Firearms should require mandatory insurance, the same way we do with cars. This is possibly the one and only time that ive ever thought that a “free market” solution that would actually work.

Yes, deflation is bad, thank you for pointing that out. The Washington Post's larger pattern of gaslighting on higher prices this fall after hyping the panic on higher prices last fall is my point.

Subhanullah

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

My son watched his mom in an interview/conversation with Bill O'Reilly, and just commented "he's trying to mansplain capitalism to an economist." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi6H...

The Washington Post, everyone

Any #columbia people want to take a social survey? Pretty Please? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Stealworkers

The whole social contract relies implicitly on promises. Without it, you lose democratic legitimacy. This is what Robert Putnam was talking about when he wrote “Making Democracy Work”

Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books

Remember kids, no amount of higher productivity can substitute for smaller, poorer population & lower human capital. Lower population x less education = lower consumption. And after we run out of legacy PhDs, we won’t have new people to keep the robots running. “It’s recursive, it’s nonsensical…”

The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th. On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela. Bank on it.

www.linkedin.com/posts/ketanj... Thanks to Ketan Joshi for sharing this on LinkedIn. He writes: “There is deep historical precedent for development that doesn't justify itself. 5G is a great example….”

It takes a uniquely horrible kind of sadism to put routine dental care behind a paywall, waiting for it to fester into a very serious, very painful, and very expensive emergency.

An astonishing amount of resources are wasted scrutinizing the lives of poor and working parents when better material needs infrastructure and simple cash payments would suffice. Poverty is not neglect, but addressing the actual problem doesn’t satisfy the American appetite for punishment.

More evidence that providing direct, material assistance to families who need it significantly reduces child maltreatment. www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...

Live look at Dan Goldman rn

This is screaming out for Qualitative Sociologists to swoop in and do research.

I mean, isn’t this *exactly* what Arlie Hochschild was talking about in “Stolen Pride,”& “Strangers in their Own Land” and What Anne Case/Angus Deaton meant by “Deaths of Despair?”

Jane Jacobs warned about higher education degenerating into credentialing 20 years ago, in her book “Dark Age Ahead.”

The harder it is for people with criminal records to get jobs, the easier it is to recruit them for jobs like this.

Thank you, im quoting this on my methods research final.

Not in New York, so this isn't my race but I think if Democrats take one thing from Mamdani, it probably ought to be what Lander here seems to have done: you answer the cynicism and hypocrisy of the moment with sincerity, not knowing-cleverness. 'Sincere Dork' is a good political brand.

A round of applause for some good ol’ Sikh Service.

good LORD. like some turducken of neoliberal nightmares

Influencer grift is influencer grift is influencer grift. And to think, all the tone deaf consultant types keep pumping this guy as a 2028 hype man to satisfy some weird daddy complex they all seem to share. The moment is begging for more than just a mildly lib-coded version of “our” bully.

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Whistle kits with zines were essential to organizing Chicago’s resistance to the federal invasion.

Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The clash within civilisations Janan Ganesh via ft opinion “This might be why Churchill the gun-toting jingo and Orwell the former colonial police officer could see the 1930s dictators straight, as lots of ostensibly better men could not….”

And AI chatbots that talk kids into suicide.

And yet, gambling gets a pass

I literally taught myself through college with YouTube. I couldn’t have done it without long form educational content and recorded lectures.

Among many other things, the entire teen social ban saga is a brilliant example of how shitty, badly-researcher airport books can have shockingly outsized influence www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Bless IBCK www.ifbookspod.com

Tom Cotton here is lying about what constitutes sailors being hors de combat (though these guys were never valid military targets), and he knows he is lying about it. Unarmed, clinging to capsized wreckage, these guys were clearly shipwrecked and the orders to fire on them manifestly illegal.

The wisdom of crowds argument

The best part about being a millennial is getting lab titers back and realizing you were actually vaccinated against a bunch of shit you didn’t even realize you had immunity to.

Political institutions determine who governs -- and who lives. We find that enfranchising marginalized groups improved their health. We also find that redistribution of power led to relative increases in mortality for non-targeted groups--despite material circumstances improving for all groups.

worldcrunch.com/focus/green-... Thanks to Leon Simons for sharing this on LinkedIn

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