maybe writing about the federal reserve this week which got me reading about the 1913 federal reserve act which got me reading and thinking about carter glass, the lynchburg newspaperman turned segregationist lawmaker who wrote the thing (as well as glass-steagall)...

Ezra Klein’s recent guest Ben Shapiro, doing politics the right way.

Lost the election? Must have been the annoying leftists. Won the election? Must have happened despite the annoying leftists.

I said it pre-election but the Beltway media had already drafted the narrative that "peak woke" gave us trump instead of economic voting behavior

this is objectively the opposite of how Politico covered this which I think says a lot about how the leadership of Politico thinks about LGBT rights

Political journalists really think the last election was decided by pronouns and Dems not selling themselves the right way

This article is just everything wrong with political reporting and the underlying understanding of politics

I recall the time Kamala was doing the CNN event with swing voters, and the throughline of it was, "Kamala, can you prove you're not a radical Black woman that the Trump campaign argues you are?"

The way they try to spin it when they inevitably blow up a Royal Caribbean cruise ship is going to be something to see. Can't wait.

The Fed was set up the way it is because Congress believed the incentives if it were directly controlled by the president would be really bad and would produce disastrous inflation. That's still true, and Fed critics have no counter argument

One thing I want to add is that it's very telling how Fed critics always talk nonsense about unitary executive, democratic process instead of engaging directly with the merits of Fed policy. They don't have a theory of how their way is actually better on policy bsky.app/profile/kali...

And it is no small thing to me that many of the agencies attacked by President Trump were drafted during the Great Society to create statutory regimes that required ongoing Congressional funding to build democratic legitimacy.

What has—always— bugs me about unitary executive theory: how is it that the House of Representatives is elected every 2 years and the Senate terms are staggered every 6 years, so 1/3rd of the Senate is always running in a cycle, do not reflect the electoral will more than the President?

my question for ahmari: the federal reserve is subject to democratic control — congress can, whenever it chooses, alter the terms of fed independence. how and why is the unilateral authority of the president, exercised outside of rule if law, more democratic than congress’s legitimate authority?

I shouldn't have used the word "embarrass" as the agency behind the word is weird. (That is, it is something I do to them, or is it something that comes from themselves.) Chuck Grassley may express no embarrassment here. Can we make his Iowan constituents feel gross abt it?

That may be part of the story, but people need to understand that, while personalistic regimes often create bad policy, they also create winners as well as losers. CEOs are betting that they can be the in the former group, and afraid that speaking out will get them in the latter.

“I remember seeing these younger-looking men wearing walkie-talkies and khakis. It literally did feel like a siege." Meet the Instagram posters who publish memes, videos of NIH scientists, and protest ­livestreams to call attention to the gutting of lifesaving science.

I've taken all of the economists commenting on the topic over the past decade to say, "seems like Türkiye is a good example," when you're supposed to hear, "can you say massive inflation?"

Most Fed experts “have never contemplated what could happen if an institution with so much unchecked power came under the control of one man,” Rogé Karma writes. “Perhaps it’s time to start imagining.”

Dunno if I believe him, but if it's the truth it's probably because they don't have the resources to expand their arsenal at the moment.

I took some of the money I was paying for my now canceled Disney subscription and set up a monthly donation to PBS.

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Remind me again to what political office Charlie Kirk was elected. Or is podcaster now considered a political office? I'm so confused...

Here’s the truth about Charlie Kirk you didn’t see at the rally or in The New York Times www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

With single-payer health-care you could just tell the hospital to fire the folks who are in charge, so the doctors, nurses, and other staff can focus on reducing infections.

An article about at PWS last week about how fishy this whole thing is www.piratewireservices.com/p/us-claims-...

2025 is likely to have the lowest murder rate ever recorded.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

I've said this before, but IMO we need to spend less time OBSERVING that Trump is engaged in authoritarian corruption and more trying to use language to build pressure to stop it. Same with Tom Homan's bribe. Yes, it was a bribe. Who can we embarrass politically for letting it happen.

Trump’s directive to Pam Bondi should be seen for what it effectively was: a confession in which he acknowledged his guilt in a corrupt and authoritarian scheme. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“Make no mistake, losing these funds will directly impact our ability to serve some of our most vulnerable kids,” Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly said about the Trump administration’s “devastating” decision.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

that's what i don't get--when did we go from stating "according to the law, this is illegal" to "well, some experts say upon reviewing the law that it might not be legal, but who can really say?"

what are we even doing here

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

WSJ: "Cardboard-box demand is slumping .. to the lowest levels since 2016. On a per-capita basis, the drop is even sharper, with box shipments per American down more than 20% from their 1999 peak." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/car...

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Genuinely everything I hear about the Kirk death pep rally makes it sound like what Midjourney would spew out if you prompted it to generate the tackiest possible summary of contemporary dystopia

Analysis | Charlie Kirk's funeral was an uneasy blend of mourning and fascism.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

The extent to which this history has been rewritten by right wing propagandists while MSM slept for 2 yrs—so much so that the NYT doesn’t even catch it now. When the “Censorship Industrial Complex” supposedly formed, silenced conservatives, & stole elections, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION was in power.

it's cool that the Nixon presidential library tries doing Watergate revisionism using Tucker on YouTube, i guess www.youtube.com/shorts/twH-g...

One of the major lessons of the last decade in American politics has been realizing how many voters on the fence will respond to the impression of strength and raw willpower. I can't think of a Democrat who's learned it.

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

Within military circles I think it's been understood more specifically as an attack on Black soldiers specifically. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

one guy said the other guy is on the epstein list and still decided to hang with him bsky.app/profile/yash...