Interesting thread. Grocery stores aren’t really a natural monopoly in the classic sense, but they do have some characteristics that make public/nonprofit/cooperative ownership make sense (low margins, essential service), especially in a small-town context with limited competition anyway.

Political success is a means to policy success, not vice versa.

I think this is pretty much the standard American take among the few Americans who know anything about this at all. Maybe not among Southern Lost Cause types.

I admit that I've never found Kimmel very funny, but this is a very good monologue.

The thing about Bayer is that yes, they invented (and named) heroin, and that was like the third or fourth most evil thing they've done in their history, and yet they somehow still exist and have a sufficiently positive brand that when they merged with Monsanto they kept the Bayer name.

Killjoys.

“No sledding”

Yes, this is an important point about Chotiner's shtick. He also does serious, respectful interviews with legit experts on various topics. They get very little attention relative to his gotcha ones, but they're crucial to his method.

So the Trump administration's latest policy priorities appear to be banning Tylenol, murdering random Venezuelan fishermen, and guaranteeing the solvency of Argentina. It's like they're going out of their way to find the least popular conceivable course of action on every issue.

Niners definitely should have kicked there. Sets them up for a safety though.

A lot of points by special teams today.

Boise is pretty great. Quite impressed with it so far.

It’s Negroni season.

I haven’t seen a Gideon Bible in a hotel room in the past few years; not sure what’s going on there. The Mormons are still on it though.

So Arby’s created a highly inauthentic “Italian” sandwich and is promoting it by comparing it to the Pope? That’s honestly pretty impressive.

Be the changer of the empty toilet paper roll you wish to see in the world

Also true of the American Civil War, and many other wars, I'm sure, even though I don't know the details.

"This enigmatic game is no longer that of analysis; it seeks to preserve the enigma of the object through the enigma of discourse." - The Ecstasy of Communication

It's no surprise at all that Trump believes he has the right to kill anyone he wants at any time anywhere in the world for any reason or no reason at all. What's disturbing is that at least some portion of the most powerful military in the world now seems to agree.

Ordered a biography of Henry VII and received one of Henry VIII. I know there are many more of the latter than the former, but come on, guys.

Excellent title work here. (Good article too.) www.jstor.org/stable/2651615

It's a great time to be a ham sandwich.

Many people are saying!

People are mostly talking about this in terms of what it implies about Peltola's plans, but it's also important in its own right. Shaping up to be an interesting gubernatorial race. www.adn.com/politics/202...

Columbus was older than Richard III.

Talk about a cheap date

Really a spectacular flameout. They kind of sucked a lot as an airline so I'm not exactly sad to see them go, but definitely the end of an Era (so to speak). www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

It's honestly pretty wild how Alaska is suddenly and unexpectedly at the center of a news cycle. I doubt it ends up leading to anything substantial but we'll see.

This article is brutal.

Biden is our Cromwell.

Great thread. A lot of the *ideology* of absolute monarchy that Trump hearkens back to originated in the Middle Ages (especially in Spain) but in practice all medieval monarchs were *very* weak by modern standards.

This is a very good post.

Watch out, Vlad!

Well, the Tanakh (though not the Torah) does *say* that, but it's pretty clear from the archaeology that it's wrong.

At one point in Isabella's youth there was even discussion of having her marry Richard's brother Edward IV! That fell through and he married a commoner, which pissed off Isabella so much that she was still bitter about it decades later and complained about it in a letter to Richard.

I recently finished reading Charles Ross's biography of Richard III, and I've moved on to Peggy Liss's biography of Isabella of Spain. These two tend to be discussed in wildly different circles, but they were contemporaries, almost exactly the same age, and their reigns overlapped.

Wow, Landfield’s really gone off the deep end with this Putin-Trump thing.

This is one of the really notable themes of Restoration Trumpism, and like so many others it's strikingly reminiscent of the conflicts between the Stuart kings and Parliament.

The Butter Museum in Cork! It sounds like a joke but it's actually really cool and informative. No butter tastings though.

Good article on an exciting project.

This is an underappreciated point. Manosphere content is attractive to lonely boys/young men because it promises to teach them how to get laid, but it doesn't deliver on that promise because the techniques don't work.

Turns out the Joe Rogan of the left is... Joe Rogan.

Why do they call it the "Land of Enchantment"... Why indeed #newmexico

The Reverse Glonzo!

This is genuinely the news every day

worth saying that waving through egregiously unconstitutional decrees without even a horseshit rationalization is sawing away at the branch underpinning SCOTUS legitimacy. they don’t have an army

Attn: @sifu.tweety.fish

Excellent thread.