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Assistant Professor at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. 19th century US | capitalism | immigration. Author of Flowering Gold: American Capital and the Opium War (forthcoming with Yale University Press). YNWA.

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ELF final: stoppable force meets moveable object

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Today's front page.

submitted 18 days ago • 150 comments

An alarmist take, but mostly correct. Over the last two years, I have seen how robots have not only eaten my students’ homework, but the concept of homework itself. The only check left is convincing my students that outsourcing one’s thinking is a bad idea. Some will agree; most will not.

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So many final papers missing this semester. But my students can’t help it if Biden keeps eating their homework!!!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 28 days ago • 976 comments

WE DID IT #YNWA

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Nothing is more emblematic of the Trump Administration's approach to trade policy than this. Two weeks after "Liberation Day", with a trade war on China raging, they are only now ordering an investigation of what rare earths the US imports, from whom, and why. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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The dingo ate my panel

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feminism in 2025: literally blasting women into space

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This is also what destroyed the Embargo of 1807. Jefferson had also campaigned against a strong federal government (aka “deep state”), but without a strong government, who is there to enforce customs?

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“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.” -Ronald Reagan, radical leftist

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Me waking up to financial markets tomorrow

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all taxes, no representation

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

New @budgetlab.bsky.social report about today's tariff announcement: • The April 2nd policy alone is the equivalent of an 11.5pp increase in the effective tariff rate. When combined with other US tariffs in 2025, we're at 22 1/2%, the highest rate since 1909. 1/7

submitted 55 days ago • 27 comments

So who’s ready for Black Thursday tomorrow

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I used to wonder how Jack Bauer pulled a 24 hour shift without taking a piss even once. Then I met Cory Booker.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 56 days ago • 10862 comments

starting every lecture now with the Ballad of Ambrose and Gunnel.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

make Marbury v. Madison great again

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1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view: Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.

submitted 77 days ago • 45 comments

new saddest six word story just dropped

submitted 81 days ago • 129 comments

recessions and their causes, a history: 1929: Black Thursday 1973: OPEC oil embargo 2008: subprime CDOs 2020: COVID-19 2025: let’s go Brandon

submitted 83 days ago • 6 comments

Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

submitted 85 days ago • 2928 comments

from pax americana to pox americana

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Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 88 days ago • 112 comments

When will the plain folk come to learn The cure was worse than the disease?

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live scenes from the Trump-Zelensky meeting

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

stop woke, go broke

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