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The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now: Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”

Really fun to go back and re-read this memo from Trump 1 arguing that student debt couldn't be cancelled because the executive basically has no discretion over appropriations. Oh, you sweet summer children static.politico.com/d6/ce/3edf6a...

This absurd anti-union propaganda was the reminder I needed to finish the slog of calculating student retention for the most recent Success Academy graduating class tl;dr, there’s no secret sauce here other than brutal, sustained, intentional weeding out of students who don’t test well

Second wave radicals like Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis knew they had to break off from the anti-war movement and start independent feminist groups when women tried to speak at an anti-Nixon protest, and men in the crowd yelled “Take her off the stage and fuck her.”

lol @ oz

A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)

I just want the analytic philosophers out there to know that Gricean pragmatics seems to be playing a big role in emerging literature on how to design regimes to regulate agentic AI e.g. arxiv.org/pdf/2604.08525

Not his fault that the FIFA has introduced the quarter system while using "hydration break" to add plausible deniability

I hope the Alabama legislature perked up on this one

There's been bipartisan disgust at the Save Our Bacon Act, which attempts to pre-empt state rules to give pigs at least a little room to walk in confinement cages. Yet it's the pork industry's top priority, and it could ruin the farm bill. Good story from Zachary Groz: prospect.org/2026/07/07/m...

well this shook me out of my maudlin mood

Wow, so weird that this is how student loans have panned out in two of the countries that have relied upon them most heavily

BREAKING: The Trump admin went so far Thursday night that even Judge Reed O'Connor put a case on hold. O'Connor has been very receptive to the Trump admin and its anti-trans efforts, but an FTC request to him is now on hold after "consultation" with Judge James Boasberg in D.C. Now, at Law Dork:

This post will be now be coming your way next week!

FIFA pivoting and kicking USA out of the WC b/c of Trump's blatant corruption would be the funniest possible pivot moment away from global authoritarianism.

Good morning, new from me in @prospect.org: the defense contractor that runs transit systems across the country signed a contract with Palantir a few months back. I wrote about it, and about how nobody wants to spell out what information the systems are collecting on riders or how the data is used.

Incredible book that I bought “for my kids”. Thinking of @sanjukta.bsky.social

I guess you’re still playing a long game if you’re winning in the short term while reducing your chances of winning in the long term

So Isabella Weber was right, and all the serious economists who lost their minds over her were wrong? Got it.

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Excuse me if YIMBYs led with this, I think the antimonopolist beef would be tout de suite. I now see why Georgism was so hot among Populists and Progressives

Property is broken, online. Time to redefine entitlements in networks. New article: "The Platform-Property Paradox," 29 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 286. 🧵

Absolutely wild. Hard to fully get one's head around the potential implications for market structures, privacy, pricing practices, consumer credit, etc. etc. techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...

FTC issued a draft statement declaring that if LLM developers incorporate anti-discrimination objectives--even if required by state law--they may be "deceiving" consumers who expect only "accurate" output. You can comment here: www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2... www.ftc.gov/system/files...

Office of Personnel Management announces a bunch of reforms that make it easier to remove federal employees. www.opm.gov/news/news-re...

This used to be more common in the US. My grandparents lament it. What happened? Has this been analyzed?

Fine. Harakiri L'argent Sinners Barry Lyndon McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Godfather I and II Killers of the Flower Moon Robocop To Live and Die in LA Z

Absolutely insane and anti-American

Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat, Ikiru, Casablanca, Hail Caesar,

It's not unrelated to everything else lpeproject.org/blog/market-...

NEW: Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros leads Rep Diana DeGette by 2% in the first round of ballots from Denver (approx 2/3rds of the vote). These were the votes most likely to be favorable for DeGette. This could be over early for the 29 year incumbent. Astonishing.

In other news the FTC has now approved multiple settlements that prohibit advertising companies from coordinating to avoid ad placements near hate speech, with only one Commissioner voting www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/NewsGuardWorldFederationofAdvertising-FinalOrder.pdf

The best version I've seen of a common interpretation circulating of the Fed Exception to the Unitary Executive. But it proves too much. What accounts for the Trump Admin's efforts to undermine Fed independence (i.e. why SCOTUS)? What makes the Fed special vis-a-vis other banking regulators?

Originalism is dead. Calling it now

Democratic socialist and union organizer Oliver Larkin swayed delegates at the Florida AFL-CIO's annual June endorsement convention against incumbent Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz, notably resulting in a 'no endorsement' in the race. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The best version I've seen of a common interpretation circulating of the Fed Exception to the Unitary Executive. But it proves too much. What accounts for the Trump Admin's efforts to undermine Fed independence (i.e. why SCOTUS)? What makes the Fed special vis-a-vis other banking regulators?

Plucking it out of the particular argument in which it's embedded here, this is a great piece on the Trump/Ferguson FTC

Prisoners at a jail in Eastern North Carolina overpowered staff and have seized control of the facility, authorities said www.wral.com/news/state/b...

Why would a fraudster do that? “Let me pay money for no benefit, that’ll show them”

It hadn't dawned on me until now that the Douglas of Cobb-Douglas production/preference functions is Paul Douglas, longtime IL Senator and, among other things, original drafter of TILA. What a career. Also a Georgist! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Do...

It's honestly shameful the liberals signed onto the majority opinion

Did I miss it or does the majority in Cook not even make the argument for the specialness of the federal reserve? It just tells the history of central banks and says that quasi-privacy has been the norm without actually analyzing what that has to do with Slaughter

Does this Slaughter syllabus have an unusually high amount of citations and quotes, or is it just me?

A different and thoughtful perspective from the lone voter for a rent increase, @arpitrage.bsky.social. Full of ideas of varying attractiveness www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent...

Forgot that I blogged the basic argument at @lpeblog.bsky.social back in April, in case you want a teaser. lpeproject.org/blog/the-stu...

Great piece, which, among other things, illustrates the value of reading across disciplines and putting heterodox economic traditions in conversation with the mainstream on pragmatic terms