The fundamental idea (of course) goes back to Adam Smith. But Krueger coined the term "rent-seeking" and put the topic on the agenda of modern economics with a 1974 paper in the American Economic Review. /10 assets.aeaweb.org/asset-server...

Worried this was all an elaborate trap or test and the real, obvious answer should have been "why, i'd direct her to www.liamkofibright.com of course"

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Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father. Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

"an occupation’s general prestige and perceived potency (but not its moral standing) declines when it becomes increasingly stereotyped as female" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Decided to see what @thedanrather.bsky.social had to say about this.

Anyone who sees videos like this and tries to explain it away is someone who feels sure that they will never be meaningfully abused by state actors.

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

The doomsday clock has been moved to 88 seconds til midnight, thanks mattel

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba released a long-awaited personal statement on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II Friday, offering his own perspective on the outbreak of the conflict.

this is fucking obscene

My theory here is that they believe health is caused by virtue and therefore healthcare spending is resources wasted on the unvirtuous. Furthermore it should be the most virtuous who are in charge of what is healthy. So it's sort of a mystic soup of eugenics and hierarchy and 'justice'.

You dont get rapes of this scale without an official blind eye

Follow up with the guy, and he'll tell you that, if everyone were as honest and courageous as he, 80% of Americans would admit they agree with him. I call this the right's "epistemological narcissism." It is the meaning of Goldwater's dogwhistling slogan, "In your heart, you know he's right."

This, the homeless industrial complex, reminds me of when i was reading stuff on the illnois jon burge torture settlement and in a press release, the police union referenced, my jaw dropping, the innocence industrial complex.

"The officer then asked Raghu for consent to search the car, the report said. “I gave him consent because when you see a cop, you’re a little bit scared,” “Like, ‘Why are all these blue lights on me when I did nothing wrong?’” Please start saying no to cops.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵 Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7." @timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

Civics is not bad, per se, but its late in the game, and there are still folks who don't follow the civics arena, like any other, has had a concerted takeover by reactionary and authoritarian conservatism. They are still trying to see vague civic gesturing as an escape hatch (ackbar: its a trap)

A few minutes ago in the House: - Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week - House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

My tinfoil hat musing is that next year, from some combo of layoffs and willful chaos, the irs wont be able to send tax returns. Commotion. Donald swoops in to say "we" dont need that mean irs, ill give you your tax returns plus a "tariff rebate" personally (not personally) It must all be him

Venezuela has called on the UN Security Council for an emergency session over the US military buildup near its waters. Caracas warned of a possible armed attack “in a very short time.”

Federal funding for programs like WIC that feed thousands of young and vulnerable Iowans could run out if the government shutdown continues, according to a report from Food & Water Watch.

The defining feature of Trumpism is the collective hallucination of a reality that doesn't exist. They live in a delusion where cities are on fire and antifa is a thing comparable with Hamas or ISIS. They cannot afford to let widespread mass protest destroy the illusion. 1/2

VA Gov debate: Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry ​Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination ​Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay ​​Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

TODAY: @littlewow.online on MAGA gossip blogger Houseinhabit. “In the new tradition of other disgraced figures … who swerved to the right, she’s found open arms (and wallets) when no one else would have her.” flaminghydra.com/clout-chasin...

Chicago launched a program this year that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them.

Was looking for Brenna Birds name until i realized its not here as a supporting AG because the whole thing is HER brief lol People voted for her over tom miller and i will never find a bigger case of utter stunt voting against Ds.

Why it costs alot to be poor. You get punished if your attorney succeeds. Plea bargaining might look different if the state actually had disincentives to charge for quantity and intensity knowing they're merely to negotiate down to real charges. Make em pay for a wide net directed at the indigent.

Nice Nobel Peace Prize you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it... or the whole damn country!

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza and establish a “civil-military coordination center,” U.S. officials say. buff.ly/7M1nh2n

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity: "Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone. We’ll have to build again.

Earlier today, prosecutors dismissed the felony charges against Paul Ivery, the man being arrested in this video.

They spelled no interest loans wrong Sharks in the water more like

Fani is next.

This guy butt-dialed a constitutional crisis. Amazing.

One of us, temporarily, one of us

Live look of everyone who made free speech their pet issue over the last decade:

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.