Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

Good thing nobody covered Trump’s 2024 win as a mandate for dramatic policy change & a right-wing vision of America’s future — instead of, say, a close win driven mainly by the price of eggs and gas going up (then back down!) in 2022-23. That would have been irresponsible. Good thing nobody did that

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i think to have a productive conversation about it i think a lot of people have to admit """the economy""" isn't a real thing that can be measured for everyone accurately with the available tools. ppl act like there's a big wallet at the center of the earth that you can take the dimensions of

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Reminder: The next time we get the chance to take down Confederate statues and monuments, they need to be burned or melted so that they can never be put back up.

Jake and I have been writing for the past year that the “moderate” vs “progressive“ policy debate is largely missing the point (no empirical evidence of effects of ideology on votes). Now Jentleson admits voters don’t think in these terms and the alpha on issue positioning is mostly gone. That’s a W

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"When it becomes a way to eliminate people's jobs, instead of making their lives easier...to empower the layman to be an artist, at the cost of consuming all artists' work, and finding a way to get rid of them." Well said. www.youtube.com/shorts/9M19g...

I think I feel phantom limbs but for civic virtue

Honestly if I walked outside and saw this unexpectedly I’m pretty sure my first reaction would be “finally”

C’mon man. No one can live like this.

I wrote about the looting of the I.R.S. as a jumping-off point to talk about money creation, the nature of fiscal policy, and why exactly we should be mad about the President demanding cash from the Treasury. buttondown.com/judgmentproo...

For better or for worse, I am instinctually distrustful of anyone who tells me what I want to hear

A jury of their peers finds that both Musk and Altman need to shut up, god, just shut up, no one cares

I do not know how many more ways they can broadcast the centrality of race to their project but I fear that I will find out.

when I say things like “this is downstream of Dems not believing in anything” people jump into my replies and say Dems believe in abortion, fighting racism, and LGBT rights, and the answer to that is: not according to the scoreboard

This is a classic in the “national debt panic” genre: scolding the public for not worrying enough about a number getting larger…without ever even once saying what the consequences of the large number are supposed to be, and why they haven’t materialized. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...

Again, this is how resources for investment projects are directed in the economy in which we live.

I think a lot of debates about “markets” vs “planning” in the abstract would benefit from thinking a bit more about how investment decisions are made in the economies in which we currently live. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

gotta hand it to yale school of medicine on this one

Crazy how being really shitty to everyone & loudly ruining everything is unpopular

The discourse around "This is a tell for AI writing" really only serves the AI bros, because (they believe) it will tell them how to change the AI to make it indistinguishable from a human. We need to keep our em dashes. Our rules of three. The tell for AI is: is it hollow, does it say nothing.

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

REJECT MODERNITY. EMBRACE THE TRUE *AMERICAN* TRADITION OF PROGRESSIVE TAXATION. RETVRN TO WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT: HEAVY CONSTRAINTS ON INDIVIDUAL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION

70% top marginal tax rates

One of Mamdani's many talents as a communicator is picking fights that show just how ridiculous his opposition is, and thus, just how reasonable his supposedly "radical" views are.

This is exactly right, with one caveat: the reason "no it'll never fucking happen" is there (I bet) is to try (probably not successfully) to stave off dozens of annoying people replying just that. Except that impossible things become possible all the time, and it starts with saying what should be.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

You’ll be hard pressed to find a democratizing movement in the US that *didn’t* play constitutional hardball & *didn’t* break unjust laws. That’s literally what democratization is, though it makes some people uncomfortable. If you want a democracy, you have to break the undemocratic system.

I wrote about what it was like going through law school right as the Roberts Court and Trump 2.0 took a wrecking ball to everything remotely redeemable about American law. I hope you enjoy it. buttondown.com/judgmentproo...

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

NEW: John Roberts likes being political. He just doesn't like the accountability that comes with it. Roberts complained Wednesday that people view the justices as "political actors." They are, though, issuing political decisions that have real-world consequences. Today, at Law Dork:

“We have no choice but to overturn the 20th century”

How many major farming companies are looking at the pivot to renewables now while they have the reserve profit to sink into the switch? How many smaller farms aren’t going to be able to pivot because they run season to season?

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Phenomenal piece by @leahsottile.bsky.social on students in @sethcotlar.bsky.social's course on right-wing extremism reflecting on what it's like being a young person in 2026. This is the best piece of journalism on that subject that I've ever read. www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

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You’ve got to be bookmaxxing. You have to be knowledgepilled and on that information grind. Checking in and looking things up and citing sources. Dont let them bookmog you. Read.

I'm only through the intro of "Against Money," but can already tell this is the book that I wanted to write one day, better than I could have written it. It helps to have decades more experience, I guess. Huge congrats & bravo @jwmason.bsky.social and Arjun Jayadev! annieblooms.com/book/9780226...

You’ve heard this 1 million times but the only remotely accurate aesthetic caricature of the working class in USA 2026 would be a Hispanic woman in the service industry. But of course there is no single Working Class archetype. Anyway, check out my SoundCloud. www.patreon.com/posts/oh-oh-...

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Justice Jackson was easily President Biden's best appointment. She already counts among the few truly outstanding justices in my lifetime. And this tweet is exactly right.

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

If Supreme Court Justices can go on cable news, they can testify before Congress

absolutely incredible thing for bret stephens to say out loud

As the 1860s Republicans understood, the Constitution explicitly empowers Congress to regulate the court. By contrast, it says nothing about the court’s claimed authority to regulate Congress. The court’s defiance of federal law is sustained only by our tolerance of it—a choice we can unmake.

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars." buddy. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...