dael.bsky.social
Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
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Statement from all Democratic governors.
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This stuff is worth a lot more to us than putting together the purest protest we can imagine, or worse, turning all the discourse into a compare/contrast with whatever ideal protest we each imagine bsky.app/profile/lore...
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Though to be fair to Senators Coons and Blunt Rochester, and Rep. McBride, I bet it would be difficult to find a preacher in Delaware who would carry out that ask, either. Folks love enabling white collar crime here.
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So the bill largely maintains the status quo re: corporate voting, locally.
Unsurprising, perhaps, that the spirit of oligarchy (a government of property) over democracy (a government of people) remains the preferred ideology of Delaware state legislators.
I expect this bill will pass handily.
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The town already allowed corporations to vote in special elections for annexations and bond issuances, if they owned real property. That stays, but w/ a limit: no matter how many human people have equity in a property-owning corporation, collectively, it only gets one vote in town elections.
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The bill does a LOT of stuff - nullifies any contracts made with businesses owned by town councillors, allows the town to seize nuisance birds, raises the town's allowable debt limits, and to use a different bank – but re: corporate voting, it's a bit more tame.
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They look very warm to me compared to what everyone else is wearing...
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It's a movie where no one is agreed on what temperature it is outside, and his suit(s) are the main offenders
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(Also: abolish ICE and prosecute all its officers.)
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God bless Steven Soderberg and all the fun people he’s convinced to make silly jokes with him, I appreciate the efforts
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Black Bag: a dark comedy about marriage, made in service of luxurious pajamas
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The paperwork they have to file after all this must be absurd
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Okay this is definitely a comedy lol
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I’m beginning to think this movie might think it’s a comedy
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Must be weird working at the sushi shop that serves forbidden fish to customers nakedly threatening to murder each other
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Opera and aerial murder is a bit hack
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Ooh dead drop in the espresso shop’s sugar box at the financial firm food court
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Weird to wear a leather jacket to go fishing
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Wait is this whole movie about how someone secretly **doesn’t** idolize this marriage ?
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At this stage I’m beginning to think this film was shot in astigmatism-vision
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This guy is freaking out a lot for being George Smiley with the numbers filed off
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Well Pierce Brosnan is having fun at least
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Do all spies have tense meetings in the worst seminar room in the attic or
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Including a scene with neither Fassbender or Blanchett was a mistake
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That said, this woman’s obsession with her coworker, Michael Fassbender, is understandable
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The strangest part of this movie so far is that all these younger people idolize their bosses’ marriage
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Make transcontinental travel febrile again!
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They could try! For an oddly long time California basically had its own gold-backed dollar system separate from the rest of the country.
Seizing the SF Fed and establishing a state bank to issue Califonineros is all possible (though Newsom would prob want them to be some stupid form of crypto…)
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Ah he’s casting literal as well as metaphorical lines out into the void
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I like that Soderbergh has a character announce they are going “to the Lake” and then shows us a long shot of a lake
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Wow, Blanchett really manages to pronounce “Catholic” like a slur, very 17th century
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True
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Bizarre that MI6 has adopted the decorating scheme of a dark academia North Carolinian AirBnB
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Why is nothing except Michael Fassbender’a suit jacket in focus in this movie
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“Last week, 404 Media reported that a Texas agency had used it to locate a woman who’d had a self-administered abortion across state lines. Jay Stanley, technology director at the ACLU, fretted that Flock “is trying to build a nationwide authoritarian surveillance system.””
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Oh my god