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Coase’s Ghost🏴
@ghostcoase.bsky.social
Interested in criminology, the history and politics of gun control, mass violence, public choice, institutional economics and environmental economics.

Havemos de ser mais, eu bem sei.
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CNN Exclusive: Early US intel suggests American strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear sites and likely only set the program back by months, sources say. cnn.it/4nh2JUF
June 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Common anarchist W.
June 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Though it was the major socioeconomic group most supportive of the Bolsheviks, not even the urban working class was united behind the Soviet regime.

University of Virginia's Jeffrey Rossman:
April 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Historian of mass violence Christian Gerlach on problematic aspects of the concept of "genocide".

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Extremely violent societies: an alternative to the concept of genocide
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Vol. 8, No. 4, 2006)
www.tandfonline.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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And one of my first articles this year and also one of my favorites, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social I talk to Jewish activists around the country who are fighting for a ceasefire and are building a new vision for Jewish life while doing so.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/je...
Jewish Activists Mobilizing Against War Are Finding a New Community
As groups gain support, many on the left are looking to reconcile their concept of justice with their heritage
newlinesmag.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Noam Chomsky on dilemmas in humanitarian intervention.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=77U1...
Noam Chomsky on Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
YouTube video by Williams College
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January 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The New Anti-Semitism: The Arab Global Conspiracy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMXS...
The New Anti-Semitism: The Arab Global Conspiracy
YouTube video by BadEmpanada
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January 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants, until they're asked how" https://buff.ly/3C1ZbD6
January 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"China Is Facing Longest Deflation Streak Since Mao Era in 1960s" https://buff.ly/4jkaeZ6
"One structural feature of China’s economy is that many firms are willing and able to maintain, or even expand, output…
January 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A Canadian city's police labelled a defense lawyer as "anti-police" and tracked his social media, despite him making no threats.

thetyee.ca/News/2024/08...
Edmonton Police Tracked a Critic’s Social Media | The Tyee
Internal documents show a special unit branded a defence lawyer ‘anti-police’ and closely monitored his online statements.
thetyee.ca
January 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Specific mechanisms behind elite domination of society in electoral democracies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNwN...
How the Political Elites Manipulate for their Benefits (Prof. Randall Holcombe)
YouTube video by PhilosophyInsights
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January 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Cannon’s Fifth Rule of Economic Literacy: The price is never the problem.

@MrRBourne on the man-made disaster of California's insurance shortage.

www.cato.org/blog/ca... #WarOnPrices
California Insurance Market: Another Victim of the War on Prices
California’s price controls on insurance have turned a wildfire crisis into an insurance market catastrophe, leaving homeowners unprotected and the state-run FAIR Plan on the brink.
www.cato.org
January 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Early gun control in the American North as a capitalist measure to disarming and disempower an organizing working class.
January 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Japanese gun control begins as an elite method to suppress the peasantry (Kopel, 1992), is relaxed between 1910 and 1945 and then is reimposed by the American military occupation.
January 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…
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January 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I understand the impulse to say "this isn't just about porn they're coming for you next" but we should also be able to defend porn on its own merits
January 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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But if we abolish the police, who will shoot a guy to death in his own home while executing a stolen weedwacker search warrant on the entirely wrong person at the entirely wrong address
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
Neighbors: Police killed man after serving warrant to wrong home
There are a lot of questions surrounding the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old Laurel County man this week, by London police officers who say they were there to serve a search warrant.
www.lex18.com
December 28, 2024 at 7:49 PM
That time a mob of Polish women and a priest showed up at an academic Holocaust conference in Paris and started with antisemitic slurs, because the scholars did not think there was no Polish participation in the mass murder.

Average day for the Polish right-wing.

www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...
The War Between Polish Nationalism and Holocaust History
“Can somebody please explain this to me? Polish protesters in Federal Plaza [New York City],” Sandi Bachom, a documentary filmmaker asked on Instagram, on March 31, 2019. The same may well have been a...
www.tabletmag.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:03 AM
One of the clearest sex differences is in interest in military history, which is a cliché among boys, before some socialization, and rare among girls.
December 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Mass violence is typically associated with European, especially 20th century European, history, but, of course, the dispossession and massacre of the Native Americans and chattel slavery in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries were forms of mass violence.
December 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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I have received a number of requests for guidance about the current situation in Rojava/Northeast Syria. In the interest of time, I have assembled the following resources from quality sources (in comments). Please share them far and wide!
Defend Rojava against Turkish attacks and Jihadist Militias - #RiseUp4Rojava
Defend Rojava: Stand Against Turkish attacks and Jihadist Militias! 02.12.24 FRENCH - GERMAN - SWEDISH - FINISH - PORTUGUESE - SPANISH In the midst of the the ongoing war of imperial and islamist forc...
riseup4rojava.org
December 13, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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The @MichaelBerrySho on @ktrhnews cites @CatoInstitute scholars Charles Silver's and David A. Hyman’s #OverchargedBook.

"...why a two-hour trip to @SurgiCareInc costs $9,000..."
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December 6, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Homicide victims in Canada are very disproportionately Aboriginal, as are offenders.
December 6, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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Police enact and enable gun violence on a massive scale.
December 5, 2024 at 2:22 PM