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True, individual citizens have 0 options but if enough of us came together to address it we could fix it. So far all I ever see are grey haired sign holders and angry social media posts- individuls trying to get someone else to solve the problem. Corruption & tolerance of it are two sides of a coin.
March 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
True, individual citizens have 0 options but if enough of us came together to address it we could fix it. So far all I ever see are grey haired sign holders and angry social media posts- individuls trying to get someone else to solve the problem. Corruption & tolerance of it are two sides of a coin.
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Has to be rough for Elon to know that his popularity is inversely correlated with his public exposure. People thought this guy was a genius before he started posting in earnest
March 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Has to be rough for Elon to know that his popularity is inversely correlated with his public exposure. People thought this guy was a genius before he started posting in earnest
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A friend’s disgusted reaction to Paul, Weiss:
“So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.”
“So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.”
March 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A friend’s disgusted reaction to Paul, Weiss:
“So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.”
“So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.”
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That strikes me as also very quickly becoming case of “if i owe you 500 dollars that’s my problem, if i owe you 500 million dollars its your problem”
March 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
That strikes me as also very quickly becoming case of “if i owe you 500 dollars that’s my problem, if i owe you 500 million dollars its your problem”
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Nazi Germany economy: cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcont...
0.7% per year: download.ssrn.com/07/08/29/ssr...
20% over 25 years: www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...
0.7% per year: download.ssrn.com/07/08/29/ssr...
20% over 25 years: www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...
download.ssrn.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Nazi Germany economy: cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcont...
0.7% per year: download.ssrn.com/07/08/29/ssr...
20% over 25 years: www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...
0.7% per year: download.ssrn.com/07/08/29/ssr...
20% over 25 years: www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...
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Germany literally de-industrialised their economy over the course of the war as more and more civilian machine plants (tractors, trucks, etc) were converted over to military use.
Without the Marshall Plan, Germany would have faced a famine that would have killed millions in just a couple of years.
Without the Marshall Plan, Germany would have faced a famine that would have killed millions in just a couple of years.
March 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Germany literally de-industrialised their economy over the course of the war as more and more civilian machine plants (tractors, trucks, etc) were converted over to military use.
Without the Marshall Plan, Germany would have faced a famine that would have killed millions in just a couple of years.
Without the Marshall Plan, Germany would have faced a famine that would have killed millions in just a couple of years.
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This works if you build what is essentially a closed war economy but if the Third Reich had been run like a half-assed Libertarian Protectionist State with a miniscule industrial capacity I don't think this would've worked.
I'm getting tired of posting this. Markets do just fine in authoritarian regimes. The economy is not collapsing. Stop counting on this happening. It won't.
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This works if you build what is essentially a closed war economy but if the Third Reich had been run like a half-assed Libertarian Protectionist State with a miniscule industrial capacity I don't think this would've worked.
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Let me break this down for non-lawyers:
1. By tomorrow at 10 EST, someone with Cabinet-level authority has to update the Court on whether they're invoking state secret privilege.
2. By 3/25, the judge wants a sworn statement from a government official on whether the privilege will be invoked
1. By tomorrow at 10 EST, someone with Cabinet-level authority has to update the Court on whether they're invoking state secret privilege.
2. By 3/25, the judge wants a sworn statement from a government official on whether the privilege will be invoked
NEW: Boasberg's patience is wearing thin.
"In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations."
He orders government to show cause as to why it didn't violate court order by failing to return migrants on 2 planes that departed March 15..
"In an ex parte pleading delivered shortly after today’s deadline, the Government again evaded its obligations."
He orders government to show cause as to why it didn't violate court order by failing to return migrants on 2 planes that departed March 15..
March 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Let me break this down for non-lawyers:
1. By tomorrow at 10 EST, someone with Cabinet-level authority has to update the Court on whether they're invoking state secret privilege.
2. By 3/25, the judge wants a sworn statement from a government official on whether the privilege will be invoked
1. By tomorrow at 10 EST, someone with Cabinet-level authority has to update the Court on whether they're invoking state secret privilege.
2. By 3/25, the judge wants a sworn statement from a government official on whether the privilege will be invoked
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this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
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Fun economic facts:
f you're age 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45 years old, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
Hat-Tip SundaeDivine on the dead bird site. #EconSky
f you're age 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45 years old, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
Hat-Tip SundaeDivine on the dead bird site. #EconSky
March 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fun economic facts:
f you're age 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45 years old, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
Hat-Tip SundaeDivine on the dead bird site. #EconSky
f you're age 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45 years old, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
Hat-Tip SundaeDivine on the dead bird site. #EconSky
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Via Barnhart @barchart.com 42% of mortgage refinance applications are being rejected, the highest rate in AT LEAST the last 12 years #EconSky
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Via Barnhart @barchart.com 42% of mortgage refinance applications are being rejected, the highest rate in AT LEAST the last 12 years #EconSky
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This is so excellent I will add alt text so all can read it
![…Irish historian Peter Gray, who wrote that there was "not a policy of deliberate genocide" on the part of the British. Instead, Gray argued, the great failure of the British government was ideological-"a dogmatic refusal to recognise that measures intended to
'encourage industry, [and] to do battle with sloth' ... were based on false premises."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ma72lceltwgsljaa32aklntf/bafkreiha7b4s35zb6yu7epthek44dak3izzsumbbaebtzpqc4mng2xnnj4@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is so excellent I will add alt text so all can read it
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Fed literally saying we're headed in a stagflationary direction now
March 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Fed literally saying we're headed in a stagflationary direction now
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this wasn't some weird time in antiquity, this was 2009 through 2010 and I think into 2011
this is macroeconomic nonsense parading as "common sense" by someone who doesn't understand that "paying down the national debt" is not actually a good thing for the United States to do
people need that debt
this is macroeconomic nonsense parading as "common sense" by someone who doesn't understand that "paying down the national debt" is not actually a good thing for the United States to do
people need that debt
March 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
this wasn't some weird time in antiquity, this was 2009 through 2010 and I think into 2011
this is macroeconomic nonsense parading as "common sense" by someone who doesn't understand that "paying down the national debt" is not actually a good thing for the United States to do
people need that debt
this is macroeconomic nonsense parading as "common sense" by someone who doesn't understand that "paying down the national debt" is not actually a good thing for the United States to do
people need that debt
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“European Starlink competitor "EUTELSAT" has revealed that they already have complete coverage of Ukrainian territory, and are ready to replace Starlink in case Trump pulls the plug.”
Maybe they should do it before..
Maybe they should do it before..
March 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“European Starlink competitor "EUTELSAT" has revealed that they already have complete coverage of Ukrainian territory, and are ready to replace Starlink in case Trump pulls the plug.”
Maybe they should do it before..
Maybe they should do it before..
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We gave you the lives of 158 of our children when you asked us to fight with you in Afghanistan, we sent firefighters & aircraft when your forests were burning, we sent power crews & rescue workers after hurricanes & floods. AND we sell our oil to you for less than market prices. YOU'RE WELCOME!
March 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
We gave you the lives of 158 of our children when you asked us to fight with you in Afghanistan, we sent firefighters & aircraft when your forests were burning, we sent power crews & rescue workers after hurricanes & floods. AND we sell our oil to you for less than market prices. YOU'RE WELCOME!
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It's striking to contrast what that statute requires with the Trump administration's arguments that it can summarily remove (with no judicial review whatsoever) anyone it simply claims to be a Venezuelan member of Tren de Aragua:
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml;j...
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml;j...
8 USC CHAPTER 12, SUBCHAPTER V: ALIEN TERRORIST REMOVAL PROCEDURES
uscode.house.gov
March 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
It's striking to contrast what that statute requires with the Trump administration's arguments that it can summarily remove (with no judicial review whatsoever) anyone it simply claims to be a Venezuelan member of Tren de Aragua:
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml;j...
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml;j...
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So......it's just made up.
But every morsel of disinfo exists for a reason, and in this case, the 'WHAT ABOUT CHINA' meme has acted as an exonerative plea from high-emitting countries that can afford to quit fossil fuels: a sort of geopolitical fatalism used to justify greed.
But every morsel of disinfo exists for a reason, and in this case, the 'WHAT ABOUT CHINA' meme has acted as an exonerative plea from high-emitting countries that can afford to quit fossil fuels: a sort of geopolitical fatalism used to justify greed.
March 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So......it's just made up.
But every morsel of disinfo exists for a reason, and in this case, the 'WHAT ABOUT CHINA' meme has acted as an exonerative plea from high-emitting countries that can afford to quit fossil fuels: a sort of geopolitical fatalism used to justify greed.
But every morsel of disinfo exists for a reason, and in this case, the 'WHAT ABOUT CHINA' meme has acted as an exonerative plea from high-emitting countries that can afford to quit fossil fuels: a sort of geopolitical fatalism used to justify greed.
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I haven't read the full article, but it's striking to me how revoking tax status of nonprofits "critical" of that comemierda is described as "attacking the players and machinery that powers the left". It continues the horserace framing and ignores that attacks on civil society also damage democracy
This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
March 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I haven't read the full article, but it's striking to me how revoking tax status of nonprofits "critical" of that comemierda is described as "attacking the players and machinery that powers the left". It continues the horserace framing and ignores that attacks on civil society also damage democracy
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Just because they could hold such a vote doesn't mean it would happen. They *could* do things right now and they don't.
It's not the rules, it's the people who are either cowards or don't care whether their own country has democracy in name only. As long as they keep *their* jobs.
It's not the rules, it's the people who are either cowards or don't care whether their own country has democracy in name only. As long as they keep *their* jobs.
March 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Just because they could hold such a vote doesn't mean it would happen. They *could* do things right now and they don't.
It's not the rules, it's the people who are either cowards or don't care whether their own country has democracy in name only. As long as they keep *their* jobs.
It's not the rules, it's the people who are either cowards or don't care whether their own country has democracy in name only. As long as they keep *their* jobs.
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Yes, & this is especially true of presidential systems, where dual claims of direct legitimacy from voters exist, & extraordinary measures like impeachment are required to remove the authoritarians. But ultimately, yes, if folks don't care about their oaths of office, well...here we are...
March 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Yes, & this is especially true of presidential systems, where dual claims of direct legitimacy from voters exist, & extraordinary measures like impeachment are required to remove the authoritarians. But ultimately, yes, if folks don't care about their oaths of office, well...here we are...
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Former astronaut Scott Kelly calls out Fox News on air for lying about President Biden “abandoning” astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore 🧑🚀👩🚀🚀
I love when someone knowledgeable calls out FoxNews for their daily lying BS right to their faces. 😅😂
#canada #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
I love when someone knowledgeable calls out FoxNews for their daily lying BS right to their faces. 😅😂
#canada #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Former astronaut Scott Kelly calls out Fox News on air for lying about President Biden “abandoning” astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore 🧑🚀👩🚀🚀
I love when someone knowledgeable calls out FoxNews for their daily lying BS right to their faces. 😅😂
#canada #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
I love when someone knowledgeable calls out FoxNews for their daily lying BS right to their faces. 😅😂
#canada #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
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Oh. My. Wow. This image here, THIS STUNNING PHOTO, was taken by Blue Ghost on the Moon. Because while we saw a lunar eclipse on Earth, the Moon saw a solar eclipse at the same time. That's us, Earth, eclipsing the Sun. And it just gives me goosebumps to see like this!!
March 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Oh. My. Wow. This image here, THIS STUNNING PHOTO, was taken by Blue Ghost on the Moon. Because while we saw a lunar eclipse on Earth, the Moon saw a solar eclipse at the same time. That's us, Earth, eclipsing the Sun. And it just gives me goosebumps to see like this!!