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So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
www.cambridge.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
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This is really true. My current government sources the past eight weeks have risked so much more and done so much more than I have. I have just been their voice.
That first week when my sources risked so much, I really struggled accepting I was getting so much attention and they never would.
That first week when my sources risked so much, I really struggled accepting I was getting so much attention and they never would.
one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things:
you don't get to talk about it.
you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story.
it's *always* shut the fuck up friday
you don't get to talk about it.
you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story.
it's *always* shut the fuck up friday
March 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is really true. My current government sources the past eight weeks have risked so much more and done so much more than I have. I have just been their voice.
That first week when my sources risked so much, I really struggled accepting I was getting so much attention and they never would.
That first week when my sources risked so much, I really struggled accepting I was getting so much attention and they never would.
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Just read a Cato piece going after Trump’s tariff policies. If this freight train gets derailed, this tariff obsession looks to be the one that does it (unless they do touch the Social Security stove).
March 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Just read a Cato piece going after Trump’s tariff policies. If this freight train gets derailed, this tariff obsession looks to be the one that does it (unless they do touch the Social Security stove).
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By the end of this administration there might be like a half dozen agencies sitting in a quantum superposition of "legally existing" and "functionally abolished" and unless SCOTUS protects them they will just forever operate only when Ds are in charge and disappear when Rs are
March 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
By the end of this administration there might be like a half dozen agencies sitting in a quantum superposition of "legally existing" and "functionally abolished" and unless SCOTUS protects them they will just forever operate only when Ds are in charge and disappear when Rs are
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This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen
My employer just threatened me with tariffs because their trade defect with me is too big… and then told me I should let the company annex my house if I want the tariffs removed
March 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
My employer just threatened me with tariffs because their trade defect with me is too big… and then told me I should let the company annex my house if I want the tariffs removed
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
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Monday's blog post (17/03) is now posted (17:43 EAST) - Tariffs and more – Part 2 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62434 #mmt
Tariffs and more – Part 2 – William Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory
billmitchell.org
March 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Monday's blog post (17/03) is now posted (17:43 EAST) - Tariffs and more – Part 2 - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62434 #mmt
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the fact that these people think determining legality is supposed to be a presidential power is the whole fucking problem in the first place
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
the fact that these people think determining legality is supposed to be a presidential power is the whole fucking problem in the first place
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since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
March 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
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nothing like having idiots install an ancient operating system on your country so none of your rights work anymore
March 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
nothing like having idiots install an ancient operating system on your country so none of your rights work anymore
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History repeats itself
March 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
History repeats itself
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The deal is I punch you in the face
How about I give you $50 instead
Nope, I want to punch you
I’ll buy you dinner but no violence
Sorry, I really like to punch
Ok, what if you slap me medium-hard
It’s a punch in the face or nothing
Ok fine, punch me. I can’t be blamed for obstructing a deal
How about I give you $50 instead
Nope, I want to punch you
I’ll buy you dinner but no violence
Sorry, I really like to punch
Ok, what if you slap me medium-hard
It’s a punch in the face or nothing
Ok fine, punch me. I can’t be blamed for obstructing a deal
March 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The deal is I punch you in the face
How about I give you $50 instead
Nope, I want to punch you
I’ll buy you dinner but no violence
Sorry, I really like to punch
Ok, what if you slap me medium-hard
It’s a punch in the face or nothing
Ok fine, punch me. I can’t be blamed for obstructing a deal
How about I give you $50 instead
Nope, I want to punch you
I’ll buy you dinner but no violence
Sorry, I really like to punch
Ok, what if you slap me medium-hard
It’s a punch in the face or nothing
Ok fine, punch me. I can’t be blamed for obstructing a deal
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It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.
Trump at the DOJ: "I believe that CNN and MSNDC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal."
March 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.
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Folks keep saying we need some media of our own
But then we don’t support them.
So here’s a few to follow
🧵
1/. youtu.be/pZSXGSDgtyQ?...
But then we don’t support them.
So here’s a few to follow
🧵
1/. youtu.be/pZSXGSDgtyQ?...
The Death of the Left? w/ Steve Hall & Simon Winlow
YouTube video by Real Progressives
youtu.be
March 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Folks keep saying we need some media of our own
But then we don’t support them.
So here’s a few to follow
🧵
1/. youtu.be/pZSXGSDgtyQ?...
But then we don’t support them.
So here’s a few to follow
🧵
1/. youtu.be/pZSXGSDgtyQ?...
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AOC should announce a primary against Schumer tonight.
March 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
AOC should announce a primary against Schumer tonight.
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An economic measure (eg GDP) is used to assess how we are doing
As well as being a bad measure (eg costs of the cyclone are added to it) it has become an end in itself
We need a measure of wellbeing which increases with good things and decreases with bad things eg Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
As well as being a bad measure (eg costs of the cyclone are added to it) it has become an end in itself
We need a measure of wellbeing which increases with good things and decreases with bad things eg Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
March 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
An economic measure (eg GDP) is used to assess how we are doing
As well as being a bad measure (eg costs of the cyclone are added to it) it has become an end in itself
We need a measure of wellbeing which increases with good things and decreases with bad things eg Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
As well as being a bad measure (eg costs of the cyclone are added to it) it has become an end in itself
We need a measure of wellbeing which increases with good things and decreases with bad things eg Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
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Just this
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Just this
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Just one of the hoards of monetary ignoramuses at the highest levels of government and industry:
March 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Just one of the hoards of monetary ignoramuses at the highest levels of government and industry:
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Bumping this
🚨🚨 New Paper🚨🚨
As promised yesterday, here is a draft (non-cite) version of my new paper, 'Digitizing the Fisc', onthe constitutional implication of Trump's BFS-DOGE takeover.
rohangrey.net/files/Grey-D...
law review editors please email rohan@rohangrey.net. It's late but worth the wait!
As promised yesterday, here is a draft (non-cite) version of my new paper, 'Digitizing the Fisc', onthe constitutional implication of Trump's BFS-DOGE takeover.
rohangrey.net/files/Grey-D...
law review editors please email rohan@rohangrey.net. It's late but worth the wait!
March 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Bumping this
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It's very MAGA!
Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It's very MAGA!
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Trump's tariffs are not about a grand plan for changing the dollar's role in the world, they really are just crazy cepr.net/publications...
Trump Tariffs and the Dollar as the World Reserve Currency
Discover the implications of the dollar as the world reserve currency for investors and economies around the globe.
cepr.net
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trump's tariffs are not about a grand plan for changing the dollar's role in the world, they really are just crazy cepr.net/publications...