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321ian.bsky.social
"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."-David Hume
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illegally suspending PEPFAR may actually kill more people than the Holocaust

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

NEW | Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)-Damascus Negotiations: A Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) commander stated that the SDF and the governing body in northeast Syria agreed to merge their forces into the Syrian Defense Ministry on February 17. (1/6)

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

So-called “common good” constitutionalism — or postliberal originalism, or whatever — is the legal arm of Catholic integralism. The margins are no longer marginal, and it’s worth learning more about them. /1

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

submitted 17 days ago • 1582 comments

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

submitted 21 days ago • 1110 comments

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

submitted 19 days ago • 55 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 37 comments

I’m so tired of this ‘mandate’ BS and ‘the American people said…’ nonsense. Trump didn’t win a majority of the popular vote, and beat Harris by one of the smallest popular vote margins (1.5%) in US history. If you factor in turnout, he got the votes of less than 1 in 3 eligible voters in the US.

submitted 25 days ago • 236 comments

👇🎯

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

submitted 40 days ago • 165 comments

Ganz basically hitting the nail on the head of what seperates technocapital from radical MAGA:

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

the equivalent of Italian vs German fascism for the 21st century

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

like i have been saying, a lot of americans do not treat politics as “real” — they approach it with an ironic distance that allows them to treat clear threats and statements of intent as mere rhetoric. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...

submitted 69 days ago • 957 comments

Over the last 30 years, after-tax corporate profits have grown 8-fold, while personal incomes have grown by half as much — this unequal distribution of prosperity will only leave more and more Americans unhappy. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social chart

submitted 72 days ago • 28 comments

Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

submitted 80 days ago • 20 comments

1/ Does finance benefit society? 📈📉 In a forthcoming Review of Financial Studies paper, @mjha91.bsky.social , Hongyi Liu, and yours truly tackle this question by leveraging large language models to measure sentiments in books spanning centuries and continents. 🧵

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

California raised the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Conservatives -- & their dutiful mouthpieces in the media -- predicted reduced hours, reduced benefits, & higher prices. None of that happened. Instead, workers just got more money & it's fine. shift.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

If you support the unrepentant fraudster convicted felon charged with 91 crimes I really don't give a fuck what your thoughts are on the Hunter pardon

submitted 83 days ago • 13 comments

If during the Depression FDR had campaigned for the New Deal & then instead continued Herbert Hoover’s elite-friendly policies, the backlash mighta made Charles Lindbergh president. There — now you understand the financial-crisis-era succession from Bush to Obama to Trump.

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments