higher than what surveys suggest), so researchers at the Chicago Fed want to use a new measure that incorporates the variance

Trump take beef ☹️

215-208 It passed! Cheer erupt in the House chamber.

Whenever federal court reform comes around, it can't be only SCOTUS expansion, limiting of jurisdiction, ethics reform etc. It has to be dealing the shadow docket and limiting to actual emergencies.

"Journalism" as a non-partisan, almost professional job wholly apart from pamphleteers and the yellow press was a particular result of the specific economics of reproduction and distribution and the American postwar. It was a pretty, delicate, soap bubble, and it is gone now

Earlier today, I listened to one of the Atlanta Press/GPB debates to figure out who I'll be supporting for the June runoff. On the Democratic side, there are four races: LG, Sec. State, and Insurance and Labor Commissioners.

We're doing a Copilot training at work. Seems kinda silly. I don't think I'll be using it too much

Gingrich rejected a censure motion that would have passed with bipartisan support. House Dems offered a narrow impeachment focused on the Starr Report; he declined. When asked why he pursued impeachment covering all of Clinton's scandals, Gingrich responded, "Because we can."

Even on its own terms, Starr was tasked with figuring out if Vince Foster committed suicide. (He did.) $70 million later, the Starr Report recommended impeachment of Clinton for lying to the FBI about his affair with Lewinsky. Starr, of course, is a Federalist Society hack who knew the assignment.

Look, I loathe literally everything about Susan Collins, AIPAC, & Bibi, & still you simply cannot go to the Nazi Bar & say stuff like “an American Senator is bought & paid for by The Jewish International” when you already are facing questions about the SS Totenkopf tattoo on your chest.

Okay so according to what oil analysts have been telling the press: the fact that crude hasn't exceeded $100 per barrel has been some combination of: 1. Developed countries spending down their reserves and 2. Asia just uhhh casually shifting oil demand? finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...

In all seriousness, what are the chances the SEC kills Musk's attempt to take Space-X public? I'm thinking about selling equities and moving into bonds until Vanguard and Fidelity introduce non-Musk S&P 500 indexes

Happy Pride, everyone! We're not gonna let the bastards win

There's a big unstated assumption here that adults are not harmed by social media and I think we should quantify any possible harms to adults first before we start the bans

Happy the Strait will be open on June 1st day to all who celebrate

"Get in the robot, Shinji"

When Ottoman sultan Mehmed I died in 1421, his viziers apparently propped him up for 41 days to allow his son Murad II to travel to Bursa to be enthroned. Has anyone tried to make a Weekend At Bernie's style movie about this incident?

Absolutely insane response???? First, this is literally false. The personal income report counts transfers, but BLS report he was asked about doesn’t. Inflation outpaced wages. But EVEN IF talking about personal income, saying “the only reason you’re poorer is we took away your Medicaid” is crazy!

1. Holy shit what a rich text, you guys. At the beginning of the Bush II administration, Americans had $344 billion in savings. It bottomed out at $129 billion in July 2005. When Obama took office, it was at $646 billion, and reached a local maximum of $1.4 billion in 2012 before falling.

they have no artists, they have no culture, and everything they think of as their heritage was created by people they would have hated were they their contemporaries

I refuse to get used to this. That all Republican elected officials have done so should never, ever be forgotten or forgiven. At the very least, they must never be allowed to opine about decorum in any context again.

@calpers.bsky.social @calstrs.bsky.social

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology says 3 billion birds have disappeared in North America since 1970. I think I trust Big Red over the Bezos Post

Donald Trump already lost us 60,000 or so manufacturing jobs, so it's good that we, as a society, decided we don't really care about that anymore

This is a dance off. If you see this post, post a dance or you are eliminated.

I have a dumb #EconSky question. On the below data series regarding consumer credit card debt, there's a huge spike at the end of March 2010 from $325b to $610b. I'm assuming there was some sort of methodology change, not a historic spending spree. Does anyone have more insight?

This is downstream of something we forget after the past couple hundred years of agricultural surpluses: historically, the vast majority of people were subsistence farmers and it was the lowest status, and *any* profession where you ate food someone else grew was privileged and higher-status.

one kind of bromide i grew up with is that war was, mostly, a sucker's game--that soldiers were the dregs of society, pressed to fight in the elites' game. but looking back into history we find a rather different truth: historically, doing violence is not a burden but a *privilege*

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

Can Romania invoke Article 4? Or is the current Russian attack on Romanian soil "covered" under their 2022 invocation?

Guys is Talarico going to win

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

humanity's enduring desire to make Little Guys is truly wonderful This is a clay pig. It has an angry little face with furrowed brows, pointing down and a huge curved back that leads seamlessly into the top of the head (no neck) like it's rearing up to charge. A very round piggy.

"This is the PERFECT TIME to panic!"

It doesn't matter why the Choctaw word for Irish is Ailish: it just matters that we remember

I saw a discussion of weight and mortality statistics from yesterday and wanted to reiterate that the actual studies say overweight is healthier than underweight, normal weight, or obese

What's going on at the White House

1/WHO's IHR Emergency Committee has issued formal recommendations for the Bundibugyo virus PHEIC. Yesterday's press briefing gave the most complete picture yet of what's happening on the ground. Full update thread 🧵 #EbolaOutbreak