John Ericson
@johnericson.me
Reading about Greenland, the US, and the Nazis last go around, and I feel bad for this guy's wife
Henrik Kauffmann - Wikipedia
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January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Reading about Greenland, the US, and the Nazis last go around, and I feel bad for this guy's wife
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Will Stancil getting put on a train down from Canada as the Trump regime collapses, arriving six weeks after the revolution since his Amtrak keeps getting preempted by freight rail
February 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Will Stancil getting put on a train down from Canada as the Trump regime collapses, arriving six weeks after the revolution since his Amtrak keeps getting preempted by freight rail
This is about a clear as it gets for why reigning in the local police is absolutely essential. There is no tolerating a hostile federal government *and* hostile state-/local- agents. This stems from a base notion of power that precede "good times" notions of modulating policy to win marginal votes
The MPD union, at least, has made it clear which side they are on.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
This is the cost of DECADES of (everyone, everywhere) refusing to deal with the rising right-wing and white-nationalist involvement in policing.
January 10, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This is about a clear as it gets for why reigning in the local police is absolutely essential. There is no tolerating a hostile federal government *and* hostile state-/local- agents. This stems from a base notion of power that precede "good times" notions of modulating policy to win marginal votes
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I am still aghast at the inhumanity of @klobuchar.senate.gov voting for a Trump judicial nominee the day after Trump’s secret police murdered a woman who likely voted for Klobuchar multiple times.
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I am still aghast at the inhumanity of @klobuchar.senate.gov voting for a Trump judicial nominee the day after Trump’s secret police murdered a woman who likely voted for Klobuchar multiple times.
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🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
Periodic reminder that "Abundance" has to include shortening the work-week, because the temporal and spatial dimensions are both important. We have to reduce our stress and not shy away from the risk of boredom.
January 7, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Periodic reminder that "Abundance" has to include shortening the work-week, because the temporal and spatial dimensions are both important. We have to reduce our stress and not shy away from the risk of boredom.
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
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this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
![How would you describe Mamdani's politics?
He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism.
What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor!
I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left.
There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssxnmhdtz6le6nxu7jfhglz6/bafkreic7pxra6vmrjmqo4jmw4vdagiluj6xtkovqb3f4ex7fc55m7pzaxu@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
The stupidest thing about National Debt Dooming is a bunch of people believe:
1. Voters don't care enough about looming exponential debt
2. Votes quickly get very mad about inflation
Well, these beliefs mean mean that Lerner's Functional Finance is indisputably the better design for democracies!
1. Voters don't care enough about looming exponential debt
2. Votes quickly get very mad about inflation
Well, these beliefs mean mean that Lerner's Functional Finance is indisputably the better design for democracies!
December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The stupidest thing about National Debt Dooming is a bunch of people believe:
1. Voters don't care enough about looming exponential debt
2. Votes quickly get very mad about inflation
Well, these beliefs mean mean that Lerner's Functional Finance is indisputably the better design for democracies!
1. Voters don't care enough about looming exponential debt
2. Votes quickly get very mad about inflation
Well, these beliefs mean mean that Lerner's Functional Finance is indisputably the better design for democracies!
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The fact is that NYC is sort of non-market non-socialism! We have a bunch of broken markets, and a welfare state that's bigger than people give it credit for, but with cliffs such that upwardly-mobile ex-poor people prefer to move to the hitlerite sun belt, so *local* inequality/mobility is trash.
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The fact is that NYC is sort of non-market non-socialism! We have a bunch of broken markets, and a welfare state that's bigger than people give it credit for, but with cliffs such that upwardly-mobile ex-poor people prefer to move to the hitlerite sun belt, so *local* inequality/mobility is trash.
Project 2029:
- Throw them in jail
- Abolish filibuster
- Admit new states until we get constitutional convention
- Abolish first past the post, single winner
Outcome: Multiple new parties create a much more effective cordon sanitaire against the chuds, ensuring we don't get here ever again.
- Throw them in jail
- Abolish filibuster
- Admit new states until we get constitutional convention
- Abolish first past the post, single winner
Outcome: Multiple new parties create a much more effective cordon sanitaire against the chuds, ensuring we don't get here ever again.
December 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Project 2029:
- Throw them in jail
- Abolish filibuster
- Admit new states until we get constitutional convention
- Abolish first past the post, single winner
Outcome: Multiple new parties create a much more effective cordon sanitaire against the chuds, ensuring we don't get here ever again.
- Throw them in jail
- Abolish filibuster
- Admit new states until we get constitutional convention
- Abolish first past the post, single winner
Outcome: Multiple new parties create a much more effective cordon sanitaire against the chuds, ensuring we don't get here ever again.
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Western "rural" states don't look like WV. E.g., Idaho is actually mostly people living in relatively dense small towns separated by large amounts of nothingness, not people evenly spread out in small villages.
December 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Western "rural" states don't look like WV. E.g., Idaho is actually mostly people living in relatively dense small towns separated by large amounts of nothingness, not people evenly spread out in small villages.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
Hopes and dreams for the tech industry
(Information is a public good, human attention is not. This is a steam punk fantasy of "inference broker" being a sustainable business model, where the grid arrangements are the moat.)
(Information is a public good, human attention is not. This is a steam punk fantasy of "inference broker" being a sustainable business model, where the grid arrangements are the moat.)
December 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hopes and dreams for the tech industry
(Information is a public good, human attention is not. This is a steam punk fantasy of "inference broker" being a sustainable business model, where the grid arrangements are the moat.)
(Information is a public good, human attention is not. This is a steam punk fantasy of "inference broker" being a sustainable business model, where the grid arrangements are the moat.)
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New York's IBX project could more than just a transit line.
It has the potential to be a city-building force, bringing thousands of new riders onto transit and creating walkable neighborhoods. And that's precisely what opponents are concerned about...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
It has the potential to be a city-building force, bringing thousands of new riders onto transit and creating walkable neighborhoods. And that's precisely what opponents are concerned about...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A Train Grows in Brooklyn
New York City’s first new transit line in decades, the $5.5 billion Interborough Express, could transform fast-growing parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
www.bloomberg.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New York's IBX project could more than just a transit line.
It has the potential to be a city-building force, bringing thousands of new riders onto transit and creating walkable neighborhoods. And that's precisely what opponents are concerned about...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
It has the potential to be a city-building force, bringing thousands of new riders onto transit and creating walkable neighborhoods. And that's precisely what opponents are concerned about...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Not a ghost bike, but a ghost auto shop
![Graffiti:
Left: Don't let your King complex get the better or you
Right: Tell someone if your [sic] suffering](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vzkooxmluswm2xca4rkkcm7q/bafkreicv2tkce3mzdionylopt3ac6tgujekzomjdaguaebekt2pzbluw6i@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Not a ghost bike, but a ghost auto shop
Is archeology perhaps the most successful social *science*? Certainly the most improved player since the tomb raiding days.
Researchers finally solve the big mysteries of Easter Island.
Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation
The mysteries of Easter Island, subjects of speculation for centuries, yield to scientific inquiry.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Is archeology perhaps the most successful social *science*? Certainly the most improved player since the tomb raiding days.
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Around both the world and the US, one-person train operation is standard—with many places looking to move to more frequent automated systems.
Given this ubiquity, there's no serious argument for requiring two-person trains.
This bill would lock NY in the past.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/17/v...
Given this ubiquity, there's no serious argument for requiring two-person trains.
This bill would lock NY in the past.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/17/v...
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Around both the world and the US, one-person train operation is standard—with many places looking to move to more frequent automated systems.
Given this ubiquity, there's no serious argument for requiring two-person trains.
This bill would lock NY in the past.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/17/v...
Given this ubiquity, there's no serious argument for requiring two-person trains.
This bill would lock NY in the past.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/17/v...
I've been wondering a lot about this, and also the total lack of permeability for pedestrians in the City Hall area
Why *does* the mayor of Subway City always end up in the back of a Suburban? There are good reasons: Security, productivity, travel to non-Manhattan destinations. And a bad reason: Habit.
The politics/practicalities of mayoral mobility from Lindsay thru now — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/s...
The politics/practicalities of mayoral mobility from Lindsay thru now — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/s...
Security Blanket: Will NYPD Smother Mamdani’s Love of Transit and Bikes? - Streetsblog New York City
Zohran Mamdani spent his mayoral campaign riding the subway and biking around — but the demands of City Hall may test his transit habit.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've been wondering a lot about this, and also the total lack of permeability for pedestrians in the City Hall area
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National democratic leadership is getting so bad that it is becoming a self censoring fact in the same way that Trump’s evil and incompetency becomes self censoring
A real banner week for Chuck Schumer, given that only a few days ago he refused to back the Democratic nominee for mayor of his home city.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
National democratic leadership is getting so bad that it is becoming a self censoring fact in the same way that Trump’s evil and incompetency becomes self censoring