Ben Lempert
@benlempert.bsky.social
environmental lawyer, sometime political science Ph.D. student @ UMich. (views my own.)
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The losses the CA state insurer of last resort took on are being funded (in part) by an equal percentage increase to policy holders across the state, regardless of fire risk at any specific property? (Let alone consideration of property value or income??)
The losses the CA state insurer of last resort took on are being funded (in part) by an equal percentage increase to policy holders across the state, regardless of fire risk at any specific property? (Let alone consideration of property value or income??)
California insurers set to charge homeowners for L.A. County fire costs
Residential policyholders across California could be paying several hundred million dollars to help cover the costs of claims arising out of the January firestorms in Los Angeles County.
www.latimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The losses the CA state insurer of last resort took on are being funded (in part) by an equal percentage increase to policy holders across the state, regardless of fire risk at any specific property? (Let alone consideration of property value or income??)
The losses the CA state insurer of last resort took on are being funded (in part) by an equal percentage increase to policy holders across the state, regardless of fire risk at any specific property? (Let alone consideration of property value or income??)
I have found the silver bullet for getting republicans on board with decarbonization: Reagan loved heat pumps (according to the Reagan library)
July 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I have found the silver bullet for getting republicans on board with decarbonization: Reagan loved heat pumps (according to the Reagan library)
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
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My paper just came out in PPR today, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It's about interesting relationships that our attitudes bear to the world. I argue that belief is very different from other attitudes, and this difference follows from its relationship to the truth of token contents.
Some attitudes we usually do not have
I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \ps...
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June 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My paper just came out in PPR today, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It's about interesting relationships that our attitudes bear to the world. I argue that belief is very different from other attitudes, and this difference follows from its relationship to the truth of token contents.
Reposted by Ben Lempert
It was always clear why Ganz’s left-wing interlocutors fought with him: To do so would be to admit that US governance could get much worse — or that professional-class liberals, who academic leftists define themselves against, might be right about something.
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There Was Never Any "Fascism Debate"
They Refused to Engage
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March 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It was always clear why Ganz’s left-wing interlocutors fought with him: To do so would be to admit that US governance could get much worse — or that professional-class liberals, who academic leftists define themselves against, might be right about something.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/there-was-...
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