4/17/26

This is, uhh, not a political development I had anticipated.

My “vibecesssion” thoughts: Ideology, per Althusser, is man’s imagined relationship to his real relations of production.

I just watched a video of Katie Porter saying farm workers getting overtime pay is a regulation that “doesn’t make sense”

it's nuts that trump won because of inflation, promised to lower inflation, has caused a major price spike, and is now illegally pressuring the fed to boost inflation!

Biden codes as “normal Dem” so it’s quite hard to get people to understand how all over the place ideologically and competence-wise and his cabinet was. It was a circus, but everyone had a sort of baseline level of professionalism that kept it from being reported as such.

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Terrible news.

To your point, housing is the thing that inflation measures handle worst (because it is *both* an asset and a consumption good). So if there’s a place where the statistics are misleading, that’s where it’s likely to be. And of course it’s a huge slice of everyone’s budget…

Maybe the White House press corps can use this contretemps to clear up exactly what church or churches the President and first family belong to exactly, and what their theological position is towards the Roman Catholic Church? Seems like a niche topic, but it keeps coming up

Like, am I the last person in America who remembers the political implications of being a hardcore inflation hawk?

I keep thinking about this. Do progressives understand that if we allow economists to characterize 3% annual inflation, with real wages at record highs and rising, as an economy where it’s “hard to get ahead,” the progressive project is stone cold dead in its entirety?

a'ight, imma head out

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"they're being replaced with stacks of Mac minis"

I’m extremely tough, is what I’m saying.

"Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take to himself any allied force. The oracles to whom he sent this question included those at Delphi and Thebes. Both oracles gave the same response, that if Croesus made war on the Persians he would destroy a mighty empire."

Let him cook.

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Some of these same universities are now both banned by the Pentagon and being targeted by the IRGC.

J.D. Vance's "Ain't I A Woman?" is going to be a real coup de grace.

Someone sent me this.

A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.

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John Locke would have 100% fallen in love with a chatbot and other things my kids say to stop saying

Funniest possible outcome: Evanston Mayor Kat Abughazaleh

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it was through the dharma that I was able to calmly absorb such news as "Kristi Noem's husband's bimbofication fetish."

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

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Checking in on the Dark Enlightenment

“Research from Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, indicates that our attention spans are about one-third as long as they were in 2004, with the biggest drops happening around 2012”

They keep stealing shit from the people they detain. Remember how they took that kid’s cell phone and sold it for cash? Just straight up lawless gangsters

Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven. yougov.com/en-us/rating...

It’s Easy to see that Risk Parity only works with The Devil in a Blue Dress.

Me: Gosh this doctor seems young Doctor: Your cholesterol too tough. Your triglycerides too different. Your blood pressure is too bad. They'll kill you.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

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Bret Devereaux has a good post up on the US/Iran war I agree with.

New, from me.

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