I grew up about three blocks from here. Went to that school. Insane, stupid, and wrong.

NYT is going to keep going at that chicken

“You a bitch” lol We hate Illinois Nazis

Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the… braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...

Congrats to the NYT. Please clap

Feeling in touch with my Scandinavian roots

Spain will achieve 3% growth this year. Since 2020, its minimum wage has increased 60%, pensions by 37%, unemployment down to historical lows, indefinite employment now the norm, gender pay gap down to 17%, 1.2 million people covered by new minimum income scheme and 1.9 million by child support.

The Times has deleted two articles - both hit pieces - this week. Has this ever happened before?

Finally, two millennia of schism is brought to a close

Forget it Jake. It’s the New York Times

Ernie Pyle deserves better

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

Been a while since I banged on an Olivetti #nokings

The Khan clarifies conquest

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Cory Doctorow has an article that's a little ... concerning? Yes, that's a good word. I don't know whether this 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 happen, but it's concerning that it 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 happen. His basic facts are right. AI hype is the only thing holding the market up right now. When that goes away, who knows? It'll be brutal

We’ve just given up and ignored this

Other options are available

Anyone see the former size of the UK creative sector? Just abandoned

Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy

Add Ezra Klein to the long list of voices we can safely ignore from now on.

This guy should never be allowed back inside a western country without being prosecuted

With the Trump Administration about to roll its ugly occupation into Chicago, I wanted to write a little lyrical love letter to the city. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The transatlantic mediocrity trade remains strong

The world definitely lost a cool one

Endorsed

The BBC is cooked

My coworker @chafkin.bsky.social got ahold of an internal white paper from Fetcherr, the AI pricing company that is working with Delta and other airlines to make fare prices even more erratic for consumers. It details what the company calls the “exploitation phase”: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Get his ass

It's all third spaces, baby. Used to go bowling, used to cover Skynyrd in the garage, used to have a car club. Now we've got Theo Von on in the F-350 on the way home from your 11-hour workday.

Bored of losers calling the shots

Without universal access to certain goods—and without checks on private providers—individuals and communities can be excluded from the heart of social, economic, and political life. Public goods, in other words, are not so much about “free stuff” as they are about the “stuff that makes us free.”

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Thermonuclear Columbo

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

Sure? I guess we’re doing this

Coach with zero political power shows more courage than Paramount, Bezos, Paul Weiss, Columbia University, and every "moderate" Republican senator combined.

Also what the austerity coalition and conservatives did to the councils in the UK

Diamonds in the back sun roof top digging the scene with a gangster lean oooh hooo hoo

hey baby. it’s the fourth of july youtu.be/54zxtGQP-eY?...

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

1/ Palantir is now poised to combine data gleaned from the DHS, the DOD, HHS, the Social Security Administration & the IRS. And 47's admin also wants access to citizens’ & others’ bank account numbers & medical claims.

"The Blame Game: Republican operatives should not have broken into DNC offices at the Watergate Hotel. But was the eminently bug-able Democratic Party asking for it?"

A South African colleague argued that the US is in “state capture” by the GOP. Reading today’s SCOTUS opinions, that feels right. These rulings illustrate and advance the capture of government by and for a fundamentally illiberal project. They can be undone, but not without ending capture first.

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

Post an unusual sign

Pursuant to my earlier post. The West’s richest men have become completely deranged, untethered from human society.

lol

Our good friends, Newcastle United owners