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One of the reasons things are so dysfunctional in California is because of Prop 13 passed by voters in 1978: Check out the property tax bills of these three neighbors: 1. $1,230.26 2. $63,947.68 - not a typo 3. $2,194.44

submitted 207 days ago • 27 comments

bringing Josh Barro to that conference to shit on unions permanently poisoned the entire “movement” for me. we simply cannot do without labor

submitted 10 hours ago • 34 comments

likely scenario is trump crushes elon but idk how trump emerges stronger Elon made 15% of all gop super pac donations and probably bundled another 10-15%, twitter has a ~1.7 billion dollar debt service and purchase was collateralized on Tesla stock whos value is based on the boar not being crushed

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Bondi DOJ has a problem. On left: DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas On right: DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"

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Apartheid Defense League

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If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

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fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we are returning to the famous Kalecki essay "The Political Aspects of Full Employment" and applying it to 2024: www.patreon.com/posts/130880...

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NEW A little-noticed provision in the Senate budget bill would gut the government’s long-running CAFE fuel economy program for cars & light trucks. The provision sets all penalties for automakers who run afoul of the rules to zero — essentially repealing the law. heatmap.news/politics/cor...

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insane assertion. just pop open the Covid death rate numbers and it's clear beyond question Sweden did WAY WAY worse than its Nordic neighbors

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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

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this is nuts. just build a regular ass building www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

fascinating www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-last-t...

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We're LIVE with our Weekly Roundup show, this time with @ddayen.bsky.social and Robert Kuttner talking about the slap fight between Elon and Trump: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi9y...

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this argument would benefit from consideration of green energy tech, where innovation has been genuinely explosive freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/ai-hype-an...

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"The point is that both men start from the presumption that the U.S. government is an entirely corrupt enterprise, with the president in a position to hand out personal favors or engage in personal acts of vengeance." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wake-up-an...

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"splashy new uses for modern technology get splashy headlines, and those surface-level accounts of such use cases give the average person a very simplified and inaccurate idea of how capable new technologies are on their own." little-flying-robots.ghost.io/ukraines-aud...

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"The Elizabeth Line in London is used by more than twice as many people as expected, for example. For some reason, this is not being treated as a massive embarrassment, nearly as bad as a 100% cost overrun." backofmind.substack.com/p/department...

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lot of useful context and data in here. eg I did not know AI chatbots only make up about 1-3% of the total AI picture andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sh...

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"Two ultra-wealthy, ultra-corrupt, terminally online, megalomaniacal narcissists do not tend to make reliable partners. Augustus and Agrippa they are not." prospect.org/politics/202...

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