That said, I largely agree with @davekarpf.bsky.social's take here: shutting down the government was never an adequate response to the scope of the political crisis and was always going to end with Dems caving because they're the only party that cares about using the state to alleviate suffering.

"Sure, ACA premiums will be $3000 a month, but at least people will know whose fault it is!!!"

In what world is "no ACA subsidies/no leverage" > "no ACA subsidies, the only form of leverage the minority party can possibly hope for"?

And since so much of the funding is coming from private credit channeled through non-bank financial institutions -- which are not subject to regulated institutions' capital and leverage requirements -- when the bubble bursts and the margin calls commence, we may be in a disastrously familiar spot.

To put it another way, *capital* is perfectly capable of organizing decarbonization. The problem is *capital-owners*, who are political actors and not just the embodiments of the accumulation process. Elon Musk is symptomatic here.

Here's the link to their full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just sent this to one of my PhD students who is working on how humanitarian NGOs and activists respond to crisis and change in immigration -- this looks super helpful!

Cat is named after Ursula LeGuin, so I would expect nothing less, though I do wish she would stop eating all my notes.

We're solid on money and finance topics, but I'm very open to suggestions on good books to assign on trade and global value chains, if you've got them.

I think the only way it's possible is if you truly do not regard those lives as fully human or as real. And I suspect they do not, which is truly monstrous.

I quietly confiscate them, collect them in a bucket in the pantry, then redistribute them to the neighborhood children on Halloween (for someone else to throw away, thereby allowing me to feel both generous and virtuous).

To me, having to do the work of repentance and reparation with that knowledge that we can never right a wrong on this scale, is what it means to live in a state of sin.

And yet, we must punish those responsible, must build a society and a political system that doesn't trade human lives for billionaires' egos and profits, that doesn't regard millions of lives lost, shortened, immiserated as an acceptable price to pay for lower taxes or fewer migrants.