Build. Moar. Housing. Lower prices = lower downpayment = younger buyers can get in and pay off the usual 30 year mortgage in time for retirement. Less pressure on the weak & unequal 401k etc pension system that rests on top of social security.

True, true, but the idea of just getting rid of private insurance is not wrong. replace it with public insurance.

#caturday ! It's getting cold, snuggle up. Actually it's 70f here (19c for you rational people). Last set of fosters.

Wow, norms matter. Who knew? 🤷‍♀️ www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

There is a reason that Hayek said that the most dangerous thing for the proletariat was a class of unemployed intellectuals. (Not that he was a friend of either group, but he understood this dynamic)

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

No no no, a 1000x no. Part of 2008 crash was that housing finance was tied to other parts of the financial system. These folks are just f*cking idiots.

Purges worked out really well for Stalin in 1941. Shame about those first 2-3 million casualties though.

#25A !

Time to go long on catfood tacos because there's going to be a lot of poor retirees

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

They know that they are doing illegal things. They don't care.

Republican politicians can commit all the crimes they want and victimize as many people as they want because right after they are convicted Trump pardons every single one of them. Every Republican politician is above the law and can do whatever they want. Total immunity.

Should women have rights? We go through the pros and cons bsky.app/profile/jess...

It is absolutely INSANE that a Court needs to order federal law enforcement to wear badges

As the FT likes to say, “this is madness, when’s the crash?”

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

Reminder that China wants to be a gold hub because it has absolutely no desire for the RMB to rival or replace the dollar as the dominant international reserve currency, since that would require it to reverse literally every one of its macroeconomic policies: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

i, for one, would not mind having a competitive (new) district 6 (instead of my current quasi-gerrymandered district 5, which has consistently returned horrible [both personally, & politically] GOP reps.)

For my non-USians, this shows the enormous problem with the Senate (=2 from each state); anti-democratic in design and outcome

A lot of wheelchairs gonna get pushed off the balcony is all i can say

What about CEOs? Collateralized epistemic obligations?

In the least surprising thing today… and again, with so many guns floating around in the USA, a lot can go wrong

@deanbaker13.bsky.social puts the numbers in striking context - The $5bn the Trump family gained in wealth since last year's election (doubling its fortunes) could be used to provide SNAP benefits to 2 million people for a full year.

no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE

See, he will bring down housing costs! Yeah, I’m sure all those NYers (median house cost @ $515sf) are going to move to Altoona ($106sf) or Omaha ($177sf) or Abilene ($161sf) and do work from home. What? (Taps earpiece). Bosses are doing return to office?

Totally normal day in 🌮 America. masked unidentified gestapo threatening by standers with automatic weapons while they drag a woman out of a car.

$300 million in contributions, c. $300 billion in contracts, that's a great rate of return. much greater than you will get on your IRAs and 401ks after they are opened up for investment in crypto and private equity to bail those folks out of their errors. washington post, 3nov25 i do not link.

Alliance of sex pests.

Those capital owners are not just domestic US oil/gas firms but also the 🌮 family & authoritarian caucus friends in the gulf.

Parasites. Unlike a guy whose job is to beg for money from billionaires.

Give us this day our daily bread, except not for SNAP recipients or foreigners Deliver us from temptation, except for those 15 y.o. girls, couches, alcohol, and Chas Kirk’s widow Forgive us our trespasses, esp’ly corruption, kidnapping people, cutting health R&D, while we accuse others of crimes

Yes, an important test for the midterms.

Shame about those cuts to NIH, NSF. In fact, NIH funding a decade ago has led to a handful of new fairly effective prostate cancer treatments but no cures as such. But there won’t be any cures or improvements under this administration.

#theywantyoudead 90 GOP has a secret plan to replace the ACA (Obamacare) and fix healthcare/insurance for c. 14 years now. Still working out details ofc. US health insurance is a pointless, expensive catastrophe that should be de facto abolished (= Switzerland, Germany) or de jure (= most places).

charlottesville protest for solidarity and democracy 1 november 2025

there is a connection between these two things. red = US stock market capitalization light blue = major non-US market indices' market capitalization blue = national GDP. very high (monopoly - IPR based) profits for specific firms -> high market cap and high wages for their employees

Zero. I think the number you’re looking for is zero.

#caturday late, busy with a protest today. 3 of 4 fosters from back in the day.

Anderson Cooper: Why should people vote for you if you won’t make a deal with Germany? Do you want us to wind up like Poland?

JD Vance says his wife isn't a Christian. At least they have that in common.

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source

Surely this will help get him a Nobel peace prize. But seriously, no declaration of war, no authorization of force, just a mad King deciding he doesn’t like a regime.

In a huge coincidence, this Acosta fellow—the US Attorney who raced to protect Jeffrey Epstein from his own office investigating Epstein's finances—was later appointed to Trump's Cabinet. Gosh, what a strange thing for Trump to do. Can't explain it. Hmmm. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

why Mamdani will win in NYC (black line). Why we need to build more houses (blue line) (interest rates are unlikely to drop back to Covid or 2010 era levels, so for prices to drop new supply must erase the roughly 3-4 million unit construction deficit of the 2010s, esp'ly entry level homes / apts

great baseline for the next publication in 2030 looking back at 2027