Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Just realized the Sandwich guy saga is a literal "no jury could convict" situation

What am I supposed to complain about now, except all the tariffs on everything else?

Funny strand of modern right-wing populism where econ problems are an outgrowth of anti-democratic institutions of neoliberalism & the solution is just to replace current technocrats with illiberals "The pretense of monetary policy independence has collapsed" has it? Or are you trying to kill it?

Textbook Trump admin to celebrate causing a problem and then celebrate “solving” it months later

Sure, post liberals created groypers. But liberals really paved the way for post liberals. And the Jacobins really paved the ways for liberals. And the Royalists really paved the way for the Jacobins. And the Catholics really paved the way for Royalists. And the Romans really paved the way for the..

Adventurous bnuy

Finished Lowenstein's "Ways & Means" on the financial and tax reforms that won the Civil War for the Union—brilliant book that manages to make bond sales gripping & shows how many US institutions (land-grant colleges, Union Pacific, etc) we owe to wartime reforms www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Another book haul. You think I can be stopped? I can’t even stop myself

Nowadays Thug life is apparently when you want to return to 2015 tariff rates

Finished Lowenstein's "Ways & Means" on the financial and tax reforms that won the Civil War for the Union—brilliant book that manages to make bond sales gripping & shows how many US institutions (land-grant colleges, Union Pacific, etc) we owe to wartime reforms www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

coping, seething, etc

Committing self-harm by reading another Oren Cass oped in the FT, but what always strikes me as stupid about his work is the idea of tariffs as panacea. "If we had tariffs we wouldn't need stringent environmental standards" no Oren actually those two things are unrelated

Trvthnvke for the TradCath legal community

Good morning, Baltimore!

I am much more sympathetic than most to the idea that increasing mortgage credit is important (because it can induce a lot of building among low/middle income households) but increasing the maximum loan duration by 60% is like the worst possible way of doing this lmfao

New book haul again, can’t stop won’t stop

Sign of the times is I saw Jehovah’s Witnesses passing out pamphlets on how to cope with rising prices (screenshot of the online version because no way was I gonna grab a physical copy)

Just finished Jonathan Mahler’s “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning” on the NYC Mayoral Race and the Yankees World Series Run in 1977 One of the best books on NYC I’ve ever read, and I’m so excited to read his next book “Gods of New York” on the 1980s www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Canada's provincial economic accounts came out this week—in 2024, all provinces & Nunavut grew! Fastest: Nunavut (6.9%), PEI (3.8%), Nova Scotia (3.1%), Alberta (3%), Saskatchewan (3%) Slowest: Yukon (-2.5%), NW Territories (-0.8%), British Columbia (1.1%), Ontario (1.6%), Manitoba (1.7%)

"500-foot statue of George Washington," you should not be getting creativity-mogged by both the Washington Monument and Mt. Rushmore designers Also, you guys *do* know what happened to Prometheus right?

God you gotta love Lincoln (from Roger Lowenstein’s Ways & Means on the financing of the civil war, on the original debate about creating the Greenback)

Everyone knows the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, unless they’re from FUCKING OHIO”

Good piece, the thing I would add is that because the Senate underrepresents urban areas, the Republican *national* brand naturally becomes much too right-wing to win in major cities

I got bad news: Sound Transit is subject to tariffs

Another month of US transit data is just in, & DC's WMATA remains the fastest-growing major US transit agency, with ridership up 12% compared to last year King County Metro (Seattle, +7.5%) & SEPTA (Philly, +6%) have performed well, while LA Metro & NJTransit have lost riders🧵

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA: Employment Growth: +67k Unemployment Rate: 6.9% (-0.2%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.5% (+0.2%) Employment Level: 21.1M

How is it possible that every successive sentence gets crazier

Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay) www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

SO excited to finally have this amazing book in my hands. Had to come to the Peterson institute to grab a copy before it (officially) becomes available in the US, stayed for the amazing talk between Kapur, Subramanian, and Simon Johnson

I think they’re trying to twist the screws on Senators to get the filibuster killed at this point

All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least

Felt inspired

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

Very shocked this VAGOP strategy did not work

This is the ideal bibliography. You may not like it, but this is what perfection looks like.

There are two types of Trump administration officials: guy with 15 jobs (Rubio, Vought) and guy in a quantum superposition of simultaneously employed and unemployed (Isaacman, every IRS head)

lol as if going back to 2024 trade policy will kill the country Cope, seethe, etc

Gonna start aura farming every good book I read (no spoilers I’m not done but it’s so good)

You can't compare the stock of *value* like corporate valuation to economic *output* like GDP. It's like saying your car makes up "30% of your annual income" because it's worth $30k and you make $100k. A $5T valuation is big but total US household net worth is like $167T

Wow shocked 2 learn Tariffs Not Only Impose Immense Economic Costs but Also Fail to Achieve Their Primary Policy Aims and Foster Political Dysfunction Along the Way

Reading Mahler's "Ladies and Gentlemen:The Bronx is Burning" on 1970s NYC (great book), and one of the funniest anecdotes is that Carter started running these ads on the buses and trains after the Daily News' "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD" headline Possibly the most Jimmy Carter ad copy humanly possible

Another book haul has hit the dwindling supply of empty shelf space

The beautiful trains of Philadelphia Pennsylvania

“mumdani or whatever his name is” lol what a “and don’t put in the newspaper that I got mad” moment