there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
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there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. â€ïž "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
My whole life has been leading up to liking this skeet
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1/18 Is China's economy collapsing or dominating? Meg Rithmire's new piece in Current History argues it's doing both simultaneouslyâand that's the problem.
Help, please. I dimly recall a discussion of how China's BRI projects are good at building big central pieces of infrastructure but less good at connecting it with smaller bits to create an integrated system. Metaphorically, they focus on the main arteries but not how to organize the capillaries
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/m...
Surprised it was relegated to WSJ instead of NYT, tbh
I don't think anyone cares what Rahm thinks anymore, but this is egregious
16 years ago, I was heading to APSA (on the job market! So nervous!) & a guy pulled a đœ out of his briefcase at 7am at RDU and proceeded to eat it. A đ from the universe. Every Sept 2nd, I celebrate corncob man.
Some big new on #energy: #Brazil made a formal request to join the International Energy Agency #IEA www.iea.org/news/brazil-...
Given FTAV's above-average interest in the cost of regulation, @dsquareddigest.bsky.social has continued to monitor the tender disclosures of the European Banking Authority for us. While doing so, Dan came across an item which made him drop his Pret-A-Manger. www.ft.com/content/28ea...
NPR is among the news organizations that has signed an appeal calling for Israel to stop attacks on journalists in Gaza, and demanding foreign journalists' access to Gaza. www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...
Big fiscal broke all elite brains
Great profile and reporter who knows his ins and outs @rachelholliday.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2021/10/10/w...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
got some holiday reading for you all. Our system puts a lot of weight on vetting public officials before they gain power. The constant lying puts some strain on that system. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-failur...
âNone of these systems are really designed to withstand being run by people who want to undermine and destroy them. But our mechanisms for keeping those people out of power arenât strong enough anymore.â
At pub trivia competing as team âWe Need a Gyroâ
China is making massive investments in electrification to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and the US dollar. @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the geopolitics and how other countries are getting on board. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
If a group of miscreants came up to me and said, âyou better make a good frosting and then you better use it to make the cake look NICE or weâre gonna throw you off a bridge into the river,â Iâd be like âcan I take my shoes off first so someone else can wear them as I float down the river?â
No big whoop, just Donald Trump pissing away three decades of U.S. diplomacy due to a fit of personal pique. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Just milled these boards for a chair Iâm going back to working on. Only need a small part for the chair arm rests but figured Iâd mill the whole board. This is heavily spalted ash from a tree I cut down a few years ago.
Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.
www.instagram.com/p/DN71fEHE_-...
canât believe iâm saying this: today i leave for my first tour of the entire united states to go play massive rooms with a rock band dreamt of this moment since i was a lilâ kid iâm so excited to chronicle this journey here for all of you đ„č
Funny that an American Worker looks like he just stepped out of a 1960s Soviet factory somewhere in eastern Siberia , full of determination to fulfill a five-year plan in four years and conscious of the dangers of too much alcohol and talking to foreigners.
âTexas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicansâ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party. They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.â Gift:
đđŻ University presidents, take note & start getting in front of microphones, en masse, now:
This is cool storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bced...
The Bear could've truly explored new territory with this, instead of the flat dialogue about seasonal changes www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
I can
hey sorry to bother you on your lovely beautiful friday night but THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE OUTSIDE A HIGH SCHOOL IN DC ONLY TWO HOURS AGO
why arenât you talking about dc every day what the heck is wrong with you
Et voila! Case proven. #solar
Morning Bluesky. Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837. Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
something that i had never given much thought to (living in a petrostate because the entire middle of this continent used to be an ocean for hundreds of millions of years) is that china has no oil to speak of, so its big push for renewables is geopolitical: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
Anyone do a US as neopatrimonial economy argument yet?
Inshallah
a scoopy one from me, with an assist from @accountable.us: Bill Pulte is using Palantir to gather "mortgage fraud" accusations and weaponize them against Dems in order to abet Trump's government capture. but, he formerly disclosed owning Palantir stockâand that's not his only potential conflict:
the local Spectrum news in Central New York ran a story about labor shortages and complaints from farmers tonight. Then they read a prepared statement from the Trump administration, who did respond to requests for comment
Oh no. No. No. No. Might just buy a replacement tonight.
Today I learned that the sealing rings in pressure cookers degrade over time and need occasional replacement or else the entire pressure cooker will explode. Please do not ask how I learned this.
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
I know I'm naive but I still find it at least a little strange that Congressional Republicans seem so content to give up their power
I don't think we fully grasped yet how important solar will be as an energy source. Great graph @carbonbrief.org based on @iea.org data.
Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.
woah the internal polls must be much worse than what weâre seeing
I wrote about the largest seizure of smuggled antiquities at JFK Airport and the prison sentence given to a licensed Egyptian doctor as a result: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Inventing a new type of guy to be mad at: guy who is always criticizing Isaac Chotiner for giving a platform to genocide apologists
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
BYD misses quarterly earnings forecasts due to supplier payments crackdown â FT: âBYD promised in June to more than halve payment times to suppliers to 60 days, after Chinese regulators warned a dozen of domestic car manufacturers against aggressive price cuts and mounting unpaid bills.â
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthenâs monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
this is what i'm talking about. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/25/i....
feel like the pricing isn't there yet. but guerilla solar is great.
perhaps soon, going solar need not involve tens of thousands of dollars and an onslaught of logistics. here's how small, simple, plug-in solar arrays - and the laws to support them - are beginning to gain traction in the U.S.
is the "a.i." "bubble" "bursting"? or, four ways to consider a vibe shift maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...
I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and itâs both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
the persecution of the federal reserve governor Lisa Cook reminds me that when she was appointed, *some* pathetic centrists tried to equate her with a Trump appointee because her specialism wasnât monetary economics and they needed to practise fake even-handedness.
Here's the back story from my HIGH SPEED blog: www.highspeed.blog/we-love-car-...
Breaking News: President Trumpâs 50% tariff on imports from India has taken effect, jeopardizing the countryâs relationship with the U.S.
Tech companies spending hundreds of millions to hire individual AI PhDs with the revenue they collected distributing endless medical and climate science misinformation is really just something else
Literally the perfect guest. @levmenand.bsky.social is not only a leading historian and theorist of US banking regulation, he rote THE article on the meaning on "for cause" removal.
Really superb episode. The sort of unflinching journalism on Trumpâs assault on fed independence thatâs missing in much of mainstream coverage
This is a great episode
Semester is off to a good start
Almost every African country is now importing Chinese solar panels - and a LOT of them. 100MW may not sound a lot, but in context of the low levels of electricity supply in some countries, 100MW is pretty mahoosive..
Public financing of Tx offers significant savings for ratepayers! In this research note, @buddyyakov.bsky.social & I argue replacing equity in IOU capital stacks wonât harm utility credit ratings. Rather, using cheaper debt will preserve IOU rate-basing capacity. publicenterprise.org/report/resea...
Extremely helpful from @pkrugman.bsky.social about why markets' reaction to Trump's attempts to abolish the foundations of American prosperity have been so muted, even as he's gone after Fed independence: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-... It's even got a political epistemology angle.
The problem in wages and benefits in China isnât just whatâs written on paper but also that workers have few legal recourse if employers renege on wage promises or do not pay for legally required benefits
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman: âWashington had to remake its national security state after other countries developed the atomic bomb; in a similar way, it will have to rebuild its economic security state for a world in which adversaries and allies can also weaponize interdependence.â
I miss mastodon man mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1138730... Terence Tao on how âComplex dynamics are going to require complex solutionsâ. Awesome thread.
The local political story around the DC military takeover is rich stuff. The zombie delegate who refuses to retire or appear in public, the mayor who will assent to anything if it gets her football stadium...
EHN's social media accounts putting out out an image of her at a 2023 rally - in winter, where she was wearing a heavy coat - to show how she was fighting... just utter contempt for people
I lack the vocabulary to express how deranged this is
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administrationâs actions, calling them an âexistential threatâ to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.
Most Americans appreciate the benefits of automatic enforcement. Researchers consistently find that a majority of people (including in cities as well as suburbs) back traffic cameras. Democrats are hugely supportive and Republicans almost evenly split. doi.org/10.1080/1538...
Thereâs a widespread myth that Americans hate traffic cameras. Itâs simply not true. On the contrary, researchers have consistently found that Americans broadly support using automatic enforcement to curb crashes. And for good reason: It works. Me, in Bloomberg đ§”
20 years ago today: #Katrina was a monster Category 5 hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 150kts (173mph) and a 902mb central pressure. By this point, the aftermath was already very well predicted... [1/4]
Americans reject the politicized perversion of our military troops. Military rule by any president is illegal, poisonous, and will ultimately harm all of us.
know I'm late but finally watching Andor and learning a lot. mostly that y'all need to cast this mfer in more TV shows
You: "these two things aren't fungible" My brain: ok that's probably true but why are we talking about turning either of these things into mushrooms
This is great because it's not just a liberal defense of central bank independence - first, a revelation about Trump's will to absolute power legitimized by a Supreme Court he put together
attn @70sbachchan.bsky.social
Janet Actually Yelling
this is the world that the nra, the republican party, and conservative politics has condemned us to live in
âThe evidence for millionaire tax flight is scant. If high earners were truly fleeing high taxes, low-tax states would be swarming with millionaires. Instead, the highest concentrations of millionaires are found in high-tax states.â [rollingstone.com]
Janet Yellen in FT oped - Trumpâs attack on the Fed threatens US credibility. History teaches us that chaos follows when leaders undermine the independence of central banks www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
Francis Fukuyama, Chris Dann, and Beatriz Magaloni write that, in order for democracy to survive, citizens must feel confident that democracy can deliver on its promises. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
This is one hell of a book review, profile, and cultural essay about Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
sometimes i write for outlets that don't want to post the meme
Had a dream where I showed that the Navier-Stokes equations both generally had smooth solutions and described social dynamics, which I think means I am moving into the Crank Phase of my career. Expect a long email from me soon with an 85-page Word file full of pasted images and unsettling threats.
fwiw people are calling this nullification and I donât think thatâs quite fair. they were charging a felony and he didnât commit a felony. the grand jury did their job faithfully and well.
Finally, the old saw about how a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich is disproven www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards
Literally unable to indict a ham sandwich
