Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

This is accurate for every political group I've belonged to

Everyone is saying it

Look you peasants need to learn to sacrifice for MACHINE GOD bsky.app/profile/jose...

Interviewed Claire Valdez @claireforny.bsky.social, and one thing that jumped out to me in her labor platform is her proposal for government funding of union organizing--a great idea and one that I don't recall ever seeing a candidate officially propose. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/claire-val...

In a sharp U-turn from policies pursued by mayors for decades, Deputy Mayor Julie Su says priorities that include building 200,000 new apartments and establishing universal child care will create a healthy economy. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/29/j...

Poor UK Ambassadors to the US. Get fired for being pro-Epstein, get fired for being anti-Epstein

What if we saw Baumol's Cost Disease not as a hurdle to be overcome, but a sign that some human jobs are valuable, and we should have enough humans trained to do them?

Social media algorithms today are designed to produce the kind of "flow state" associated with gambling machines and should probably be regulated similarly.

A couple of great, clear, deep points by @braddelong.bsky.social braddelong.substack.com/p/not-my-joh...

Great explainer about NYC corporate tax. I see now I knew nothing, and almost everything said in the papers is dead wrong, sometimes on purpose. But it's pretty simple and quite surprising.

This strike victory is awesome

Great quick historical survey of Empires in decline accelerating it with one last big grab for military glory, by Alfred McCoy, condensed from his newest book, _Cold War On Five Continents_ tomdispatch.com/american-mic...

film-obsessed Bombay childhood :) Working-class kid gets disillusioned by capitalists using identity politics in the wake of massive deindustrialization & switch to finance in 1980s. Who then allow fascists to take over the State in 1990s. Sound familiar...? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...

Long & subtle piece by Ussama Makdisi Q: Why wasn't there a Palestinian national movement sooner? A: Because they lived in Ottoman Empire. Everyone there, including Arab Jews, thought national communities overlapped, not mutually exclusive. Hard to conceive now, in wake aeon.co/essays/what-...

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

This editorial by @equatormag.bsky.social embodies a new perspective in a way that's kind of breath-taking. www.equator.org/articles/gho...

Amazon was about to lose the huge case about it being a joint employer of delivery truck drivers & Trump’s NLRB general counsel stopped the fight & declared Amazon the winner prospect.org/2026/04/21/a...

Mayor Mamdani's veto of Intro 175-B defends free speech in a time of mounting oppression. We are proud to stand alongside him and call on the New York City Council to sustain this veto.

"if you want a theory of the vibes, it is the vibes that you must start looking at."

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Today's AI boosters are kind of as if the promisers of occult power in 1900 convinced big investors they were right

This is a really well-written & interesting essay about self-help, religious yearnings, sci-fi & fraud before the internet. The mixture is not new; comparison seems overdue. Also cool historical suggestions, like how 1993 World's Fair boosted Eastern religions; or the handing down of stoic manuals

Short & interesting story about an Indian medical student making an AI Maga girl to put himself through college

This interview is a really great discussion of the cutting edge of wealth taxes in CA and MA.

Solar manufacturing capacity is approx double demand. Same with wind nacelles and batteries. The problem with Chinese manufacturing is not overcapacity! It's UNDERDEMAND. But how will it look as 2 x big fossil fuel supply shocks sink in?

Finally a Big Muddy for our time: Tom Waits & Massive Attack, "Boots on the Ground" (lyrics next bleat) youtu.be/kVTVWRaAImM

"For every 1,000 immigrants who lose their jobs, almost 800 natives will as well.” www.epi.org/publication/...

Mind-expanding book post from @jwmason.bsky.social. My favorite bit is this block quote from their upcoming book jwmason.org/slackwire/mo...

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

New Deal labor law was focussed on overwork. Today with "just-in-time" scheduling, the biggest enemy is underwork & insane schedules. It's a bigger cause of working poverty than low wages. It should be regulated like OT was. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/o...

I had no idea 13% of all cancers are caused by infections, or that we hugely reduced stomach cancer by reducing H pylori. Gives me a new perspective on classic Japanese movies where men died of stomach cancer hannahritchie.substack.com/p/hpv-vaccin...

Mayor Mamdani, Commissioner Levine Announce First-In-The-Nation Municipal “Click to Cancel” Rule to End Subscription Traps www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

are you in the US? because my experience is americans are far too pessimistic given Trumps policy rollback of clean energy. even in the US clean electricity has formed 9 out of 10 new gigawatts installed and is at record highs www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Very good news. And a five-year timeline is pretty fast by municipal standards. Also: "The city has roughly three million parking spaces, and full trash containerization is expected to take about 150,000 spaces, or 5 percent."

"My accursed generation is working through the body politic like a vengeful peristalsis." -- John Dolan, aka The War Nerd, born 1955

"Complex carbohydrate" what's that a french fry with feelings

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Article & thread by Ghada Sasa on how Israel's "Make the Desert Bloom" campaign, whose primary purpose was to quickly cover the ruins of destroyed Palestinian villages, is now reversing as the forests all die because they were non-indigenous. Now the ruins are emerging & the figs are coming back.

At the end of the 20th century, bicoastal people endlessly debated "Which better, LA or NYC?" In the 21C, it's Bluesky vs Xitter

This is awesome: "NYC Opens the First ‘Rest Stop’ for Delivery Workers in the U.S." secretnyc.co/nyc-first-de...

Iran war has exposed the weakness of the dollar - @dsquareddigest.bsky.social oped here www.ft.com/content/ace8...